[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2025

This is my problem with the update, it's not that I'm against having Ascent trophies, it's a genuine gameplay mode and people who play are more than entitled to recognition for their efforts, it's more that it feels like players who still prefer the standard gameplay method are getting shafted, again.

Honestly, the new trophy system COULD be excellent. It has plenty of opportunity to encourage branching out and getting rewards for all types of gameplay, maybe even moreso than the old system which was more collection-focused.

Imagine if they took initiative from the daily objectives and modeled trophies after those? We could have trophies for breeding foals of different species, for training, for rides, for BLUPing certain numbers of horses, for use of BMIs besides just the custom ones (make x number of horses immortal, give birth to x sets of twins, make x horses into Pegasus, what have you), buying and selling horses, for growing crops, for finding items while doing horse care, the list goes on. I'm sure I could think of a dozen more.

Maybe they intend to do all this, but given that it's been a year and all they've added are event and Divine ones, and now these new ones for Ascent. Which is frustrating, cause if they'd change the layout and add actual workable trophies the new trophy page could be fine for what it is (I'd also like to be able to see what the trophies on your page display were actually FOR, but... baby steps). They just don't do it and so now instead of a fun page that encourages and rewards various types of game play we have the Event and Divine Advertisement Page (and you can't even do most of the Event ones for over a year when the event's not running).

Agreed, I really miss the old trophies and seeing what they were for on my page. I miss knowing the exact number too, instead of just the percentage...I'd like to see both. As for the way it is now...I'd love to see more trophies about regular game play rather than just events, especially since it's only now and then we can even work on them. I'm glad there are a few new ones about game play, but they are a smaller percentage of the overall trophies. What's disappointing at the moment is that I had already worked my Christmas and mythological horses today, and did extra reindeer games yesterday, thinking that the new trophies would take past actions into account like past game play trophies has, so I can't get as good of a start today.

I was just thinking about how much I loved looking at peoples' divines! It was so fun to see peoples' collections. I really liked seeing what kinds of coats people liked using for their horses, too. It was just so personalized and told you so much about the player. Good times

I personally like that there's Olympus trophies now. I honestly really like the game mode.

The thing is this is now a game about collecting so ascent is just an extension of what to do with your cards. What have they actually done for game play since they split comps into 20 wins? Nothing outside of some items. You can't even change your ec from classic to western.

Why on earth did they change the name of the Mazes trophy to "Mazes: Christmas" isn't that just going to be confusing if they run a non-Christmas maze in the future? Or are they planning to make mazes the only Christmas one forever now?

LOL I just realized this is one of the new trophies

Trophy: This is very unfair

'Lose in a room in Ascent of Olympus mode with more than a 90% chance of success'

Reads our complaints:

So... they're asking for a trophy, right? NOT for the odds to make sense?

Ok thrilled that Ascent to Olympus is a permanent game on here. Can you please do a menorah game too? This is feeling very Christian and excluding other faiths.

Also, the Sherlock game was based on choices. Which I like.

I don't think they had any intentions for it to give off religion at all. Its just Greek mythology, and probably more common folklore then anything religious, honestly.

Greek mythology was (and still is, albeit rarely) technically a practiced religion, but it's not Christianity, it's a completely different belief system and is nowadays considered more ancient legend than religious.

Besides that, the Greek myth themeing on here goes back to the game's origins. Check the names on most of the old Black Market items.

It's not JUST Greek either, there's lots of different mythologies represented among the Divine series like Egyptian, Norse and Celtic, but Ascent's theme is hardly a new thing for the game.