Also, it's been deleted from *every* server that once had one, not just INT.

I'm glad someone did. I didn't much care for that one last time we had it, which was... June of last year?

Would it be smart to buy infertile meadows and then sell them after the meadow upgrade?

Meadows can't be sold.

You can't sell meadows. You can only destroy meadows, put them in pasture, put them as fallow, or grow crops on them.

you can't sell meadow's but buying the large infertile meadows to get 2 medium meadows from the change (If that is really how they are going to change it) might be smart since 1 large infertile meadow is cheaper than 2 infertile medium meadows.

Wow, the rumored Ec changes are huge. And to think that there is still more to come! I really don't know how to think about all of this, (but frankly my brain is still processing it all). The rumored date almost seams way to soon, especially if we don't have any conformed info on what will really be changed and updated, I would say a month later would make sense.
I am actually surprised how many items' prices are being lowered, (it's almost like hOWrse is giving us grace on the money issue.) But then again with all of this buy your own fodder and such, maybe they are tricking us without use realizing it. I don't know, but all I can say is
-hOWrse, you've got something up your hoof!-

Justice- They are not only rumours. You can check the Inside Howrse Blog. All of the changes (or most of them) are there.

You have to buy your own fodder and grain anyway, you know. It just does it from the feed station rather than making you buy it yourself before you feed.

I am so excited for cards again!!!!! They were my first promo....I had no idea what I was doing.Awesome prizes came from them!!!!!

no they are suppose to turn into 2 fertile medium meadows

*runs off to buy more meadows*

It's believed that the next promo will begin around the same time as the World Equestrian Games (and themed accordingly, so it would make sense), so it could be starting within the next week. If not then presumably by the end of the month.

what is the cards promo like?

EC changes.

Not under the spoiler as it is copied directly from the official BLOG, available to all.




Several months ago, we told you about our project to review the Equestrian Centers. Since, things have progressed and it’s about time for us to give you some news about this –huge- project.

Why review the Equestrian Centers?

To start off with, we noticed that equestrian centers (EC) hadn’t evolved in the almost 9 years of Howrse’s existence, while the rest of the game regularly underwent evolutions, small or rather large.

And what could have seemed nice nine years ago doesn’t necessarily today. Online games progress fast, very fast and to be perfectly honest, the ECs are a bit obsolete. The ECs needed to be modernised!

Next, the question was: what can we do with the ECs? How can we make them more attractive, more fun and more challenging? The two master words were: strategy and player interactions.

We want the ECs take a bigger role in the game’s game play, not just be a feature superimposed on the rest and whose impact on the game stays on the fringe. We want strategy to be the hearth of it and player interactions a tool to get to the top.

How are we going to do that?

The main axis of this project is the production cycle. Basically, your EC could manufacture or harvest almost all the resources it needs for its development (as boxes, showers, …) and your horse’s needs (as food, treats, equipment).

The basic principle is:
-> harvest a primary resource
-> transform it to make it into an end product
-> use the end product to improve your EC, keep it for your personal use or sell it to earn equus.

To add some challenge, every EC has to specialize itself by choosing a location (forest, beach or mountain). To get wood if your EC is near the beach, you will have to buy some in the market place.

The other players’ actions could have some influence on yours. For example: your EC is in the forest. You can ask the horses boarded into your EC to perform missions for you (missions will replace lessons): for example, harvesting wood in the forest. In return, the horse’s owner will get money and the horse will receive skills. With the wood, you could make something useful in your workshop, for example make a new box. You also could sell the overflow in the market and this way influence the wood price because all the products will be priced depending on supply and demand (the rarer and more desirable a resource is, the more expensive it’ll be).

How are we planning to introduce the features?

You can imagine that such a huge change on an already existing feature isn’t a piece of cake.

So everything will not be going online at the same time. On one side, we do not want you to flee into the opposite direction. On the other side, we think that it can be useful our developers and game designers’ sleep sometimes.

Basically, everything that will be set online before the arrival of the production cycle is aimed at preparing this same arrival (for example: changes about agriculture, the horses food) and everything that will come out after the production cycle will be to refine and complete it. For example: rethinking the secret market or the draft horses introduction.

It is quite difficult to tell you precisely how much time it will take but we can already give you estimate: it will take more than six months and we are going to need several months before the production cycle’s arrival.

How are we going to communicate?

The first step will go online on the beginning of September and will mark the start of all the future stages. We will propose a special page that will be available on the game until almost all the EC’s new features are done. This page will show you:
- the features coming in the next update
- an overview of the features coming later on.

It will be possible to discuss them on a dedicated topic on the forum.

In the meantime, we will propose you some blog articles, treating about more sensitive subjects (as the fusion of the breeder and EC reserve of equus) to give you detailed explanations and to reassure you.

We hope that we could give you some keys to prepare yourself to this and welcome the new features with excitement and pleasure when they will come.

See you soon on the game for the first step.

Maïté, community manager for the French version.
Leave your thought

what do you think the next divine or horse will look like
if we do a equestrain game themed one it will problay b a new serios of horses and then go bck to divines
that would be awesome!!!!!!!!

meant by equestain themed challenge

wait if they get read of h blankets will the horses with one keep them or will they dissapeaer and the horses get a new bmi?

XD Then I guess it wouldn't be. Thank you!

From OW on Int re missions.


By Ow, 18th August 2014 11:31:39
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EC owners will give the types of missions they'd like boarders to do and then instead of the lesson button you'll have different missions that you can chose from.
So it's a bit like the lesson just that you have various "options" instead. Each offering a different type of "payment".

Actually the prestige is to beon the horse's best skill instead of only dressage which is what we have planned
That way each and any breed has it's own best skill and that's what's used to calculate prestige for the EC.

So is the thought behind the missions that the boarders will do the work to get the products needed? If so, they doesn't seem to help those who use their ECs for their own team horses....

Horses that board at their own EC or EC that only have their own EC can be given any mission at least this is what I am getting from Int.

If it is a horse boarded in an open EC they will have to pay their way.

Now this is speculation as no firm details are our yet.

They almost make it sounds like the beach setting doesn't have a lot of great perks, was personally aiming for the mountains. But then ago an they don't really give you much on what will be changed, who knows. *shrugs*

I'm sure each setting will have benefits that make it worthwhile. Personally, once we have more concrete information, I'll be talking with the primary friends I have on here. To try and have the whole range of variety so we can trade with each other for mutual benefit. Although, I know I'll be picking mountains for sure, lol. That's where Cimmeria was located in the Conan storyline, and since that's my EC's name... I kinda have no choice.