Requests & Discussions

My suggestion is to add dates (even if approximate) into the beta news posts to give beta testers a better chance to organize their time and prepare for bigger and smaller testings. The thing is, many people have busy lives and can't really check every day, so adding an approximate date when the next testing should take place would be very helpful. For example I'll be away for a couple of days in early to mid July and I'm kind of expecting the Kathiawari testing to fall onto these dates... so it would be amazing if we knew when the testing will take place, so we could prepare for it (For me it is the decision of taking my laptop with me or leaving it home).

And here I go yet again :D When getting a new milestone notification, it'd be awesome if the notification included a link to the milestones (view-all) section so we can check it out without the extra step of opening our profile. At least on mobile, that takes longer than clicking a link in the notification itself would. For example: "Congratulations, you have earned a badge for reaching the Foal Me Once Milestone. Lucky you! You also received 1 WT." The "badge" part could be clickable :3

Hello! Not a huge issue, since the milestones now have clickabke explanations - but the clearer the description under each milestone, the less need for that extra click, which is good imo. I'd clarify the following two: Breeder: "Breed horses" -> "Breed two of your horses" Why it's clearer: The current version reads like "produce foals (of an undetermined number) which is not what this is. The updated version makes it clearer that this is about arranging a covering between two horses. Newcomer: "Win a premium" -> "Win a premium ribbon" Why it's clearer: The current version can be mistaken to mean premium accounts, and I was very confused for a moment. Mentioning ribbons would prevent this. That is all for now :3

I think a small addition to the notification is needed: Congratulations, you have earned a badge for reaching the Empire Builder Milestone. Lucky you! You also received 1 Litha Lake background . Not all players are familiar with background names, especially newbies. Also - is a reward for Empire Builder always Litha Lake?

Just inputting information here that I put on the forum to raise some concern and discussion about this update. I wanted to go ahead and post this here. Mostly because i know that the last concern we raised about some UI changes (IE the removal of certain things from the side bar) became a hot topic on live (15+ pages of disussion). I do believe that this may be another one of those topics so I wanted to make sure I posted thoughts here officially! https://beta-v2.horsereality.com/news/73/testing-milestones-batch-1 Post 1: The milestones option looks really cool. So interested to check that out. I do have a few follow up questions about some things. Offer button - Is there a way to get rid of the offer button being so large and in our face if we don't want to sign up for the news letter? I still have it on beta and now on live. I am curious if this is something that the dev team has looking into adding as a feature for us to remove if we don't want to sign up for offers? Also in relation this specific update. Curious as to why the milestones is located above the estate information? If it is possible I'd love to suggest maybe putting the milestones under the estate information. I think it would flow looks wise much better to have the large illustrated icons underneath all of that and be the last thing that is visible as you look down the left side of that page. Being in the design / game design field myself i really think that might be a nice improvement to make to flow a little bit better as far as UX/UI goes on the main home page. Post 2: Also, I will be honest. I like the milestones and i think that's great for me to see personally but in the years I've been on the game I have never ever been interested in what milestone other playes have hit or ever clicked on their milestone badges... I still stand by the suggestion that I am not sure why it has become more front and center on the user profile page? it doesn't really seem like something that is super super important to see front and center when clicking on other people's pages... However, if it is i really think it's placement needs to be reconsidered. it's very distracting to have it where it's at and would really think it would be liked better if it was moved down below the estate information.... or honestly back into the tab where it use to be... I do like the improvements HR is making but i just see this as another one that was fine the way it was?

I think a more clear price description is needed for prices. Right now it kinda reads as "You have 25 stables for 5000 HRC and 200 stables for 100 DP", which is incorrect. I can see the frustration for players when they discover that the price is changed after buying first 10 stables.

Hello! I love the addition of the COI feature! However, I noticed the stat appears coloured in pedigrees and on the breeding page, going from green (no inbreeding) through yellow/orange to red (heavy inbreeding). While this is useful to quickly assess how inbred a horse (or future foal) is, it conveys a judgment via colour code (common perception: green = very good, red = very bad). That part, I'm not sure how to feel about. When discussions of the COI & possible inbreeding consequences came up, back in the day, it was always emphasised by the team that inbreeding would be treated objectively as a tool that can be used for good or bad. A heavily inbred horse whose ancestors were healthy may still be much better off than a non-inbred horse whose ancestors were riddled with disease. And that's where I don't like the implications of these colours. This is all the more noticeable because, to my knowledge, the COI is the first stat to be colour coded. GP, conformation, health, etc. are all displayed fully "free of judgement" as simple black-and-white numbers/words, and players are the ones to judge what is good or bad, what to breed for, or where to draw a line. The RealTools extension adds a colour code to the conformation stats but that's a choice by the players, nothing the game dictates. At the same time, as mentioned earlier, people who want to keep the COI low may benefit from the colour code, and if inbreeding risks get added down the line, the colours could offer a good visual tier system for ease. I also don't know if a similar colour code for other stats (Confo, GP, ...) is planned for the V2 version of the horse profiles. Just right now, the coloured COI really stands out. I don't really know where to take this suggestion, my first impulse was "Oi, could we just display it as a neutral, plain stat?" but I keep thinking a toggle might be nice? I'm mainly curious what others think about this!

I anticipate spending a lot to test the competitions, and I am buying equipment. Just hoping for a top-off.

Hi again! This might be a bit of a controversial one and I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. The block feature allows players to block moderators. Since mods will be able to still send official messages anyways, that seems fair enough. Even if it was implemented that a player who blocks someone can't message that person (mod in this case) anymore, they could unblock them if the need arises to be able to reach out again. Moderators being able to block players, though, could create issues. While the mod could still always reach out to the player (via official messages), the player would have no way to contact the moderator. Imagine they run into a big issue and need help urgently (e. g. safety related stuff), and the only mod who appears online has them blocked. No way of quick contact then. And with the block feature not telling the player they are blocked, they couldn't even tell if their message went through at all. Maybe one day, we'll have a mod ticket box where anyone can send in a ticket at any time and it immediately shows up to all moderators regardless of who has whom blocked. But until then, messaging a moderator is the quickest way to get help or alert the team of urgent issues. I'd like for the mods to be approachable. Therefore, I propose that at least for the time being, moderators cannot block players.

Hi hi, short and sweet: Currently if player A blocks player B, then the messages from player B will no longer deliver. However, player A can still continue to send player B messages even after the blocking. Player B would have to explicitly block player A to not get their messages anymore. This could cause weird situations where someone gets blocked, keeps receiving messages from the player that blocked them, tries to reply, but obviously their messages don't deliver because they themselves are blocked. Without a way of knowing for sure if they are blocked, this could well drive someone insane. My proposal: If palyer A blocks player B, then not only do player B's messages to player A no longer go through, but vice versa, messages from palyer A to player B should also not send anymore. Edit to add: In this case, if player A blocked player B and tries to reach out, the game could also give a little error pop up saying you can't message people you have blocked. Player A should technically already know they have player B blocked, so there is no secret information revealed in this case, the error would just remind them to unblock the person if they do want to reach out.