[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: March 2024

Our developers have something to tell you! Every three (3) weeks, our devs will provide you with information about their work in the “Dev’s Corner.”

This publication is a way of keeping everyone updated on what’s happening with the game. We invite you to discuss and leave your feedback for each of the publications.

Note: All posts must adhere to the forum guidelines and be constructively made.

Take a look at our very first Devs' Corner publication!

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The Howrse Team
 
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I wish I didn't get a notification about the horses I buy manually from the sales. I know I just bought the horse, don't need a notification. I can understand it for an auction or auto-buy.
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By Retired breeder, 1st October 2020 19:01:03
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Rogin wrote:

I wish I didn't get a notification about the horses I buy manually from the sales. I know I just bought the horse, don't need a notification. I can understand it for an auction or auto-buy.


I personally like the notification because sometimes I buy lots of horses in one go, and I lose track of which ones I've bought.
By Retired breeder, 1st October 2020 19:26:17
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It seems like an option to toggle off certain specific notifications would be nice
By Retired breeder, 2nd October 2020 01:04:28
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HellOw! This month's latest update has included two brand new features! The first is a simplified covering process for some stallion Divines such as Qilin and the Falabellas. The second is an improvement to the Genetic Potential sorting in the detailed breeding section! Check out the full list of updates in the Dev's corner change log! Best wishes, The Howrse Team
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By Retired breeder, 6th October 2020 10:47:03
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It appears to my eyes that the artwork for the trophies has also changed; it seems much more crisp? (:
Now that you've fixed that issue with Altair, perhaps you could also fix it with Tormenta.

It is exceptionally rare that an owner of two or more Tormentas will have two of them getting their double-lesson on the same day (it's happened to me once, so far), but when it only gives you the credit for the first one. So you end up with a Tormenta having hit the lucky random event that triggers their valuable bonus but you don't get the reward.


I would also repeat my often-made request for additional trophies being made available for the Ow's Helios Rays. The other customisation items all earn up to a maximum of 12 trophies but the Ow's Rays have been capped at just 6 trophies. Even from a business perspective it makes more sense for y'all to made more trophies available for it. Why bother buying Ow's Rays if you've already got all the trophies? If there were the same number of trophies to be earned as with the other customisation items – with sensible rather than greedy/unattainable totals required to earn those trophies – then you would surely sell more of the items in the black market default smiley 8-)
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By Retired breeder, 6th October 2020 15:47:47
YAYYY thx for the ifo default smiley :d
It would be really nice if you click on the alert's icon to view news that it would automatically mark as read instead of having to manually click. Additionally, make the font smaller so that large messages are easier to see.
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thank you for the updates!! default smiley (y)default smiley (y)
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The trophy page and the trophy section on the presentation page really needs fixing now. Mine is not looking nice.
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By Retired breeder, 6th October 2020 19:04:08
thank you for making it possible to search for divine horses through mobile!!default smiley ^)
By Retired breeder, 6th October 2020 19:51:04
Thank you.
By Retired breeder, 6th October 2020 20:07:39
hi um @_@ i have nun to say but im new to de game it is fun UwU default smiley (y)default smiley <:o)default smiley *-)
As a suggestion, I was thinking you could make the new coats from the black pearl available at two different roll out times.

The roll out for new coats is always at 3 am for me and makes it difficult for me to get my hands on any new limited edition coats because I am usually asleep at that time.

I think the feature could be much more user-friendly if, for example, you divided the amount of coats in half and released one half at 3 am and the other half at 3pm. Or released half the downloads for limited coats at 3am and the other half at 3 pm. That way, you can accommodate more user time zones.
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HA! they fixed the favorite / un-favorite mechanism in the creations directory default smiley (b) Been saying that needed fixing for ages.

The change to coverings for Qilin/falabells/pastries is... slightly useful I guess, it's one less click now. (For people that don't have any of these divines, they are only allowed to cover your own mares, so the option to offer a covering "Reserved for one of your mares" is now pre-selected when you open the "Cover a mare" box.)

What I would LOVE is if Qilin gave you a way to search for mares with a name *containing* "XXX" since, as it currently stands, you have to type or paste the mare's entire name into the box. I have hundreds of unicorn mares so it can be a bit of a pain.
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qwerty9air wrote:

The change to coverings for Qilin/falabells/pastries is... slightly useful I guess, it's one less click now. (For people that don't have any of these divines, they are only allowed to cover your own mares, so the option to offer a covering "Reserved for one of your mares" is now pre-selected when you open the "Cover a mare" box.)

I have been hoping they'd make this change for a long time...


qwerty9air wrote:

What I would LOVE is if Qilin gave you a way to search for mares with a name *containing* "XXX" since, as it currently stands, you have to type or paste the mare's entire name into the box. I have hundreds of unicorn mares so it can be a bit of a pain.

And this would also be very helpful! default smiley :p
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I wish they would increase the GP of Qilin. It is less than the original foundation horses.
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AgentZarlett wrote:

As a suggestion, I was thinking you could make the new coats from the black pearl available at two different roll out times.

The roll out for new coats is always at 3 am for me and makes it difficult for me to get my hands on any new limited edition coats because I am usually asleep at that time.

I think the feature could be much more user-friendly if, for example, you divided the amount of coats in half and released one half at 3 am and the other half at 3pm. Or released half the downloads for limited coats at 3am and the other half at 3 pm. That way, you can accommodate more user time zones.


They already do this with the VIP perk.
Half of the limited creations are available 12 hours before the normal release...
Either way it is a mad scramble .
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I think it's unnecessary to notify me every time I log in to stay logged in. I know I've just logged in that way and it's a waste of time for me to go and delete the pm every time.
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Pink Solo wrote:

I think it's unnecessary to notify me every time I log in to stay logged in. I know I've just logged in that way and it's a waste of time for me to go and delete the pm every time.

I fully agree
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I'd like to atleast be able to keep items that you can't buy in the store or black market from a horse that dies especially if you send them to heaven to level up the divine horse Yggrisdsil (yeah I know I spelled his name wrong)
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Can we please address the lag as well the glitch that deleted a lot of people's messages before we introduce more updates or new features? It seems a little odd to put so much focus into fixing things that aren't broken and adding new things when there's such major issues in need of serious attention.

Pink Solo wrote:

I think it's unnecessary to notify me every time I log in to stay logged in. I know I've just logged in that way and it's a waste of time for me to go and delete the pm every time.


I absolutely agree...this is one of many annoying/useless notifications/messages.

TiffanieAinley wrote:

I'd like to atleast be able to keep items that you can't buy in the store or black market from a horse that dies especially if you send them to heaven to level up the divine horse Yggrisdsil (yeah I know I spelled his name wrong)


I don't think that'd be a good idea at all...I mean, not only does it not make any sense, since when you buy a BMI/use a BMI from your inventory, it's not like you're subscribing to a lifetime supply of it, which is basically what this would entail...you're choosing to put it on your one specific horse of your choice...but it could also be heavily taken advantage of by people buying horses simply to kill them to get a rare BMI into their inventory that they'd have no way of getting otherwise. Most rare BMIs come along eventually in promotions so you can simply wait for them to become available again.
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By Retired breeder, 8th October 2020 00:26:28
TiffanieAinley wrote:

I'd like to atleast be able to keep items that you can't buy in the store or black market from a horse that dies especially if you send them to heaven to level up the divine horse Yggrisdsil (yeah I know I spelled his name wrong)

Please no. All of those rare BMIs would plummet in value. They come around in promos anyway.

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Can we please address the lag as well the glitch that deleted a lot of people's messages before we introduce more updates or new features? It seems a little odd to put so much focus into fixing things that aren't broken and adding new things when there's such major issues in need of serious attention.

I fully agree, the lag is bad and is restricting my gameplay.
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I fully agree, the lag is bad and is restricting my gameplay.


Same. It's been an almost daily thing for nearly a year now. Very annoying. I don't know why it isn't more of a priority for the development team.
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