Not being able to reuse tack items? That's terrible! It's not like making a lot of money in this game is easy for the average player anymore! I don't want to spend thousands on a horse that won't ever make that back on the market.

That's waaaaaay expensive! I hope they adjust this a little...some of the newer player might not have that kind of money.

If the point of these changes is to make the game more realistic....I don't see where this fits in. Real life tack is interchangeable ( to some degree). I could take my mare out on a trail ride in Western gear, and switch to English later for, say, jumping.

So if they do cop the *we are making the game more realistic* argument...they will have to do better. It doesn't hold up.

Yep it's going to become very expensive to blup if this happens.
If we then decide to use cheap gear it will be close to impossible to get 20 wins on a normal non skiller blup.

Hmmmm... Tack is that expensive now? Another horse sale price raise...

I do not like the way some of the breeds look now. they turn from pretty and cute horses into skeletons with tight necks and terribly thin front legs. i can't look at my horses now!

Me too - even if someone does have lots of money, they don't want to be spending tens of thousands tacking up ONE horse!
Again, I agree...
I can just imagine a low skilled/low GP horse selling for thousands just because it has tack... It's a scary thought.

Indeed it does not make sense.
Imagine having to go buy new tack every time you want to go horseback riding. It's crazy.

If we are not able to reuse any tack I will be leaving the game. That is ridiculous.

I agree! The Shetland and Newfoundland ponies used to be sooo cute and I was thinking about getting myself a few, but now....

I know. And have you seen the Cremmello American stock horses? My Cremmello QH mare looks like she has palomino!

my horse has no forelock

lol i stopped taking care of my horses when they took away the bedding down inside or outside
just gives me more of a reason to not take care of them anymore...

To be fair, you have used the high quality tack in that calculation, that's not the minimum players might need to spend on tacking up.
If you use an EC with a saddler to provide the saddle and bridle then the minimum you need in order too enter a horse in competitions is 500e for the saddle cloth.

I can kind of understand why Howrse would do something like this - it makes tack more valuable and gives ECs more incentive to have a saddler employed. Right now we can get away with reusing the same piece of tack over and over while blupping for instance - there's no need to buy more than one of each item if we don't want to.



Being able to remove a Made-to-measure saddle from one horse and placing it on another doesn't really make sense either though.

I'd be curious to know what happens when a horses specialty is switched with these new changes in place... I can see that being an issue, particularly for the VIP perk that allows us to change a horses specialty at any time - now it comes with the cost of potentially losing valuable tack and makes it a lot less of a 'perk'

does anybody know what the chintoteague pony looks like in the new version?

What are the new Chincoteauges going to look like? Thanks!

chincoteague*

Wow, that would be way to expensive for me.

If anyone could PM me or post here what the MUSTANGS the BRUMBIES and the NOKOTAS will look like, I would appreciate it, thank you!

I love the Gypsy Vanners! Love the extra mane!

I'm so glad I breed these guys...

http://www.howrse.com/elevage/chevaux/cheval?id=36690015

My liver chestnut tobiano paint doesn't have a forelock. Did they his this one or something?

^ I don't know how to post a picture but that's the link

What will they next breed to change under international? Please some one answer this by quote!

The paints look a lot better then the original thought! OMG I think I may breed paints just for the looks! They truly look more realistic. (Real life paint breeder)

The T. Walker sorta looks like its using the bathroom. No offence or anything.