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Still VERY few people challenging me, so even though I'm usually in gold by this point... (and usually end in platinum) Yep - Still bronze.
The complete change in the arithmetic is much more of a problem. I have a horse that was pure meadow bred. There were only 2 horses on our server that could beat him racing. Now he's stuck at about 42% rushing. Can't go higher without ranch effects and if I ranch breed him he will instantly lose 50% of his meadow effects. :¬((
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Maybe you are right, maybe you're not, either way, you complaining about it endlessly is not going to do anything.
What do you want them to do, destroy the horse ranch?, change it?, because you're in luck, they already announced they're going to do some changes, if you want to complain more, at least wait until after they change it.
But they've wrecked a very popular part of the game for many of us.
Over the years, as this "relaxed farming game" became more and more cut throat and endless competition, the Horse Tournament was a tiny oasis of calm and rewarding relaxation. A simple place to have a little fun while everything else was being thrown at us non stop. Now it just adds to the frustration and chaos. (And all the clutter of the flags and auto production is not helping.)
The "Competitor Level" and defensive equipment mean that if we challenged a horse identical to ourselves we would probably lose. (It also means that if they challenged us, they would probably lose)
My horses are around the 160 mark. I very rarely beat anything over 130 so I don't waste equipment on them. i use it on horses from 100 to 130 and it helps me win most of the time. below 100 I reckon I can win without it.
Also bear in mind random chance is at work. You may have a 50% chance of rushing but now and then you will balk at every fence and lose to a 3 legged donkey. (Equally you may rush every fence and beat your server champion lol)
Oh yes and shall go on? I have a very long list of Platinum trophies that date back to 2017 all the way through the season just before the new Horse Ranch began. It was nice that all those additional trophy stands were given to us so we could display our trophies and I used to have as many of my favorite Platinum trophies displayed there, but I took them all down because it was just too depressing for me to see what it used to be like and now how unreachable it is now. It is just too bad that this horse league couldn't be set up like the Fishing Hard working event in that folks were grouped by fishing levels. There seem to be a ton of 185-200+ level horses that could be in a horse league of there own and then another group of horses leveled 165-184 in another group, then another group of Level 135 - 163 and the another group at levels 101-134, then the final group levels 0 to 100. But then I suppose that would be giving away too many prizes. One can only dream!
i play on a smaller server than you so things are a bit different but I think you should take heart. I see the "leagues" as just one long ladder, we all start out on the bottom few rungs and the better horses climb faster so by now we are all spread out with best horses at the top approaching diamond and worst horses still down in bronze. As I understand it, we are offered horses from above and below us on the ladder which means that your horse is better than 50% of the horses that you see. They may be level 200, which means they are quicker than you over the fences, but with 45-50% chance of rushing, you have a superb horse that is holding its own against them. Hang in there, level your horse up and you have a real world beater.
The new arithmetic means that having more than 1 out of 3 of Racing, Jumping and Dressage effects (either ranch or meadow) is bad news. There are a lot of high level horses that were bred to be all-rounders in the old arrangement that now have very poor rushing chances. (I am actually going to have to down grade one of my top horses to get rid of some of its effects so that I can then start again with it )
My horses lead me to believe that the meadow effects increase rushing % separately from the ranch effects so the perfect Showjumper needs Strength, Agility and Endurance from both the Meadow and the Ranch and also needs Jumping from both places too (but no Dressage and no Racing from either)
These are the horses that "lead me to believe" what I said
I have one horse that has never seen the Ranch, bought it and ran it round the Meadow for 9 months.
Meadow effects are 105, 120 and 125.
Rushing % is 40.3, 40.3 and 40.3
So the usual BF diminishing returns applies and anything over 100 is a waste of time (and that number may be much lower)
My other top horse has much lower meadow numbers than this but has got Ranch effects and rushes 48%
Here are my latest updates
What's New on the Ranch 2020
Horse Equipment
Dairy
I win more when I add equipment. All gold equipment mostly wins, but I can't make that much, the metals and mines are the hold ups that take too long without using gold. I favour a leg wrap, maybe that cancels out one of the neg breeding effects so has better chance. No idea, I am guessing. Because I also found that I seem to do much better if I put my left sock on first and do a horse ranch dance on my front lawn at midnight wearing a full jockey outfit.
Thank you for that, and I'd like to thank the german mod team for running such an awesome wiki which is very useful.
Best Wishes,
Bugs Bunny
Just go with it and try not to care and dont think about the 1000's of gold you spent improving your horses and years of work leveling. Now that I do not care I have saved, so far, close to 100k gold being bought for myself and around 50k each for my kids farms for horse competition and temp farms.