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If you are not seeing the Ascent on your carousel please would you send a ticket to Contact Us. If possible a screenshot and details of browser, operating system etc should be included.

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@deimos Just saw your post (after the weekend offers were removed from the carousel) but similar situation with the Piggy Bank offers. Only one shows.

I don't like that the order of the banners keeps changing in the carousel. If there is always going to be an Ascent of Olympus banner (no reason for it, since we get pms and notifications when the divine changes but it's a permanent feature - we don't have a banner for horse sales or the piggy bank) it should stay all the way on the left, and then the current event next to that, and then luck item offers and other special things, adding things to the right of the ones currently up so it's not constantly shifting around. I am already getting a huge popup instead of just clicking "next" so I'd like certain types of things to stay in one spot instead of it being reordered constantly.

I don't really understand Ascent being on the carousel either. It was briefly removed over the weekend (looks like they only have 4 slots? which is... odd, cause they definitely have more than 4 offers and promos going at once at times) but with it being permanent and having a tab for it under the Breeding category it's easily accessible, it really doesn't need to be on there at this point, especially now they've got limited space.

No, it's always been like that. Only one out of the two offers shows up at a time, and they switch places when you click on a new page.

As an artist, I think filters are disrespectful to the creators. A lot of work goes into carefully balancing the hues so that they look good. Plus many black and white filters aren’t accurate - they don’t convert hues correctly into grayscale, messing up the intended values.

They were referring to search filters that let players search creations by color, rather than a filter that applies color to the creation

(: super bardzo

1. BLUP change - fair enough, I guess? Seems too easy in my opinion to get good horses now but I prefer a challenge when playing, that's just me. It's not a *bad* change and I'm sure it'll help a lot of players. To me it just feels a bit like "dumbing down" gameplay, I preferred it the way it was before where there was a risk of bad luck as well as good.

2. Turning off UFOs - I don't understand this at all. UFOs barely give anything that would disrupt "distribution of resources." I truly don't think someone getting an extra 200 equus in a UFO is going to make or break their decision to play the lottery if they don't wish to. I personally don't play, and don't plan to play this one, because it's not an event I enjoy. I have no clue why my attention would need to be "redirected" towards it by turning UFOs off. Maybe I just misread what the message meant but I don't see the point of doing this, and don't like the change.

I remember reading somewhere in this thread that Grand Prix teams had to birth 10 mares with A. Tears to get the highest IBS, and without a member having the Tears Privilege they would have a net loss of passes unless they priced it even higher. Since the skiller price is several hundred passes, I can agree that this is fine. (Personally, the Grand Prix prizes should be buffed because anyone who can get their hands on a horse skilled enough to win top 100 would be at a loss of passes and anyone else can just send any horse they like, even an AP horse, to get those 500 equus and Grand Prix participation progress. )

I forgot what the lottery was like since it was a while I played Howrse previously, but maybe they thought UFOs flying around would be a distraction to the players while playing the event? More likely, there is an objective to get a trophy and they didn’t want players getting the Space UFO trophy so easily? Just an idea.

Also, I have a perpetual red exclamation mark on my pass counter since the Ascent of Olympus change which I can’t remove even by clicking on that page. It’s not a big deal for me personally since I don’t look at that page most of the time (and the exclamation mark kind of grew on me ), but still, it can be distracting.

The wording state 'classic' UFOs. I could definitely be wrong, but perhaps what they meant is that instead of getting the normal UFOs you'll only get ones pertaining to the lottery? Like I said I could be wrong, I've only just started getting back into the game and I have no idea how the lottery works or what UFOs you might possibly get for it. That's just how I was reading it.

I love the change to the inborn skills. Seriously, there was nothing fun or challenging about having to breed tons of times just to get a decent foal, it was just a massive time and resource waste. Speaking as someone that spent a lot of time with teams in the past, I remember us getting only a couple of decent pairs in roughly 50 breedings several times, which was 4 fully blupped m arm mares.

Personally happy with the IBS change. Honestly annoying to get so many foals with 7000 skills that don't even sell for 10 passes or 50k.
Skiller foals that will still only be top 30 on rankings and they don't hold value long.

Finally a change I can love!!! I used to enjoy breeding for better foals and became so discouraged that I have stopped.. cant wait to try again and hopefully this change will have some positive results..

P.S. I still think there should be dedicated competitions for team horses so the rest of us dont have to constantly breed/purchase higher and higher skillers..

Just sayin'

5/5 Happy with the IBS change
1/5 for the UFO change. My focus was on classic UFOs since I personally don’t play the lottery all the way through if at all. Redirecting our focus I PERSONALLY feel is unnecessary. Not everyone wants to play every single back to back event we have now. I feel like it was just an unnecessary change that could have been made elsewhere. Maybe other players have suggested that, and I missed it, I’m just not seeing the point in taking away(even temporarily) the scarce regular UFOs during an event many people don’t bother to play. (And good for you if you do, but again personal opinion here, so don’t come for me)
When I do play the GC and lottery, I’ve never been bothered by the regular UFOs.

@Code Chaos - there are indeed both standard and lottery-based UFOs during the event, I just don't see why the standard ones needed to be shut off. With UFOs it's very clear what they are (a graphic of equus or a saddle looks a lot different from a lottery ticket) and I've never heard anyone mention being confused. Possibly distracted, but if it was a distraction risk they would shut off all UFOs, permanently.

It just makes no sense to me. I'm certainly not dependent on UFOs or anything, the sparse equus and carrots I get isn't going to make or break my gameplay but it's annoying to lose them for seemingly no good reason other than to pressure me into playing an event I don't want to play.

@Painted Lady ugh. Tell me about it. Just about the time I think I'm doing good and some one is there DOMINATING the competition for days if not weeks with one horse I can't hope to or even dream of catching. I get it they worked hard or shelled out big and they aren't doing anything wrong and they should enjoy their success but it is so discouraging. I mean we're at a point I almost don't bother to login M and T because M is XC Prix day and all the best are out and they are still there come T.

/Sigh

IBS changes are huge and needed. Rare Dev's Corner W

I don't understand why you changed those divines, but haven't also changed Hipparion's perk to allow us to get a random foal when we have them all. You fixed Sequoia's grizzly companion, why can't you fix Hipparion's foundation foal? We shouldn't be out of a prize just because we have everything at the time it activates.

Sequoia and Punga were fixed after years and countless tickets. I personally sent 3 and I don't know how many preprods. I did not expect them to fix it now.

They absolutely should fix it though.