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Weekend Edition - Horse Trainer

Where is it?   I saw it 2 weeks ago and heard that it showed up only once last weekend.  So far this weekend.... to my knowledge.... nothing:(
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  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    nothing, here, either, and I have been checking diligently
  • garybaldy (GB1)garybaldy (GB1) GB1 Posts: 502
    Probably in the pub watching football with Builder , the Ice Cream man and the fireworks guy …. :/  :/  :/
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
     :D 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Seriously, there has to be a way to contact whoever is in charge of flipping the switch to put down his pilsner and do what should have been done yesterday.
  • Well, at least I know I'm not the only one missing out.

  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Mods, I hope you can get an answer from the team as to why the horse trainer is AWOL. Someone from management needs to "MANAGE" to make sure things are working on the weekends, too. As one of our members pointed out, someone is working to update the FIFA scores, so surely that person can flip the switch for events that should be happening, but aren't.
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    If I remember right the weekend specials where run during the Summer months. So expect them to start this coming weekend ;)
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    If I remember right the weekend specials where run during the Summer months. So expect them to start this coming weekend ;)
    They already had started weekend before last. Then last weekend, they showed up just once. Mods were looking into it. Then nothing this weekend.
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    "And the particularly good news is that we will receive specific information of their "coming and going"- schedule via the Twitter feed."

    A general tweet saying that the "Horse Trainer is Coming" showed up when the horse trainer did.  Not particularly helpful.

    Last year, the entire weekend schedule was tweeted and available here in the forum.  Looks like that's what our trusty mods were told, too.  Somebody really needs to get their act together at GGS.
  • MRG1 (US1)MRG1 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,554
    In my neck of the woods it is not the weekend yet either... Its Thursday evening.  Silly me thought a weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
  • Southern (US1)Southern (US1) US1 Posts: 3,268
    In my neck of the woods it is not the weekend yet either... Its Thursday evening.  Silly me thought a weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
    Same, I wasn't expecting it until sometime tomorrow afternoon.. but I'll take it any way I can get it. :)
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    edited 22.06.2018
    In my neck of the woods it is not the weekend yet either... Its Thursday evening.  Silly me thought a weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
    Same, I wasn't expecting it until sometime tomorrow afternoon.. but I'll take it any way I can get it. :)
    Same here. But if I hadn't just logged on to check something, I might have missed it.

    ALSO, GGS, and this is important. The boosters used to run 1.5 hours so you could have two sessions if you hit it right. Just sayin'. ..
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  • RowdyRac (FormerMod)RowdyRac (FormerMod) Guest Posts: 1,250
    @artful (US1)
    @MRG1 (US1)
    @Southern (US1)

    I'm sorry for giving a misleading statement regarding the weekend boosters ... am beginning to think it might be best to refrain from making any statements whatsoever :(

    However, it was already Friday morning in Central European Time when the first booster arrived, even if it was not so in your neck of the woods or mine.
    And, from experience, I feel it safe to say that the boosters have always included the Friday part of the weekend as well (albeit maybe later on a Friday than what happened today).
  • HI Guys,

    Summer Weekend stuff is usually Friday, Sat, Sun, so no change there, but we have been trying to get the training sessions longer than an hour & we will keep pushing for that, will also ask about improving the Tweets. 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    HI Guys,

    Summer Weekend stuff is usually Friday, Sat, Sun, so no change there, but we have been trying to get the training sessions longer than an hour & we will keep pushing for that, will also ask about improving the Tweets. 
    Thank you, WW!! Please rest assured, no one is blaming you for passing along information that turned out to be not entirely accurate or helpful!! Nothing to apologize for at all! 

    As for the length of training sessions, don't know why GGS scaled back except maybe some newbie didn't know what it's supposed to be. Please keep pushing!! :)
  • Blue Denim (US1)Blue Denim (US1) US1 Posts: 5,253
    My problem with this would be that I do not use Twitter nor Facebook at all, so any info that goes through those 2 I would not even know bout, so I do hope they post the News in the Forums as well, for people like Me who do not use those social media's. 
  • garybaldy (GB1)garybaldy (GB1) GB1 Posts: 502
    The Twitter feed is displayed on the right hand side of Forum page
  • Blue Denim (US1)Blue Denim (US1) US1 Posts: 5,253
    The Twitter feed is displayed on the right hand side of Forum page
    Ok thanks.
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Well, the tweets are worthless, frankly. :(
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    and then they don't come at all. The horse trainer weekend used to have plenty of opportunities. Combine this lack, the incredulous HWE(s), and an ice cream truck that never shows, why bother. GGS? time to either step up to the plate, or take this thing off life support.
  • sue1 (AU1)sue1 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 193
    Horse trainer?  More like phantom horse trainer.
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Horse trainer?  More like phantom horse trainer.
    LOL! He's been mostly AWOL since they started this. And they shortened the time from 1.5 hours to just 1. But since he's never here, I don't suppose it matters. 
  • Morgane (US1)Morgane (US1) US1 Posts: 83
    Horse Trainer Booster is farcical. I have seen one 1 hr session for the entire weekend thus far. Total waste of time to try to catch it. Only option is to stop training regular (so as to not have horses in training if / when it arrives) in the hopes of getting one discounted session?   ppffffttt
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Horse Trainer Booster is farcical. I have seen one 1 hr session for the entire weekend thus far. Total waste of time to try to catch it. Only option is to stop training regular (so as to not have horses in training if / when it arrives) in the hopes of getting one discounted session?   ppffffttt
    I know, right?  I don't know if all this is due to total ineptitude or we're all being given the one-finger salute. 
  • I suspect that my lack of knowledge of a horse trainer stems from never seeing one since I have been playing.
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Please, mods/Hunter, if you could address this issue again with the team. It is more than obvious that whoever is in charge of the horse trainer this season has no history with the game.

    If you could please:

    1. Ask them to restore the length of sessions to 1.5 hours.
    2. Return to last year's communications where the entire schedule, including dates and times, were posted/Tweeted.
    3. Have the horse trainer show up multiple times each day like before.

    Once or twice, when there was a problem, we were given a glorious 24 hours of uninterrupted horse training. I would hope they would consider this as compensation for 3 weeks of seriously nerfing what used to be a good event.

    As it is now, many have chosen to halt all horse training for 3 days each week because we don't want our horses unavailable for 4-hour stretches in case the trainer does show up when we just happen to be online.

    Thank you so much!
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    "About an hour" must mean something different in German. We really do deserve a 24-hour booster as compensation as mentioned in my other thread.


  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Some also have told me that the ice cream truck missed appearances as well.
  • gizmo22 (AU1)gizmo22 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 1,720
    Good luck with that........the compensation part seems a lot harder to get. I couldn't even get my time reduction booster compensated for goldfish event when the timer ticked away on me because I wasn't online. Their response was that spending 30 million farm dollars still benefits my farm because of the produce planted during that time.....i'm still at a loss to see how spending 30 million on oleg catching goldfish (to obtain top 5 for the 24 hour time booster) benefits my farm? Customer service is at an all time low i'm afraid.......it seems to be getting worse. 
  • artful (US1)artful (US1) US1 Posts: 6,617
    Good luck with that........the compensation part seems a lot harder to get. I couldn't even get my time reduction booster compensated for goldfish event when the timer ticked away on me because I wasn't online. Their response was that spending 30 million farm dollars still benefits my farm because of the produce planted during that time.....i'm still at a loss to see how spending 30 million on oleg catching goldfish (to obtain top 5 for the 24 hour time booster) benefits my farm? Customer service is at an all time low i'm afraid.......it seems to be getting worse. 
    I hear you on the compensation thing. I was hoping they'd do it out of the goodness of their hearts. I cannot believe that the HT is a continuous no show, yet not a word as to why or a sorry or a make good. I miss the good old days when screws ups were few, apologies quick coming, and compensation generous.  We simply no longer matter.

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