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Marketplace & Foal Preview

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Marketplace

The Item Market has had an upgrade!

The new location in Town is now The Marketplace - a place where you can trade horses, items, and currencies.



As I don't have a team of testers and it's just me, this is a very precarious feature. Please treat it with care. I would appreciate it if members would help test out by trading silly things ($1, a carrot, rescue center horse that nobody wants, etc) and helping me find any bugs in the system.

The Item Market is still available but it has been renamed to "Item Listings" and will most likely eventually be phased out as the Marketplace is used.

Once we are sure there are no bugs left with the Marketplace, I will be banning the sale of EVC on the forums as there is now a secure place to list your credits for sale, for the price you want to sell them at.

Preview Foals



You can now preview a potential foal out of a breeding pair when you go to breed horses. There is an additional button next to the "Breed" button called "Preview Foal". It's free to use, and will show you one potential foal result from the breeding match.

New Poll
In light of the numerous bugs we are currently having with foals not being born, mares remaining pregnant for too long, and my inability to find any issues in the code: I wondered if it was time we just accepted defeat and went back to the old system of foals being born instantly.

Go and vote here!


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Posted by

Abbey 🌸

Posted on
2017-07-11 11:48:38

Comments

Or will we no longer be able to transfer credits from player to player?

Posted by

Notori (#6193)
11th July 2017 at 16:19:49

This is an awesome update! Does the preview foal also guarantee the correct gender or is it a 50/50 chance?

Posted by

MythicalSis (#108679)
11th July 2017 at 16:31:13

I love the new trading system! However one thing I miss is being able to simply buy whatever in being offered for a flat price. Maybe incorporate that back in later somehow?

Posted by
FeatherHorse (#112117)
11th July 2017 at 18:28:23

I think there may be some confusion in the comments here - I'm pretty sure the "preview possible foals" does not guarantee that you will get the horse pictured when you use the preview image; it's just showing you one of the possibilities that you *could* get from the breeding.

I'm torn on the instant foal/gestation time. I *did* really enjoy getting instant foals before, because I knew right away if I had gotten what I wanted, rather than having to wait and hope, which made planning for subsequent breedings easier. But I like the more realistic gestation period, and the anticipation is sometimes a bit exciting. But since the bug seems so elusive... Hmm. Either way, the one week wait between breedings should absolutely stay, imo, but I suppose it doesn't really matter too much in the grand scheme if the foals are born on day one or day five of that week.

Posted by

«» Only the Wind (#55431)
11th July 2017 at 18:29:45

Wow! What an update!

I am especially excited for the foal preview, as it will help those interested in particular genetic combinations..

As for instant vs. gestation - I'm stuck. Gestation is more realistic, but instant isn't a bad thing either...

Posted by

Hazel (#99346)
11th July 2017 at 20:16:15

I offered a trade but then went to go buy some more treats and offered those as well but it put them as two separate trades. I think you guys should make it an option to revise or edit your offers in case the person who made the offer did not put everything they needed to in the first one and it does not say you have those items anymore once you offer them as a trade

Posted by
wolfie (#112715)
11th July 2017 at 20:17:28

love preview foal have yet to try it out

Posted by
wolfie (#112715)
11th July 2017 at 20:20:17

could you also have a cancel button for offers and not just trades, please. I would post it in the bugs but I can not as I am not level 3 yet.

Posted by
wolfie (#112715)
11th July 2017 at 20:35:01

Like Only The Wind, I'm also a bit torn on gestation times. I do feel a gestation period is more realistic, and it would be good if we could keep it, but for purely selfish reasons having foals born instantly would be great too. Just so long as the breeding cooldown increased to a week to compensate.

Would it be possible to add some filters to the trades, e.g. just show trades offering horses, or just show trades that offer a particular item, or item types. (The trades can include other things as well, but must include at least one thing that matches the filter.) Maybe also search for a keyword? Something a bit like the existing search in the Item Listings.

Maybe also add an auto-buy option to trades? So if you want to buy something quickly you don't have to wait for the owner to get online, but you can still make a trade offer instead if you don't want to pay the auto-buy price. This would mimic the existing item trades.

Also, the $1000 fee may put people off selling small items, like bunches of treats, or a single plushie. Unless it gets refunded when the trade is complete? Not really an issue right now, but if this system will replace the item listings then it could be.

Posted by

UlyssesBlue (#60734)
11th July 2017 at 21:44:26

Love being able to preview possible foals! The only thing is it doesn't show possible leg and face markings :3

Posted by

Paige0912 (#84797)
11th July 2017 at 21:53:02

I enjoy the new updates, but I don't quite get the marketplace function. Also, I think you should be able to take back/change your offer, you can do that with trades you've made but not offers. I really like the foal preview thingamajuggy, but right now it's killing me that I can't actually have the foals previewed. :'(
I think that if it fixes the bug, let's do instant foals. Only because it might fix the bug, though ...
Thanks for the new updates, Abbey!

Posted by

Coconut the dog (#112043)
11th July 2017 at 22:14:40

Paige appears to be correct. Face and leg markings don't seem to be included in the foal previewer. Not sure if they're supposed to be, but thought I'd mention it.

Also, would it be a good idea to expand the previewer so that it shows foal stats as well? Or will it just stick with appearance?

Posted by

UlyssesBlue (#60734)
12th July 2017 at 03:24:27

please hurry fixing the mares issue. I will miss being able to breed several of my horses now.

Posted by

Ж wox (#66767)
12th July 2017 at 04:00:25

Deposits are refunded if the trade is successful or is cancelled. It only doesn't get returned if the trade is left to expire, just to encourage members to accept offers or cancel if they don't like the offers they're getting.

If you have any suggestions for trades, please make them on the Suggestions board.

If you discover any bugs, there is a Marketplace Bugs topic on the Bug Board.

Posted by

Abbey 🌸 (#1)
12th July 2017 at 04:24:15

love the market, but I would love to have a search option to find evc or certain treats

Posted by

get er dun (#110560)
12th July 2017 at 11:40:54

Instant foals would be good but the gestation period is much more realistic.I would definitley prefer the instant foals tbh

Posted by
aistons (#112362)
14th July 2017 at 10:23:02

LOVE the foal preview!! How cool!!

Posted by

Entium (#111249)
15th July 2017 at 12:24:55

The marketplace is so much better in my opinion! I love it! But, I do not like the possible new feature where a foal will be born intsantly. It isn't very realistic.

Posted by

Svetlana (#104072)
16th July 2017 at 08:46:45

I hope we can still transfer credits/horses to other players. Otherwise how do they pay for art or if I want to transfer in between my own accounts.

Posted by

✎ Jezarae (#37074)
16th July 2017 at 18:26:43

Is the gestation period on pregnant made going to change???jw, I've bee having problems with my mares and no matter what it keeps happeneing

Posted by

Lassy (#109789)
20th July 2017 at 10:27:19