Sure thing Spyder, you got a valid point there. It does affect the game already regarding Divines, and the entry gap in skills does affect the lower GP horses. I agree, letting this go can easily be a game breaker.
However, for me, a possible loss of 50% of the passes I earn on game just now will be a safe game breaker way before the comp problem really kicks in. At times of holidays or illness, it will mean 100% loss of passes. I'll have to decide, VIP or keep my EC top with buying skillers every month. I tend to let VIP go, without I can still play my horses. But without my EC being top lesson I wouldn't bother anymore. I'm weird like that. I'm not planning to replace earned passes with buying more passes, because everything got a natural limit. Which in this case is available money and trust into the game. Means also no investment into promos anymore. Looks like a great way to "reward" loyal players.

In my case If this new system kicks in I will gain a couple million equs more a month so I will simply get richer. That part I like

Trouble is Spyder, you can't buy VIP for some mio equus and rarely a top skiller. *shrugs* It probably doesn't matter anyway if a player or some have to pack up or shrink their game again.

What horse are you using? I haven't seen the few comps problem with anything other than divines. Breed-only comps are rare for rare breeds, but things have always been that way. Am I misinterpreting what you meant? Could you clarify?

possibly. It will go into effect sometime next year.

I for one will earn a lot less...

Not losing it, it's just changing.

Yep.

I am referring to divines.

When I was using regular horses a few years ago I constantly needed to upgrade ( and costly use of passes to get a decent skillers) only to end up second all the time because a Divine was entered in that comp.)

So when I started to get some divines, it allowed me to enter divine comps and actually win something. This was fine until with the constant dumping of low level non upgradable divines that filled so many divine comps ( and spilled over to open comps) that the 96 divines I had simply could not be placed. That forced me to reduce the number of divines workable to about 35 that had to be cared for daily to get the perk. If I and all the divine holders actually used every divine they owned, believe me it would be a disaster.

However when we get a series like the Zodiacs, Celtics ( many gemstones), rainbows, greyfells, Wilds,and the various "other" divines that are at the 200 skill per discipline level get constantly dumped on us the available ECs that hold divine comps can't supply the comps to supply the available divines. This means a bigger and bigger spill over of divines into open comps. No one wants to go with divine EC comps because of the prestige disaster it brings ( and I can't blame them). What is happening is that a third of the must care for divines are having a more and more difficult time finding a comp to enter. The other day I just took them, did a mission, fed them and put them all to bed at 12 used and 100% energy because of the lack of comps to enter ( Western or English)

Without a complete rethink of the dumping of non upgradable divines or overhaul of the whole EC prestige thing this has only one way to go and it is not the sunny side up.

Maybe Howrse should let us run competitions for both divine and regular horses so that there are enough competitions for all the divine horses.

It's already works like that. Any regular comp can have one divine entered.

I meant that Howrse should let us run competitions for both types. Right now I have Trot, Gallop, Dressage, Show Jumping and Cross Country for all horses because there are more horses that can enter. But maybe Howrse could let us also run the five competitions for the Divine horses too so that there are enough for all the divines and they don't have to use the regular competitions.

I like this idea they could build on this.

There are many ways to go and remember it is only by the EC owners that set their comps for divines that we even have any to compete it. These EC owners gain nothing, if fact they lose and there is no incentive to even hold divine comps.

What would happen if just 20 % of them just got sick of having a low prestige ( in the 48 % level when they are holding a Gallop at the 3000 skill level) and switched to regular open comps??? That EC could easily be a 80 plus % EC simply by holding regular comps.

Nothing is forcing them to hold divine comps but they are simply nice enough to do so. This is why looking at the whole prestige thing is so much needed to be done.

@ spyder
I agree that something needs to be done but I have a feeling that with the other "changes" lately that whatever howrse team comes up with... We (players) might not like.

@Spyder - You close to gave me a heart attack there with that statement. I thought the sky was falling or something similar

The current tweak in the rookie comps and comps in general already drives me balmy.
As an example yesterday I was working on a blup, where I had trained it a little, so it had aprox 2700 in skills. I used fillers that had 179+ skills --- I repeat 179 skills - and both those horses could see the SAME competitions. That is more than ridiculous. There is now a more than 250% gap - if that isn't broken, I sure don't know what is.
And the gap keeps on getting bigger. The rolling gain and the comp changes is one of the seriously messed up changes we have gotten as of late.

Regarding the lack of divine comps there is an easy fix there.
Give us the option to run one more comp. We currently have the option to have 5 comps running.
Howrse just needs to add one more - one that will be locked to divines only. And make it so that the EC owner does NOT loose prestige.
To make EC owners willing to use that option, it could bring the EC owner X amount of resources. Or even give us an option of having 2 additional divine comps. One could be tweaked so divine could have their own rosette comps, and the second for lower level divines.

And/or since their so happy about trophies - gives a trophy for that as well.

Regarding the pass meter