[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2025

you pick a breed that interests you and then apply to the team.
given that you are so new to the game, you had best start with a lower ranking team to gain experience.

go to achievements/best teams/breed and then scroll down the list of teams and select one and see what they are looking for in a team mate.

this and similar type questions should be posted in the game play forum.

while i am not the least bit techie, i am logical. has anyone else noticed or tried to avoid grooming until you are done with the horse?

there are a few actions that are necessary to do to get a "bonus".
onyx pays out a ufo of equus or passes
hippolelectron and hippogryffs give out feathers. enough feathers and you get passes from the horse.

i find that if i groom, i had best wait before doing ANY other action. the page will auto reload. thus you lose the ufo produced by onyx or amethyst. sometimes you lose the ufo anyhow.

the developers need to investigate WHY grooming causes disruption to game. they may even find why there is a glitch known as lag buried in the groom action.

all of the unwanted page reloads must place a burden on the system. which causes the lag at certain times of the day.

YES!!! Plus I've noticed the stroke button can cause issues as well though not to the extent that grooming does.

I am also getting an internal error message when I just tried to bed a horse. When I tried to age her, it said that I hadn't called the vet so she could foal, but I did and named the foal and all. Hmm.

What's with the "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link at the bottom of the page? When I click it, it brings up the privacy statement. In which when I search 'sell' it brings up "A3. We don’t sell or rent your personal information to third parties without your consent."

Does anyone know how to make sure consent is NOT given for howrse to sell my data to third parties? I'm concerned this may be an opt out rather than an opt in, like the tracking cookies which I found out about a couple of months ago and turned off immediately.

i do not believe ubisoft/howrse sells your personal info per se. but, they do use statistics to lure advertisers with directed marketing/sales for instance.

there 10's of thousand of players on howrse.
the majority are female
there are X number between the ages of 13 to 25
there are X number age 25 to 45
there are X number age 45 to 65
and there are a ton of geezers.

they also probably break it down into X number per country or timezone.

i just noticed the NEW link you mention. so i stopped and read it.

you have to opt out..and here's how..

A4. As mentioned above, you have control over the personal information you submit to us. If at any time you decide to remove your personal information from our database, you may do so by visiting your profile section or contacting us at http://support.owlient.eu/wizard. When you contact us, please include the name of the website you used to register and the email address you used to register with us so we can verify your request.

here's a thought for howrse admin.

empty safe haven. there are 1513241 pixel horses stored there. put them all up for sale via auction, and any left over, delete them from the server. think of the band width to be gained.

sell divines starting at 1000 passes, same with diamond apple. all other horses start at 10 passes..

announce a sales date so people can start saving for it. put up your pass ufo's at the start of the sale. auctions last 2-3 days. loads of real money to be made howrse. players will go nuts bidding on divines and da's. and ga's, foundies, uni's.

how's that for a promo idea

perhaps do it on bastille day..the storming of safe haven. free the pixels.

Seems like a cool idea, but isn't most of the information for the horses in Safe Haven deleted? So how would that work? Would deleted info (like gp) just have to be made up by the admin?

It is. Only the name and basic information are kept, the rest is deleted to make space on the server.
Same for "Horses donated to Ow".