Not to keep going on about the changes in the upcoming Pinata promo but i'm on the pre-prod only to discover that with the Fleeces you have to choose between your prize or points regardless of stars received I don't think this is very fair, before with the Hop's you were given your points and whatever you were lucky enough to win. Now we have to choose whether we want a Bmi or points...Really?? so basically all you will get is shop items /ap's and equus no Bmi's if you would like some points towards opening your pinata just seems like a rip off...regardless of the changes coming in regarding the pass/Bmi reevaluation surely you should receive your points and a Bmi not one or the other

Divine Dust


The “Divine dust”, i.e. the safety net for promos with divine horses in luck items

As requested by many players, and Ambassadors, we implement this system as a sort of safety net for promos with divines in luck items.

Every time you open a luck item when there is an active offer, you get “divine dust” if the divine horse doesn’t show up. You can see how much you progress in a gauge. Once it is full, you have the guarantee to get the divine.

If you win the divine before the gauge is full, the dust disappears.

The dust also disappears when the promo is over (i.e. it cannot be cumulated for the next promo).

Note: you can only win the divine once with the divine dust. There won’t be anymore divine dust if you open more luck items and try your luck for a second divine in the offer.

Competitions


Difficulty level of competitions


When you create or edit a competition in your equestrian center, you can now set the difficulty level in percentage. This way, the difficulty (i.e. this percentage) remains the same and the maximum and minimum required skills are updated automatically every day according to the best horses of the game and the difficulty.
No need to constantly update your competition to maintain the prestige anymore!



Emma’s competitions


To cover the lack of competitions that sometimes happen on the game, we introduce Emma’s competitions. When no competition at all is available for your horse, the system generates one automatically with Emma’s equestrian center. The difficulty is the lowest possible so that the horse has the most chances to win.
Once other horses have joined, the competition is run and disappears from the system again.

Note: this only works with non-special horses


Competitions for beginners


There has been an adjustment for beginners’ competitions.
The Genetic potential is now taken into account. It can’t be higher than a certain number, related to the best horses of the game.

New Passes



As announced, the old passes and diamonds have been replaced with new passes:


1 old pass = 100 new passes

1 old diamond = 10 new passes


This change brings everyone more freedom and flexibility, to set prices, to spend old diamonds, etc.

The graphics for passes and equus have completely changed, to be more modern and also to be more easily distinguishable (and prevent confusion as there was with the old images for passes and equus).

The passes and equus also get a completely new page, with new offers. You can check out the Equus page now, but not the pass page (which is blocked on the preprod to prevent players from buying passes here…)

New on the Black Market



There are many new things concerning the Black Market.


Inventory

You can now see on a Black market item’s page how many items you have in your inventory


New Prices
Thanks to the new passes, we have a higher flexibility regarding the prices of BMIs, as we can set prices that are less than 1 old pass.

Most Black Market Items now cost less than previously.


New Black Market items on sale

You can now buy the following BMIs on the Black Market:

Achilles’ Heel
Apollo’s Lyre
Artemis’ Arrow
Hypnos Blanket
Ploutos’ Parchment
Philotes’ stroke


Aging points and new category on the Black Market


The aging points have been added to the Black Market, so now you can buy them there directly.
You can find them in the new Black market category “Aging” – where we have also put Morpheus arms, Water of youth, Pieces of clouds and packs of pieces of clouds.

Hera's Packs

Hera's Packs now contain enough Aging Points to age a mare until she gives birth.

Team Fund



As requested many players, we are introducing a team fund/team piggy bank, enabling players from a team to share passes coming from the sales of team horses among them.

When a player sells a horse carrying a team affix in the name of the team, the passes coming from this sale go into the team piggy bank. The team admin distributes them among team members, when they wish to.

No More Diamonds



The diamonds have been replaced with new passes for simplification and consistency.

Inventory

All inventory diamonds are replaced with new passes (not applicable here since the testers have a brand new account with no diamonds.)

Special horses

All sources of diamonds (divine horses, wild horses, chimeras, etc) now bring new passes that you can use as you wish.

Skills of divine horses

Instead of diamonds you can now increase the skills of some divine horses with new passes. 10 passes = 10 skill points.

[NEW] It is now possible to increase the skills of even more divines:

- Astro divines
- Celtic divines
- Maori divines
- Norse divines
- Rainbow divines
- Love divines
- Some mythological divines (Greyfell, Balios, Hrimfaxi, Midas, Skinfaxi, Sleipnir, Xanthos, Hippogriffe)
- Pastry divines



This gives players more freedom as they can now choose how they use their old diamonds: Black market, horse sales, permanent offers in contests, VIP/Pegasus accounts…

Metal Element

From using the Metal element, your horse will get the Metal coat.

This item will give the horse the following bonuses:

Stamina: +8
Speed: +8
Dressage: +8
Gallop: +8
Trot: +8
Jumping: +8

Only horses above 1 year and 6 months old can use the Metal element

The Metal element cannot be combined with another special coat. If you give a Golden Apple to your horse then the Metal element, it will lose its Golden Apple.

This item cannot be exchanged.

Thanksgiving Cards



The concept is the same as the usual: collect and scratch cards to win gifts. Complete all the puzzles cards to win the new divine horse.




The Jackpots


Ruaumoko from the Maori divine series, when you complete all puzzles

The Tiger Chimera, as a Diamond card in the gift cards

There have been a few adjustments since last edition but not many.





Changes since last edition:


The prices of cards, card packs and joker cards packs have been adjusted to fit the new monetization and are a little cheaper

The new auction system is applied to the flash sales

Ruaumoko


Ruaumoko is one of the Māori horses.

Ruaumoko has a tiki you must fill with mana.

For that, you need to observe 3 turtle nests per day. And find out if there are any baby turtles:

1 x Turtle = 5 x mana
2 x Turtle = 20 x mana
3 x Turtle = 80 x mana



When the tiki contains 3000 x mana, Ruaumoko will give you a gift:


1 x Metal element (NEW ITEM!)


This horse cannot be sold.

Horse Sales



Currency

The new system allows players to sell horses for only passes OR equus.

To reiterate, you will only be able to sell horses for one or the other, not both.

Auction length

This part isn’t available yet for testing

Fees in the sales

A 10% fee is introduced in the sales.

When the seller sets a price for a horse, they can see clearly how much they will get and how much is taken by the fees. This applies to any horse sale between two players (auctions, direct sales, reserved sales,…)

The buyer only sees the final price.

Maximum price

The maximum price in the direct sales has been increased.

From 1,000,000 equus to 1,500,000 equus
From 2,000 passes to 2,500 passes

Piggy bank and Promotional Offers


The equus and passes taken from the fees end up in a piggy bank. Once the meter is full, it triggers promotional offers where you can buy black market items for equus (instead of passes) for a limited time.

You can access the piggy bank page through the Trade menu to follow the progress and see which items will be the next on sale.

Horses with the Vintage Apple

Those horses can now be sold.

Sales cancellation

All sales have been cancelled with the update.

VIP Favorite researches and Automated horse purchases

If you had researches (and automated horse purchases) combining an amount > 0 for passes AND equus, they had to be cancelled, since it isn’t possible anymore to sell/buy horses in passes and equus.

The Snowball Fight!


The Snow battle relies on the same concept as the latest waterballoon fight, but there have been adjustments regarding all the feedback we received.



There are UFOs of Snow balls flying around and containing gifts.
When you catch a UFO you have to choose between:
- keeping the gift and losing points in the rankings
- throwing the UFO further to another player (declining the gift) and progressing in the rankings.

It is important that you choose so that you can receive UFOs again.


Adjustments

- The chance to find a UFO has been increased
- The rankings are in real time and will still be available when the contest ends
- Some gifts have been adjusted so that more players can win interesting gifts



Jackpots
- Arion for the top 5
- Xanthos from 6th to 15th

From what I see, I don't mind the changes. Most are very good. Love the piggy bank and the "dust" but I imagine it won't save you that many passes....

My concerns are based around the rookie races changes... at the moment you can alto comp and fill your competitions to save time, I guess this will mean more time will be spent filling .

The sales fee is a bit ridiculous how does howrse expect us to make equus to buy BMI if they are taking such a large proportion of it? Like wise with passes 10% is a bit too much for my liking especially when they promote buying passes.... Will anyone like 10% to be taken straight off just to go into their pockets?And even if we get the "equus BMIs" that will be no doubt very expensive. I think 10% should be brought down to 5%.

New icons for Equus and Passes

Also two new Falacorns


New Prices


And an Ageing Point Pack (the one at the bottom right corner)

The two Falacorns for example.

If that is what Howrse are calling a re evaluation/ "reduction" of BMI's then they may as well have just kept them as they were and introduced the new ones to be bought through the Black market, because to me your reductions are pointless and of no benefit or saving to anyone as you will just recoup everything back from the horse sales with your 10% fee Also there is the fact you have not even reduced ANY of the luck items...no surprise there then Very disappointing

Does anyone have some sort of estimate on how pass heavy the promo for Ruaumoko will be?

Also, when are all these changes due to be put in place?

Hopefully I'll get an answer now its in a spoiler