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horse farm confusion

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  • edited 03.01.2015
    what i did was train 2 horses up until the foal got to above -90 on the training that way when you gett he foal you can train it up very quickly, my next foal will be about level 30 when im done and that will train up to around level 35 very quickly, i already bought another horse for it the new foal to breed with and am training that one up now,my main breeding horse has 2 +'s in elegance and those should pass to the new foal plus any extra breeding enhancements, i wait until my horse is well above the levels of the comp horses i play against so i can usually win about 4 times on each making sure they dont catch me up level wise so after i train up my horses again they are far enough infront to compete and win at least 3 times, the idea is to keep an eye on the other horses and make sure they stay well behind you so you can keep on winning, never take them to the limit you will just make it harder for yourself, upgrade your training areas first dont worry about the stables unless you want more than 3 horses, mine can only hold 3 and i dont intend to upgrade it any further, as i only want 3 horses, my breeding seems to work my main horse ie the last foal is almost up to level 30 the second horse it will breed with i will get it up to level 20 then stop and breed them my foal will be around level 27 ish but i might keep going to make it a level 30, most important is to keep an eye on the training % of the new foal the higher it is the more levels it will train up quickly and cheaply where horse shoes are concerned, also as you compete against the other comp horses the higher your level the more gold shoes you win they do rise slowly
    ps the new horse you buy will train up to level 13 for around 4000 horse shoes it tains up very quickly till level 13
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 03.01.2015
    Artmaker wrote: »
    I can't even GET one of those side bar tasks. Train in three areas. I have three farms and no matter how much I train, I can't get all three. When I look at my horse in the stable it seems to have a HIGHER number than needed. Yet the task never gets finished.\

    There are three training arenas: The Riding Arena, the Show Jumping course, and the Riding circle. Each correlates to a different of the three attributes: Endurance, Strength, Agility. Have you trained in all three since the sidebar showed up?
  • SystemSystem Posts: 106,969
    edited 03.01.2015
    what happened?
  • edited 03.01.2015
    Artmaker wrote: »
    Now someone in my coop is all upset because her well trained horse just vanished after breeding it. Clearly this person does not sift through countless forum posts about this. Just assumed breed horse A with horse B you would end up with THREE horses.
    But no. That would be logical and make sense.


    From the beginning it was lose the parents. Would be a little wrong to breed a parent with their offspring. Getting rid of both parents ensures that doesn't happen. Plus you still get the better horse after breeding.

    Our fellow co-oper only lost one of her parent horses though... Is this a new update? I asked her and she said she only lost her top trained horse and still has the other parent plus the new horse... I'm not sure what buttons she pushed, but curious as this is the second time I have heard someone say they only lost one horse...8|
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 03.01.2015
    I haven't bred for awhile... in a massive training phase, waiting for talent to be worth breeding, but that seems unlikely to me. More likely that Bill say, 10/10/10 mated with Goldy 10/10/10, and what's left is Goldy 10/10/10, and they bought a new horse 0/0/0 thinking that's how you get the foal. Though I could be wrong.

    -Y
  • burna5burna5 Posts: 1
    edited 03.01.2015
    I don't know how to breed I have been training by horse who seem to loose against a weaker horse as well
  • robinlyn (US1)robinlyn (US1) Posts: 2
    edited 03.01.2015
    I would like to see a cash option to pay for training of horses. or 50/50 cash horse shoes. It is much to frustrating to try and train horses.
  • edited 03.01.2015
    Yakoska wrote: »
    I haven't bred for awhile... in a massive training phase, waiting for talent to be worth breeding, but that seems unlikely to me. More likely that Bill say, 10/10/10 mated with Goldy 10/10/10, and what's left is Goldy 10/10/10, and they bought a new horse 0/0/0 thinking that's how you get the foal. Though I could be wrong.

    -Y

    Yea, I was personally wondering if she had done something like that... Thinking that maybe she accidentally let the higher trained horse go (set free) and then clicked buy, and never bred at all... Because both parents should be gone, not one still there and a new horse. She had named them both, not left them generic Goldy as far as I know. One horse was still trained and the other wasn't. Is all I know for certain.
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 04.01.2015
    I have since trained. Still the same.

    -Y
  • edited 04.01.2015
    What to do concerning breeding horses:
    1. get hose{s} trained to level 10 {in endurance, strenght, & agility}
    2. get 500 horseshoes by selling items to ship
    3. upgrade stable to level 2 to get 2 horses {to breed}
    4.BREED
    --when you breed you lose your original horse+it is expensive to use all the horse shoes
    I am going to just keep training my horse instead of breeding
    It is ultimently your choice
    Happy Patient Farming
    CountryGirl9568
  • ArtmakerArtmaker Posts: 415
    edited 04.01.2015
    Yakoska wrote: »
    There are three training arenas: The Riding Arena, the Show Jumping course, and the Riding circle. Each correlates to a different of the three attributes: Endurance, Strength, Agility. Have you trained in all three since the sidebar showed up?

    Yes I know. And on all three farms I'm down to only needing one of the three. But no matter how much I train nothing ever happens. And gees.... another person talks about how trained her horses are. HOW?????
    It's taking FOREVER to collect horseshoes. I'm only now earning enough from the viking island to keep up with requested special crops. And it seems even when I do train, I end up with the exact same level it was when I started.

    And no one ever answered... if you can't slide the bar all the way over does it do any good to train at all? Or should I wait until I can slide it all the way over.


    Bah. Know what? I've been ignoring the horses all together. It just makes no sense to me at all. Trained horses still lose against lesser horses. Breeding should NOT set the parent free. What horse farm would do that? Horse has a foal and you set the mother "free"? This so they don't inter breed? Come on. They are game elements. No actual DNA involved here.

    The whole thing is just stupid. Maybe they will work on it but until then.... phoey. Nice idea but so very poorly executed, not worth my time. Or hair.
  • WinnerRyanWinnerRyan Posts: 5
    edited 04.01.2015
    I just wanted to say I've been playing Big Farm for 2 years now & will be resigning from my coop which I had started & built up, because the game has become impossible to keep up with the 4th farm, horse farm,hot house, research, challenges ect.. Unless you have unlimited funds or to put it more plainly GOLD! Which cost us all real money!The game just leaves you floundering, there is no way the new players can ever catch up, more experienced players with a lot more resources like myself can't keep up.It has become a money Pitt with no enjoyment left!Even down to the 4th farm were I've spent no gold has left me drip feeding the rest of my farms, not contributing anything at all to the coop & unable to upgrade anything on any of the other farms due to lake of money. When is Big Farm going to wake up & stop trying to rob us players blind, when we've all quite?They could at least let you keep the 4th farm would have helped, as it stands I finish in a few days , I have had enough. Regretfully Winner Ryan.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 04.01.2015
    WinnerRyan wrote: »
    The game just leaves you floundering, there is no way the new players can ever catch up, more experienced players with a lot more resources like myself can't keep up.

    When I started there were already players on levels over 200, I never expected to "catch up", you just play the game at your own pace, do the events/tasks that you want to do & if there is something that does not fit in with your playing time, skip it.... Its not like the game has an end or a prize for the 1st one to get there, its just an ongoing, ever evolving farm. Some new stuff suits me, some doesn`t, but I am sure the stuff that doesn`t suit me, is probably great for someone else..... Chillax & go with the flow, the next new thing may be something you find fun. :thumbsup:
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 04.01.2015
    Maybe it could be a good idea, if somebody make a 'how to do' horse breeding thread in the "tips and tricks" section, where the thread starter in the first post collecting all experiences and good advises other players gives about horse breeding?

    And no, I'm sorry I'm not the best person for doing that, I don't have the ability to do a job like that.
    But I'm ready to deal the experiences I until now have learned (and have read somewhere):

    1. Players who not yet have try to breed horses: You loose both parent horses, so if you dont want loose your first horse, dont use that horse to breeding.
    1a. If you use your first horse to breeding, you get a better horse for it. There is no good strategic reassons for keeping your first horse, it will never could be as good a horse as horses which have sevral generation behind them.

    2. For best training as cheap as possible: Throw the slider so high it can come with going into the intensive area. If you not want to train that horse again in that diciplin, turn the slider backward until the training only gives enough to the highest possible level. - it's waste of horsesjoes to train a horse so high that it only need e.g. 10 point more for next level, if you not want to train the horse to higher levels.

    3. When breeding 2 horses, only breed horse which are close to eachother in levels. e.g. breed 2 level 12 horses or 2 level 25 horses.
    - If you e.g. breed a level 20 horse with a level 10 horse you get a horse not so good as the best of the parents.

    4. As the first breeding you do, it's best to breed 2 horses with a level at minimum as 10.

    5. it's a good idea to have a horse stable at minimum level 3, so you have room enough for 3 horses. Then you have room for your best horse waiting for another good horse to be breed with. the other 2 rooms you now can use to train 2 new horse up so they can be breeded to a better horse you can train up to the waiting horse level.
    - Maybe it's here necesarry with a schematically picture or another better explanation?

    6. For increase the speed of your horse traning and breeding program: If possible, give the ship higher loads than the minimum.
    That's what I just now have in my memory, maybe more will come later...
  • ArtmakerArtmaker Posts: 415
    edited 04.01.2015
    aw dang it all. Last night I posted from my us farm as userdigger along with screen shots. Now that post is no where to be found. WTH?
  • ArtmakerArtmaker Posts: 415
    edited 04.01.2015
    Attachment not found.

    Ok, I'm going to try this AGAIN! ADMINS, if you move, delete, or what ever to this post could you please tell me why?

    This is off my us farm as userdigger. It CLEARLY shows my horse has more than passed the task requirement. The one that is should need, shows as completed.
    If this is a bug, and someone moves it to bugs, fine. LET ME KNOW OK????? How else can I find out what's going on here? I tried to track down my post from last night and it seems there is no way to show my posts. IF there is I can't find it.

    By the way, on this farm, my artmaker farm, today I FINALLY got the stupid task to finish. YEA.
    But it doesn't explain what's going on with my us farm.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 04.01.2015
    Artmaker wrote: »
    aw dang it all. Last night I posted from my us farm as userdigger along with screen shots. Now that post is no where to be found. WTH?

    You mean this one? ... http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/showthread.php?128550-Error-in-quot-Let-s-get-Trotting-quot-task&p=1540533&viewfull=1#post1540533
  • UserDIgger2UserDIgger2 Posts: 62
    edited 04.01.2015
    Ok, thanks. Now HOW would I have known to find it there????????

    So... ignore the task and train for the other? Guess it can't hurt to try that.

    Gees besides being a confusing convoluted mess, they have to stack glitches in with the mix. Oui!
    I'll go train the nasty nag again.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 04.01.2015
    Ok, thanks. Now HOW would I have known to find it there????????

    You can use the advanced search to find posts from the username or go to the profile for that username & you can see a link to the list of posts there.... Glad its the one you were looking for. ^^
  • Pingo42Pingo42 Posts: 537
    edited 05.01.2015
    I have to say, every time I open the stable menu, I am strongly tempted to click on the "set free" button and dump all the horses into the wild, including the one with the 49 breeding value. I picture myself waving "goodbye and good riddance" to them as they gallop off into the sunset, never to be seen again. The more time I spend with the horse thing, the more incomprehensible and pointless it seems.

    I like the island, but I probably won't do it again if the "reward" is shells or runestones whose only value is for obtaining horseshoes. I want nothing more to do with the horses at this point. I'm tired of wasting my time on them.
  • jenny adamsonjenny adamson Posts: 2
    edited 05.01.2015
    AGREED! I am really mad, I gave up (was not warned) 2 horses (which I was attached to) at levels 13 for 1 at levels 9-12 (which I hate [its yellow] and the old ones were pretty). totally pissed! may never playing with the horses again, which means I don't need the boat either. And where the heck did they mention this" the horse breeding manual" thingy?
  • renee adamsonrenee adamson Posts: 2
    edited 05.01.2015
    This is the first I have seen about a handbook for horse breeding. The information about loosing ones horses has made people upset. A heads up to the loss of ones horse could save this trouble.
  • kbahr007 (US1)kbahr007 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,841
    edited 05.01.2015
    I think people are being carsastic about the handbook. From what i have seem there is no purpose for the horse farm except m,aybe some rewards (which are not much), that is the reason i do not really care if i do it even tho i am
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 05.01.2015
    I have just now posted some help instructions in the tip and trick forum.
    I hope that can be a usefull help for somebody. :)
  • vtkady (US1)vtkady (US1) US1 Posts: 98
    edited 25.01.2015
    I have a question about breeding. If I have 3 stalls with 3 horses in them (1 level 2 horse and 2 newbies at level 18). If I breed the two newbies, I'm expecting that I will lose the two newbies (parents) that will be replaced by a foal, but that I will retain my older level 2 horse that did not breed, and end up with one open stall. Is this true, because I saw someone note that they lost their OLDEST horses and that if you didn't have FREE stall, you'd lose an extra also. Thank you for the help!
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 25.01.2015
    Yes, correct. You only lose the horses you select for breeding.

    -Y
  • vtkady (US1)vtkady (US1) US1 Posts: 98
    edited 25.01.2015
    Thank you for replying. I was worried about losing the horse that I wanted to use for breeding with the foal later.
  • KarenDobson (US1)KarenDobson (US1) US1 Posts: 4
    edited 25.01.2015
    What's the deal with horses disappearing after breeding, I had a wonderful horse, named after someone dear to me, and now she's gone !!!! I named the next one poof, 'cause that's what my first one did !!X(
  • enochnock (US1)enochnock (US1) Posts: 878
    edited 26.01.2015
    Karen- form the Official Announcement it states that you will loose a horse when breeding:

    "A new tab in the stable menu allows you to access the breeding menu.
    You can mate 2 horses in order to get a new foal. The parents will leave after this process, in order to make way for the new generation.
    Breeding creates a new horse with different potential advantages over their parents, including attribute increases through breeding effects, decreased amounts of training points needed for an attribute level-up and a chance to increase their breeding quality."

    http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/showthread.php?127726-Update-December-11th-Horse-breeding-and-other-surprises
  • emilylennox (US1)emilylennox (US1) Posts: 217
    edited 29.01.2015
    I don't understand the horses like the other people that have posted in the thread. I am a kid so it is a little bit harder to understand but any way please make is easier soon.

    Thanks

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