It's more so a case of the fact that I just don't want to make another big investment, even more so when I have to spend a while to actually get to that payoff.

He's the best Diamond dropper of the whole solars (Io is a bit more difficult to calculate unless you have a Jupiter to combo), but he IS going to be a costly Divine

Well, I got a TC in the first draw, so maybe I can try once if it is in TC

We know Iris' Coat - item that "paints your horse's coat with a color of the rainbow.".
We also know Button Plaiting - item that plaits buttons on a horse's mane.

here's my observation:
take a look on that horse:

it's a full horse with every element on one picture, it's on 'prod' game version
but take a look what is happening on preprod server:





every part is separated. We have now item to customize body and mane.

I speculate that in the future there will be more items to customize tail, forelock, maybe wings and maybe even some rings on horn.

ZOwey did mention when the button plaiting item was released that similar items would be released in the future. They also they were re-doing the way horses were displayed. Didn't entirely get their point, but it makes sense if that's how they did it as they have expressed an intent to add these additional items.

Honestly, I think this is their response to the cry for Diamond Apples to return. They're not willing to open the possibility of having thousands of different images of horses, but they are are adding these personalized changes you can make to horses. It's at least possible that it could include markings someday, but I imagine that might still be a little difficult given the different horse shapes.

I think you might be right about the customisation items.

I'm puzzled about your pics though. Is that something you are seeing on preprod at the moment? Just went and looked and they look normal to me.

Previous pre-prod, that I saw anyway, it was only scarf foals that were doing a disappearing act, not the adults. If you think about it, foals would normally look like normal foals. So I think maybe there was a mistake in the coding so they were looking for 'scarf foals', when in fact they needed to put normal foals in the picture.

Which could of course mean possibly there will be scarf foal images at some point?

I never considered that Howrse would have to host all of those images, however I would consider it a poor excuse to not bring back DAs. I'm on a couple of games that host tens, maybe even hundreds, of thousands of unique images. And none of them are owned by one of the biggest gaming companies in the world.

Sorry to jump into the conversation, I'm just desperate for the return of DAs. ;^;

not to mention the horse coats. If you're able to add markings, then it might be possible to change a overo to a tovero. I doubt howrse would want to deal with that so I assume if they were going to let us add markings, it would be socks at most. There are certain markings that can change a horses coat. Being able to add markings or remove them could mean you could change a tovero horse into a tobiano or even a plain horse with no markings. That would seem to much of a hassle to deal with. Unless they're willing to keep the coats the same even with the added markings, and if thats the case people who can tell coats apart from one another in sales would think "oh I'm getting a palomino spotted blanket, thats a rare coat" and then end up getting a totally different coat. But thats if they decided to do that. They'd have to tread carefully and think it through 100% before implementing it into the game. I still feel as though there would be glitches with that too, since I'd be similar to the DA. I mean adding hair markings like streaks would be pretty cool, but it would take effort to do. And not to mention they'd have to find a way to get it on mobile too.