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Anybody already bored with the horses?

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  • Beejj (US1)Beejj (US1) US1 Posts: 2
    edited 03.12.2014
    What are the yellow stars for? Feel like I'm missing something on the horse,,,
  • Trippel (NL1)Trippel (NL1) Posts: 299
    edited 03.12.2014
    Beejj wrote: »
    What are the yellow stars for? Feel like I'm missing something on the horse,,,

    The stars are xp points for your horse. You are not missing anything on the horse, there is nothing there.
  • Jumac (US1)Jumac (US1) US1 Posts: 3
    edited 04.12.2014
    I am not sure how to train my horse. When i click on the stalbles it says "coming soon". Do I need to be a coop member to do this?
  • benglish (US1)benglish (US1) Posts: 3
    edited 04.12.2014
    Trippel2 wrote: »
    The stars are xp points for your horse. You are not missing anything on the horse, there is nothing there.

    where can I see how many yellow stars I have?
  • WinnerSudais (INT1)WinnerSudais (INT1) Posts: 364
    edited 04.12.2014
    I am looking forward to the new update.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 04.12.2014
    benglish wrote: »
    where can I see how many yellow stars I have?

    There doesn`t appear to be anywhere yet that shows how many Training points we have collected or what they are for. There is a thread about it here hopefully its something that will be explained when we get the rest of the horse ranch features. ^^
  • roadrunnernm (US1)roadrunnernm (US1) US1 Posts: 287
    edited 04.12.2014
    I totally forget the horse is even there!! I was training and training and lost and lost!!! What a waste of space is right... it is so boring! I would have rather expanded the main farm to more fields or farm animals! I keep wondering what is happening to all that horse dung? Wouldn't it be a great asset if we could apply to it main farm to use as fertilizer!!
  • katmorr (AU1)katmorr (AU1) Posts: 96
    edited 04.12.2014
    Just a polite reply.Most certainly. I don't know, whats the point? It is boring and "STILL" has some hiccups that have not been resolved.
  • marija morena (INT1)marija morena (INT1) INT1 Posts: 1
    edited 04.12.2014
    bored, bored, bored...
  • edited 08.12.2014
    Very, very, very, very boring...at least the island keeps you busy working towards something. the horse ranch basically does nothing and you can't upgrade without the gold horseshoes which you can't earn when all you do is lose the races. What in the world was all the training for???? This is one aspect of the game they can just take back. Totally worthless and so not worth wasting any time on.
  • Marycat (US1)Marycat (US1) US1 Posts: 33
    edited 09.12.2014
    Very, very, very, very boring...at least the island keeps you busy working towards something. the horse ranch basically does nothing and you can't upgrade without the gold horseshoes which you can't earn when all you do is lose the races. What in the world was all the training for???? This is one aspect of the game they can just take back. Totally worthless and so not worth wasting any time on.

    I agree completely! I upgraded all training areas to Level 4, maxed out my training, now there's nothing to do at all except lose rates.
  • bipolardebbipolardeb Posts: 3
    edited 11.12.2014
    I'm extremely bored with the horses. My horse is maxed out on training and I've won about 3 challenges in the last month. What's up with that? the more I trained the more I lost. Can't upgrade arenas unless you win to get golden horseshoes! I wonder if they thought about that when they pushed that stupid ranch on us. I'm done with it which means I'm done with the island also because I will no longer need shells to buy seed for the fruit to sell to the ship for horseshoes for training the horse.
  • ArtmakerArtmaker Posts: 415
    edited 11.12.2014
    just started. Upgraded the barn, named my new horse (nag) Next task and I'm already lost.

    HOW do you get it to breeding quality????????? Training? How much? Which ones?

    No instructions here what so ever. The "show me" button only brings me to the barn. OHHHH KAYYYY.
    What exactly does this show anyone?


    bah. Not one bit impressed. And judging from all the training my first horse got and STILL loses every darn thing I try, I doubt I'll waste much time on this.


    Still I'd like to give it a whirl at least once. But how? Do we have to sift through forum posts to figure things out here? I do have a life! Why not make this more intuitive? Bring to breeding quality. Really? Do real horses know this? OR do they just let nature take it's course? How about we bring two into the same pen and leave them be?
  • Pameow (AU1)Pameow (AU1) AU1 Posts: 266
    edited 12.12.2014
    Artmaker wrote: »
    just started. Upgraded the barn, named my new horse (nag) Next task and I'm already lost.

    HOW do you get it to breeding quality????????? Training? How much? Which ones?

    No instructions here what so ever. The "show me" button only brings me to the barn. OHHHH KAYYYY.
    What exactly does this show anyone?


    bah. Not one bit impressed. And judging from all the training my first horse got and STILL loses every darn thing I try, I doubt I'll waste much time on this.


    Still I'd like to give it a whirl at least once. But how? Do we have to sift through forum posts to figure things out here? I do have a life! Why not make this more intuitive? Bring to breeding quality. Really? Do real horses know this? OR do they just let nature take it's course? How about we bring two into the same pen and leave them be?

    There seems to be no menu to get the second horse to race against the NPCs. Is that a bug, or by design? Since the first horse almost always loses, how do we finance the upgrades?
  • Ria_ ()Ria_ () Posts: 280
    edited 12.12.2014
    You can select what horse you want to race by using arrows around the horse. But unless they are further than the first one it doesn't really help. You can only loose againts one character once and then there is 3 hour waiting period.
  • Pameow (AU1)Pameow (AU1) AU1 Posts: 266
    edited 12.12.2014
    Ria_2 wrote: »
    You can select what horse you want to race by using arrows around the horse. But unless they are further than the first one it doesn't really help. You can only loose againts one character once and then there is 3 hour waiting period.

    Thank you Ria_2. That would have been good to include in the ingame tutorial, I missed those arrows. I was hoping the lower level one would win a bit more often than the original one, oh well, and I would have been hoping that each horse could race each NPC each three hours, so thanks for pointing that out too... so it will take forever to do upgrades with race horseshoes. To be truthful, I am getting a bit bored with the Ken dolly-like horses, just politely saying.
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 12.12.2014
    Some of you haven't seemed to notice that training increases your horses breeding level. In order to get your new horse to breeding level 10 or over, train them to ten or over in each category.

    And now, training is much faster at the low levels. Training your breeding level 10 horse (if its lvl 10) gets you to lvl 14. As does training your 2nd, breeding level 0 horse. You are still going to have the issue of losing often, but so what? It doesn't cost anything but a click to race.

    Edit> Oooh, and I like the family tree details.
  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 15.12.2014
    boring horses. level 14 and losing every race. Total yawn. Not even bothering with them now
  • dcrhturnGamer2dcrhturnGamer2 Posts: 2
    edited 17.12.2014
    If things do not get better, I'm dropping the horse farm. It's more boring than the Island.
  • bad jarrad789 (US1)bad jarrad789 (US1) US1 Posts: 17
    edited 19.12.2014
    NOT!

    Seriously could you make it anymore confusing GGS?

    I find the whole horse thing nothing but frustrating.
  • Ozzie (AU1)Ozzie (AU1) AU1 Posts: 524
    edited 19.12.2014
    I trained my original horse to level 10 then bought a second horse. Trained that one to level 10 so I could breed them. Gues what happened then. My original horse has disappeared. What the???? What is the point of training and breeding the horses if they just disappear?
    To continue I have to buy another horse and start all over again. I think not!!
  • BriannospamGame (SKN1)BriannospamGame (SKN1) Posts: 1,803
    edited 19.12.2014
    Ozzie9, have you try to check how good your new horse is? (it's better than your first horse)
    Also try to train it, You will find out your new horse much quicker than your original horse will raise in levels. :)
  • MrsSGBrownUserMrsSGBrownUser Posts: 84
    edited 19.12.2014
    not only does the horse farm cost you money it doesn't make any and gives you no xp so it is a pointless exercise. We are throwing away valuable products into the ship [it may as well be into the water] and we get worthless horseshoes for worthless horses ...

    [btw I just bred mine and lost the good one I had and now have an inferior one] so much for the random effect making you get a better horse. I will have to waste more horseshoes to get this horse up to the level the old one was. The cost in shoes to upgrade the facilities is ridiculous at level 5 you would have to win hundreds of races in order to upgrade one facility because the prizes are so small.

    The whole thing is rigged so you just keep wasting products throwing them away instead of selling them or using them in the bakery etc and helping you build up your main farms. I have found it is radically stopping my progress in saving money for land etc having to do these temporary farms. I really feel like it is getting to the point that I am "losing'' in this game and really you are not supposed to be able to lose as long as you keep working at it steadily.

    I added extra cherry and peach orchard just so I can throw them away onto the boat and that is still not helping. Maybe if you are at the 100+ level you just don't even notice those losses because you harvest so much extra stuff anyway because you have all these extra orchards but I am not at that level yet and I never intended to grow my farm into a factory farm. I want it to be a family farm sort of feel to it and with all this extra crap GGS is throwing at us I am losing that. It really saddens me that they are not giving players a choice but to have to ''go factory'' in order to just keep up with the extras they throw at us. I guess it is my choice to play the temp and horse farms.

    The smaller farmser just aren't playing just because they can't anyway. They don't have access to the flower farm or in some cases the 2nd farm either. I would like to play the full game but it is getting to the point where there is really no choice. I guess GGS wants people to spend gold just to keep up and other than what I earn they can forget that for me.

    A game should be fun not frustrating and disappointing all the time. And frankly the game just hasn't been a lot of fun for quite some time.
  • Instant Ocean (US1)Instant Ocean (US1) US1 Posts: 189
    edited 19.12.2014
    @ MrsSGBrownUser

    Have to agree with you on a lot of points you put forward:


    • Island almost impossible to play for lower levels and hinders their upgrades on main 3 farms.
    • Breeding horse system is somewhat flawed because you do not get a better horse at the end of the day. Only a horse that has a new trait but still need training to bring back to a competitive level.
    • Competition seems to be rigged for you to lose most of the time as training your horse cost indeed a tremendous amount of HS for very lil result.
    • The whole Horse Ranch and breeding seems to be a sorta rinse and repeat only to remain at somewhat a standstill at a high price.
    • Throwing at us the Island and also making the boat only accept the new berries from that new Island without giving us a small delay to get started and stock up is to me totally idiotic, ill advised and unfair. Unless you have packed up a LOT of HS from the previous Island, you will end up like myself (level 126 with over 440M game money) but totally out of HS. I'm grounded to a halt as far as the Horse Ranch and training is concerned.
    • The rewards for winning competitions are in fact tiny and like you pointed out, requires you to do a ton of them to get the insane amount required to do any facility upgrade.
    • Last but not least, yes, I agree 100%: The game has not been much fun as of late to play. The sole reason I keep playing is because of my co-op.

    IO
  • AngieGamer71 (US1)AngieGamer71 (US1) Posts: 117
    edited 19.12.2014
    I don't think people are actually training their new horses to see how much better they are....

    I trained 2 level 1 horses to 14 (takes 2 max trainings at each station) The next time you try to train it, it will only go to 15 with 1 max train. Instead, breed the 2 horses.

    The foal of these 2 horses will go from 14 to 24 with 1 max training... yes, IT IS BETTER.


    MrsSGB... in the breeding box (before you breed the horses) it will tell you what the new foal will be, no surprises should be had. If for instance have a 25 and a 15 breeding value horses, the foal will be 20, averaging the two. I think the "chance of a better horse" that you are talking about is the extra breeding effects you get when the foal is at a certain level, or the chance for a quality (if there is a pink bubble with a number in it after the foal is created)
  • LoveTheThunder2LoveTheThunder2 Posts: 20
    edited 20.12.2014
    The stable is clearly one of the worst ideas the developers have ever had.
    They should have just admitted the mistake, and gotten rid of this boring silliness called the stable and the absurd and ridiculous looking horses housed there.

    Instead, they made it even more boring by rolling out an update which now forces us to do the same boring things with multiple horses.
  • SystemSystem Posts: 106,969
    edited 20.12.2014
    Bad Matt2 wrote: »
    NOT!

    Seriously could you make it anymore confusing GGS?

    I find the whole horse thing nothing but frustrating.
    sigh ..a bit ...eversince i set my horse free accidentally or may it is n..


    • Breeding horse system is somewhat flawed because you do not get a better horse at the end of the day. Only a horse that has a new trait but still need training to bring back to a competitive level.


    • yeah...a new horse with zero traits..i miss my old horse

    Edit> i'm sorry i can see wabbit here, just when i replied a post with quote i realized that i nedd to quote another one so i t could not be undone to multi-quote again..so it is not my fault ..sorry
  • fadedjean (US1)fadedjean (US1) US1 Posts: 181
    edited 20.12.2014
    not only does the horse farm cost you money it doesn't make any and gives you no xp so it is a pointless exercise. We are throwing away valuable products into the ship [it may as well be into the water] and we get worthless horseshoes for worthless horses ...

    ...and I never intended to grow my farm into a factory farm. I want it to be a family farm sort of feel to it and with all this extra crap GGS is throwing at us I am losing that. It really saddens me that they are not giving players a choice but to have to ''go factory'' in order to just keep up with the extras they throw at us.

    I'm with you on this one. Will finish up this game when the last gold coin is spent, no point in expanding to have mega farm. When I visited some of the large farms (competitors in missions), I didn't like their appearance, not very appealing, can't see their dog or their workers with all the stables, orchards, and houses packed like sardines. Thank you Mrs. Brown for bringing clarity to me.
  • xoandreasxoandreas Posts: 8
    edited 28.01.2015
    YES! I feel that more money is spent on it for a 30 day race to collect as many shells as possible just to buy fruit for the pirate ship. Seems unfair
  • NissePlutt (SKN1)NissePlutt (SKN1) Posts: 48
    edited 26.04.2015
    I have tried the horses now and then. Don't find it interesting or any meaning of it.

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