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I know that's basically the premise of the game, but except for a span of time over the last couple of years, I've always been super involved with my playing. And grew my account to a size that is kind of high maintenance and I'm terrible at attempting to downsize :))

I'm going to be starting a new job at the end of the month, and I'm going to be struggling to find time to play for at least 4 months. The last time I had minimal playing time, I used all the wonderful bulk management tools we have to keep things going, but since I never did comparison testing, AFPT-based culling, barely rotated new stock into my pastures, way too ruthlessly culled young stock because I was drowning, etc, long term my lines suffered quite a bit. I feel like I'm just getting things back going the way I want again, but now I'm facing another stretch of very little free time.

I would love to reduce my numbers so I can focus on a small number of high quality horses, but I know I won't be able to. I get attached :p So I need to figure out how to keep my game running as is. Or maybe come up with better strategies to reduce numbers over time?

I've already combined my higher generations into one pasture. They've hit the cap for the most part so I gain nothing but additional work keeping them separate. lol So having them all in one place and bulk managing them as primarily show stock helps a lot. If need be, I can always collapse my "Valor" breed/line into my main line.

Anyway, what are ways I can keep my quality up with potentially extremely minimal playing time? Management strategies?