Club Contests!

Thanks Abbey and River for all your hard work. Can't wait and go see the changes!

sounds awesome! thanks Abbey and River! you guys rock! :D

This is amazing! I'm trying to think of 'wardrobe' names.. Tack locker (or just locker)? Chest? Storeroom? Preview Vault? Lol!

Very excited about the farms and pastures coming soon.

I have a question though.. the poll has an option - "quality of life" - what does that mean? I could probably have a better quality of life, but I don't think Equiverse can help me with that LOL!

Quality of life updates are basically ones that enhance the convenience of gameplay, so things like bank search, or searching the market by keyword, or adding player IDs back on the forums. They're usually small things but they add to the experience.

Haha, there needs to be an 'all of the above' option in the poll. They're all awesome. XD

I think the main issue I'd like to see addressed right now is the one preventing studs from being used without being progressed, which is negatively impacting daily players, not just those who were abusing the indefinite studs loophole. Not sure if this counts as quality of life or updating an existing feature.
I am very much looking forward to the farms/orchards feature, when it comes. New features are always very exciting. Events are also tons of fun too. I hope we have a Harvest Festival or similar. ♥

Thanks Abbey and River for all the hard work. I agree with Ulysses Blue about preventing studs being used without being progressed. I never seem to be on when the owner of the stud I want to breed with is on. And they lose the fee they would have gotten if I could use their studs. I just trend to use my own studs instead, more convenient for me.

Perhaps that problem could be solved in part by removing studs/broodmares with unprogressed owner accounts from the search.

@River
The issue is that there are now very significant restrictions being placed on some players based solely on the time of day that they log in, even though they may still play every day. For example, someone who usually logs in just after cron has run will find there are no or few available studs as very few other people have progressed their accounts yet. They will also be unable to participate in private breeding arrangements if the other player plays later in the day. Likewise, someone who logs in just before cron runs will only have their studs up for a very short amount of time before they get reset again, meaning they are unlikely to have their studs used or make money from them. If they can only play at the same time each day, as is typical of those with reasonably busy lives due to school or work, etc, then this will just be an ongoing problem.

This issue is drastically limiting the breeding of regular players when it was only intended to affect the indefinite studs of those who haven't logged in for a while.

A minor modification to the search will not change any of these restrictions, just make it easier to see the extent of the problem.

There's a few suggestions for alternative systems to prevent indefinite studs, where this issue is also discussed in more detail:

Changing the system from needing progress every day, to a longer time period, e.g. 2 or 3 days:
http://www.equiverse.com/topic.php?id=119754

General discussion of the issue and alternatives (or suggestion to remove the progress requirement entirely until a better solution is found):
http://www.equiverse.com/topic.php?id=116029

Changing the system so that the stallion can only be bred a certain number of times before needing to be relisted for stud and/or progressed:
http://www.equiverse.com/topic.php?id=116796

Autolock accounts after a certain amount of inactivity, such as 3 days (which will take down any studs on market):
(can't find the topic right now)

There may be other related suggestions I've missed. Essentially, this is a wide-reaching problem that a lot of people are quite concerned about, and there has been extensive discussion surrounding it, including proposing several plausible alternatives that will resolve the indefinite studs issue without placing unreasonable restrictions on regular players.

Soooo happy! I can't wait for the changes! 😍😍😍😁😁😁

Understood, your explanation regarding the limits with players being online at differing times (and that limiting breeding availability) clarifies the problem. Ultimately the changes in the code have to come from Abbey but I can bring her my recommendations.

No worries. Glad I could help. :)