RVEC Suggestions Thread

[SydneyandStorm]

I'd like to suggest Selle Francais breed of horse. I'm a fan of them because they're so elegant. Here are some pics and it's just they would look super cute on the line art I think! Plus it's a French sport horse that does exceptional well at Showjumping, what its renowned for! Plus I think we need some diversity with countries and stuff so why not a French horse !
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And the beautiful Mon Gamin Selle Francais stallion ◊

You're in luck! We actually have Selle Français included in our Warmvlood breeds you can get ^^ All you have to do is adopt a Warmblood and register it as a Selle Français and you're golden! <3

[caf.]

little thought on the new breeding system - perhaps breeding scores would also determine how likely it is that a breeding will take? in the real world, as we're all aware, horses are incredibly hard to breed - perhaps adding a chance that a mare won't take will increase conscientiousness about breeding. perhaps if a breeding didn't take you'd only have to pay 100 in vet fees (no birth to cover), and it's up to the owner of the stallion/mare whether you have to pay again for another breeding.

[SydneyandStorm]

little thought on the new breeding system - perhaps breeding scores would also determine how likely it is that a breeding will take? in the real world, as we're all aware, horses are incredibly hard to breed - perhaps adding a chance that a mare won't take will increase conscientiousness about breeding. perhaps if a breeding didn't take you'd only have to pay 100 in vet fees (no birth to cover), and it's up to the owner of the stallion/mare whether you have to pay again for another breeding.

That's a good idea! Perhaps that could be the breeding scores of the mares, or a breeding success rate? We do have a complications system in place and a lower success rate for older mares, but unfortunately that doesn't cover the bulk of the mares and complications happen only when the foal is already in creation! I like the idea of a breeding success rate -- set that as a percentage and then owners can offer prices for multiple breedings, since most mares are bred multiple times by the stallions they're sent to for a better chance of success? ^^ What do you think?

[caf.]

alright, time for more suggestions bc i'm way too invested in this sim and desperately want to see it succeed lmao
firstly, i haven't seen any mares with BSRs below 20%, but perhaps those values could be considered a birth defect? like one of the available breeding complications could be partial or complete sterility of the foal? just a thought there, might make it slightly easier to get a good breeding and improve the overall game economy since poorly fertile mares would become less common overall.
in respects to the new breeding system, perhaps a new advance in technology could be proposed; artificial insemination. it'd be a much more expensive breeding but would improve chances of a successful breeding; associations can decide whether AI foals are permitted for registration. might even lead to a discussion about cloning, though that's a tricky topic and i wouldn't blame you if you shut that down before it started, aha.
now i was noticing you pushing for entries in the shows which leads to another suggestion. perhaps in order to advance the sim to the next update the players need to meet a certain goal? for example, say you're going to implement the above suggestion; before it could happen, perhaps players would need to make 5 classes run, or push a total of, say, 15 purebred horses into the world. it could be a good way to get the sim moving, improve the game economy, and space out updates evenly as well as making it more challenge and teamwork oriented. of course, coming up with challenges could be a challenge in its own right, but they could be suited to whatever the game needed at any given point in time.

again, all of these are just thoughts that i'm spitting out - the sim seems to be doing great as it is! i'm definitely in favor of the new system of breeding and look forward to whatever comes next!

[SydneyandStorm]

Going to break this up so that I can respond to everything in a not confusing way ^^

alright, time for more suggestions bc i'm way too invested in this sim and desperately want to see it succeed lmao
firstly, i haven't seen any mares with BSRs below 20%, but perhaps those values could be considered a birth defect? like one of the available breeding complications could be partial or complete sterility of the foal? just a thought there, might make it slightly easier to get a good breeding and improve the overall game economy since poorly fertile mares would become less common overall.

Okay so -- if I'm understanding correctly -- the idea is to identify mares below 20% as being unable to breed at all? Or like, all their offspring will be infertile? Just to make sure I'm getting it all c:

Definitely an interesting idea -- the problem is, it really wouldn't necessarily curb the number of mares with poor fertility rates -- every generation zero mare I make has a random value that could very easily fall into the below 20% range ^^' I'd have to see... I'll definitely think about it, though!

in respects to the new breeding system, perhaps a new advance in technology could be proposed; artificial insemination. it'd be a much more expensive breeding but would improve chances of a successful breeding; associations can decide whether AI foals are permitted for registration. might even lead to a discussion about cloning, though that's a tricky topic and i wouldn't blame you if you shut that down before it started, aha.

Hahaha, I'm so happy to have another person here who'd use AI on the sim if it came to it! We do actually already have the ability for users to pull and purchase straws from stallions, but unfortunately no one ever really uses it :c It is there under breeding, though, for breeding farms! ^^

now i was noticing you pushing for entries in the shows which leads to another suggestion. perhaps in order to advance the sim to the next update the players need to meet a certain goal? for example, say you're going to implement the above suggestion; before it could happen, perhaps players would need to make 5 classes run, or push a total of, say, 15 purebred horses into the world. it could be a good way to get the sim moving, improve the game economy, and space out updates evenly as well as making it more challenge and teamwork oriented. of course, coming up with challenges could be a challenge in its own right, but they could be suited to whatever the game needed at any given point in time.

again, all of these are just thoughts that i'm spitting out - the sim seems to be doing great as it is! i'm definitely in favor of the new system of breeding and look forward to whatever comes next!

I like that idea -- team challenges! I've been meaning to get the individual challenges up for a while but I'm lazy and forgot about it, but I like having team challenges cx The only thing is, I worry that I wouldn't have sufficient updates to the game after these most recent ones, or at least not ones that anyone would really care to work for ^^' But if I can think up some challenges and rewards, even if they aren't update-based, that would be great fun I think! c:

[caf.]

sorry, i must've misworded that first suggestion! i meant that generation zero mares would now have between 20-100% fertility (20's just a number i threw out, it could be 10 or 25 or whatever works) - fertility under 20 would be considered partial sterility - you could still breed them of course, but it's difficult. i just thought it might make breeding just a titch more realistic since most health mares will take after 2-4 breedings.

yes, i noticed that! again, perhaps improving the chance of conception on AI-bred mares would make it more appealing to most users.

i see your point! perhaps just doing them as special events instead of regular happenings would make it easier since i know updates will start becoming sparse.

[SydneyandStorm]

You're good! So you're saying that -- would the sim need to change anything to accommodate that? Just so I can make sure I'm getting everything ^^

Oh, pardon me for missing that part! Yes, I suppose using AI could give a small boost to the probability of the breeding being successful ^^

Hahaha, yes, I think I'd like to do that c: I'll try to finish individual challenges first this weekend since I kind of mentioned them a while back and then forgot to change the post, but after that, I'll get right on team challenges!

[caf.]

eh, sorry if i'm being confusing! basically my proposal would be that all generation zero horses would have BSRs between 20-100 instead of 0-100 (unless you wanted a certain horse to have the partial sterility defect of course). literally all that it would change would just be that all of the game's horses would be slightly more fertile and lack of fertility would function like it does irl - again, it's a very mild thing and just a tiny suggestion.

do you think the store would ever offer an eventer discount? we pay 3x as much for tack (as we do in the real world aha) but don't earn all that much at shows - it might level the playing field. again, just a thought and mild concern - if i didn't want to spend money i guess i shouldn't have picked eventing in the first place cx

[SydneyandStorm]

Oh, yes, I've got you! Sorry about that! No worries, the BSRs actually don't start at zero -- I have them going from 10-90% ^^ I may up the number a bit if too many horses start having super low ones!

Mmm, that's a valid concern. I think a discount may be a bit difficult to keep up with -- people never read descriptions of things, so the less on something like the store, the better for the sake of confusion -- but I'd be happy to up the winnings from shows a bit cx

[Chico_Mistpool]

I'm hoping to see some more shire horses and Clydesdales. Also some Brumbies