How To Guide:
Step 1: Registration
To begin, you will need to register, this is a simple task and everyone is very welcome to join the community.
To register, you just need to post the following simple form to the main thread. It's basically introducing yourself to the community.
Form:
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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Barn Name & Link:[/b]
Everyone is automatically accepted to the sim, and your barn will be added to the registry as soon as possible. If you do not see your barn name/link on the registry post within a week or so, please feel free to pm me or a mod to add it to the list.
Along with registering, you might want to set up your bank account. Each player is responsible for taking care of their account and managing their own income and expenses. Each player starts with 20,000e to begin the game. Money is used to purchase horses, upgrades, tack, farrier services, vet treatments, and many other things in the SIM.
Keeping an accurate account of your money is a very important necessity to the game.
Step 2: Starting Out
Once you have registered, you can begin to look for your first horse. There are a few ways to do this.
- Purchasing an Import (Custom)
- Breeding a pair of horses with won, given, or purchased slots
- Adopting through the SIM
- Purchasing from a player through the market or auction
- Rehoming from a player
- Winning Competitons or being lucky in Discovery
You will be able to get a Walker most easily from adopting directly from the SIM artists. Adopting competitons can range from personality develompent, impression comps, to simple raffles and naming comps.
Sometimes artists will offer free imports as we will call them in the SIM. Imports are the SIM's version of customs. These are usually short time offers and availability will not usually last long.
There are a few things to know after you get your first horse. All horses that are up for adoption from the artists or are created by imports will be 4 years of age, unless they are bred and put up for adoption, or there is an event going on that involves younger horses or foals.
Horses must be trained in order to age up, recieve bonuses for competions, and to have foals (for mares).
Step 3: Competitons & Discovery
Once you have your first horse(s) you will want to participate in competitons right away to make money. To do this, however, you will be required to purchase items from the store, as well as vaccinate and test your horse.
To compete, a horse must be coggins tested, as well as vaccinated for a few common equine diseases including; Tetanus, West Nile Virus, Rabies, and Strangles.
Vet visits are critical. Vaccines and Coggins must be taken care of one inital time as a yearling before your horses can be entered in halter class or regular shows, and again every 4 training sessions.
Horses can randomly catch illnesses in the SIM. These will be rolled for every training session.
Horses must also be given a discipline. Each horse may only focus in one discipline, but will always be able to show in halter class on the side.
Once a discipline is chosen, owners will be required to obtain the correct equipment for their horse ro be able to compete.
The better the tack, the more skill points they give your horse, that betters the chance your horse has in placing in competitons, so this is where managment of money plays its part.
Training also helps a horse preform better in competions. Each horse can be trained once a week they will age 1 year and earn experience points(XP) as well as skill points. There is a small chance when training that the horse will not cooperate and will not earn XP or skill, sometimes even deducting a point or two. This is all to keep the realism in the SIM.
Horses can be trained the same day they are adopted/imported, or two weeks after they are "born" if it is a bred horse.
Horses can compete in halter class as a yearling or older. For the rest of competitons, they must be 4 years old or older.
Each owner can only enter 1 horse in halter class, and 2 horses in regular comps.
In discovery, horses can be any age, this is a way to make a bit of quick cash or find some items and freebies. It is free to enter, and you are guaranteed to win something.
Each owner may only enter 2 horses in discovery at one time.
Horses will recieve a 2 week discovery cooldown after prizes have been given out.
Step 4: Breeding
Breeding horses is a simple task, only male/female pairs are aloud. While you can pull straws and eggs from your stallions and mares respectively. Once this happens, you can use a surrogate mare and get a foal.
Egg + Surrogate + Stallion = foal
Egg + Surrogate + Straw = foal
Mare + Stallion = foal
Mare + Straw = foal
Step 5: Event Participation
Events are a major part of the day-to-day of the SIM, there will usually always some type of event going on.
Here is a rough schedule of events:
It looks pretty jam packed right now, but some events might be taken out or changed/switched around as we go through our first year of events.
Featured Artist Friday (January 1st-December 31st)
Spring - March 31, April 30, May 31
Mare Madness (March 1st-31st)
Spring Fling (April 1st-April 30th)
BLM Round Up & Auction (May 1st-31st)
Summer - June 30, July 31, August 31
Yearling Training (June 1st-August 20th; Extension to August 31st)
Fallen Heros Mini (July 4th-July 15th)
Disney Days Mini (July 19th-31st)
Chimera Days Mini (August 21st-31st)
Fall - September 30, October 31, November 31
Fall Festival & Trail Ride - (September 1st-30th)
Spooky Tales - (October 1st-31st)
Giving Thanks Event - (November 1st-31st)
Winter - December 31, January 31, February 28
25 Days Of Christmas - (December 1st-25th)
New Years Mini - (December 26th-January 7th)
Mythology Event - (January 1st-February 28th)
Valentines Day Mini - (February 1st-14th)
Descriptions:
- Featured Artist Friday - players may enter up to 3 entries per month to be chosen for the weekly FAF. Each week, the chosen artist has until the following friday to create a walker to be raffled off to the public; any rarity, raffle only
- Mare Madness - users must guess the most likely coloration of the foal these mares are carrying with the mascot as the sire, first guess correct wins the mare and foal; any rarity, FCFS only
- Spring Fling - yearly competions that users can enter their horses in to earn large rewards of chips/items/imports/etc.
- BLM Round Up & Auction - users can participate in the annual round up auctions and expand their herds; any rarity, auction only
- Yearling Training - users recieve a semi-custom imported yearling and have 3 months to complete 5 tasks with writing or art to develop their character and recieve chips and items as rewards; uncommon maximum
- Fallen Heros - a week dedicated to making horses that represnt fallen heros of war, or important people/animals in history; any rarity, any comp
- Disney Days - two weeks that users can try to get their favorite disney character; any rarity, any comp - event theme changes yearly
- Chimera Days - users can participate in a series of raffles for a chance at special and rare horses; any rarity, raffle only
- Fall Festival & Trail Ride - users may draw or write about their walkers to fit the prompt and earn points/chips/items/imports
- Spooky Tales - users can recieve a spooky walker for writing a scary short story about a horse; artist will then claim and create a horse based on the story written; any rarity
- Giving Thanks - users can recieve a semi-custom imported walker for writing a short letter, thanking or saying someting nice to another user/person for something they had done in the past; requesting VC-UC coats/patterns only, artists will claim a letter, and create a horse, artists can give out items/edits/mutations etc. as they wish or see fit for well written/meaningful letters etc.
- 25 Days Of Christmas - 1 walker from each of our staff members including mods will be relased; one for each day for 25 days total; any rarity, any comp
- New Years - 10 days for artist to release their new years walkers; any rarity, any comp
- Mythology - annual event; walkers are based off of that years mythological culture's gods/godesses (ex. Greek, Mayan, Norse, Celtic etc.); any rarity, any comp
- Valentines - two weeks of paired walkers or walkers that you need to find a perfect match for, comps can range from making their perfect mate, partner comps, or impress me's; any rarity
