I still do for the higher end GP's.

I like challenges, and I think effort should be rewarded.
But what about the lower ends? The ones that have so low GP it's hilarious really. With the rookie comp changes it became more than a challenge to BLUP low GP's.
If you want full BLUP on the lower ends right now, you need to rely on help from friends, or use co to fill every spot in the comps. If you do not, you won't get a single win.

That is not my idea of a challenge or fun.
So yes I breed some of my lower GP's at 70+. Some even less especially if their bought so broken even 70 is impossible.

Do I breed my higher ends at 70 or less? No way not happening.

I fail to see how a BLUP change won't tempt even more to create fake accounts. but maybe it's just me.

I do how ever appreciate how howrse is trying to fix the current situation. But all it makes me think is that it's too little too late.

I am wondering if the range for the top will be increased slightly to make it more worth it to breed at 100 as it seems the difference would be roughly 0.1 or 0.2 GP. if not bred at 100 blup

My teams are adjusting accordingly, and since we fill anyways it's just a matter of the other 20-30 AP needed.

To be honest the donk teams may need to disband or will have to be stuck with slower gains, still no reply from preprod on that. They said they'd look into it.

Maybe when the weekend is over.

I'm pretty concerned about how these changes will affect bluppers and teams on Howrse that pay passes will probably start to disband. I may be being a litte dramtic here, but this change is going to push a lot of users already losing interest in this game over the edge.
I think it'll be a bad move for Owlient's income. It's hard to get 20 wins without multi-accounts or a whole team of fillers behind you, so anyone not in an active team will probably find it much harder to blup.

Also, aging points are not something you can buy, and a farmer with 1000 horses that farms everyday will only get 150 AP's on average, 250 with shenma and other perks maybe. That's now only going to be enough for maybe 2 blups. If howrse wants to make blupping, an integral part of this game, require more AP than I think it's their responsibility to up AP supply.

I think these changes are going to poorly affect a lot of top teams, but also the little guy who blups on occasion. Wins are already hard to get, now they'll be crucial and practically impossible.

In theory, I approve of the change - I always felt it was rather silly that breeding at less than 100% carried no penalty, and as someone who is a stickler for breeding at 100% I feel it does level the playing field. But in order for this to work for anyone who isn't breeding horses good enough to easily scoop up wins during the bolding process, the situation with comps must be addressed.

Like Asfridur, I breed low-skilled horses....I have been doing so for nearly as long as I've been on the game. That never used to be an obstacle. Before the skill range of low-level comps started widening unchecked, any player could successfully BLUP any horse with just some patience and skill - train it properly, pay attention to skill ranges, choose comps carefully, and you'd get your wins.

Now, the skill element has been removed, and it's become a matter of luck - even if you cram as many skills and bonuses on as you can, and enter the easiest comps that exist, you still have to cross your fingers in hopes that no one else enters a horse with twice as many skills as yours. Even rookie comps are often blanketed by horses whose secondary skills are target trained, since that skill range also keeps increasing. Between that, and just waiting for the comps to run, it can take weeks to get 20 wins.

The latter part of that problem is something I am hoping this new change can effect in a positive way - many players were so frustrated by the impossibility of winning that they stopped entering comps altogether, so it takes longer than ever for them to gather enough entries (and that's for *this* server - I am told the regional servers have it far worse). People may be driven to start entering now, for all the good it will do them.

What's the answer? Good question. Rolling back and capping the skill range for comps below a certain level would help, but given how the game has been trying to push players away from low skilled horses, it seems unlikely they'd be willing to do that. Capping the number of rookie comps a horse can be entered in at once (in other words, they would have to wait until some of them run before entering more) might make those comps less likely to get 'stuck' with the same target trained horse in every one. Or, the game can take an entirely fresh tack and change the point system, so that finishing second or third can give credit towards BLUP (ie, 1 full point for win, .25 percent of a point for second, .10 for third), which would not only really get people entering, but also make the comping process less discouraging for players of all levels.

In any case, the game has to do *something* - otherwise, what should be a good and worthy change will just end up creating more grief and aggravation.