[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2026

I don't know why you guys can't see the Fortune. Borvo definitely has it.

So the point is if you can see the Fortune on my other posts then the bonuses have not been added retroactively. All these Divines and howrse, plus many others, had combs and hoof picks already because I work them every day.

The horse Legacy Ann linked to was Yōkai, who doesn't have the Fortune.

But Yokai is not one of the four that I listed.

I get sent to Yokai whenever I copy and paste the 3rd horse's link. The other two divines I see are Hrimfaxi and Dagda. The links look longer than the usual format of a horse's public page link, so perhaps there is something throwing it off when someone else tries to navigate to it. I'm not sure.

My suggestion is to take a screenshot of your horse to show that it currently has the Grease and the Fortune, then when it loses it, take another screenshot showing that the bonus is no longer there, and then send that to Contact Us

Why such a narrow window? Start a day or two earlier.
Why stop when the mare is 30? With the passes you get from prep sales that should cover the need to use extra aging points. I totally get prix teams, been there from the beginning but if you wait until the day before then it's not going to work out (most of the time). If nobody else on your team is able/willing to use passes or items to tear than you should be evaluating participation because if you're distributing passes to them by definition some should be reinvested in the team.

@Ruffian

Let me first note that the current cost of ap is 9p per ap. Prix prep sells for 889p. Let’s say members have tears priv so they don’t have to spend passes or items on the tearing itself. After tax, 800p would be the equivalent of 14 years at the 9p/ap rate, so a little less than one MA tearing mare (which would be 20 years). There’s an average of about 0.75 preps per mare. At the cost of a prep, you have made 0.525 of a prep.

Now let’s assume we use an ap pack instead, so 490p for 100 ap. Again, 800p after tax and we won’t count in the cost of tearing items themselves. That would get you an additional 22 years instead of 14. That’s 0.84 of a prep. Better.

But then we have to remember that for both of these circumstances, black orchids will need to be used. Black orchids cost 90p and will give you about 7.5y if you work the horse, less if you don’t. So if we take that into account, 9p/ap will actually only give you 11.5y (rounded), or 0.43 of a prep. Using the ap pack would actually only get you 17.5y (rounded), or 0.65 of a prep.

None of this takes into account whether the team is in a GP war and tearing instead of gaining GP, both of which take time. It also doesn’t take into account the pure amount of resources required to be on a Prix team in the first place, which is the reason why members get paid. Instead of considering the investment of passes only into a team, it is best to consider all qualitative and quantitative investments. The reason why most Prix teams work similar to how Crystal Coven stated is because after years of experience with the teams feature and the Grand Prix market on Howrse, hundreds of people have come to the same realization of the optimal target between efficiency, being able to keep members happy, and being able to BE a Prix team.

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@Ruffian

It’s just simple math. One doesn’t need seniority to see the logic. I do appreciate that you have experience with Prix teams, so if you see an error in my calculations and observations, I’m more than happy to be educated on them.

I've never used an orchid on a mare so let's start there.

All that aside, you aren't a new player