Ooof, yep that's Neptune and Przewalski. Now I've got to decide whether to save my passes for the next precious metal/Black Friday or whether to go for Neptune...

I'm saving, it's far too close to Black Friday to risk using my passes and we could get the next metal any time during this month, so need to save my luck items and scales.

Oh goodness, its already November? I'm 60 away from my pass goal for black friday but i haven't hit my equus goal yet I need to pull myself together and ignore weekly offers, although I definitely need a wild or chimera, my polar bear is aging out and I'd like to always have one active

It should be a pass UFO weekend.

I was never lucky and fast enough to win anything from the flash sales ( from my experience In cards promo sales) cause in order to be able to be the fastest you need to be on your pc and have a mouse ( I’m on my laptop with a touch mouse) so I will not be having my hopes up too much for the Black Friday sales. unfortunately I don’t really have a good opinion for the flash sales.

anyone know what luck item Neptune will be in?

They're discounted, but still 500+ passes for the majority of divines during the Black Friday sale.

I don't really remember, but I would say 1,000p was the average for the divines. I did see Scorpio for about 400p though. It's the Equus that's a much more dangerous game tbh, bidding wars are always stressful.

Quartz was about 2200-2400p.*
The rainbows that were there were about 1800-2200p*
Greyfells were usually 800-900p, but the range was more 700-1000p.*
I think the mythological pass droppers (the ones that drop like 10p at a time) like hippalectryon(?) were more 1200p or 1600p, but I'm really foggy here. Like this price might not be accurate at all for them, but I definitely remember some divines being that cheap which means that they probably drop passes or I wouldn't remember them.
The utterly useless divines like the zodiacs were 400-600p, but generally more around 400p.*
They also released fragments for a new divine. The price was 300p for 150 frags unless I'm mistaken. Of course, I think the new divine was also available in luck items over the weekend.

I'm relatively sure of the prices with a *. I suppose cheap would depend on what you can afford, but if you want to splurge passes then you need to stock up because you'll be very limited with what you can buy and how many you can buy. Also, as someone else mentioned, getting the pass divines is solely up to speed and Internet connection because there's usually only 1 divine that gets put out at a time and whoever clicks buy first gets it. And there's a timer counting down to when the divine will appear, so everybody that wants it will be waiting/timing when to click, so sometimes it disappears/gets bought so quickly that it doesn't even show up when the timer switches to the next divine.

There were also equus divines in the auctions. But auctions are auctions and they get dominated by players that have equus to waste. The cheapest equus divine that I saw was won costed about 5mil equus. And that was a rare sight. Usually divines cost at least 8-10mil, unless there's 2 "rich" players having a war, in which case it could cost 10× more. Point is, you need to have a decent sized equus reserve if you want to win the auctions or else someone else can just step in and bid more than what's in your equus reserve. Also, you might want to get a punching bag and/or popcorn because auctions can be very frustrating when you're the one bidding or very amusing when you're the one spectating.

Oh yes, and you might want to gather your patience too because sometimes the timer leaves a few hours between consecutive divines. The is especially prominent on smaller servers like UK, where I've seen timers set to 8 hours just for the divine to not show up and a new timer of 6 hours to appear.. Usually INT timers are way shorter though - the longest I've seen was about 3 hours and the most common was 10s/30s/5mins/10mins/15mins.

Also, beware of the black Friday forum. I think I saw someone consistently being negative/ruining the atmosphere last year by complaining. The fact is that they made the forums unpleasant to read with their repetitive, unending complaints. Although it is possible that that could have been for a different event that involves the flash sales, I think it was for black Friday. But I'm not 100% sure.

This is of course assuming that black Friday will work the same as it did over the last 2 years despite our complaints and suggestions to put the divines in our reserved sales etc.

The thing to know about Black Friday is that it requires a lot of saving and restraint, especially for the auctions. I started building up my on hand reserve of equus a few months ago and it is already worth roughly double the amount the saddles and bridles will give me if I was to sell them now. (inventory worth is current around 27.5-28 million)

None of this happened over night, it took months of saving and crafting to do. If you are not in a position where you have 6 large meadows with feed trophies, make it a priority, the profits you get from them are crazy, even without crafting with the leather from cattle. It's about 600k to set up, but you will make over a million a month from just selling the leather and the best part is that prestige doesn't matter, any EC owner can have 6 in production at a time.

I learned a valuable lesson from last year when I tried to make enough in a few days to get a few auctions, a lesson I put into action as soon as the sales ended, that lesson being that you will be well rewarded for your efforts if you have restraint, but will really struggle if you don't.

You don't even have to save it all as long as you keep more than you have spent, so say you make 10000 equus in one day, you then spend 3000 on a horse, leaving you with a profit of 7000 for the day. 7000 may not seem like much, but over time it really adds up.

Troughs, not trophies, but I think the point was clear. Something I forgot to mention was that fertility does not impact leather harvest, so there is no waiting between picking up and setting them off again. You might also ask "how do you get stuff like food if you use all your meadows?", to which the answer is simply "I buy it", you make so much profit from the leather that, even with buying food items at store price, you are still making a lot more using that meadow for cattle instead of taking up a meadow to grow crops.

And you can make triple that amount if you use your workshops and craft 3 star bridles.

Yep, that is where my inventory worth came from. With the employee + diploma I am turning over 150k a day.