a) The retired golden apple isn't a vip thing! Every player who buys the "big" new pack will find 10 of them within.

b) There are restrictions for using the retired golden apples too depending on the number of coats currently left in the game:
- below 25: those coats can't be bought with the retired golden apple
- 25 up to 50: 3 additional coats can be bought
- 51 up to 75: 5 additional
- 76 up to 100: 10 additional
- more than 100: 20 additional

c) Finally every player can only buy one copy of each retired coat.

international says the magic ride IS coming (BOO!), and that a medium prize is lippizzaner breed that is coming to howrse apparently!

The Lipps on Equido have a dressage/gallop/stamina skillset.

I'm pretty excited! I've always been a Lippie fan. I'm ready to do some magic rides....

Rides are based on where the Equestrian Center is located.

Existing trot, gallop and cross-country rides are replaced with new types of rides:

• forest rides
• mountain rides

Beach rides appear on the right of these two new types of rides rather than below them. When riding on the beach, you can now decide which skill you want to increase and decrease.
However if you don’t make any specific selection, the default setting will add to the highest skill by removing from the lowest.

Skills

Forest rides add skill points to:

• speed
• gallop
• trot
Mountain rides add skill points to:

• stamina
• dressage
• jumping


Energy used

Long and short rides no longer exist. Both types of rides (forest and mountain) require the same amount of energy.

• The tutorial tip about short and long rides is removed.

The rides now require a few more hours to be complete, but eat up less energy for each hour worth of ride.

In order to make way for future changes to the registration page, some changes are made to the number of days for boarding registration.

Equestrian Center Registration

When registering a horse to an equestrian center, the following durations are offered:

• 1 day
• 3 days
• 7 days
• 10 days
• 20 days
• 30 days
• 60 days

From now on, durations offered on this page will be:

• 1 day
• 5 days
• 10 days
• 30 days
• 60 days

The default duration will be 5 days (instead of 3, as it used to be).

Equestrian Center Office

In the equestrian center office, on the Boarding and lessons tab, the drop-down list for minimum boarding length prolongation will offer the following durations:

• 5 days
• 10 days
• 30 days
• 60 days

This will also include a 1 day option for VIP players who have the divine horse Spring.

Accordingly, the drop-down list for maximum boarding length will offer the following durations:

• 5 days
• 10 days
• 30 days
• 60 days

This will also include a 1 day option for VIP players who have the divine horse Spring and chose a minimum boarding length of 1 day.

Extending Boarding Duration

On a horse's page, durations offered for extending boarding times will be as follows:

• 5 days
• 10 days
• 30 days
• 60 days
• 100 days

Breeder and Equestrian Center reserves and inventory have been merged to make them easier to manage.

Merging Inventories

The Equestrian Center inventory is removed. All items in this inventory are now moved to the breeder's inventory.

Droppings, previously under Agriculture at the equestrian center store, and under Miscellaneous in the breeder's store, remains under Miscellaneous.

Stores

Since inventories are merged, stores are merged as well.

• The equestrian center store page is removed
• Agriculture and Box sections are added (as well as all their associated items) to the breeder's store page.
• Purchasing boxes, meadows, greenhouses, racing tracks and calves is done via the page where they are used as before.
• Droppings can no longer be purchased at the store. It is however still possible to sell it.
• Manure fertilizer is added to the store, under Agriculture then Fertilizer
• The Materials subsection is removed from the Agriculture section.

Item donations

In the item donation pop-up window, all the items that can be donated are grouped under various tabs that follow the same logic as the inventory on the Store page (except categories in which no item can be donated, such as Bonus and Black market). The following tabs can be found:

• Food
• Equipment
• Agriculture
• Box
• Miscellaneous
• Scarecrows and Showers cannot be donated, as before.

Custom UFO's

Pegasus and VIP members have a custom UFO option on their My Page.

• Any item in the inventory can be used in custom UFO's.
• The list of items is updated to include items related to Equestrian Centers and are still sorted by categories, just like the inventory.

Storage Merge

The equestrian center now uses the breeder's own storage, which become the sole storage for players.

• The breeder's reserve appears at the top of each game page.
• All earnings and expenses tied to the equestrian center now appear in the financial history located in the breeder section.
• The equestrian center's financial history is removed.
• The financial history now includes Equus earnings and expenses for the equestrian center.

A new series of 5 divine horses is introduced: ancient divines

• Hyracotherium
• Hipparion
• Hippidion
• Tarpan
• Forest Horse

A new trophy is added to the divine horses collection: Ancient horses.

Holiday Packs
Two packs will be available for purchase on the My passes" page over the Christmas period:

• Historic pack
• Vintage pack

Each pack contains an amount of passes along with an ancient divine horse and other bonuses:

The Historic Pack, sold at the same price as the 30 pass pack, also includes:

• Divine horse Hippidion
• 20 Passes
• 1 x The 5th Element
• 1 x Bewitched Pumpkin
• 1 x Seal of Apocalypse
• 500,000 Equus

The Vintage Pack, sold at the same price as the 100 pass pack, also includes:

• Divine horse Tarpan
• 60 passes
• 10 x Retired Golden Apple
• 3 x The 5th element
• 3 x Bewitched Pumpkin
• 3 x Seal of Apocalypse
• 1,000,000 Equus

Black Market Item
A new black market item is added to the Customization category: the Retired Golden Apple. This item will initially be available to players as part of 2014 Holiday events.

Game Navigation

With the merge of inventories and stores, changes are made to the game interface.

In the navigation bar, a trade menu is added in which the following pages are available:

• Sales
• Store (breeder store and equestrian center store merged)
• Item exchange (uses the same icon as the Invite players'’ page)
• My passes

The rankings menu is now called ‘’achievements. It also includes the My trophies page.

The Profile menu is removed. The pages previously displayed in this menu are moved to various locations:

• My passes is moved to the ‘’trade menu, as mentioned above
• My trophies is moved to the ‘’achievements menu, as mentioned above
• My page is moved to the community menu, between My private mailbox and My friends
• The My account page is now available via a gear icon at the upper right corner of the screen.

Boarded Horses

Information has been added to the boarder's pop-up on the boxes page.

On the boxes page, in the boarder’s info pop-up, the following is added:

• Number of lessons taken by the horse since boarding started
• Average number of lessons per day
• Equestrian center equipment used by the horse

Note*: If a horse has not made use of any of the equipment that is being offered by the equestrian center, the equipment section doesn’t appear.

Competitions

The competitions page is updated to include competitions data, easier competition creation options, and a merge of the management and competition race pages.

Equestrian Center - Adding Locations

Equestrian centers will now select a Forest, Beach, or Mountain location.

For now, the location has an impact on the rides available to boarders, and prepares for the future arrival of harvestable materials based on the Equestrian Center location.

Once the location has been chosen, it cannot be changed.

New Equestrian Centers
• Locations are established during the EC creation.
• The Equestrian Center creation page has a new look and a new specialization field.
• A tooltip for each specialty indicates which types of competitions can be hosted at the EC.

Existing Equestrian Centers
• Players have the option to choose their preferred location via a pop-up window that opens when visiting the center's office.
• With the next update players will have 30 days to select a definitive location. During these 30 days players will be able to switch between locations to discover which one has their preference.
• After 30 days with no location selected, a location will automatically be assigned to your EC (chosen randomly).
• The time remaining until a location is assigned by default or the location you selected is definitive is shown in the pop-up.
• While an Equestrian Center has no location, bonuses cannot be provided to boarders.

An image denoting an equestrian center's location is now visible on every page where the name of the center is shown:

• Profile page
• Boarding registration
• Equestrian center rankings
• Equestrian Center forums

using an icon (forest, beach or mountain) right next to the name of the center. This icon replaces the current Divine Horses icon shown by the name of equestrian centers that have more than 5 divine horses boarded.

Equestrian Center Office
• The location of an Equestrian Center is displayed below the page description in the EC center's office.
Equestrian Center Profile page
• An equestrian center's location is indicated by an icon next to the name of the center.
• We have now added a "Number of divine horses” field to the equestrian center profile page.
• We deleted the following:
• • reserve
• • number of boxes

•The Minimum boarding duration and Maximum boarding duration are merged

Equestrian Center Registration page
• In the search criteria, the search criteria Prestige has been placed between the Director and Advantages criteria. The Location criteria has also been added between the Lesson gains and Specialty criteria.

Game Help
• A section called Location was added to the equestrian center manual.

Equestrian Center Registration - Finding your own EC

Equestrian Center search now includes a Show my equestrian center button.

• If a player runs a search and clicks the Show the best equestrian centers button, the Show my equestrian center button disappears. It only appears again if the player cancels their search.
• When a player clicks the Show my equestrian center button they see only their own equestrian center, as if they had run a search by owner name and entered their own name.
• Additionally, if the player's equestrian center is not available, an alert message appears to explain what the problem is (no boxes available, the horse doesn't meet the requirements, etc.).

Error message when covering reservation

A new error message is added to horse cover requests.

An error message will appear when attempting a covering Reserved for one of my mares when no mare is available.