*Create show levels higher than I5

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Last edited on 2020-11-15 at 08:12:27 by ᵍ ᵒ ᵃ ᵀ☀

I’m about to have 2 fairly young dressage horses hit the International 1 Level, and I expect they’ll stay in that level the rest of their lives, since they’ll never be competitive with horses with 300+ more stats regardless of their tack, training level, or luck. I’m all for a restructuring that addresses that!

Goat, I totally agree. My suggestion is more of a bandaid fix, like a "here's an apple to hold you over til dinner" sort of thing. Stats and whatnot need to be re-figured out, but that will be incredibly intensive and would need some serious figuring out, math, trial and error, etc to come up with a viable solution. 

The way things are now discourages from showing at the highest unless somebody has horses at 8k+. Showing them all together against each other at least gives some of them a chance to gain some stats. Unfortunately it only takes one 8k-, one 7k- and one 6k-statted horse to discourage somebody with 5980 statted horse from wanting to enter. In such case schooling seems like the best option.

I think that introducing benefits of earning stats for lower placings (4th-8th out of 15) would help a lot, also at lower International levels.

I feel absolutely disheartened having seen recently 9000+ statted horses competing in I5 dressage category....

Read through this it does all makes sense. I do breed andies and currently do have horses with 7k+ stats. Right now I'm not showing any of them as they are foals. Reading through all this does kinda make me feel bad now. I've only been showing my first generation with 4-5k stats atm. I do believe it would be fair to create some kind of system where 4-5k stated horses are going against the 7, 8, 9k horses. I feel like the shows should be more rather difficult for the higher-stated horses so it's not just all about the stats? Like, they should have some other factors also(confo, nss(i know it does play a role already but maybe have a higher effect), etc.) if that makes sense? 

I do agree with Goat, that if we created more shows would just spread it out and there wouldn't be as many people showing in those certain competitions. But I also feel like as these horses are continuing to be bred, the stats will continue to rise, and eventually, we will have this problem again with higher stated horses going against the lower than them horses, if that makes sense. 

Crescent Creek Stables, there’s no reason for you to feel bad! This is a flaw in the mechanics of the game itself, not something players have control over.

Thought....What if there an "Elite" Level that took the top 100 (suggestion) from each discipline and only those could compete in those shows. This way its a sliding scale and it declutters the top shows from the overly statted horses that make it impossible to competitive. 

I was about to create a post on this topic. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this situation.
I have no chance of doing well in competitions with my 5,500 total stats horses, can't gain stats fast enough through the riding school or breed horses fast enough to keep up. As a result I've got a bit lost on what to do next, I don't want to give up competing completely. Hoping the issue will get a good solution eventually. ♥

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