So today I am gonna reveal how I train horses to the top c: This here is my way, you may use it, I am not jelly :)
It all starts with a little foal. Already in their foalhood I play with them as much as their energy allows me. Do not worry, if you feed, drink, stroke and give a carrot, the energy will get back to over 20%.
When the foal grows into a youngster, I take it to rides. Again, I use as much energy as possible. I have my own order on rides too: Forest, moutain, forest and so on. Better horses will get quite a handful of skills from this.
When the training starts, I will start training each skill one by one and starting with the best inborn skill and going lower. And I still use max energy to progress faster. I use Chronors' Timer on best horses only who have potential for a good competitive career in the future.
I won't start competing before all the skills are fully trained. Then I start looking at which discipline the horse is good at. I start with every day taking part of all the competitions once. The discipline(s) the horse wins at the most will be the disciplines it will tackle for the rest of it's life.
When the horse reaches 20, it's skills will start decreasing, which usually means less throphies from competitions. If it's a stallion, then he will offer one covering every day and rest of the energy goes for competitions. Mares will usualy continue full time competing. If the horse reaches 25, it's health starts decreasing and this is the place where I usually abandon competing cause health is the biggest factor in competing. Stallions will then every day participate in a lesson and rest of the energy will go for covering offers. Mares then also abandon competing and will do lessons also. This routine will last until the end of their life.
So this is how I do it! If you have any tips for me then feel free to share them in the comments section.
Thanks for reading!
BHF
Well it's been a while since you posted this but I think I do have a useful addition.
VastaKustutaI do not train all the skills to the max. Because that would mean your horse eventually has so many skills that it has to compete in more difficult competitions, and thus has a smaller chance to win anything.
So just train the 2 (or maybe 3) best skills to the max, then start competing. You can always start training an extra skill if the winning stops.
And when the winning stops in one discipline, the horse might still win in other disciplines. You can always try.
Same for the rides: choose the kind of rides that train the 2 (or 3) best skills of the horse. When after 20 wins the winning stops, you can try the other kind of ride.
Since feeding has the most effect (in % energy) when the horse is still high in energy, and a stroke has much more effect when the horse's energy is very low, you can play with that too.
For example: I wake the horse, groom it, and feed it just so much fodder that its energy is 100% (or 99%). Feeding more is just waisting food because its energy will not get higher than 100%.
So feed it to 100%. Then train or do rides or competitions, until the energy is around 50%. Then you give the horse a carrot and a drink (= both 8% energy) and THEN feed it again as much as is allowed. Say for example the daily amount is 12 fodder, and you did feed 5 fodder to get to 100% at start, then you still have 7 fodder to give. At the same time I give 10 oats. I know the game tells you to give only 2 of 3 at that moment, but the horse will use the energy in the activities it is going to do later, and since the horse's energy is high at that moment, it will profit the most of the food right then. (Besides that it saves you Howrse daytime later :))
Now the horse will be at 70-80% energy again, or even higher.
Then train/ride/compete again until energy is close to zero, THEN give the stroke (it can give a horse up to 12% new energy) and a mash. Your horse will be at 20% or more energy again and is ready for the night.
The only thing you have to watch out for is that there must be enough time left in the horse's day to give it a stroke and a mash!
It costs you a little more time this way (your own time, not the Howrse game time) but it really works. A horse can do up to 7 or 8 competitions a day, and some foals can play for over 13 hours. This way you get their skills up a lot faster.