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How do I get the badges next to my horses to a higher level?

When I am racing unless it's the bronze and part of the silver, I lose ALL THE TIME! So how do I get the badges next to my horses to go up to higher levels?

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  • nuke9104 (US1)nuke9104 (US1) US1 Posts: 149
    The horse part of the game is one of the most complicated parts of the game.  There are tutorials around about this; there is one around from the French Forum that was translated into English that I thought was pretty comprehensive, but I don't see that immediately.  Here is another:  https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/203794/horse-ranch-guide/p1

    I'm not an expert here, but here is a go at it:

    Briefly, horses get better at racing in different ways.  One is improving the horse's breeding level by training them.  This can be done on the horse ranch and co-op village.  Both can raise the strength, endurance, and agility stats (along with getting some other effects that can be helpful when training on the co-op village).  The breeding level is the average of those three stats.  At a certain point, it gets hard to make progress this way on the horse ranch because it takes more and more training to get to the next stat level.  Then the horse should get bred with another horse at about the same level also trained so it is difficult to make more progress also.  The result is a new horse at the level of the average of the two parent horses.  Training for the new horse is now easier on the horse ranch than before.  Also, the new horse gains effects like those it can get from training on the co-op village which can help your racing.

    Another important number for racing is the competitor level, which is useful when your horse is challenged in races.  I think of this as a defensive number.  If you are challenging other horses, you prefer this number to be lower.  You can to little to improve this number; it gets better when other people challenge your horse, and you have little to no control over making people challenge your horse.

    There is so much more to the horses and making your horse get better.  Read up on what you can, and have lots of patience.  My main horse is now able to race in the platinum league, and I've been playing 3-4 years (okay, there probably are other ways to do this better than I am doing).  Good skill!
  • I bred my first horse when my first two parent horses were around 12-13 breeding value. I received +1 agility as my breeding effect. I now have that horse along with another right around value 11-12. If I breed them, does the initial +1 agility breeding effect carry over to the new horse in addition to receiving another breeding effect...giving me 2 breeding effects in total?

    Just trying to figure out the best reason/time to breed. Do you just keep breeding once the two horses are past level 10 to eventually get a single horse that has a bunch of breeding effects? Or am I supposed to be getting the breeding values higher each time? Do breeding effects get better the higher the breeding value?

    Not much is explained in the game, and since many things take a long time to do I don't really want to just guess...or test things out to see what happens. That's a lot of time wasted if I don't get the desired result.
  • nuke9104 (US1)nuke9104 (US1) US1 Posts: 149
    Here is the tutorial I was thinking of above:  https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/210241/tutorial-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-horses.  If you haven't read this, I suggest you do so.

    Once I have a new horse, I go back to training with that one until it gets too hard to train.  The recommendation I've seen is that it is like a binary tree, and keep going up the levels.  So maybe get two horse to 13, then breed them, then get the new horse to say 26, and build up another horse to 26.

    However, maybe you have something, and you just keep breeding at the same level and build effects.  Heather Norsk would point out there are lots of ways to play this game, and none are bad.

    Also, regarding breeding effects, if I recall, the horse's quality level affects how good the effects are that are offered to you.

    Also, when breeding, as I recall, the competitor level is averaged.  Most people I observe use the same horse for the three different types of competitions, so all the points earned for the competitor level go to that horse, likely their best horse.  When that horse is bred, it's like half the competitor levels that have been built up are lost, and this has a big effect on defending against challenges.
  • nuke9104 (US1)nuke9104 (US1) US1 Posts: 149
    @Barb s (US1), I see you are frustrated racing against people with the same level and losing all the time (as you said in another discussion).  The defending horse always gets to use equipment (hats, saddles, etc.) that doesn't cost them anything.  This is chosen on the Competition Trailer's Competition Preparation Tab.  If you are starting out, you probably aren't using equipment as the challenging horse, so the challenged horse automatically gets an advantage in this way.  Also, most of the horses I challenge have a better competitor level than I have, so they get advantages there too.  As I said before, keep working at it and have patience.
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    I bred my first horse when my first two parent horses were around 12-13 breeding value. I received +1 agility as my breeding effect. I now have that horse along with another right around value 11-12. If I breed them, does the initial +1 agility breeding effect carry over to the new horse in addition to receiving another breeding effect...giving me 2 breeding effects in total?

    Just trying to figure out the best reason/time to breed. Do you just keep breeding once the two horses are past level 10 to eventually get a single horse that has a bunch of breeding effects? Or am I supposed to be getting the breeding values higher each time? Do breeding effects get better the higher the breeding value?

    Not much is explained in the game, and since many things take a long time to do I don't really want to just guess...or test things out to see what happens. That's a lot of time wasted if I don't get the desired result.
    Start with your horse ranch - the training area's - the horses
    I'm sure u know the horse stable holds ur horses each level allows room for more horses. U can also buy your Goldies here - starter horses
     - buy 1 Goldie - check the family tree for it's parents - you want the same name for both parents
     - example Silver Silver shows up in the family tree window for ur horse u are checking
    Once u find 1 Goldie with the same name parents - these will be the only Goldies u will want from this point on.
    Take 2 of ur good Goldies & train them in all 3 areas until they to level 14 - once there breed them together through the stable = u get a foal - a first generation horse & it should get an enhancement. It may not happen every time but it will most of the time if u stick with the same parents.
     Now u have 1 horse/foal with an enhancement that u can send into the horse meadow to improve the enhancement it got from the breeding through the stable.
    Not 100% sure of the max number of times u'll be able to charge up the love meter before it is no longer effective - 5 seems to close. You may have to play with a bit to see what works for ur horse/s.
     Once the love meter is ready check each horse available in the horse meadow against the gene pool to find the 1 that will give u the max improvement for the enhancement ur horse has. Once found send it through & go back to ur stable recheck ur improved horse - note it will be called Goldie again - yes u can rename it for free.
    Now u need a mate for that horse u have got to this point so far. Repeat what u just completed with another good Goldie.
     Once u have 2 good Goldies lvl 14 with enhancements on them & they have been put through the horse meadow until they can not gain any more improvements. Train them both - 1 of 2 ways - either in all 3 areas or for a super horse just train in the discipline of it's enhancement until level 26 - then breed through the stable = 2nd generation horse with 2 enhancements. Now just basically repeat the horse meadow part in between each breeding level.
     What u need to know is what training levels a horse has to be in order for it to get an enhancement.
    From the top
    level 14 - 1st generation foal with 1 enhancement
    level 26 - 2nd gen w/ 2 enhancements
    level 38 - 3rd gen w/ 3 enhancements
    note the jump here which why u want a little extra training at the beginning
    level 50-51 4th gen w/ 4 enhancements
    level 62-63 5th gen w/ 5 enhancements
    level 74-75 6th gen w/ 6 enhancements

      not sure after this yet lol

    Now be warned about the horse meadow & it's level
    the information showing the horses level that is allowed into the horse meadow is NOT right
    a level 1 Horse Meadow will only allow a horse with at least 1 enhancement up to trained level 35
    a lvl 2 HM up to lvl 50 horse
    a lvl 3 HM up to lvl 75 horse
    a lvl 4 HM up to lvl 90 horse

  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    When I am racing unless it's the bronze and part of the silver, I lose ALL THE TIME! So how do I get the badges next to my horses to go up to higher levels?
    The only way is to have your horse/s win more than they lose during the "Horse Tournaments" Check my post to  https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/219272/Blackwater%20(US1) this may help going forward with the horses ;)

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