[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2025

Possibly bad wording on my part
What I meant was that my understanding is that the update intends for team covers to be used only by team mares. I thought it always worked that way, that offering a "team cover" could only be accepted by team mares. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

I offered both a reserved cover to a non-team mare with my team stallion, as well as a public cover. So it should still be possible to crossbreed with covers by a team stallion, be it one you buy, or one in public.

I do like the idea that top team covers shouldn't expire. Like...I have a member on my team who does a great job! But she'll be MIA sometimes due to her job and if she has the top stud...we're kinda lost when they expire.

Correct Ann. But only if privately offered, right? Not through team covers. In a team, not everyone owns the top stud. So the only way of getting a private cover, is if they're around to do that. Some of us adults have jobs and can't be on howrse 24/7 lol So that's the issue. I was perfectly able to take covers from the team covers section by mares without the team affix, or to crossbreed as it were, but now since the change...it's impossible.

I think private covers last as long as the public ones, which is 72 hours. You'll have 3 days to accept

I'm in favor of some of these changes. I've not been on one of my teams for very long, but within the team I've been on board, we've jumped at least 10 GP points overall, and we had a solid gap on third place, but sometime over the last two days, the top team gave out a high stud cover, which put us basically neck and neck for second.

From my understanding, those horses with team affixes, within the set limits, can only give covers to team affixed horses? If that is the case, I do like that, because it'd stop the issue we're now having, which is fighting for second, when we had a solid, at least 15 point gap.

I need not say anything about the SH and how useless it is cause many others already have...

I do appreciate the sales gp cap immensely. Been looking forward to that one.

However, though this will keep loyal members from accidentally dropping gp in sales, it won't keep those "out to sabotage you" players from achieving and leaking horses.
Here is an example, I really hate to give anyone the idea, but I also want to make sure top teams are aware.
Say you have someone leave the team, and they have above release horses on their account.
They can't sell the horses because they are affixed and the affix holds the gp cap.
BUT
They can still breed those mares to the highest, purebred studs in public covers, even with the same affix (as long as the studs gp is under the cap, if it had the same affix)
and produce a foal with gp above the cap, and it won't receive the affix, and can be sold.
So say your gp cap is 1000
your player that left the team has a mare with 1200gp
they breed it to a public, pure stud that has 900gp
the resulting foal would still be 1100 (not doing the math)

so just be aware that leaks are still very possible despite these changes. It takes a few more steps, but still very possible.

The good news is it WILL keep tip top gp horses from being leaked. So it's a step in the right direction whether a player accidentally clicks direct instead of team sales, or you affiliated with the wrong players who are just petty like that and want to sabotage you lol.

i think this may be some of the worst dev corners in a long time. these are all going to cause issues. are horrible. and i mean where the entire thing is bad. is there anything good in this one? i would love to know why they only upped the regular horse price. why not the uni/uni fails. i only use the SH for obj and only SH uni fails. and will continue only doing if for objectives and only use uni fails

Re: Safe Haven sakes

I foresee an increase in Contact Us as people will inadvertantly or accidentally seel horses to SH. I hope Howrse has hired additional staff. I'm sure the layout for sales will become as CRYSTAL CLEAR as the current BMi pages

Every single time I log onto this game I find something that makes me wish I had the willpower to just delete my account.
The staff don't listen to their userbase at all and for the last four years seem to be doing things just for the sake of doing things.

I've noticed that myself. Like the sales tax? You see sales tax on items, not live animals, right? And this last promo...it called jewelry, ingredients. Since when do we eat jewelry? I prefer eating food, personally.

I took a 3 year hiatus and came back to...whatever this is. lol