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putting on my clown shoes for thinking they'd ever address the trophy extravaganza in these updates

I did the same thing… I would LOVE this change… if it actually did what it seems to claim…

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Here's my feedback.

Added a 'TikTok' button on the home page and the page footer. - Don't care, never use it.

The twisted horsetail braid is now for sale. - Don't care.

On the equestrian center employees page of the mobile version, the information on any valid expert diploma is now displayed. - Don't care.

Since it has the same design, the Ow's Helios' Ray called 'Medieval Kingdoms' has been removed and replaced by another one called 'Isolated Kingdom'. - Don't care.

The Ow's Helios' Rays called 'Rider's Store' have been merged into a single animated one. - Don't care

Corrected a bug that occurred when searching for draft horses or donkeys with remaining coverings. - Never had a problem.

It is no longer possible to use passes by mistake on items you have the benefit of and meet the conditions for. - Nice, if it's true.

Corrected a bug that enabled two coverings at once, resulting in the wrong number of coverings. - Never had a problem.

Corrected a bug on the mobile version where the covering offers for some male horses with a team affix were not being displayed. - Doesn't affect me.

References to non-existent equestrian center forums have been removed from the equestrian center manual. - Don't care.

I asked on the UK forum and was told by an Admin that it's about the Tear and Fertility Wand Privileges.
Which from what I've heard makes no sense because apparently those were already the default options to begin with if the player has those privileges?

I was having the same thought about them needing money actually. There seems to be an influx of them trying to get us to "buy, buy, buy!" Like the recent Dragon divine they were offering fragments for. If you didn't already have fragments, it would cost you about $70 dollars or so in order to get it. And there have been so many others and pass ufos showing up more frequently.

Day 84 of waiting for my collections to come back.

Day 8 of waiting for Howrse to realize why they're bleeding money (because a good chunk of their players don't care to buy their passes anymore) and what they need to do to fix it (give us our collections back)

oh they have. it's "we have been given your feedback and there are no changes to report" and they'd kindly like everyone to shut up and forget about it and also hey just give them your bank account while you're still here. : )

If it was one of the custom packs, they are unique to every player and we all get them at different times. Sometimes you get offers for a divine/special you barely have any fragments for, other times you get an offer that you only need to buy a pack or two for if you wish to finish the meter with it.

I'm reading the new 'Rules of Conduct' page -- what exactly does "SMS language" mean and entail under "Behaviour in communication channels"?

It means chatspeak, like 'lol' or 'btw' or 'wdym' etc

It's been a standard rule ever since I've played because lots of players use translating apps!

Ah, alright. I had a feeling it was just an updated chatspeak rule. "SMS language" kind of sounds like an outdated term though.

Haha yeah it is very outdated! Might be something to do with the french translation though!

So they released a new item as a grand prize just to make it a store item the NEXT day?

Also I'm not sure what the update was the to rules page. I thought maybe it would be different but it seems like they just copy-pasted the old rules page into the Help section. Was it not there before? Did I miss something?

Not super happy with the Ow Ray coats being merged to animated-only. (I know it was just one, but it's a bad trend to get into.) Does that mean players who had the non-animated coats now have it animated? Cause I know people find the animated coats difficult to work with. I don't put them on horses because the movements in the background distract and make it impossible to care for my horses, I only use the still ones. Personally I'd prefer if every animated option had a non-animated variant, instead of the other way around.

Switching the BMI purchases from "passes by default" to not is a good change. That was always frustrating to have happen, so I'm glad they fixed it.

And yet, still no trophy update.

The one offered in the store is the old one not the new one that was just released.

Oh, okay. That makes slightly more sense, although I still don't know why having two different versions at all was a good idea. I can't tell them apart in my inventory.

Brand new 'code of conduct' �� I like it as at least we know the rules a bit better now

Am I the only one not surprised about the trophy change being reverted back to the old ways?
Joking, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

This is not the first time I've seen a major issue recieve a multitude of legitimate (emphasis on legitimate, and there have been quite a lot) complaints only to be swept under the rug.
I was not active for several months, but I do remember what it used to be like. I come back, wonder what on earth has happened, and recieve prize after prize after prize. Originally, I thought it was neat. After all, you're getting "rewarded" for hard work, and I even recieved a falabella. Not sure how rare that is, but it did feel like I was clicking for forever.

When I realized the uniqueness of these trophies were no longer displayed, I started to understand the uproar. Sure, it looks all neat and modern. An odd assortment of trophies never bothered me, though, and I personally admired the random, artistic assortment to illustrate what each person specialized in.

This kind of reminds me of when there used to be an abundance of giveaways, and people offered horses as prizes. Howrse "changed" things, and it's sad to see that nothing has been addressed about it, still.

I just don't understand why the major, major adjustments can't be decided with the help of the Howrse community, the very people who are playing. Might I suggest a voting system, which would truly represent the majority?

So much has changed. I see lazy outcomes and "solutions" more often than I'd like to. I miss the old Howrse, I feel like horses in this game are becoming less and less the highlight.

The code of conduct... I'll probably never refer to it. A lot of it is simply common sense, but I guess we have to make things more official and modern looking? I just really don't see the point, I guess, despite many of its points being valid.

They didn't. They just can't be bothered to properly write out the changes they make; according to an Admin on the UK server it's about the Privileges, so Tears and Wands.

Thank you for the survey. It was very comprehensive. I'm hoping the creation space and equestrian centers aren't at risk as those questions seemed a "Do you use".

I appreciated the open answer question:

"If you had a magic wand, what would you change about the game?"

It made me feel like there is some dialogue happening and I hope we will see some trophy changes soon.

Laughing at the survey when it asked how many divines you have -- would have been super easy to check with the OLD trophy page, now I had to go in and manually count

I think that survey was promising honestly! Very in-depth questions, it will be interesting to see what comes of it

If they lowered the price of passes I'd for sure be likely to buy them. $14 for 1k is absolutely INSANE. Thats why I only buy when I get the 2k for $14, cause then it's $7/1k
That or I only buy the Christmas packs

Also I'm sure if they sold the wand/tear privs for $20 a month, people would surely buy it (I know I would) Or offer privs in the larger pack when we get the monthly divine frag packs. I'd be more willing to purchase them. I only ever buy the large packs when I have $ to spare and it's offering the nyx with the packs.

I fear that they're going to make free passes harder to get so that they can try and coerce people into purchasing passes for $

could barely fill out the survey because on the 20 questions page it keep jumping back to the top the moment I scrolled to the next subject and changing the rating on another topic entirely. hooray.

also no sms talk? howrse *literally* has as its third listed emoji.

I would like to think that they wouldn't, the creation space uses tons of resources every month, be that in item form or pass form. while the equestrian centers take a lot of work to build up and can be quite expensive to run due to needing the diploma and vet for the max bonus. I personally worked really hard and spent a ton to get my center into the top 100, so it would be nothing short of a slap in the face if they just took that away.

That one likely has minimal effect on players who translate because it's an icon they can skip over if they're copy pasting into a translator. For English speakers not familiar with chat speak, "lol" is usually the one that's recognizable.

The big issue is full-on posts, or even just frequent abbreviations, that will throw people off. For all that I make notes in my own form of chatspeak, and grew up while chatspea was just emerging, I struggle to read the digital language, and would be at a loss if it were fully allowed in the forums