Shanthi
February 19, 2004, 8:00pm
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Hey guys,
What fun/cool things would you like to see in FF? Already on the list (I may be forgetting some things, I know I have a really long to-do/wish list for FF stuff):
-Viewing races (in Flash) – Note: This will not happen for a LONG time, so don’t hold your breath
I was also thinking of incorporating an articles section, where members could post articles (that would probably need to be reviewed, only so that we don’t get random people wandering by and submitting stuff that’s inappropriate). Then FF could have its own “live” newsletter kinda thing. Any ideas/comments on that?
Any other cool ideas?
Newsletter sounds cool. My
brain isn’t working so I can’t think of anything else. Oh! A search for races feature. And
you have criteria so say search for a turf race at 10-12 furlongs GII. Sound good?
Shanthi
February 19, 2004, 8:56pm
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Yeah, but that’s not “fun.”
That’s “functional.”
Yah an newsletter, thats a
good idea!
OHHHHHHHHHH… See, I just
think everything about FF is F-U-N!
Hmmm…I always thought
little match races between some of FF’s greats would be fun. Like horses that couldn’t
really race against each other when/if they did race. Like a sire race (Highland Rogue vs.
What’s It Worth) a broodmare race (Seeing Starz vs. That’s Debatable) and any other horses
that we’ve always been curious as to who would win (Highland Raven vs. ANYBODY-LETS SEE IF
WE CAN BEAT THAT MARE!!)
Other than that a Newsletter would be awesome and even the
functional things are fun!
A betting page would also be
fun. Somehow, according to stats, the computer would generate odds and we could just go to
the page which has the final post parade listed and bet money. Quick, easy and fun!
i think sumthin were we can
see all the stables and we can and descriptions and locations ect… not real fun but i
always wonder who is still playin…
Shanthi
February 19, 2004, 10:06pm
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Yeah, I’ve been toying with
the betting idea for a while, but haven’t really wanted to get into that, since I have a
feeling it wouldn’t really be able to be advertised as a “kid friendly” kinda game if
gambling were involved… :rolleyes:
Trevor, I’ve got the backend setup for a page
listing stables and such, I just haven’t gotten to setting up stuff where you can type in
your own stable description/website URL/etc. That’ll be part of the “user preferences”
stuff.
I see what you mean but kid
games like Neopets ( neopets.com ) have betting in them and they are specifically designed
for the very young. In neopets they have these little animals that race and you pick one
that you think will win and get money if they do and lose money if they don’t. They also
have all kinds of another gambling in that game like rolling the dice etc.
Just an FYI
ya i kinda like the betting
thing myself too… and kids are ALWAYS betting on something…this way as laest it
wouldnet be their lunch money.lol
Yeah, or you can put an age
restriction on the betting. Hehe, 18+!
all the awards the stable has won, so I can try brag some more!
thing could work somehow, though how would you work the odds out? It’d be cool too if on the
post parade there was a ‘form’ section showing the last 5 starts or 4 starts or something.
Like say… 1111 would be four last wins… 2172 would be a second, a first, a seventh and a
second… 0090 would be a tenth or worse, another one, a ninth and another tenth or worse
[now that’s a bad horse!
I was just thinking of some
stuff that would be fun to add to FF and was thinking of maybe having some way of “caring”
for our horses. Like being able to groom, feed, walk, and maybe even being able to buy them
supplements n’stuff. Like maybe instead of haveing a yearly stable matenance fee it would
be monthly or even weekly and we would have to buy the right amount of feed for that time
period. This would be more realistic since sometimes we don’t have the same amount of
horses in our stable at any one time.
groom them, so we would have to experiment to find out what they like best and be able to
know them more. Oh, my!!! And then there could be a little dialoug to tell us how the horse
is feeling/acting after we “care” for them.
Andrea
March 7, 2004, 3:14am
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Hehe, I don’t know that
we’re likely to end up getting THAT detailed. But it would be neat if we had
“personalities” for the horses or you could play with them a bit more. Putting in a vet so
you can check on horse soundness and energy is on the to-do list, so maybe eventually
they’ll get personalities. Just a question of making them personalized enough so that
there’s a wide range of personalities. But it’s something fun to think about.
Yeah that’s what I thought.
Oh, oh, oh, I have another
idea. How about after a horse races a new picture on the horses page shows up. For example
if they came out of the race clean and happy the horse will be clean and happy, if they were
hurt maybe the leg that they hurt will have a cut or bandage or may be lifting the leg up, or
if it was a muddy day and the horse is really tired he will have mud on him and his head will
be drooped a little bit. I think that would be really neat and then eventually it would be
cool to have buttons to click to choose to give them a bath (after a muddy race), put a
bandage on their leg (that they hurt in the race), or even litament after a hard day and
wraps overnight. Then the page would reload with a new picture of the horse happy and clean.
bandage magically disapears and he’s sound. So then we could check on our horses to see if
they are sound before we decide to race them agian. I thought this might be easier to do in
the mean time before we can talk to vets and trainer about their soundness. What do ya think
now???
Yeah I think something with a
horses face showing whether it wants to race or is tired or something like that would be
kinda cool.
Andrea
March 8, 2004, 3:45am
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Pictures are much harder to
do than words, actually
viewhorse while I’m home over break. I’m hoping to do a lotta real horse stuff, but we’ll
see how the weather cooperates and my mom swears she shouldn’t be on the computer since
she’s studying for her master gardener class
Sarah
December 13, 2004, 2:19pm
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I think if you do a betting
thing, the age limit should be lower
I already have a list a mile long for functional stuff.
My bad…