What you're gonna spend is quite dependent on whether you have the treats the kids ask for.

"First you need 7600 points to get the divine.

You get points by feeding two candies to each kid that shows up. The points depends on what you give and if you give all right ones. Giving two of the easiest will get you 22 points. Giving two rarest gives you 26 points. Giving a mixture of rare, medium and common will earn you from 23 to 25 points.

So for this calculation I am going to use 24 points. On this basis you will need 318 kids to come knocking for the promo duration ( estimated 19 days). Calculated by dividing 24 into 7600.

You are given 6 kids the first day and it increases by 1 extra kid per day. This will give you 261 kids for the complete promo. Enough to get all the prizes without spending any passes.

You will be approx 57 kids short of the total required for the divine. If you wait for the promo "special" which gives you 3 extra kids plus 1 treat for each jar from common to rare ( guaranteed).

So what this means is even if you have all the treats available to give you will need to spend passes to get the 57 kids you are short, no getting around it.

My suggestion is to buy 10 of the special the first weekend it is offered and buy the rest you need from the second special when it is offered. This is the best way to take advantage of the free kids and buying only the kids needed when the second special is offered at the last weekend (the end of the promo). one the passes spent can range so widely that you can't always say this many or that many."

Cards are okay... wish it was more like Pokemon where you could trade them with friends. That would be cool! I like how the cards are pretty straight forward: at least from past experiences.

Here's a suggestion for the new pass system:

If you only win a pass by chance each every three days (I might be wrong, but you only get them by chance or definitely?)

you can get a good BMI item depending on how hard you work.
For example, if you do not do that much, and don't win a pass, you could win a Helios Ray, Apollos Lyre, or something that players could trade fairly in Item Exchange etc.

But if you work really hard for three days and do not receive a pass, I suggest giving a Nyx or a MA once in a while. This could help teams and benefit players who are on teams, BLUPping, breeding, and ones that are good for trades.

I'm going to ask Contact Us about this as well if I can.

You get them definitely if you play the game. Such as every aspect of it; taking care of horses and you EC, buying/selling horses, participate in promos, etc etc.

So there will be no more pass horses, but there will be rankings on how many horses you sent to heaven and how many went to the safe haven. Every 3 days you can get a pass if you logged in and did some things on the game (please direct me to somewhere were it says what you have to do for that). There is a new divine coming that grows depending on how many horses you sent to the SH, and you can get a divine if you send 10 horses to heaven (perks unknown)

Looks correct to me. It is still unknown if you only have to send 10 horses once for the divine or if you have to send 10 every month to keep it. As for a list of what you need to do, there will never be such a thing as Howrse wants to keep that secret. You just need to play the game, such as taking care of horses and your ec, participating in promotions, buying/selling horses or items, etc.

I bumped up Kusni's post above all about the pass change and the divine and other changes that are coming to howrse. Right now the new pass change is being implemented/tested on CZ and IT.
You do NOT directly earn a pass every third day. This new pass change will be just like the LOYAL PLAYER PASS. You have to earn points for 3 days and you have to complete a mini game to earn a pass.
States in Kusni's post in the above re-post/bump up: "The daily limit for points achieved (10) will be replaced with maximum of 30."

No one knows what you have to do daily to achieve those points right now and no one knows what they will be when the change is implemented. Only speculation for the current loyal player pass system. Some say they are earning their maximum points per day, while others are not earning the maximum about of points.
You could do the same thing everyday and you will not earn all the points needed. Something that should be addressed but those that run the game won't address anytime soon.
Players will only have a CHANCE to earn 10 passes, it does not state you will earn them for what you do every three days. If you are unable to sign in, you will likely miss a chance to get all 10 passes per month.

No one knows for sure how the divine will be obtained and is speculated that it will cost passes to obtain besides sending 10 horses to heaven as every divine that is released in the game requires a lot of work to obtain. So there will most likely be a catch that will keep most players from obtaining the divine. <-That is speculation)

NEW DIVINE YGGDRASIL!

"Hi
we already announced, that there'll be system update for pass horses. The change will be in 8th November.

Today we want to introduce you new Divine horse, his name is Yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil is new Divine horse. You can get him, through sending 10 horses, those are more than 25 years old to the heaven. Only one action, you can do with him is giving him tree-rings to make him older. (Dendrochronology, find on google, if you still don't know what's that.) For each tree-ring, he'll get older by 1 year.
For each horse sent to heaven, that will be older than 25 years, you'll gain one tree-ring.
While progressively aging him, his appearance will change. Once you'll change his appearance, you'll gain access to photo album, where you can see all of his apearences already opened. (Gained)

You'll have chance, for each first visit (one daily) ,to get a seed, for which you'll be able to get 10 tree-rings, for horse sent to heaven, that will be more than 25 years old.

Well that sounds like a really weak "perk". Have to say I probably won't bother.

Basically you are just going to watch him grow, that's all for now.
If there'll be some perk, or this is all he can do, noone know.
These are the only informations, given to us right now.

For the people I hopefully managed to get to read this.
As I understand this, this means we are going from a possible 31 passes a month, down to a possible 10.
Those 10 you will only get through the loyal pass player system, which I with a thousand horses worked at day don't always get.
It will not work through co-management so if you're sick, on vacation or for some other reason might only get through 1-2 horses one day it will cost you a pass.

In the future the current pass horses can only be used for trying to keep a ranking which I find rather macabre, and getting a divine to grow up, no passes from them.

This is my point of view the reason I try to get you here is because I believe that everyone deserves to know about this change.

Owlient has confirmed to me through contact us that this is coming to the international server.

I didn't expect much from the new divine but they have really sunk to a new low this time and he is even worse than my very low expectations. REALLY a divine that you can look at in a photo album

Honestly, what the hell is this ? Like we loose 21 passes every month for a watching divine horse grow.. Great

They are increasing the number of players, which aren't VIP's, on the testing servers. (Not Czech server itself, but the testing one, primary for VIP's)
So the Pass horse change can test much more people, than just VIP's.

Just an observation,,

that divine? I read at the very end of the official topic that Ow posted "I really think you will like this divine!"

Yes, guys, I know it could just be sugary sweet optimism to pacify us(or just a a bit of a slap in the face since we've been opposing the change, like haha) but I also read it as a parent saying to a child "you can't go to your friend's house tomorrow. We're going somewhere else. I think you'll really like it" and then the parent actually surprises you with something cool for once.

I don't know, maybe I'm still holding out that the divine will have an actual perk to make up for lost passes