by Toppyrocks » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:55 pm
Hmm, that seems pretty good, Shadey! I like the basic concepts of it, but maybe we could change a bit of that too? Here's my thinking. As far as the junior intermediate etc thing, maybe it should be more like your number of wins or months you've been here? Like I just barely joined at the end of H10.3, and didn't really start training till this one. Plus I don't know how many people have been here since the original, so that might be a smaller group. And you would have no way of getting into a 'higher level' class. So maybe it could be:
Junior 0-5 wins total
Intermediate 6-13 wins total
Advanced 14- 25 wins total
Veteran 26 wins +
That way, active players that only joined during this H10 are still able to compete against older players, but older players that aren't very active will still have a chance of winning. Does that make sense? I also think it should be horses as well, so if they have aged then they can participate, but for classes like highest pointed it would be what the foal was born with, before any training was done.
We could have highest pointed foal, best overall look, most unique, looks most like their parents(both, not just mother or father), and most creative breeding that turned out succesful (like someone choosing a normal appaloosa horse with an abstract orange one or something, but have the foal still turn out well)
The prizes could be distributed differently for each class, like for highest pointed foal, the owner would get a prize and the parents' owners, as the artist would have nothing to do with skill. For most unique foal the owner and the artist would get a prize, best overall look would be artist, owner, parents' owners and whoever arranged the breeding. I think no matter what, the owner should get a prize because it is their horse and that's kind of part of your privilage of owning the horse.
We could have special classes every so often, like a Veteran's class for people only from the original H10 to compete in, or only players that joined in the last month, or only foals that haven't aged yet, or only completely natural horses, etc etc.
Does that make sense?
Oh, cheesie, I see what you mean by horses ending up in the adoption barns, but it could have the possibility to go both ways. You could have people breeding for skill, and then more people breeding for this kind of competition, solely for looks. I know that if I had a foal that won one of these, I don't think that I would put it up for adoption because I could breed it and maybe get another foal that would win. But then that's just me, and I do tend to get possessive of things like characters and such.
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