so we are being robbed of a lottery again? :/ i don't feel like doing 14/15 days of work again JUST to get that tedious chance game. if i recall, the derby was not well received due to the fact it was beyond tedious and yielded very little reward. i just hope it is made more worth our time this time around.

This "Choice of training and driving time" and "Adaptation to teams", because I do not understand this.

This "Choice of training and driving time" and "Adaptation to teams", because I do not understand this.
As far as I can tell the change of training time just means that when it gets close to midnight, the amount of time available to select becomes short enough that you cannot accidentally select too long. So no more "Your horse cannot complete this action as they must sleep at midnight."
And the change to teams seems pretty minor, but before, when a team lost a VIP player and had to have players eliminated due not having enough spaces, the players with the least amount of time on the team got eliminated first, including the captain, if they were one of the newest players to the team. Now, this shouldn't happen.

Why was the Derby bad last time? I wasn't around for it due to being on hiatus; I just remember Lotteries being with the Great Challenge events.

It was bad as you might have gotten one decent prize out of it and the time required really wasn't worth it, same for the cost of getting enough flags, plus just tedious in general. It would be fine as a stand alone promo, but I feel that we shouldn't be expected to work further when we have already put in around 14 days just to get the "festivities", which happen to be a tedious luck game. The lottery was liked as it actually felt like we were being rewarded for working as a community.

Any new information on how to get the Chimera horses? I got invited to the Great Challeng Preprod, and i noticed Several people who had it.

I think they probably took info from the last preprod session we had or something, as I noticed I still have my Chimeras and the Heimdall from the Cards as well.

objectives, while removing a horn or wings will probably be tasks to do, you can just donate an item to Ow to skip them. I can't remember the last time I removed horns or wings because I have a stock of BM items won from events I don't use that I can toss to Ow

so you did get your chimera from the Cards?

No the chimera is not a prize from the cards.

It appears there are images of the unicorn and winged unicorn variants of the Kerry Bogs.

While there are images of the two, we still have no way of knowing when they will release them. It could still be months or even a year before we see them.

the cards, so not really much strategies but rather luck. I only know the loose diamond card prize and the gift of the divine out of my head: diamond card is 10 days VIP and the divine gives an Ow's Ray

I'm currently testing "The Festivities" and recording all info I can about how much this event will cost to get the divine. Will keep you all updated and share my findings when I'm done with the day

Derby has started, these are the prizes showing in the Derby Prize shop. You'll have to scroll over, or open the image in a new tab to view the column to the far right

Will cost 1000 flags, and the event lasts 7 days. You would need to get 143 a day (hence why I only went to 146 flags today, to test it the way I would play it on the main game)

These are the instructions as we have them on preprod. On preprod it looks like we get 18 free derby bonuses per day (or more with UFOs). They've added the ability to get a bonus when you spend a pass in the BM (or by renewing VIP/Pegasus account!), which we didn't have during the last Derby, but is something we have for the Lottery.

The bonus adds +2 points to each hole's score (note the image differences). Also, the way we have to throw the ball on preprod is that you need to click and drag the slingshot to throw it. So make sure that if the layout stays the same when this goes live that you don't click the bonus icon to try and throw the ball.