Seconding all of this! I think implementing these changes would make it fairer while still rewarding those who put in the effort to save up.

Love the idea of directs being a 5 second slot. I was thinking Howrse wouldn't want too many copies of the same divine being sold, but then I realised it's not like they limit the amount in luck items... They'd probably have to reduce the amount of times each divine was listed to 3 or 4 times a day, but it does mean they could offer a bigger variety of divines perhaps? And then people would have to selectively choose which ones to go for, compared to the offers this time round where most people were going for the same 5 or 6.

With the divines clogging up the directs, I feel like having multiples of the same divine 'stack' would be the best option - e.g. Irene Adler || In Stock: x2 || 1,399p.

It would be nice if the divines were spaced out evenly over the time zones; I did like having multiple in a row but there were more copies of each divine being listed overnight than during the day for me. Combined with the slower response from Howrse servers due to my location... Wasn't fun.

I agree that limiting the number of copies someone can buy is a good option. There's limits on RS but not either of the other sales, and I think having a limit of 2 or 3 (of the same divine) over the weekend would reflect the additional effort it takes to score one.

With auction timers... why would they not just list the scheduled end time, instead of when it drops? Or list both if it's not going to be a consistent length of time? Genuinely just a bizarre choice to me.

Having multiple auctions actively getting bid on in the last 30 seconds was definitely messy. Perhaps having a 'favourited auctions' area above the current block would be useful? And the cancel bid option would be *amazing*. That's probably why Howrse will never implement it...

Despite accidentally buying Hydruntine (useless divine!!) and locking myself out of auctions for the first day, I'm pretty happy with the four I meant to get! Although it was a lot of wasted sleep trying to get one through directs....

Black Friday sales came at an inconvenient time for me since I worked Fri, Sat, and Sun. Howrse was not on my mind while working because I was just trying to keep people safe on horses all day, so when I went home, what was available in reserved sales was not to my liking. Real meh stuff I wouldn't waste passes on. But I did win an auction for an Oyster Mushroom (4.6 mil), and I won a Kigurumi in direct sales. I say won, because it is a contest to see who has the fastest click. I lost the two before it, so I decided to click slightly sooner in the same spot, and for a few moments I though I accidentally bought a Kabuki instead, but what relived it was Kigurumi. Now I have 19 of them. The others I won in Ascent.

So yeah, it was ok, but not amazing or anything. Now that we have Ascent, I don't really like paying more then 2,000 passes towards anything really...Except for Balios. I waste a lot of passes trying to get him, since they never sell those.

The bottom line is Divines aren't that special anymore, and now that trophies don't encourage us to collect them all, there is no driving need from me to obtain them. Not when there are hundreds on the game.

I want rare things. Howrse doesn't know how to do rare anymore. They used to discontinue things. Hogs, retired backgrounds, Diamond apples etc. It has been many years since they discontinued anything.

If they were smart they would randomly retire coats and pets, just to keep people on their toes and collecting, hoping they will end up with something very rare.

Honestly this was their best version of the event. As for the 5 sec limitation some of us have RL, and wait three days in front of a screen for the right horse to show up, so a consolation prize is better than bone. Anyway the most important part is how much they made. So they need horses to be accessible. None of our review will beat this.

No, unfortunately. WOYs are almost completely unwanted items and no one will open up offers for them. I've been getting tears in the exchanges for several years now and I know what items are considered of equal value, those are not.

What was everyone’s financial summaries? I want to know how big of an idiot I was.

Mine was over 1 billion equus

2.7 billion O.o

I would have been willing to spend more passes if I could have chosen which divines to buy rather than hoping to be fast enough to win in directs and from a selection which only included a few that I wanted anyway. As I said a long way back in this thread, I'd like to have maybe one opportunity to buy a divine of my choice from the whole lot without having to e fastest on the button. As a player with high seniority, the reserved sales didn't offer me anything I really wanted either, as I have a lot of divines collected over the years, though I did buy one to complete a set - it will sit in my farm of divines I don't touch though so is really money wasted. I also wasn't willing to part with real money for the offer when I have passes so will wait for that one.

As an aside, I wish Howrse would stop making horses with too many legs, wearing clothes or which don't really look like horses! There are some fantastic images of horses made by players in the creation space (some horrors too though!) And I wish the divines looked more like that - the spice set is the nicest I've seen recently.

While not the most thrilling selection and I did end up 12 hours late to the party, I did find some horses to pick up. I cut the number of wind divines I need from 4 to 2, and got the Gemini twins for my Cancer. I started out with around 10k passes (my savings + what pass horses/objectives gave throughout the event) and ended with around 1k so I think I did pretty good. I think I doubled the number of horses I got last year. I would have liked to get one or two more but I’m pleased with what I brought home.

What can be improved:

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Selection(part 2)-



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Auctions-


Prices-

I'm unclear why hiding the prices is such a thing.
If I had the schedule and prices, I'd be much more willing to actively plan and spend passes, and perhaps even buy more passes with actual money.
I try to keep an account of every horse and price that's come through the direct and reserved sales, but lots of times horses will pop up that we've not seen offered and so have to guess. I don't like the guessing game.
Once a horse is released, its price ought to be added to the program page at least.

1,000,000,000 <--- One billion. There are currently only 10 people in general ranking for wealthiest players who have over 1 billion. The person who has 2 billion is cameogirl. I don't think anyone else has reached 2 billion yet. What I think you guys meant was 200 million which is still alot.

I think they're referring to the goofy way the equus summary records earnings and losses when it comes to auctions. Every bid gets counted as expense, even when you get outbid (which then gets counted as a "contest" earning).

I only bought 50 million equus worth of divines, but my summary thinks I spent 1,123,819,808

Yes, that is what I meant lolol

It just amused me, I only spent 15 million on auctions but wound up with THAT number.

i think i would like fragments to be in the sales as well, or maybe as a separate event. there are several divines i already have half the fragments for, so to get more (like 50 or so per buy) would be nice

I dont mind so much the wearing of clothes but i like them to look like horses and i prefer pretty ones at least as pretty as hela. I also like them to have decent conformation snd well drawn. I would've bought passes if i could had. I like most of the nordics, gemstones, spice, most of the Japanese horses, fairy tales etc