[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: March 2026

The foal's GP and IBS being shown on the birth page: EXCELLENT!!! Just excellent. I typically name new foals with an initial for Colt or Filly, then their GP / IBS, and that "Achievements" block makes that so, so much easier. Thumbs up!!

Does anyone actually put up THREE HUNDRED cover offers a day from top public release stallions?? As in, 300 cover offers in one day from one stallion.

Is this actually a thing? I've seen a couple pages of offers all from the same stallion in more popular breeds (e.g., Thoroughbreds), adding up to a few dozen covers from the same stallion, but not 300 from the same horse. Besides the fact that it's pretty boring to sit there clicking to put up offers, there's the fact that putting up so many would make them worth less, so how many would sell at top price, and how many would expire and just be wasted energy?

People never cease to surprise me, but I have my doubts that this is a regular thing for large numbers of players. Especially all from one horse.

If you don't like the stallions on offer on a particular day, there are two basic options available to all players -- wait for a few hours or until the next day and see what comes up.... or go look in the sales to see if there's a stallion there with GP you like and buy him. *shrug*

It's Howrse, when have we ever gotten an explanation from anything

The fact that Howrse hardly listens to use players is quite frankly ridiculous. The last few years they've been going downhill and I can't wait for the day this game ends. In previous years our voices were heard but now we are just tossed to the side. Which is hilarious as without happy people their money from passes goes down because why pay for a game like that. And don't get me wrong, Companies do need to make certain decisions occasionally but the way we players are treated is ridiculous.

Next Update: A limit to how many horses you can blup a month. Maybe a limit to how many foals you can breed. Or maybe your game gets shut down after you've farmed over 1000 horses every day. Playing this game is now cheating. Putting time and effort into obtaining resources instead of simply throwing money at the company is outlawed.

I mass breed horses with the breed and gp I want for them to work as auto fillers, and I sell the rest that don't make rookie cap as AP horses. It's already pain enough finding a few hundred horses of the breed I need with a high enough gp now with a 300 cover limit...

Why not set the limit to something completely unreachable for a human player, not something anyone with a few hours to burn could easily achieve? Or if the intent is to root out people who put up covers through scripting, you had no problem randomly docking players who blupped or farmed too fast without evidence, why change your methods for putting up public covers of all things?

I actually think you will find some of us are quite outspoken, be that in support of a new feature or if we are not in support! We are only players like everyone else.

It probably says more about the game that we are actually allowed our own opinions, and to air them, even when they are not always in support of changes and new features.

I find the GP and skills next to the horse when birthing is weird. I thought it was a glitch when I bred my horse for the first time today on the US server... Why can't the horses names still be on the side? And why is there a max amount of covers? I know just about no one puts 300 covers up daily, but for the bigger breeders with time... I feel like we should at least have a max for a horse, for example 20 or 30 per horse daily, or 10 at the least.

I know I'm in a minority but I dont like the new breeding page lol..My favourite part was going and clicking on the genetics for a little surprise after I named it an such.

That being said I don't have an overabundance of horses and therefore dont need to categorize so I can see why most big players enjoy it

I just don't Also, why isnt the skils UNDER the naming box? Thats driving me bonkers

I personally feel that people are making a big deal out of this covering change; I mean, who here seriously puts up more than 300 coverings on the daily consistently? They could have made it a lot smaller, but 300 coverings is still around 50 horses offering 6 each day.

While we're at it, what percentage of those coverings actually get taken? Perhaps part of the reason for this change is to try and encourage people to blup before they put up coverings, instead of just getting to breeding age and throwing a bunch of unblupped coverings up, therefore flooding the market with poor quality horses.

I've personally MA'ed a male before and have put up to 100-200 coverings up from him in one day, but that was such a boring task to do, despite the profit, so I honestly doubt that people have been doing hundreds every day without fail.

For some rough calculations, this is what you can get between each day if you do 300 coverings based on what you set the price at and they all get accepted -

500 x 300 = 150000
7500 x 300 = 2250000

So that is a range of 150000 to 2250000 if all 300 get accepted, which is really not an amount to sneeze at, especially if you happen to have a top stud at 7500 equus.

It could be worse, but I do feel that people need to give this a bit of a chance before they call it a terrible update, as it may very well improve the overall quality of horses offering coverings due to the limit. I also understand why this can be upsetting to those that do put up hundreds each day, but I am personally of the mindset that the majority don't even come close to that amount.

That said, I also don't agree with the reasoning being "to prevent cheating"...

Why can't achieving the objective be enough? Why must it be pending validation. I mean, some of them are dependant on time or on other players, ie. receive an item, sell a horse, be congratulated, win x# of comps. Not everyone can sit around clicking their refresh button, or if you log in shortly before update... why the need for the validation step?

First, how is offering coverings with your stallion cheating? How is an actual game function with no feasible means of being exploited cheating?

Secondly, what part of the gameplay is the coverings feature compromising that it needed to be changed that desperately?

The team is literally just poking at things for the sake of it right now and it's frustrating.

It’s precisely that it might only affect the top 1% of breeders that makes this change so frustrating. Howrse is constantly “dumbing” the game down to cater to those who put less effort in. Not everyone will put out hundreds of covers every single day, but exceptional players should be given the option to if they feel like it on one particular day. It’s like putting a cap on the amount of leather someone can sell in a day because “most people don’t sell that much”, or capping the number of comps a player can enter.

I also don’t think it’s the players that can’t be bothered to BLUP their horses that are the ones putting in the effort to put out hundreds of covers. To me it would be a disincentive to buy a foal and BLUP it because my profit is now restricted. It’d make marginally more sense if it was a horse cap, not a player cap (still not a worthwhile change though).