A masterpost about recent changes

Hello

It's been almost a year. Uni is always keeping me busy and after writing a 1800-word essay, one has no energy or will to write a blog post. But on the contrary, I have so much now to write about! Howrse has made several major changes in the game during the last year and I decided to break them down and give my opinions on them. Have a nice cup of tea and enjoy!

Pouring out the tea for you ;)
Source: Giphy

All the pictures in this post are official Howrse graphics, except the gif and picture of Yggdrasil which was taken by me!

New pass currency system

The most significant changes were made to the currency system. Passes got a whole new value, 1 pass of the old system was turned into 100 passes in the new system. So, if you had, for example, 5 passes, you now have 500 passes. Howrse tried to raise the value of passes this way and stop trafficking, which is against the rules.
I like that pass prices are now more flexible thanks to this new system. Some BM items now cost a little less and there is a bigger possibility of getting a small pass profit when selling horses that are not top-notch.

New pass icon

Piggy Bank (or taxation tbh)

Every time you sell a horse, 10% of its final price will be going to the so called Piggy Bank. The Piggy Bank operates on a scale where after certain amount of money has been put into it by the community through selling horses, two BM items will be available to be bought for equus for 24 hours.

So basically, we have to pay taxes now just like in real life! Not to mention, that this has risen the prices of horses, because we will get less profit. The 24 hour BMs for equus is, nonetheless, a good idea for the more competitive players, but I, personally, have not bought anything through this system. I would like to buy GAs and Harmony packs for equus, but so far they have never showed up there. I can get the items that they offer there for free when completing events. To put it simply, I think this system sucks :(

Some Piggy Bank icon I got here for illustrative purposes.

Yggdrasil and daily objectives

Pass horse system was removed and a new one was introduced. You will no longer be able to receive passes when killing horses over 30. After the change was incorporated, you got a free new divine called Yggdrasil when a horse over 30 died. Now, horses that die at 25 years or later, will be "fed" to Yggdrasil, who ages according to how old the horse was when it died. As he ages and grows, he gives you prizes when he reaches a new size.

So no more free passes? Actually, there is a new way to make passes. There are now two daily objectives that give a summary of 30 passes daily if you complete them both. The objectives are, allegedly, made according to how far the player is in the game. If you complete all the objectives seven days in a row, you get to open a free Horn of Plenty. The HOP doesn't stack into your inventory, you open it right away.

If you now do some calculations, you will realise that one gets less passes out of this system per month than before with pass horses. Nevertheless, I personally like this system better. I rarely got 10 horses killed in a month (this lazy ol' ass can't bother to age so much lol), but this system kind of guarantees at least a little amount of passes if you complete at least one objective. The fact that I have never had so many passes before might be a testimony that it works. I am a little salty about the choice of the objectives though. As far as I understand, they were supposed to be made according to how far one is in the game, but one day I get objectives such as "wake 5 horses" and then the next "win one rosette". I have never bred horses that could win rosettes so I will never be able to complete this objective, unless every time this objective pops up I pay a ridiculous sum of money for a rosette horse to get some lousy 20 passes. I think this needs a bit of correcting. If there are no horses in the user's stable that could win rosettes, they should not get this objective. In other news, I like the free divine, although it takes ages to get the prizes.

My baby Yggdrasil

It is early in the morning and my dorm room is so freaking hot, I might have forgotten something important. If I did, I will update this post later. 

Anyways, thank you for reading! I hope to post more often again (as always lol).

BHF