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Tweaks and Upcoming Features

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Just a small one today but I've been fixing and tweaking a few things here and there, thought I should let everyone know :)

Feature Tweaks
* Credit Sales now has a maximum price which adjusts based on the current average price. This is to try and stop crazy inflation amounts and to try and encourage members to use the Credit Sales as a more secure method of buying and selling credits rather than using the forums. When listing your credits for sale, you will only be able to increase the price by 1% of the current average (not current highest price).
* Leisure Riding encounters that award stats should now give stats based on the horse's specialty.
* Rescue Center has had a bit of a rearrange - horse ID has been removed from the name as there's no real reason for it to be there. Average conformation has been added to the horse listings, grade has been converted to the short version (Novice 1 > N1) and moved to the horse's name.

* When you click on a Rescue Center horse to view it, you will now be able to use the Next Horse and Previous Horse buttons to view the other horses in the list. The Current Division button in the middle has been turned into a Rescue Center link which will take you back to the Rescue Center with your previous filters selected.

Bug Fixes
* Horses should now be removed from the Rescue Center after 3 days of lingering.

Upcoming
* Backgrounds. These will be sold in the General Store (until I can think up a better place for them) and in the Credit Shop (for special backgrounds) as equippable items for your horses.
* With the introduction of backgrounds, I will be removing the ability to add custom images to horses. I appreciate that this was a highly requested feature to have back, but it's been around for a while and only 1 horse in the entire game has a custom image.
* Group Messages
* Horse heights
* Forum Condensing (What is this?)

Admin
I've received a lot of lovely applications for the admin role, and I will be sorting through them tomorrow and contacting the person I pick privately over the weekend or early next week. I will announce who got the role in the next news post.


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Posted by

Abbey 🌸

Posted on
2017-05-25 10:34:07

Comments

Will the horse height be shown where their breed and gene is?

Posted by

Galex (#103157)
25th May 2017 at 10:37:38

Love that confo is now in the RC! nice updates. Ty :)

Posted by

❦BlueEyedLuv❦ (#103923)
25th May 2017 at 10:38:49

From a new player thank you for all your hard work, and I was hoping that what you did with the rescue center was in the works.

Posted by

cinder80 (#110839)
25th May 2017 at 10:40:45

Love the new changes to the RC! Thanks so much!

Posted by

Valzed ❤️ 🐀 🐀 (#87263)
25th May 2017 at 10:46:41

I imagine that the reason there's only one horse with a custom image is because it takes so long to reach required level for it. It's been awhile, but I honestly only know of a handful of people who are even that high.

Posted by
Kuk (#29490)
25th May 2017 at 10:51:55

Love the RC updates! Yay! Super excited for the backgrounds, that will be fun! Thank you!! :)

Posted by

Entium (#111249)
25th May 2017 at 10:54:15

Wish I could give this news post a 'like' :3 Fantastic updates as always Abbey!

Posted by

Notori (#6193)
25th May 2017 at 10:54:27

:O I love the new RC info display! I would be on cloud 9 if our divisions/all horses had that conf score! I can't wait to have more time to sit and play horsies!

Posted by

Storms - /A/A Main (#28387)
25th May 2017 at 11:07:01

Thanks, Abbey! :D I agree with Notori!

Posted by

«𝖑𝖊𝖔𝖓» (#99805)
25th May 2017 at 11:20:46

Wonderful updates!

Posted by

Satin Worshipper (#46866)
25th May 2017 at 13:27:20

Thank you!!!

Posted by
Madelynn (#111429)
25th May 2017 at 15:30:01

RE: I imagine that the reason there's only one horse with a custom image is because it takes so long to reach required level for it. It's been awhile, but I honestly only know of a handful of people who are even that high.

I second this. this feature was my whole goal in the game. It is the whole reason i started playing this game in the first place :( super sad....

Posted by

get er dun (#110560)
25th May 2017 at 17:57:58

I appreciate it takes time to get to level 30, but the members who are level 30 have 14,000 (alive and dead) horses between them. Surely more than 1 would have an image if it's a desired feature?

I just feel as though I would rather remove it now while not that many people are used to having it as an option. We have stunning breed art which I want to embellish with addons such as backgrounds and decorations, and unfortunately I can see the custom image feature being abused (e.g. members taking the backgrounds, etc, and applying them to a static image to upload to horses so they can get the backgrounds for free rather than buying them).

Posted by

Abbey 🌸 (#1)
25th May 2017 at 23:23:58

I would also be disappointed to see custom images be removed. I'm very keen to get them for my horses, even going so far as commissioning an artist to create a base for me, but I'm a long way off level 30. I've long felt the level requirement for custom images was far too high. I'd prefer to see it down around level 15 or similar.

Before you consider removing it altogether, could you please trial a lower level requirement to see if that is all that's needed to boost interest? I think the issue is more the fact that very few players have reached level 30.

Posted by

UlyssesBlue (#60734)
25th May 2017 at 23:40:11

(Note: my internet cut out, so I didn't see the above comment by Abbey at 23:23:58 until after I posted mine.)

Perhaps one way to prevent abuse of the custom images is to require they be approved first, i.e. checked by a mod after being submitted. Then you can quickly see if they're using any EV art that they shouldn't, and if you want to have additional requirements like credits on the image, you can check for them then as well.

Also, maybe one reason that the level 30 players haven't used many custom images is that they have tons of horses, in which case such a modification would be pretty tedious to apply to even a subset of these horses. And since it's very difficult to get to level 30 that quickly without having tons of horses to begin with, I'd expect this would be true for most current level 30 players.

Posted by

UlyssesBlue (#60734)
25th May 2017 at 23:59:05

Loving all the updates! ♥

Posted by
✨Believer 1/4 Horses (#102941)
26th May 2017 at 01:12:32

Love the updated rescue center.

I am not level 30 yet either and I have been playing quite some time now (over a year) I prefer the games images though. As for adding backgrounds and decorations if they are reuseable rather than single use like the easter ones I would consider buying them but if they are not I won't spend the money.

Posted by
HiddenAcresMustangs (#109347)
26th May 2017 at 04:17:45

I just realised I posted from a newer account and not the one that is over a year old

Posted by
HiddenAcresMustangs (#109347)
26th May 2017 at 04:19:02

After thinking on this further I no longer feel strongly about the removal of custom images. While it would be great if we kept them I no longer consider this to be a great loss.

Maybe some sort of custom element could later be added as a purchasable feature? So instead of it being a completely custom image it's just a unique coat on the existing base, which the usual EV artist creates. Or you could choose from some other pre-made unique coats, which are only available as a purchasable feature. This way all the usual decoration elements like tack and backgrounds would still be compatible. This should probably go on the Suggestions board...

Posted by

UlyssesBlue (#60734)
26th May 2017 at 04:40:21

Yeah. I'm not really interested in purchasable items that are decorative like that if they just have limited use. It's why I didn't buy any of the valentine's day items. There's no point in buying something extra that provides no addition to the horse, besides aesthetics, if it's just going to vanish in a few uses.

Posted by
Kuk (#29490)
26th May 2017 at 10:03:19