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When I sell horses, it's generally $5,000 minimum. It's just to cover the costs for gene testing and performance testing and make a little profit. Other than that, I let the buyer determine how high he/she will pay beyond the 5k.

What I typically look at other horses on the market that have similar stats at whatever horse I'm looking to sell and price somewhere in the middle of what other people are asking for and if someone wants the price lower then I'm happy to negotiate as long as I feel we're both getting good deals.

This idea has been brought up before, and it's a no-go.

Firstly, it totally eliminates the whole "free market" concept, and creates artificial price standards that may or may not reflect current fads and trends. So if a new player trusts it too much, they may end up selling a "hot" horse way too cheaply.

Secondly, there's really no agreement on what makes good lines. Really. There isn't. Some people want the horses of the pedigree to all be the same color. (IE a black horse should have nothing but black horses in the pedigree.) Some people only look at patterns. (IE a tobiano should have nothing but tobianos in it's pedigree). Some people demand both (that black tobiano has to have nothing but black tobianos in it's pedigree)

Some people demand that the pedigree show an improvement with every generation (Stallions must go from C to B to A to Star) Some people only care if the pedigree is even. Some people don't care about the pedigree at all.

If you set some artificial standard to create value, then it forces everyone to try to breed to that standard. Then we have a bunch of identical type horses and everyone is doing the same thing and people that don't want to do that thing aren't having fun.

As it is, people can do what they want with their own lines and there's gonna be some other people out there who think it's ok. (And likely some that don't think it's ok, but you don't need to please everyone in the game.) It gives people more freedom to have FUN, and that's the bottom line. :)

And...it would be a programming nightmare. Ammit would have to create an artificial intelligence that can look at lines and make value decisions...that's a bit much. :)

Put them up for what you think is reasonable. Either they'll sell or they won't. If they don't, you can either adjust the price or maybe you'll decide it's not worth it to you to sell.