New features

Thank you! I find it very convenient.

Im not sure where to post this -- apologies if this is the wrong place.

What happened to the way our black market items are organized? We used to see the most valuable items at the top, and then everything else cascading down in their various categories underneath.

Now everything is in a jumble. Did everyone vote for this 'improvement' and I just missed it?

maryann, there are two options for viewing BMI, one on the "Store" page where everything is jumbled and one in the "Black Market" page where they are still sorted into categories.

Welp you did not fix the Affix bug that was on preprod. OOF

The problem with Olympus has not been just that it's incredibly boring, but that you get booted out so frequently when you have 90-99% chance of success. That is a variety of words, like ... frustrating.

It is that silliness that has made Olympus such a painful experience and a dreadful chore because it's so much time just wasted.

So making it harder in any way is the worst possible update

I collect horses on this game, aim to get one of every type, so I do Olympus to get the new one being offered. Dreading it even more than usual now

Agree to all of it. Cannot stress it enough.

Making it harder was NOT the solution (neither was booting the preprod forum without an update but such is life).

Absolutely, I would suspect it's more about people using it as a way to collect divines in a cheaper way.

Instead of making it even harder, and even more frustrating (and about impossible to win with the silver coins now) just give out less fragments per run, so players have to spend more passes/take a longer period of time to win the divines on offer (or buy then via pass or fragment packs).

I'd rather see fragments stay the same or even increase, then up the price of the currency to match it. It's already tedious enough with the current rate we get the fragments.

They are so pleased with it, but it’s definitely not what players were looking for when they were hoping for some changes, seriously disappointed in how this is going to work out. I like collecting the main divine(even though they are useless unless you comp always) but since I don’t I don’t know that I want to end up spending passes to achieve that goal

You didn't even bother fixing Nyx's headpiece

When will the ascent even start up again?

12 minutes from now, but I would give it a couple more to iron out the kinks

Thankyou Nalu93

Just did my first attempt at the new Olympus.

Good ... grief... are... you... kidding... me?

As too-frequently happens, I got booted out with 93.8% chance of success. No surprise there.

But the amount of points required per level is now utterly ridiculous

You'd pretty much have to have a complete set of maxed-out 5* cards by the end of Level 2, and even then there's no guarantee

This is not a fun customer experience

I need chocolate

I don't even understand how I got straight to the end of Olympus and got 80 Nyx shards at once.

What was that... Did I use up all my luck at the start?

Used 4 gold coins, won 2 and lost 2 , not brave enough to try the silver yet. Sheet luck.on the two won, because between levelling up and collecting energy there was no way to get the 4 different coloured boosts too for the final rooms.

one word: garbage ✨️

The Ascent changes are utterly awful.

I've played 14 games and only have 445 Nyx fragments. I lost 2 of my 7 drachma games, when I can easily play 33 in a single season and not lose any. At most, I may lose 2 in an entire season. To put the Nyx fragments into perspective, with the old Ascent you'd need to win 20 games to get 1000 fragments for the Greek God. And now I'm at 14 games played and only half way

Obols are horrible. I've yet to win a single Obol round, which wouldn't be bad if I could at least progress far in a single game, but 4 of my 7 Obols games earned me 0 fragments because of how early I lost.

I'm getting energy too early on when each card may have only lost 1 energy, and I need level ups. Or it gives me level ups when most of my cards are out of energy. We now need boosters to get 100s on the final rooms, but you can't even really risk getting boosters because you're scrambling for energy or level ups.

Between today and testing on preprod, I've probably played 70 games with the new changes,, and I just don't see how this is going to attract players when players already had issues with the Ascent prior to this. I'd rather you increased the price of Obols and drachmas, and reverted the difficulty/coding back to how it was before.

Howrse: we will improve the problem with multiple rounds without energy.

Me: yey, let's go!

Also me in the first attempt (this was all difficult rooms):

One positive side to this though for daft old Zig – veteran player, former Howrse Team member, former player of influence in the community, Monkey trainer of dubious quality (he's so naughty! - sorry, not sorry ) – trying to look on the bright side

With these changes, Olympus is now dead to me.

Between recovering from recent surgery, the as-yet not certain prospect there won't be more surgery coming, plus being weeks away from finishing my latest book, plus the day job, and the loss of a family member in the past year, and other life stuff, I just don't need that added stress any more.

Olympus was fun when it started

Then they changed the odds so you ended up losing far too often with a supposed 90-99% chance of success, thereby making it painful and depressing

Now it's been rendered effectively impossible without wasting passes and a considerable amount of time

My Grand Prix horses and Monkey-themed breeding stock need those passes.

So... yeah...


P.S. Monkey sends hugs to anyone who needs one

Out of 16 Obol games, won one and collected 155 Nyx fragments. Thanks Howrse for this magnificent Ascent update, cannot wait to continue my winning streak

LOL...You almost had me there

I'm sorry, but wasn't Howrse unhappy that not enough players were playing the Ascent? I'm no expert on game development, but making the Ascent LESS fun doesn't sound like it's going to encourage MORE players to participate. Genuinely confused by what level of thought was put into this move. Guess we shouldn't be surprised. It seems like every update just gets worse and worse these days.

I haven't been able to get past the second round. I had a lot of the gold coins saved up.

I also agree with you when you say you need chocolate. I need it to. At least chocolate listens to us!