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Your account can breed up to 510 horses in pastures per season now. You have 4255 breedable mares. You have probably one of the top 20 largest mare bands in the game. I am afraid if you want to keep producing so many foals each season using pastures you will need to invest in more pastures to help support the server cost associated with an account the size of yours. They are not necessary to play the game and are just a convenience feature. They were never designed to be used in that manner I am afraid.

I also see you have almost no show horses. Instead of getting rid of all your altered foals, it would be a much better idea to build yourself a proper show herd. That would earn you enough HBs to pay other members to buy pastures for you. I can see you are brand new to the forum. Check it out there are a bunch of posts about the importance of show herds and people buying pastures for each other. :)

I don't think Ammit is aaying that your account causes hardship on the game. Large stables just take up more server space and processing speed etc. so the game has been designed in a way that larger barns like you are encouraged to spend money on features that will support your operation (and therefore the money you spend on those features supports the people who ultimately pay to run the game for you).

I'm sure plenty of other users would be willing to trade a pasture purchase for hbs or adding gmts to one of their horses. I would if I wasn't flat broke in RL right now :)

Just like Ktarpey said. Nothing wrong with having a huge barn. We just have to make sure we can afford to support those huge barns on our end.

My understanding is that you start to pay a "tax" on new barns after you have 1000 extra stalls. So the price of buying new barns with IVs goes up the more stalls you have. You should read Ammit's comments in this thread: https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/comment/285430#Comment_285430