[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2024

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The Fifth Queen wrote:

Thank you for clarifying. *That* makes sense.

However, the coats and companions trophies are still way off. A vast majority of the coats on my account were added by myself. A vast majority of companions on my account were *also* added by myself. There's no way I have only applied ~75 special coats to horses myself, I have over 50 5th Element horses alone (these are just the ones in the proper breeding farm, I have more scattered throughout), over 40 Iris coat horses alone, and over 60 VA horses alone. I don't buy horses with those coats so these items were all applied by me some time in the past.

My immortal breeding farm has *95 horses* in it, every single one of them with a special coat that *I applied myself*.

Unless the trophy means that you need 150 *unique* special coats, in which case they need to update the wording because nowhere do I get that impression.
I think it's unique coats. To reach my next old GA trophy, when I looked yesterday I needed 500 GA coats.
500 is what it's saying I need to apply for the new trophies
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The Fifth Queen wrote:

My immortal breeding farm has *95 horses* in it, every single one of them with a special coat that *I applied myself*.

Unless the trophy means that you need 150 *unique* special coats, in which case they need to update the wording because nowhere do I get that impression.


It is possible that their data only scraped what they had, which is... I think 90 days for the Item History?
It certainly is 90 days for pass history.

For the unique special coats, I have a stack of 30 Water elements... later this evening I'll give it a test. default smiley :p
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I don't think it's unique coats, at least for specials, when I was coating for 75 I got so many duplicates from the wanderers spirits, but they all counted towards it
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They need to update the wording, then. The companion trophy doesn't work that way because I just tested it (gave 2 horses the same companion and it registered), so I don't see why it and the special coats trophy are worded the same.

Thank you to everyone for the clarifications. Still not at *all* pleased with the update.
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By Retired breeder, 3rd January 2023 14:53:41
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For the order of the classic coats, in case some of y'all missed it (i definitely did! i only figured it out because i was really annoyed that they got rid of the percentages for the coats), they're in order from most common to least common (left to right, descending).

i don't know how the other coat collections are organized (my PC struggled so much to open the RC one that i just gave up trying to understand). Knowing this does make me feel less confused (the classic coat trophies were the only ones i consulted often) but the trophies page remains incomprehensible to me so far.

The only thing i like about this update is that the classic coats collection has a percentage because i love percentages (i used to calculate it manually) but it's a downside for all the other collections, as previous posters have pointed out...
Dr Zig wrote:

It's a relief that we no longer lose trophies once we earn them. Bye-bye the monthly panic that one of my horses has reached 225 rosettes so I don't lose my trophies default smiley (lol)


hi! does this mean that we won't lose the coat trophy now if we sell the only horse we have with a certain coat?
i've had to keep 17 random irish hunters to keep my coat collection trophy, so it'll be nice if i can finally sell some of them :')
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Ah, since posting there were two more responses, so it looks like no one knows whether it's unique coats or not quite yet.

I'd test out the coat trophy myself, but *I used most of my coat items last week*. I went on an item application spree. Talk about bad timing.
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aracari wrote:

hi! does this mean that we won't lose the coat trophy now if we sell the only horse we have with a certain coat?


I think so, but I'm not brave enough to test it out
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aracari wrote:

hi! does this mean that we won't lose the coat trophy now if we sell the only horse we have with a certain coat?
i've had to keep 17 random irish hunters to keep my coat collection trophy, so it'll be nice if i can finally sell some of them :')
Collections are lost when you lose the horse.
Trophies are not lost
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aracari wrote:

hi! does this mean that we won't lose the coat trophy now if we sell the only horse we have with a certain coat?
i've had to keep 17 random irish hunters to keep my coat collection trophy, so it'll be nice if i can finally sell some of them :')


You will keep your Trophies but NOT your Collection.

To keep and maintain a Collection you have to own every single piece of the collection.
In the case of Irish Hunters, those are part of a collection and not of a Trophy, so you'd lose it. default smiley :)
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For the unique coats thing, I counted my special coats and have 124. My next special coat medal is to have 150. If my 124 count is between two trophies (I don't know what was before needing 150), then I'd say it's just owning unique coats.
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The Fifth Queen wrote:

Ah, since posting there were two more responses, so it looks like no one knows whether it's unique coats or not quite yet.


I have 1,624 different golden apple coats in my collection and now show as 81% of the way to getting the diamond trophy for using 2,000 GAs, so it probably is unique coats that count.
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Legacy Ann wrote:

Collections are lost when you lose the horse.
Trophies are not lost


Nalu93 wrote:

You will keep your Trophies but NOT your Collection.

To keep and maintain a Collection you have to own every single piece of the collection.
In the case of Irish Hunters, those are part of a collection and not of a Trophy, so you'd lose it.


Excellent - thanks! Good to know default smiley :d
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EXTREMELY unhappy and disappointed. I've spent years trying to save up enough passes to buy each Falabella Divine.

Want to know why?

So I could have that trophy portrayed on my page. I was a collector who liked to show off her achievements so this change just effectively ruined all my motivation, goals, and projects on this game. I'm so disappointed.

Yeah it's great to get gifts, but I loved having my progress/collections all laid out in the form of trophies on my page. Can't believe Howrse is slowly getting rid of everything that makes the game fun. It was entirely possible to merge this idea with the previous version of trophies, but nope. In one fell swoop, they eliminated my reasons for playing.

I just finally got back into the game after a couple of years! I got too frustrated with the changes to continue playing. Looks like I'll be taking another break now.
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Now Im not trying to complain just to complain. But the trophy update is one of the worst updates we have had in a while.

Just from a web design pov it is so hard to navigate and make sense of. If I wanna see coat colours or GAs I have to navigate myself through multiple trophy before I get to what I want to see. I cant see anything I can click to see just gold, silver or bronze trophy either, how do I know how many they are?

And from a collector pov seeing my 10 years of collecting be summed up as 5% if just depressing. I cant even easily see my own or other people's collections now.

I would trade the prize to have the old page back lol who even asked for this? Why fix something that wasnt broken.
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does anyone know what the top amount of droppings you need to win the top medal in the trophies? in the old trophies top amount was 45000. i keep mine between 45000 and 46200 (need 1200 to make manure so every time i hit 46200 i make manure) and i am only at like 90% for the silver which needs 50000.
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Ah, before I forget.

Admins on the English Preprod (Ow and RobOw) confirmed that they heard our pleas about our Profile Page and will be working on a way of displaying our COLLECTIONS on the Profile page.

The update should thus go live in the future, they said.
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ShadowKokufu Yes, yes and yes, I couldn't have said it better myself! I hope they return it back to how it was but implement a different system if they want to run these rewards. They're literally just a very bad rehash of the Objectives from back in the day. If they want to run a reward system that badly, just run it separately from the old trophies. I viewed getting a trophy for finally finishing a coat collection a reward of sorts because my hard work had proof. The classic trophies weren't useless in my eyes at all. So having nothing to show for my game and collections on my page is very demotivating.

Also Howrse have seemingly removed the 15 year anniversary trophy away. You know that one most players who participated in the celebrations a couple years back got. Not too mention the trophy for breeding/owning a horse every month for the past two years, which I absolutely dedicated myself too, only to have it wiped from existence (it could be somewhere but I haven't seen it).

The trophies are shaped like medals not trophies so calling them that is a stretch as someone else pointed out above.

I'm 50/50 on the whole reward divine thing for some objective trophy meter thingo, like its nice for newer unestablished players to get a divine but I remember absolutely playing my behind off for Etrian on that glitchy game from 2017, to have him just handed out? irks me to no end. Also I'm dodging Tarpan like a bad smell, I don't want or need him. I get that this may have arisen from players complaining about not being able to get divines easily, but I feel that these days its much easier to collect divines than when I first started.
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Nalu93 wrote:

Admins on the English Preprod (Ow and RobOw) confirmed that they heard our pleas about our Profile Page and will be working on a way of displaying our COLLECTIONS on the Profile page.


To be honest, they should just undo it and have the old trophy page as the 'collections' page. It's literally that simple!
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Hiram Farmer wrote:

does anyone know what the top amount of droppings you need to win the top medal in the trophies? in the old trophies top amount was 45000. i keep mine between 45000 and 46200 (need 1200 to make manure so every time i hit 46200 i make manure) and i am only at like 90% for the silver which needs 50000.


Master of the Manure Pile XII is a gold one that requires 500,000 droppings. I've no idea if there's a diamond level or two above that default smiley (lol)
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Just to add on to what I said earlier, it feels pointless to fill out collections if no one is able to see them.
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Bell_z wrote:

To be honest, they should just undo it and have the old trophy page as the 'collections' page. It's literally that simple!


Yes, but since that clearly is NOT an option, since they went through with the update anyway... default smiley :)
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Some of the requirements are insane... win 2500 rosettes with ONE horse and it's only a gold trophy?

They need to look at those requirements, they're completely unattainable for 99% of players!
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Bell_z wrote:

They need to look at those requirements, they're completely unattainable for 99% of players!


Absolutely agree on this.
Nalu93
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Granted you only have to do it once to get the trophy, but this system has a huge flaw where it will get to a point where players can't physically get any more trophies/points because it's simply out of reach!

I'm struggling to get past silver for most trophies and I've played for years! My account is very well established but with these current requirements it'll take me years to get past the level's I'm currently at default smiley :(
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