Competition Update Launch Date

[larissar]

Our biggest update of the year now has a launch date! The Competition Update is coming on Wednesday July 3rd, 2024. Keep reading below to see everything that is included with this update:

Competition Ranking Reset

• The current Top Ranking Horses and Owners lists will be renamed to “Pre-Reset” Rankings and a new list called “Current Rankings” will be created.
• Top ranking pages will now have an option to look at only active horses or at both active and retired horses.
• Horses’ competition results summary will be separated into Current and Pre-Reset results so you can easily tell how a horse is doing in the current rankings. This won’t apply to horses who have never competed in the pre-reset period.

Champion Titles

• Champion titles will be awarded based on combined total points across both current and pre-reset time periods.

Minimum Competition Levels

• Minimum competition levels will be calculated based on points-per-start earned during the current period. Meaning every horse will have their minimum competition level re-calculated from level 1.
• Total fitness training will now be considered when calculating a horse’s minimum competition level when a horse has competed less than 10 times in a particular discipline. Horses above 640 total fitness training may only enter level 4 and higher, 480 total fitness training may only enter level 3 and higher, and 320 fitness training may only enter level 2 and higher.
• Once a horse has 10 or more competition results in a particular discipline then minimum competition level will be calculated as per the old system based on points-per-start.
• Local show judges will now tell you what minimum competition level is for that discipline and will tell you if it’s based on fitness training or on points-per-start.
• Minimum competition level will show on the horses competition results summary on their page, and a link to the points-per-start summary page has been re-added (clicking on the horses level in the table will open this summary).

Maximum Competition Entries Per Turn

• Horses can now only enter 10 competitions per turn, to prevent horses from sitting in side accounts and never aging up while continuing to gain points/wins.
• The number of competitions a horse has entered each turn will be displayed both on their page (just above competition results summary) and also on the competition entry listing page.

New Player Mode Feature
New feature for Premium Accounts: Player mode. Premium accounts can choose between “Breeder”, “Competitor” or “Regular” player modes. You will be able to switch between the play modes as often as you like. Every time you use a turn (“Go To Sleep”) this advances your in game time by 2 weeks. With “Breeder” player mode this will change to advancing your time by 4 weeks, and with “Competitor” player mode will change to advancing your time by 1 week. Breeders will have an advantage when breeding new horses as you'll get through your years much faster but you won't be able to enter as many competitions. Whereas a Competitor will have more time to compete their horses and reach the top rankings but they will have a disadvantage when breeding new horses as it'll take far longer to progress time. Regular/non-premium accounts will always be in “Regular” mode and play will be balanced between breeding and competing.

Top Ranking Trophies
Trophies will be handed out to owners and active (not retired) horses in each of the following ranking lists:
o Top 3 Overall Stallions by Points
o Top 3 Overall Mares by Points
o Top 3 Stallions by Points for each discipline
o Top 3 Mares by Points for each discipline
o Top 3 Overall Owners by Points
o Top 3 Owners by Points for each discipline

This is your last chance to try and get to the top 3 spots in each of the categories above. Good luck!

[Sunpath]

As someone who is primarily playing the game for the breeding aspect, I have to say that I am looking so much forward to playing around with the breeder player mode. Only downside is of course that one will be going through grinders like crazy

[BlackOak2]

Holy... um... hay.

I have no more words than that.

Well, two more.
Very Cool!





Edit.
I had another thought.
This is an extraordinary way of encouraging people to upgrade and retain their upgrades.
Excellent thought process and addition.

[StellaSim]

Wow this is awesome! Very excited.