Oh dear, this is so sad it's practically hilarious. Most of what I want to say has already been said, but I'd like to analyze this replacement of passes with diamonds a bit more. Originally, this first change I heard about pass horses was a year or two back when Howrse planned to do away with getting passes from horses altogether and instead create a ranking for number of horses killed, and the ability to receive a divine (Yggdrasil) once you killed a certain number. You would get 10 passes from the player loyalty meter instead. I'm not sure if this exact change is implemented on other servers such as Italian (@Aldebaran, maybe clear that up for me, or any other players on servers that have an implemented change, thanks!). But anyway, replacing diamonds with passes is frankly, a destructive decision. A cheat. Because diamonds, it seems very clear to me, are much less valuable than a pass.

Case in point, one diamond equals 1 AP while a pass equals 20. 10 diamonds equal one pass when you want to buy a BMIs or APs. Also, you can't use them to buy anything in the sales that requires a pass or more. So essentially, you can buy only items, and not everyone has a divine to spend diamonds on, so I'm ruling that out as a really useful aspect (I am under the impression it is very exhaustive to use diamonds on a divine to get significant skill gain). And may I point out that since less players will have passes to spend, people selling horses for passes also will not get passes, and behold, down goes the economy for horses with a price of passes. I suppose the idea is to get more players to buy passes but it is evident that that is not working because Howrse is doing stuff like this.

So Howrse is definitely shorting us out by replacing passes with diamonds, which have a much lower capacity for usefulness than a pass does, in my opinion. Not only that, but they're replacing 10 passes with 90 diamonds, and as 90 diamonds equal a pass, that's, if we pretend for a second that 10 diamonds is equivalent in use to a single pass, that's only 9 passes, so Howrse is still cheating players. What does that say to me, as player? It says, your opinion doesn't matter, we want/need more money so we're going to take something that affects everyone away and replace it with something of significantly less value in an attempt to get you to buy what we just took away. Cool, thanks! You know, an easy solution I see to this problem would be simply lowering the pass prices, or creating some special offers.

I don't know if the Ambassadors will be able to have much sway regarding these changes, for passes and co-man, but if you can do anything, //please do something!// Also, no offense to the Ambassadors, but it would be so easy so just take a poll that all players could answer instead of having Ambassadors communicate to them (as far as I can tell, Ambassadors aren't allowed to communicate developments and such to us players, but correct me if I'm wrong, it is true that we have yet to see what they can do as the Ambassador program was just implemented). But I digress. My last comment would be that I think it would be hilarious if we could do a cross-server movement where we all quit the game for 2-3 days (since we can log back in within 5 days to stop the process) and give them all a big scare. Might actually get their attention. Watch me get punished for that suggestion, oh boy. But I sem-seriously think it could be effective.

Oh I sincerely hope they do not require us to activate co every time we sign out in order to enable it. NONE of the times I've had to be away from the game came with warning. I'm not on any teams, nor filling, nor anything else - I just need my trusted friends to be able to sign in to keep my account active if I'm in the HOSPITAL long term due to my health, or cannot lift my hands enough to use my phone to sign in. I won't remember to do this every time I sign out. My short term memory is fried due to my illness. I'm going to end up getting deleted after 10 years of commitment, buying passes, etc. Please don't do this. People have situations they cannot predict or control. We won't remember to activate this setting every single time and it will only take forgetting once, at the wrong time, to end up deleting players with real life difficulties. I would be utterly devastated. I know I'm not the only player with unpredictable health like this. Many players have struggles very like mine for various reasons. It's hard enough being sick all the time, Howrse is our escape. Please don't make it harder on us.

Extra clarification - there have been times that due to health, hospitalization, trauma, etc I've not been able to log in myself for many months at a time but I always come back and I save every penny I can (from money gifted to me for birthday/holidays) towards buying passes because this game is so important to me. So, terminating co after a month would have the same result as requiring activation with every sign out. People with cancer, heart difficulties, neurological illness, or a vast array of issues would be endangered by those two changes. We cannot predict when we will get sick, nor how long it may take us to battle our way back to enough functionality to sign in ourselves. Please consider us, sometimes this game is all we have left to look forward to at all.

Health in general isn't predictable, is it ? Even the healthiest person can suffer a sudden illness keeping them away from the game. This recently happenend to my partner. Several weeks of staying in hospital with some time of it totally unable to use any device at all. He had to put everything into fighting for his life. This happened from one second to the next. No time to activate whatever. During this time I could put his horses in Grand Prix, take care of his EC so he would find everything in decent conditions when he came home again. Couldn't have done that under the new proposed changes.
I personally find the idea of changing coman in the way we see absolutely terrible. It could also not be there, would be the same effect in case you really and suddenly need this help. For people who really love this game and invested a lot it is a sad state of affairs if a sudden change in life or health prevents them to log on and nobody can help them to keep their game going until better days will come. The worst things don't come with a warning usually.

The pass system changes on other servers

Now that a Falabella is going to be one of the prizes again in the next promo, what do you think are all the colours finally going to come out as promo prizes (maybe greyfells will be offered too?) and could in the future possibly some other old divines be offered as prizes? Because many of the old ones are somewhat useless as they are, having very low skills etc. At least I kind of hope that old divines would be offered a bit more often in some ways, because now it makes almost no sense to try and start compelting some old set, since it can easily take years.

I did catch a balloon and I chose the send it on option. I was surprised not to choose a friend from my list as it just seemed to disappear when I clicked my choice .

Maybe the same aging points balloon will just circulate randomly around us all

They all take 1 day in the workshop.

Camera = 1200 x Apples

Diving Mask = 3600 x Oats

First Aid Kit = 3 x Red 2* saddle cloths, 6 x Red and white 2* ear bonnets

Flask = 6 x Red and blue 2* ear bonnets, 3 x Red 2* polo wraps, 3 x Blue 2* polo wraps

Life Preserver = 3 x Pieces of Cloud, 150 x Applesy

Pail = 6 x Croesus' Fortunes, 60 x Apples

Water Gun = 3 x Horns Of Plenty

Cap = 900 x Flax Seeds

Sunblock = 3 x Green 2* Classical Saddle Cloths, 6 x White 2* polo wraps