[ADDED] *breeding update to rolled over accounts?

At the beginning I thought it's a bug, checked if I can use my own stud and it worked, so naturally it was not an error in the game. But still, it is irritating, when I try to find any stallion for my mare there is like 1-2 useable out of 50 stud offers. I would use my own stallions, but for some breeds I'd like to make some nice gene pool before starting breeding programme, especially when for example my stallions from EC are specialised in show jumping, mares from EC in dressage and I don't want to mix their stats.
Ideas of manual cap or 24h sound nice, at least they are better than what we have now. :C

I agree with a weekly roll over thing. this is because what if one person uses all the 15 slots in one day? If the horse has one week until it can not be bred after last log in this will secure that that one horse will not keep breeding forever however it will still give everyone a nice selection of studs. I need different studs in my gene pool in order to keep up with my breeding program....

I am generally averse to any feature that enforces a particular kind of gameplay, which is what any kind of game-defined breeding cap would do. People should be able to play the game the way they want to, and if that means their own mistakes are going to make it more difficult to sell horses or find suitable horses to add to their breeding program, then that's just all part of the challenge, and something that they'll learn from.

Since my suggestion of a user-defined cap seems popular I'll make a separate suggestion for it, so it doesn't get lost in the comments of a suggestion which is only loosely related.

This was not implemented to stop overbreeding at all.

The problem occurred when members were able to leave studs on accounts open for studding to anyone, keep them the same age for eternity if required, without ever any interaction from the stud owner to need to accept breeding requests.

The unintended error arising from this is that it's restricting stud requests, not just open studding, which I will fix.

I'm not sure if this was fixed or not, but I thought I'd mention that I'm still experiencing an issue. Because of my timezone, whenever I'm online there's usually no studs available as their owners haven't progressed for the day yet. It's been almost impossible for me to use outside studs/broods since this issue first arose.

I'm experiencing the same thing as UlyssesBlue.
I'm usually on right as (or just after) Cron runs, so when I'm looking to breed there are very few studs/broods available.

Before I even saw this LOL I just posted something about this happening to me with a mare I want to breed to a certain stallion and can't cause of the rollover thing 

I was the one who make the complaint about the original issue. Overbreeding isn't the main reason why I complained, I mentioned the overbreeding because that's how I discover the loophole. I don't mind overbreeding as long as they don't affect the market. Unfortunately, the stud I reported affect the market and I can't sell decent horses because of that stud. For awhile, nearly all horses up for sale are all related. That caused me to investigate the situation and figured out the loophole. The main issue was that players are able to abuse the loophole and earn easy bucks without do anything. All you need to do is get a decent stud and put him in spare account and never progress him. Few months later, you can easily have 500k in your spare account. Also, the players can take advantage of indefinite studs with owners who cannot get on EV due to RL situation.

In original post, I've suggested account locking after few days of inactivity. However, a lot of players are against that suggestion. Personally, I rather to have account locking over current solution and breeding caps. Current solution and breeding caps will affect all horses even though if their owners are active. Account locking is a simple solution and it will not affect players who are active. However, it had been shot down so I honestly can't think of any other solution that will protect inactive horses/players and not affect active horses/players.

I agree I have been trying to breed my Cremello Akhal-Teke mare for a couple day's to a Palomino stud but haven't been able to because of the whole roll over thing, I usually only get on in the morning so I don't get on any later and there is no stud's to breed too which has been very frustrating. And with the whole stud thing my stud's are all 100 or 50 $ and I put them as that so new players can breed good horses for as little as possible and I still make a profit.

Maybe horses that are "available" for breeding but aren't rolled over should not show up in searches when looking for a stallion or a broodmares?

This would make it easier in the sense that the only horses who do show up are able to currently breed.

Since the unrolled over ponies are essentially "locked," maybe people could select "include locked horses" to see all horses that are up for breeding but may not yet be available on a given day if the owner hasn't progressed their account?

I hope that makes a little sense...

maybe there could be a way to code it that all stallions offered for stud run on automatic cron this way they would have to progress and everyone could still use the studs

The rollover is awful, I have been unable to breed any of my mares for a while no matter what stallion I try to breed them to. And I don't want to waste money by buying a stallion that I will never use again, this little problem is making me lose interest in the game because I cannot breed my horses.

blueberry, me too! I am about to take a break (even though i loved the game about a year ago) its super frusterating. I want to breed flaxen horses (there are about 8 for stud right now) 4 on the colors that i need. Ill be lucky to find one that is up for stud. 

me too. Even when I arrange private breedings with other players they simply can't happen unless I make a point of logging in to EV at an awkward or bizarre time. We're both on daily, just separated by quite a few timezones. I'm awake when they're asleep, and vice versa.

Pretty much every high stat Andalusian for public stud is unavailable because they never rollover. I'm not necessary upset because of that, but it would be nice if inactive players' horses didn't how for studding, since they can't be used anyway.