Although I would like it even more if we could see its face, that Snowy Owl is adorable

Cascade and Alice in Wonderland

the mother of Geyser Cascade, the father is Snowflake and Alice in Wonderland(Fairytale Horse, offers Aphrodite's Tears, Rabbit and Kairos Dial)

They marked it "dark god" instead of Underworld or whatever else. Who was even going to look for "dark gods"?

Anyway, Nyx, Goddess of Night

Sorry, I can't be bothered to check forums regularly at the moment given that I'm getting practicals and having days that last from 7am to 8pm... here's my responses:

1. From what I heard, ubisoft shut down 4 unreleased games and 2 others. The only one they named was Prince of persia. Plus they still shut down a studio that cost them 33% of their stocks... that's big, no matter how you look at it.

2. Ubisoft is bringing straight money grabs to this game with ephemerals. It's clearly not bringing in the income that they hoped for... that's why I posted the warning. That said, it is just a warning. Maybe I'm wrong to worry.
That said... they DID just announce that they're going to put their resources into AI slop that probably won't sell... that's what'll be the problem combined with the 33% stock loss. This is Ubisoft. They don't learn from their mistakes...

3. I don't know if you've forgotten this, but Howrse is down quite a few servers already. I question how much profit it brings them to keep it going given just how many servers they killed. They even moved the chat to discord so they don't need admins of different languages on different servers unless my understanding is wrong. So they only need to chore existing English speaking admins a bit more instead of hiring ones that speak other languages. Sounds like they may have cut down on staff. Can't confirm any of this though. It's just what I picked up on in the last year or 2... and why I'm wondering if this game will be shut down. The cash grabs are prominent and the signs that it's not making enough money are there. I'm guessing that the few servers left are the only ones with a slight profit, hence they're still there. But the cash grabs are prominent and I don't know how many players will keep paying up.

4. If discord only requires your birth year, that's awesome. But easy to cheat... I don't know how long it'll last. Hopefully it stays there instead of progressing...

5. Governments like control... I fully expect the age verification thing to move to other countries... minecraft is also going to implement it and they confirmed that they'll be spreading it to many other regions, just as an example, although off topic. It's going to hit more than just discord and youtube and Australia/UK as more governments decide to protect the children. Unless we somehow manage to resist it. And I don't know if that's possible.

6. I'm happy that this is a cheap weekend - I came to check the spoilers

I'll login for the event, but I couldn't care less about following the forums. I have other things to do that are more urgent and important... so I may not respond again. Sorry about that. I just posted that other thing as a heads up that I noticed and figured that it may be better to share it than have it potentially blindside everyone here... but we'll see. If their game sells, then they'll stick around for a while longer. Otherwise...... be prepared instead of blindsided. Game production isn't free and they'll need to cut costs if their new AAA game doesn't work. I don't know where those cuts will be... they put all their ducks in the same boat now. And if that boat sinks...

Yes, I'm aware that ducks are water birds... I just couldn't find the exact expression.

Syfan Anitlafian (Extraterrestrial Horse)



Gives Phanes Egg (for 200 points)

she’s beautiful! I love anything galaxy but I love the wispiness of her cloak and the almost ink like look it has on her back. Her mane is gorgeous as well!

I find this one kind of cute. I like the feathers, eyeliner, tack and ears. The ears give it a cute look.
Not sure about the whole double horns situation though.

First one to break the movie title rule? Or do I have the wrong title? The design is pretty, though!

I have 80 eggs not sure why I'd want more, It would be a lot better if they actually offered the more valuable eros eggs for zonkey's even if they only trigger 4x a year like some of the ones that give the best prizes.

Transformation: Winter menagerie



Prizes


New items

Divines

Some general feedback and noticable changes from testers (NOTE: These aren't my opinions, I have simply gathered feedback from others since I haven't had time to try it out for myself):

- Added 3 energy for 2 horses card
- Increased chance for better horses (orange/purple) sooner

- The general consensus is that the Ascent seems harder now than before. Rooms have been made harder where the boss room requires 22 per skill, making it harder even when using Drachmas.

Oh, good gracious, the Ascent was. already hard enough to progress in at times.... that looks like a terrible adjustment for a player who doesn't spend much in the way of passes on it. Or it will just be an absolute slog trying to get the boss.

I'm gonna have to agree with you. Even though I didn't think Ascent was THAT hard, it still was a hit or miss most of the time. But let's see when it rolls out, I guess..

Please help me to understand, if the Ascent was a long timeconsuming slog and people didn't want to play because you would get thru a score of rooms only to lose halfway thru the last teir with a 90% chance that you "should" have won that round, and they are going to get more people to play by making it HARDER?

Speaking as someone that has played from the start and played thousands of games, this might just be what makes me pull away from ascent. I didn't play for the challenge, I played because it was a good way to get divines and I actually enjoyed it.

I'm strongly of the opinion that this doesn't really have anything to do with improving it, but rather to make it harder to get divines. It should still be possible to reach 100% in the boss room without bonuses if you've been able to build a balanced hand that has an equal spread across all four abilities. If it's not possible without bonuses, I am just going to consider it unfair game design.

The other issue is that, based on what I've seen, you've done nothing to actually compensate for the loss of at least 20 obols every 6 weeks round and have instead just made it more difficult. Ascent is frustrating enough when you lose tons of rounds in a row already, but this increased difficulty might just be what makes some of us quit altogether.

In my opinion, the difficulty should not be increased if nothing is actually going to be done to compensate for the harder difficulty and fewer free obols. As well as look into why players are losing so frequently at around 90%.