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the posts are all moderated..however, those of us who have been here for a while are aware of the "rules"/restrictions. ergo, we don't get slammed as often.

lag is a HUGE issue. one of my top team mates is seriously, and do mean seriously thinking of leaving the game. she is a regular pass buyer too. can howrse/ubisoft really afford to lose top players? they pay your salaries, and other business related expenses.

why not get rid of the confetti throw when you click a ufo. big deal..we know we got a ufo. not a great celebration..just a waste of bandwidth. which, i believe contributes to the lag.

why not go back and look at what "improvements" occurred at the time when the lag complaints started to roll in? by fixing or removing said improvements, you may just retain some of your pass buyers.

I was Trying To sell Dropping's but then it kept popping up adds and lagging really badly!!

IMO looks like our actions are being logged. It gets better the longer I'm on a pixels page, but as soon as I go to another or go to another area on the site it lags again. The first 10 minutes of running up a skillie took longer than it did to use 20x clouds and age up 12 years.

[quote=1403685704][author]dogloverloops[/author]Can we get an update on the lag situation - something a little more than 'We're looking into it' would be great. Perhaps resolving lag could be a priority over promotions? [/quote:0]
[quote=1403685925][author]caribooster[/author]lag is a HUGE issue. one of my top team mates is seriously, and do mean seriously thinking of leaving the game. she is a regular pass buyer too. can howrse/ubisoft really afford to lose top players? they pay your salaries, and other business related expenses.

why not get rid of the confetti throw when you click a ufo. big deal..we know we got a ufo. not a great celebration..just a waste of bandwidth. which, i believe contributes to the lag.

why not go back and look at what "improvements" occurred at the time when the lag complaints started to roll in? by fixing or removing said improvements, you may just retain some of your pass buyers.[/quote:0]

A little bit more communication rather than 'we're looking into it' would be appreciated. I doubt anyone would mind the removal of most animations for a while if it meant the game was playable, honestly, the supposed improvements the game has had mean nothing while the game cannot be played and by saying there have been improvements, when the largest issue still stands, it only angers the players more.

I have not had a single lag issue except for during black friday. I use chromebook which is said to be faster but I don't know. But my game is doing fine, I feel bad for players with the terrible lag

Really REALLY wish the BMI page (when adding to a horse) would either go back to how it was or chosen payment option was highlighted so it was easier to tell if we were using from inventory.

I also don't like the way the BMI page is displayed when adding to a horse. I like to see how many of the BMI I have in my inventory instead of just the choice of pass or inventory. I didn't like it with the golden apple and ray pages and still don't like it!

I actually had not thought about that. I am not that active on this server but am on the Australian server more frequently and thought it was unfair that suddenly a perk that was 'advertised' from a divine suddenly was being revoked for the reindeers. I don't have much other use for the perk. Having said that, I actually hadn't thought about players having multiples of these divines as I only had one. So I can see that can be a major advantage for the players having multiples.

On the other hand is is not an advantage for players to be able to use passes to increase the skills of reindeers to advance them in rankings and that could be considered an unfair advantage also as not all can afford to do that. Or am I missing something, are the reindeer results in comps random? Maybe there could have been another way to limit the availability of the divine perk without completely removing? As I said hasn't really impacted me alot as I did not have multiples.

On the lagging issue, yes its gotten quite bad on Au server also. very frustrating. And have also made the suggestion like others to about using the inventory items as default before passes.

Yes it is an advantage to buy skills with passes but it is different as everyone has a supply of free passes if they do their daily objectives and everyone has free choice of whether they buy passes and how they spend them. What was completely unfair about the Divine was that it gave a chance of an extra comp every time it triggered which is something that no other player could replicate as you cannot buy the Divine and cannot apply a Nyx pack to a reindeer. The Divine perk does. of course, still apply to all the other horses you own.

how do i remove the christmas wreath around my name icon. christmas is long past. are these dodads increasing the likelihood of lag?

i'd like to keep my icon, and not lose it when the wreath is removed.

i also hate the way our bmi's are being displayed when selecting them. i would like to know exactly how many of each type of bmi i have. so then i can make a decision as to whether or not to use what i have in stock, or to use passes to purchase it.

c'mon howrse, give us back informed freedom of choice.

fix the lag issue and stop with the geegaws and unnecessary frilly bits.

Click on the icon option without a frame, that removes it and allows you to keep your current icon.

[quote=1403686058][author]Crystal Coven[/author]Really REALLY wish the BMI page (when adding to a horse) would either go back to how it was or chosen payment option was highlighted so it was easier to tell if we were using from inventory.[/quote:0]

Exactly! I never had problems before. With this "improvement," and compounded by the lag, I can select the button to use from inventory -- and suddenly my pass stash is reduced. Because it switches over to the "preferred" option on the slightest provocation.

Plus, by not being able to view how many items we have in inventory, we are working blind -- we don't know if we SHOULD use passes or inventory.

This whole thing is not an improvement. It's another pass grab by Howrse.

Howrse changed a couple of objectives a while back, but I really don't understand why they took off the "Remove a pegasus's wings" objective and not the "Remove a unicorn's horn" objective. Both of them aren't great but removing a horn is asking much more than to remove wings, since the wings can be replaced right after by putting a Medusa's Blood back on and MBs are relatively easy to acquire in promos. While you can't put back a horse's horn, and if you remove the horn then you can't breed more unicorns with that horse. It honestly doesn't make sense to me because I'd think that people would be more annoyed with the remove horn objective than the remove wings one?

I do actually like that some of the harder objectives create more incentive to play the game strategically. I used to not really play this game much until they introduced the objectives. I could have gotten into breeding or pass horses but the objectives were a quick, easy way to win passes for someone who wasn't very motivated at first into trying harder at the game. I was mostly just here for graphics and the fact that Howrse is the sister site of Owlient's now defunct website that I loved that closed back in 2014, but I now have lots of unis, draft horses, donkeys, and have an AP farm and sort-of functioning EC because they'll provide what I need to complete objectives. But with that being said, I don't understand why they would remove that objective and not ones that are worse like remove a unicorn's horn. Some players felt like the horses were being mutilated by taking off their wings, which I personally disagree with because, I mean, you put the MB on it and you're just taking it off. Whereas unis are born with their horns, so taking that off is different. Not that I consider removing a horn to be mutilation either, they're just pixel horses, but every criticism of that objective is even stronger when it comes to the remove a uni's horn objective, so why just remove that one? I don't mind if some of the objectives are harder. The "Give birth to a uni" objective at least is about you getting to contribute to your breeding farm with another horse, and it creates an incentive for me to try to get Hestia's Gifts in promos, but I don't see what good it does anything to remove a uni's horn.

I also assume that they made the avatars smaller on the forum pages to reduce lag, yet there is still bad lag. If my avatar has to become sized down and distorted to reduce the lag, then the lag should at least be reduced, and it's not, so my avatar basically looks worse for nothing. There are a lot of other things they could've adjusted in order to reduce lag that don't involve distorting players' avatars, especially if the lag would still continue to be a problem. Unless it was just a design choice to make the avatars smaller? In that case, it's a bad one.

Hey, uh... Don't know if this is exactly the place to ask, but does anyone know what the new 5th Element BMI is?

Nevermind. It was asked by someone else in a different topic and apparently you get to shoose which element you want on the horse. Way to take away players' best ways of earning passes Howrse. Cool...

Thank you for the upgrade to mobile team! I love it!

I like the bew update and all, but i can no longer sell my horse droppings for equus.
That is probably the only thing that i would change.
Thank you, �

I would really appreciate it if you guys changed it back to how it was before...i also think that others would like that too.

Quite liking some of the changes to the mobile app, however I think there is a layout issue?

Most notably on the horse pages. The energy/health/moral bars now over lay on the horse' name and affix making it hard to read, and the skills/breeder/etc. is squished into such a tiny field (which does not offer vertical scrolling), so it is impossible to read all the information listed there.

Just me, or do other app users experience this too?

Love the change in searches. Now instead of searching for my boarded divines and opening each tab separate i can just go to the next horses

Glad to the safe haven back on mobile. Now fix the issues with the pages cutting things off.

Also next time for mobile I'd like to see the equestrian center on it.