Glad you guys like it. 
Give me a while to figure out how to automate redeeming points, and we’ll be in business. 
Very nice. I almost always have a stall open for a new racer
Definitely a fabulous idea, Shanthi. Perfect for the newbies, and I too agree that I’ll never turn down a free horse!
Nobody who’s less than a few years old is going to have the ability to consign 10+ horses to a private auction, though.
Also…I /could/ see two very bored people selling the same horse back and forth for hours to get the points. I’d suggest putting in a check to avoid that sort of thing, if we can.
And rewarding for selling not buying, whilst it might get another horse or two up for sale…newbies aren’t going to be selling horses. What worries me is that this could help the ‘rich get richer’.
You can’t do that with buying and selling because of the three month cap or three time usage limits.
I am pretty surprised that considering how active I’ve been I only landed 311 points.
True, but if there’s incentive to auction several horses at a time rather than just sell them off gradually over the course of a year, then there are more horses available to new members, in theory.
As Jason said, this is taken care of with the 3-use/6-month waiting period for selling horses.
Selling and buying are both rewarded…buying less so because most people buy many more horses than they sell. (I did originally have it setup so that they got equal points, but then some stables had over 1,000 points, so I brought it down a bit.)
Also, no one says you have to redeem your points. If you happen to have the stall space, then you can get an extra horse (assuming you have enough points, obviously). Otherwise, you can just get a discount on a breeding, or some extra cash to help out with taxes and such.
Given that the rich are already pretty damn rich (Jase has earned over 20 million this year in race winnings alone), I’m not sure that adding this in is going to make rich stables any richer. (I know I, for one, will likely be too lazy to redeem points for cash, though I may redeem them for free breedings or a new horse every few years.)
That’s because you only get 1/2 the normal points because you’ve been a member for longer than 2 years. You get no points for entering races, which is how people are most active, and you only get 1 point for breeding mares, and so on.
As far as the rich getting richer, that’s how it is in racing in real life too. It’s not coincidence that Stronach, Phipps, Paulson, etc. are consistently top earners. Seems that it’s the same here, with some dominating stables, and the rest in the chase. Obviously, Central Coast Lodge deserves to be a top earner every year. I don’t think that the activity incentives will put the dominating stables at any more of an advantage.
Even though he annoys us sometimes, neither Shanthi or I are about to complain about Jase making money. How he finds time for a life is beyond me. 
But if you consider Stillwater and Storybook to be two of the “bigger” stables and look at point totals, you’ll see that we’re not really very high on the list. Holly has like 4x as many points as I do because of the newbie rule. So basically this’ll help people out when they’re getting started and become fairly unused as you get bigger. One broodmare every 2 years isn’t much of a size boost, and it’s one I’m not likely to use because I have mares I want to keep for breeding. Same with yearlings and weanlings, I barely have time/space for the ones I bred!
I agree with Andrea. Looking over things and how you get the free horse, I probably won’t bother redeeming my points either. Maybe for the money just to get rid of them, but I’m doubtful I want to try my luck with random horses when I have a stable full of mostly proven bloodlines.
This is a great feature for newbies actually so take advantage of it guys!
I LOVE this idea it will most likely help me out alot. Though I don’t think that I’d ever sell a new horse. Hmm, if I have a ton of horses and I could get one through FF then maybe I’d give a somewhat consisten horse to a newbie. ( Like me now, but I mean later…)
Erm, this isn’t supposed to be “get random horses from FF to hand out to new players” idea . It’s to reward active new players, like yourself, with horses to use to enlarge your stable.
I meant, take the random FF horse keep it, and then give one of my horses that wasn’t performing well for me. And then I’d give that horse to a newer player.
So the horses from FF are chosen randomly or do we put in a request for one? I have a few in mind but what are the guidelines to choosing a new horse?
Once I get it setup, what I have in mind is for members to select the age/gender/type of horse (baby, racer, or broodmare), and then FF will create a random new horse that is unrelated to other horses in the game.
This horse would have all its stats randomly generated, so it’s hit or miss as to whether it’d be any good, but that also eliminates the need for me to hand out horses by hand, or for people to try and find a horse that’s good enough to get but not so good that it’s ineligible to be a reward horse (like Twilight Embers, Jase…sheesh.)
I like the idea of it createing a new horse and giving it out. It brings a bit of mysterty to how good that “free” horse would be.
yeah i like that idea too. Great!
Just a quick one. You have stated you get 4 points when submitting a claim. Is that when you enter a horse in a claimer, or when you put in a claim in race?? If it’s when you claim a horse, then I claimed Time For Power on 15th July. I know it’s only 4 points, but hey, every point counts
I didn’t do past points for claiming because the only record I have is of who actually successfully claimed a horse, not who submitted claims.
Claiming points, auction points, and color war points will all be done from this point forward, but not prorated in the past.
Ok, no problems.