...Pinata

New background from Ow's Helios' Ray:

I just hope they've changed it back to points in HOPs rather than fleeces as the special offer

...10 pinatas, not 20 as it was in previous event this type:



And they seem to symbolise 10 past pinata events:
1. That must be one of the first pinata event maybe those with Jupiter
2. That must be one of the first pinata event from the end of August 2013
3. Seems to be pinata event form the end of June 2014 or Circus Piñatas form October 2015
4. Music Pinãtas form the end of May 2016
5. Birds Pinãtas form the middle of January 2017
6. Californian Piñatas from the middle of August 2017
7. The Tryon Games (that's not pinata event) form September 2018
8. The Tryon Games (that's not pinata event) form September 2018
9. Alebrije Piñatas from the middle of October 2018
10. Darumas from the middle of September 2019

(that was a lot searching on Howrse's FB profile to find those informations )

Karate is a Japanese horse.
His jackpot is a Bonus Pack, and it's at level 7 of the Challenges. His price range is about 2500 passes.

Wow, that's a sad amount of prizes for the Pinata event.

Is it just me do the prizes, jackpot, and divine for the piñata promo all kinda stink? Not looking forward to that one. It's gonna feel like a massive letdown after the lottery..

I'm with you, honestly. They're... they're basically ALL fragments, and even then, only 300-400 of them. No Scale and Staff in sight, which were the staple of the event. I'm quite disappointed for now

yeah, prizes are abysmal do howrse gain anything by being stingy?

Yeah, the prizes are poor on this one - I'm easy to please as well, just give me a TC and I'll take it and run. Not only that, but I like Pinatas. I was planning on finishing them for the divine, but are bonus packs worth 2500 passes? Yeah, no thanks on that one either. Are we too optimistic to hope they change the prizes before the event goes live?

Those who don't like the Divine will be left with NOTHING, there's nothing for them! Even the Daruma pet is one of the common ones!

I don't want this divine myself, I rather save my passes for a Divine with a more valuable BMI, but that means I'm going to sit through this whole promo for what? A Hera's Pack? I don't even want the Daruma, I have Sekiryu for that . Really not worth it, if the prizes were more like this current promo I'd be happy - SO many high level BMI to choose from. Honestly, I sent a feedback ticket to Contact Us already because I know this event won't go down well unless this is fixed.

Not to mention this event has a ton of good prizes as it is, and clearly there are still people who aren't happy with it. Imagine how they'll react to those prizes

Honestly I think what makes me sad about this event is thinking about Jupiter being released originally in piñatas and being able to get him at the cost of a few HOPs rather than the 20,000 passes he will inevitably be set at when he comes around in this rotation

I'm rather excited myself. I never seem to be able to finish any pinata promos without buying passes. Does anyone know what the balloon plaiting does/is? I'm intrigued.

As previously stated, it's a +2 to every stat of the horse. We do not know at this time if it stacks with other items.

Do we know if we'll be able to visually see the hair plaited on the horse or not?

Yes, a player got hold of the item and we could see the plaited mane. But the tail was not plaited and the mane was barely noticeable because of how thin it was made from the plaits. And the plaits themselves are so small that you can barely see them. And the horse's forlock remains the normal size and hanging over the horse's face (it isn't plaited) so it looks weird. Also, this was on a percheron.

To summarise it: the item makes horses look less visually appealing. Or at least that's what I think.

Cost:
No. Festive chests needed for 1× cycle: 21
Price for 1 full cycle: 1890 passes



[spoilr]With the 4× multiplier:
Number of fragments per chest cycle: 472 fragments
No. cycles needed to fill the meter: 2 full chest cycles + 56 more fragments from any source
Cost to fill the meter: 3780p + 30× clovers to buy the rest of the fragments (43 chests) *try to use clovers and not passes to get the 56× fragments. It may cost more if you use passes instead*

-Each prize that you win from the festive chest gets removed after you win it to ensure that you win all the prizes from the chest. The process then restarts after you win the last prize available and the prizes restock in the chest.

-Try to get those last fragments from the festive chest (after you complete x amount of full cycles) with clovers!! It will lower the amount that you will otherwise have to pay in passes.

The great challenge

-You can complete the same task several times over until you get to 100 horseshoes. You don't need to dehorn your precious unis or dewing your peggys.

- You will not get the extra horseshoes if you collect more than 100 horseshoes in one day (eg by dewinging a peggy ×2 and dehorn a uni you should get (2×35 horseshoes + 50 horseshoes = 120 horseshoes, but you only get 100 horseshoes). You get capped at 100 horseshoes per day so you lose the extra horseshoes if you collect more than 100 horseshoes.

-Completing the extra objective after you get 100× horseshoes will get you lottery tickets. This is very helpful for the first draw of the lottery itself, so do as many of the extra objectives as you can. (You can do 1 per day.) However, these objectives are chosen randomly so you may be asked to dehorn a uni etc, which is probably something that you don't want to do. For these, you could buy a horse from the sales and dehorn/dewing/etc that horse instead of your own horses. Also remember that nobody is forcing you to complete the objective, so if you don't want to do it then just don't do it. I mean, these are brutal objectives to start with..

-You can gain fragment multipliers by completing your objectives/filling the horseshoe meter. The multipliers are prizes, where the highest achievable multiplier is 4× more fragments. Also, the community objectives just unlock more lottery draws per day so if you don't do your great challenge objectives then don't expect to get a fragment multiplier.

How to get tickets:

-The first thing that you want to do here is make sure that you've got at least 5 friends who are active players. Why? Because you are allowed to send 5 requests for lottery tickets to your friends so your friends can give you extra tickets. Each request costs 200eq. In a similar fashion, your friends can request lottery tickets and you can send them tickets. You can do this every lottery draw.

-You can buy lottery tickets, but every time you buy a ticket, price of the ticket will increase by a factor of 3× starting from 200eq. The best thing to here would be to buy tickets in low amounts to avoid taking a massive hit to your equus reserve. Also, the price of the tickets reset after every draw, so you can buy another ticket for 200eq again after each draw. Hence why I would recommend buying the tickets in small amounts each draw to avoid going broke.

-You can win tickets from the lottery draws too.

-You can find lottery ticket UFOs when you refresh your page. I found a maximum of 2 tickets between draws.

-You can win 2 × 1 ticket when your horses place first in a competition. You get 1 ticket per win.

-Renewing/buying a Pegasus/VIP membership will get you tickets.

-You can win a ticket every time you purchase a BMI with passes. Although, the number of tickets that you get doesn't change according to the BMI that you purchased. You only get 1 ticket per BMI, whether it's a nyx pack or an AP, so I would recommend buying 9× ageing points if you want to go that route. Also, you can do this unlimited times and keep getting tickets every time you buy a BMI with passes.
NB: The Black Pearl and horses from the sales don't count for this so you won't get tickets for buying them.


Misc.
-All your tickets that you have at the time that a lottery draw takes place get used up in that draw. This means that lottery tickets don't carry over from draw to draw, unless you win extra lottery tickets from the previous draw. (And not having tickets during a draw/not participating in the draw means that you have less chances to win the divine)

-You may need to wake up at ungodly hours if you want to participate in every draw. This promo takes a lot of effort/maintenance if you want to participate in all the draws. Especially if you have unlocked the community objective to get 4 draws per day (1 draw every 6 hours).

-The only other way to win the divine is to fill his fragment meter by buying the festive chest. There isn't much of a luck aspect for winning the divine in this promo, besides for the luck needed to get him in the lottery draw itself.

-Small amounts of fragments (5×; 10×; 20×; 30×; 60×) are prizes in the draws.

-It is best to save all your clovers until after the last draw takes place because having more clovers allows you to buy items/BMIs of a higher value. The clover shop will remain open for a while afterwards so that you can make your purchases.

-It is possible to win BMIs from the lottery draws, however, it is highly unlikely to be good BMIs when it happens. The best BMI that I got from the draw was a P. Stroke.

-Clovers can be won from tickets in the amounts: (5×; 10×; 15×; 20×; 25×; and 30×). Or at least those are the amounts that I won. There may be additional amounts that can be won, however, it probably won't be much more than the above amounts.

-The price of an item in the Clover shop will double after every time you buy that specific item again.

-Prizes range from 30× fragments for 10× clovers to 1× Themis Scale for 700× clovers.

-You will be reimbursed 200eq per ticket that is leftover from the last draw.

TIP: If you're going for the divine, then it would be a good idea to wait for the festivities/lottery to start BEFORE you open the festive chest. Remember, each item that you buy with passes (during the lottery) will award you with a lottery ticket. So every time you buy the festive chest during the lottery, you will get a free ticket. (You're probably going to need at least 21 chests, so that means that you'll get at least 21 tickets.) And you should also wait until just before the last lottery draw to buy the chest because by then, you'll know exactly how many fragments you still need to collect. This will minimize the number of chests that you will still need to open (because you've already collected most of the fragments that you can from the promo, excluding those that you can buy with clovers) and reduce your chances of having extra leftover fragments after the promo. And the bonus is that you get more free tickets for that last draw.

The great challenge

-You can complete the same task several times over until you get to 100 horseshoes. You don't need to dehorn your precious unis or dewing your peggys.

- You will not get the extra horseshoes if you collect more than 100 horseshoes in one day (eg by dewinging a peggy ×2 and dehorn a uni you should get (2×35 horseshoes + 50 horseshoes = 120 horseshoes, but you only get 100 horseshoes). You get capped at 100 horseshoes per day so you lose the extra horseshoes if you collect more than 100 horseshoes.

-Completing the extra objective after you get 100× horseshoes will get you lottery tickets. This is very helpful for the first draw of the lottery itself, so do as many of the extra objectives as you can. (You can do 1 per day.) However, these objectives are chosen randomly so you may be asked to dehorn a uni etc, which is probably something that you don't want to do. For these, you could buy a horse from the sales and dehorn/dewing/etc that horse instead of your own horses. Also remember that nobody is forcing you to complete the objective, so if you don't want to do it then just don't do it. I mean, these are brutal objectives to start with..

-You can gain fragment multipliers by completing your objectives/filling the horseshoe meter. The multipliers are prizes, where the highest achievable multiplier is 4× more fragments. Also, the community objectives just unlock more lottery draws per day so if you don't do your great challenge objectives then don't expect to get a fragment multiplier.

How to get tickets:

-The first thing that you want to do here is make sure that you've got at least 5 friends who are active players. Why? Because you are allowed to send 5 requests for lottery tickets to your friends so your friends can give you extra tickets. Each request costs 200eq. In a similar fashion, your friends can request lottery tickets and you can send them tickets. You can do this every lottery draw.

-You can buy lottery tickets, but every time you buy a ticket, price of the ticket will increase by a factor of 3× starting from 200eq. The best thing to here would be to buy tickets in low amounts to avoid taking a massive hit to your equus reserve. Also, the price of the tickets reset after every draw, so you can buy another ticket for 200eq again after each draw. Hence why I would recommend buying the tickets in small amounts each draw to avoid going broke.

-You can win tickets from the lottery draws too.

-You can find lottery ticket UFOs when you refresh your page. I found a maximum of 2 tickets between draws.

-You can win 2 × 1 ticket when your horses place first in a competition. You get 1 ticket per win.

-Renewing/buying a Pegasus/VIP membership will get you tickets.

-You can win a ticket every time you purchase a BMI with passes. Although, the number of tickets that you get doesn't change according to the BMI that you purchased. You only get 1 ticket per BMI, whether it's a nyx pack or an AP, so I would recommend buying 9× ageing points if you want to go that route. Also, you can do this unlimited times and keep getting tickets every time you buy a BMI with passes.
NB: The Black Pearl and horses from the sales don't count for this so you won't get tickets for buying them.


Misc.
-All your tickets that you have at the time that a lottery draw takes place get used up in that draw. This means that lottery tickets don't carry over from draw to draw, unless you win extra lottery tickets from the previous draw. (And not having tickets during a draw/not participating in the draw means that you have less chances to win the divine)

-You may need to wake up at ungodly hours if you want to participate in every draw. This promo takes a lot of effort/maintenance if you want to participate in all the draws. Especially if you have unlocked the community objective to get 4 draws per day (1 draw every 6 hours).

-The only other way to win the divine is to fill his fragment meter by buying the festive chest. There isn't much of a luck aspect for winning the divine in this promo, besides for the luck needed to get him in the lottery draw itself.

-Small amounts of fragments (5×; 10×; 20×; 30×; 60×) are prizes in the draws.

-It is best to save all your clovers until after the last draw takes place because having more clovers allows you to buy items/BMIs of a higher value. The clover shop will remain open for a while afterwards so that you can make your purchases.

-It is possible to win BMIs from the lottery draws, however, it is highly unlikely to be good BMIs when it happens. The best BMI that I got from the draw was a P. Stroke.

-Clovers can be won from tickets in the amounts: (5×; 10×; 15×; 20×; 25×; and 30×). Or at least those are the amounts that I won. There may be additional amounts that can be won, however, it probably won't be much more than the above amounts.

-The price of an item in the Clover shop will double after every time you buy that specific item again.

-Prizes range from 30× fragments for 10× clovers to 1× Themis Scale for 700× clovers.

-You will be reimbursed 200eq per ticket that is leftover from the last draw.

TIP: If you're going for the divine, then it would be a good idea to wait for the festivities/lottery to start BEFORE you open the festive chest. Remember, each item that you buy with passes (during the lottery) will award you with a lottery ticket. So every time you buy the festive chest during the lottery, you will get a free ticket. (You're probably going to need at least 21 chests, so that means that you'll get at least 21 tickets.) And you should also wait until just before the last lottery draw to buy the chest because by then, you'll know exactly how many fragments you still need to collect. This will minimize the number of chests that you will still need to open (because you've already collected most of the fragments that you can from the promo, excluding those that you can buy with clovers) and reduce your chances of having extra leftover fragments after the promo. And the bonus is that you get more free tickets for that last draw.

Have to say that even I am disappointed with the pinata promo prizes and that I probably won't be investing; I count 18 prizes that won't fragments, of which only about 5 interest me.

Prize list is around 1200 passes worth tops, which is very low when compared to standard promos. If the divine was actually worth it I wouldn't mind the fragments so much, but a Bonus Pack? Nope, the items can be gotten easily, so a pretty much useless divine to me.

I also don't mind not having a divine as the end prize, but even I feel that that new item is not worth it.