Can anyone explain how long the great challenge is? Does it run alongside the lottery or is it a separate event from the lottery?

The Great Challenge runs first for about 2 weeks or so. You get 3 objectives to complete each day to earn horseshoes, and when you reach a certain number of shoes(thresholds) that's when you get certain prizes). Horseshoes also goes towards the community pot, which will determine how many draws we get per day for the lottery.

The Lottery starts after the GC. You can obtain tickets for each draw that are then automatically entered for that draw, and each draw you get a message telling you what prizes you've won.

Man, I hate all card promos ! But at least I really like The Great Challenge....

When does the Lottery start? Thanks

I'm not sure if anyone would know this, based on the normal schedule for events, will there be one going on July 7-12? Thank you!

the order in which the water divines are going to be released in the weekend HOP promos?

Water, Wild, Wind, Egyptian, Chinese, and Plants came in last.
There is a Wild as a prize in the upcoming Cards event, so perhaps they're staggering their release?

But the Wild as prize could be a coincidence, because these events are planned months in advance, and the breed suits the Cards theme. You never know though.

I've heard some rumors about Howrse decreasing the odds of finding aging points when you wake horses up. Or that, the more you farm the less likely you are to find aging points. Does anyone know if this might be true?

When is the Wandering Horse event coming back?

I'm from Finnish server and I contacted the support and they said that they have indeed decreased the odds of finding aging points when you wake up more horses. So basically you might find up to 90 aging points when you have only waken around 600 horses and you'll find the rest of the 10-20 aging points from the rest 400 horses.

And they also said that they will not inform us about this because it is apparently invisible for most of the players and they didn't want to cause panic sharing this globally. So basically they just want us to buy aging point packages with passes because apparently that is more equal and not so "industrial" way of playing (their words).

Checked out the AP decrease talk today
1000 horses farmed with Shenma trigger - 151 APs found. Seems they have lowered the odds by a bunch yes

So basically I'm getting around 100-100 APs per day, meaning that I'm going to get around 1200-1500 less APs EACH month. If I were to compensate this with AP packs I would need to buy 10 of them (150x10=1500 APs), at a cost of 4900 passes. What was once free, now costs 4900 passes. How where those who blup everyday not supposed to notice this?

And I'm just gonna add one more thing. Howrse might have been thinking that by reducing the number of "farmable" APs for everyone at the same time it wouldn't make a difference, when actually there are players that currently have more than 50k-60k APs, while younger players with a smaller stock of APs will never be able to save so many if they blup on a regular basis. This is just gonna make smaller players unable to compete with bigger and older ones.

This is something that should have been announced. I think we all know why they didn't, not because it would cause a panic, but because it would cause a riot of angry players. It is not more "equal", anyone can get an AP farm, not everyone can afford to buy passes to purchase that many APs. Not to mention that the prices for the AP packs are ridiculous. I agree, that people are certainly going to notice as well. This needs to get out, players need to know about this. I mean, come on Howrse, we all know that like several of your more recent changes, this doesn't make things more equal, if anything more unequal. We all know this is just a push to try and get more passes to be bought.

I'm glad I saw all of this, since I was just about to start up an AP farm. Well done getting that information out to the players! I expect Howrse will find some means of selling fodder for passes next. They really can't bring themselves to make anything reasonable for the player anymore.