[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2026

I have not had a single lag issue except for during black friday. I use chromebook which is said to be faster but I don't know. But my game is doing fine, I feel bad for players with the terrible lag

Really REALLY wish the BMI page (when adding to a horse) would either go back to how it was or chosen payment option was highlighted so it was easier to tell if we were using from inventory.

I also don't like the way the BMI page is displayed when adding to a horse. I like to see how many of the BMI I have in my inventory instead of just the choice of pass or inventory. I didn't like it with the golden apple and ray pages and still don't like it!

I actually had not thought about that. I am not that active on this server but am on the Australian server more frequently and thought it was unfair that suddenly a perk that was 'advertised' from a divine suddenly was being revoked for the reindeers. I don't have much other use for the perk. Having said that, I actually hadn't thought about players having multiples of these divines as I only had one. So I can see that can be a major advantage for the players having multiples.

On the other hand is is not an advantage for players to be able to use passes to increase the skills of reindeers to advance them in rankings and that could be considered an unfair advantage also as not all can afford to do that. Or am I missing something, are the reindeer results in comps random? Maybe there could have been another way to limit the availability of the divine perk without completely removing? As I said hasn't really impacted me alot as I did not have multiples.

On the lagging issue, yes its gotten quite bad on Au server also. very frustrating. And have also made the suggestion like others to about using the inventory items as default before passes.

Yes it is an advantage to buy skills with passes but it is different as everyone has a supply of free passes if they do their daily objectives and everyone has free choice of whether they buy passes and how they spend them. What was completely unfair about the Divine was that it gave a chance of an extra comp every time it triggered which is something that no other player could replicate as you cannot buy the Divine and cannot apply a Nyx pack to a reindeer. The Divine perk does. of course, still apply to all the other horses you own.

how do i remove the christmas wreath around my name icon. christmas is long past. are these dodads increasing the likelihood of lag?

i'd like to keep my icon, and not lose it when the wreath is removed.

i also hate the way our bmi's are being displayed when selecting them. i would like to know exactly how many of each type of bmi i have. so then i can make a decision as to whether or not to use what i have in stock, or to use passes to purchase it.

c'mon howrse, give us back informed freedom of choice.

fix the lag issue and stop with the geegaws and unnecessary frilly bits.

Click on the icon option without a frame, that removes it and allows you to keep your current icon.

Exactly! I never had problems before. With this "improvement," and compounded by the lag, I can select the button to use from inventory -- and suddenly my pass stash is reduced. Because it switches over to the "preferred" option on the slightest provocation.

Plus, by not being able to view how many items we have in inventory, we are working blind -- we don't know if we SHOULD use passes or inventory.

This whole thing is not an improvement. It's another pass grab by Howrse.

Howrse changed a couple of objectives a while back, but I really don't understand why they took off the "Remove a pegasus's wings" objective and not the "Remove a unicorn's horn" objective. Both of them aren't great but removing a horn is asking much more than to remove wings, since the wings can be replaced right after by putting a Medusa's Blood back on and MBs are relatively easy to acquire in promos. While you can't put back a horse's horn, and if you remove the horn then you can't breed more unicorns with that horse. It honestly doesn't make sense to me because I'd think that people would be more annoyed with the remove horn objective than the remove wings one?

I do actually like that some of the harder objectives create more incentive to play the game strategically. I used to not really play this game much until they introduced the objectives. I could have gotten into breeding or pass horses but the objectives were a quick, easy way to win passes for someone who wasn't very motivated at first into trying harder at the game. I was mostly just here for graphics and the fact that Howrse is the sister site of Owlient's now defunct website that I loved that closed back in 2014, but I now have lots of unis, draft horses, donkeys, and have an AP farm and sort-of functioning EC because they'll provide what I need to complete objectives. But with that being said, I don't understand why they would remove that objective and not ones that are worse like remove a unicorn's horn. Some players felt like the horses were being mutilated by taking off their wings, which I personally disagree with because, I mean, you put the MB on it and you're just taking it off. Whereas unis are born with their horns, so taking that off is different. Not that I consider removing a horn to be mutilation either, they're just pixel horses, but every criticism of that objective is even stronger when it comes to the remove a uni's horn objective, so why just remove that one? I don't mind if some of the objectives are harder. The "Give birth to a uni" objective at least is about you getting to contribute to your breeding farm with another horse, and it creates an incentive for me to try to get Hestia's Gifts in promos, but I don't see what good it does anything to remove a uni's horn.