*Make rides useful again

Hello,

I don't like the leisure ride feature as it is now. I would love getting the "old" leisure ride feature back, since you only get "useless" treats in this new feature. In my opinion I should be able to come across >100evd about twice in a ride and have a 1% change of finding peppermints and a 0,01% to find a credit or something like that. So just very small changes of finding stuff that is valuable.

I don't use the treats found in leisure rides, simply because they don't garantue stats, so therefor for me even removal of the feature would be fine. And I personally find it a shame that Abbey made the feature look so good, but the inside of the feature is just meh. Just some sentences that are predictable and I read them all in one ride and never again after that. I find that for the work that Abbey did in the feature it deserves some more usage by me. And I don't find it worthy of my time right now, so that's a very big shame.

Last edited on 2017-08-10 at 10:57:18 by River

All we get are treats now? D:

I don't really ride my horses often so I wouldn't really know. I just rode one now though and got a green apple and a red apple... treats I don't even use D:

I did like it before that we had a chance of getting stats

I love the art for the rides and the fun scenarios you can come across! However, I am really missing gaining stats for my horses and being able to ride all four turns one after the other on different horses. The new riding feature is great, but being me, I always forget to return half an hour later to ride another turn. x)

I would love if we had chances of gaining stats in rides, especially because it was a way I increased the stats on my lowest statted pons in which I [say] rescued or bought with low stats. It's definitely difficult to get those ponies up and running especially because showing is a lot different and I'm lucky if I can even get one stat from treats. I've completely held off with working on my horses in hopes something will happen to make this all much easier.

Abbey has stated several times that she will add more soon ;3

every once in a great while you will get stats in the leisure riding

bella, are you sure? I know this was the case on the old EV, but I thought this was removed for the recode.

More riding features are planned, Abbey's just been a little busy working out bugs and more pressing issues.

Yes, it's my understanding as well that leisure riding will eventually be similar to what it was before. Abbey said essentially that in another thread similar to this one.

(personally I hope she's working on getting training up and running before anything else... but that's just me. :D )

Good idea, but I think this is already on Abby's list; If not Great idea! I'm bored of riding,riding,riding,riding, You found a plastic bag! Riding,riding,riding,riding, while you were rolling around on the floor you found an apple. OK, that one I love!

I dont even bother to ride anymore. Support.

SUPPORT!

Rides STILL are not very interesting. I appreciate the work that went into creating more variety in the reading texts during riding but there is still absolutely no benefit... So I still don't "ride" my horses....

There is a very slim chance at getting a stat point now, but it seems to be random, so said stat point is not always useful for the horse that gets it... and that's why I stopped riding again, because I'm trying to get my non-dominant stats down as low as possible, and I don't want to sabotage that.

I *DO* otherwise like the new riding - the amounts of money you find are small, but per the news post there's a small chance at finding a credit item in one area (though I never have.)

I understand not wanting to add the chance at getting a lot of stats (I mean, on a really lucky ride in the old game you could get 10 or so, though that was rare), considering how easy it already is to get stats. Now we have training, shows themselves, and now foal training as well; yet another way to get a large number of stats seems unnecessary/like it would just cause stat inflation. And especially since you can ride as many horses as you like per day (just waiting 15 minutes in between), piling a ton of stats on a ton of horses each day just seems too easy.

(I may create a separate suggestion just regarding those rare stat points - if they were guaranteed to be one of the ones your horse needs for its discipline, that would be so much better and wouldn't discourage me from riding.)

i've gotten one or two stats while riding, but yeah, the leisure rides prizes need to be improved. like there's that one where you rummage, and you either find a plastic bag or one evd? just not worth it. i want to be able to find rarer things, like loki's daggers, credits, etc etc. it should be small chance, but without the possibility of getting something valuable there's not much incentive to use leisure rides

I think a lot of the prizes are more area specific now. I've heard that the mountains seem to give worn out tack. Since there was hinting at something/someone special to be found in the misty meadows when the recode first launched, I'd wager that that's where the credit item can be found. I've found peppermints on the beach.