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You know what time it it? SECRET SANTA TIME!
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    Welcome to the 2015 HJ Secret Santa!

    Christmas time is here
    Happiness and cheer
    Fun for all that children call
    Their favorite time of the year


    And Christmas means Secret Santa time!


    You can enter HJ1 or HJ2 Secret Santas, or both (if you have an account on both games). If you will be joining both games please fill out 2 separate forms, one for each game and send your message in that game's forum to keep everything clear.

    There are two groups to choose from; Under 100k and Over 100k worth of gifts. The persons name you receive will be from the same group you signed up for. Pick the group that best fits your financial status. **Keep in mind, real life cash is not required for the over 100k group; many amazing gifts are found without that added boost - don't let this deter you from entering this level. The receiving is not what is important here, it's the feeling of giving the perfect present for that special someone!**

    Submit your entries anytime between December 2nd and December 12th.

    THERE IS A CHANGE THIS YEAR!
    Send your entry in as an in game Private Message via the HJ forum to your game's Santa
    HJ1 entries (OVER or UNDER 100ks) go to Blue Meadow Farm.
    HJ2 entries (OVER or UNDER 100ks) go to EccentricEquines.

    On or before December 15th the Santa will send you a PM with the name and ID# of the person you will be giving gifts to, and that persons wish list.

    Between December 23rd and 25th you can send a PM to your gift recipient and let them know what you have for them! Anonymous gifts may be sent any time after December 20th. The elf for HJ1 is going to be Calgul Rescue (ID 76088) - they can help you with relaying information you forgot to provide to your Secret Santa, or as an anonymous horse buyer, question asker, and overall fun helper for the Secret Santas themselves once names are given out. Thanks for your help Calgul Rescue!

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    Reminders:

    -Do you have any members blocked from viewing your barns? If so, you may need to unblock those barns for Secret Santa. It’s the Christmas season, the time of year to put aside any differences!
    -Do you have any brothers, sisters, spouses or other family members that that play the game? If so, tell us your family members forum name on the entry form. The ONLY exceptions made to a random draw for SS will be for family members.
    -Would you be willing to be a last minute back up SS, if needed? You would not get your SS name until closer to December 23, in the event someone drops out, or is unable to participate at the last minute. Send a note to either Santa to let them know you would be willing, if so.


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    How to give anonymous gifts (only available if you have an online payment account like PayPal):

    1. Go to the Upgrades link on the menu on the left side of your game screen
    2. Select the Upgrade you want to buy (or barns, pastures, boost tokens, GMT Token, or Game cash – HBs).
    3. Replace your Stable ID number (in the box provided) with the Stable ID number of the person you want to receive the gift.
    4. Click add to cart.
    5. You will then be directed to the payment method page (PayPal), to pay for the gift.
    6. The gift will appear in the stable of the person whose ID you entered.

    You can also send eggs, straws, and embryos via the Advanced Breeding Lab without the receipient knowing where they came from (be careful if they are all your own horses, as they may guess who you are!) This years elves for each forum will be noted once known - you can contact those people to help you buy horses inconspicuously and hold them until you are ready to send them.

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    Some gift ideas:

    Rare genes (including new genes such as DP [dense pigment], wild bay, and the new browns, as well as the old Limited Edition like Sooty Plus, Sabino1/2/3, W3/4, Satin, Kit Promoter, Gulastra Plume, all the Ices, Splash2 or Splash3 and the new nexus gene!)
    HBs
    Breeding Horses
    Show Ponies
    Signature art
    Tattoo Art
    Eggs
    Straws
    Barns or pastures
    GMT tokens or Candycane/seaponies
    Boosts
    Level Upgrades

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    Last but NOT least, the most important thing:

    DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ENTRY!
    Be sure you list your Forum name, ID number, server number, and likes and dislikes.


    For the entry, copy below this line, paste into a forum private message, fill out and send to the appropriate Santa. Your Santa will send a note back within 48 hours indicating it was received. If you do not hear back after that time, please check in via Private Message to make sure it was received.

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    Secret Santa Sign Up Form

    Forum name:

    Server: HJ1 OR HJ2

    Member ID:

    Please Select a Group:

    [ ] Group 1: Under 100,000 group. This group opts to not spend real cash, and will stay under a 100,000 hb spending limit.

    [ ] Group 2: Over 100,000 group. This group can give gifts of a 100,000+ hb value. No spending limit. This group makes Ammit happy because infusions to spend on whatever you like are popular.

    Any family members playing?

    List some likes and dislikes to help your Secret Santa decide on the perfect gift for you (for example: certain genes, WB/pony, uneven breeding, quality level, etc.)

    Things I like:

    Things I avoid:
    Post edited by Blue meadow farm at 2015-12-02 20:31:41
  • Okay I am new to this. I just read threw this. Do you want me to copy and paste the sign up form?
  • Yayyyyyyyy.
    Imation Stud ID# 2609
    Our Current Stallions | Our Current Sales
    Straws available upon request, reduced cost to breeders and owners of ancestors
  • This is the part you will want to copy and paste. :D

    Forum name:

    Server: HJ1 OR HJ2

    Member ID:

    Please Select a Group:

    [ ] Group 1: Under 100,000 group. This group opts to not spend real cash, and will stay under a 100,000 hb spending limit.

    [ ] Group 2: Over 100,000 group. This group can give gifts of a 100,000+ hb value. No spending limit. This group makes Ammit happy because infusions to spend on whatever you like are popular.

    Any family members playing?

    List some likes and dislikes to help your Secret Santa decide on the perfect gift for you (for example: certain genes, WB/pony, uneven breeding, quality level, etc.)

    Things I like:

    Things I avoid:
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  • Thanks for organizing this!
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  • This is great! Once I figure out which group I can afford to be in I'll def be signing up! :D Thanks for organizing this, I can't imagine what kind of time this might take.
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  • It's not as bad as one might think - but I did just die to login to 9 missed messages in a few hours :D

    I updated the elf name above. Please feel free to reach out to them with anything you need to relay to your Secret Santa after the fact, or for anything you would like to know or send to your recipient once they are given out!
    Post edited by Blue meadow farm at 2015-12-02 20:28:09
  • Yay! Love the secret santa.

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    HJ1 - 30304
    Licensed for: Axiom Red, Axiom Green, HMGA2 Height Regulator, Dun Factor Promoter 2, Mushroom, Onyx, Splash M, Ice 2, Ice 4, Ice 6, Ice 18, Ice19, Ice 20, Chinchilla, Phantom Autumn, Phantom Diamond Sparkle, storm cloud
  • Oh yay!! I love this time of year :)
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    ID 211323
  • Yay, Secret Santa!
  • I love Secret Santa! I do have a question though, if you want to give straws from a special stallion and it is only 2 right now, is it alright to give them as a gift and send them on January 1 ?
  • Yes, amber, that has been done in the past.
  • Thank you!
  • Absolutely fine - its also common to give foals or 2/3YOs as gifts even though they are not immediately breedable, as well as offer specific breeding rights after the gift giving has ended.

    Oh, and everyone know, right, that you are welcome to enter both over and under if you'd like? Feel free!

    @Ammit, can we pin this post by chance, if it's not already?
  • Guys, I am super stoked about the turnout this year - its going to be HUGE, at least on the HJ1 side! Keep the entries coming. Anything I have gotten up to this point, I have added and notified the sender of receipt. So if you sent one to me, and I didn't send you a note back, I never got it (please resend!)

    Very excited to see how all this shakes out with the requests I am seeing - very creative in the wishlists this year!
  • Come join us on HJ2 as well......we need more entries for the under 100k to make it a go.
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  • I have some GMT's that I have been saving up for this (not a whole lot but a few ) what group would I enter to be able to use these ... or can I use these, I bought them when i could afford them hoping that I'd be able to use them or be able to send them to someone ... This is my first Secret Santa and this things always stress me out ... LOL I haven't entered yet cause I'm not sure about this, with being a new barn I haven't a whole lot of "rare" and exciting lines and thinking that the GMT's are all I got to offer. I really hope this is coming out the right way.

    Corvus7

    Can find me on Mesa Server 348

    Home of the Chimera Obsessed
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  • You can't send GMTs you already have to someone else, you either use them on a horse and then gift that horse to them or have to buy them for them (by putting their stable ID in replacement of yours on Paypal).
    ID - 160680
    Claricorn Lodge - Breeding quality Curly Kozoroh Appaloosa horses!
    Licensed for Nacre, Prism, Wrong Warp, Plaid, Thunderstruck, Watercolour, Ink Spot, Toner, Chinchilla, Platinum, Mushroom, Onyx, DFP2, Splash M, TMJB, TMSG, Phantom Jellyfish and all Ice genes.
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  • Thank you for the clarification, that's what I figured.

    Corvus7

    Can find me on Mesa Server 348

    Home of the Chimera Obsessed
  • Corvus, you have some nice stallions and you will find that S+ and SB3 straws are always welcome gifts :) I hope you decide to join us for Secret Santa, we always have such a good time
    Thanked by 1Blue meadow farm
  • Hey guys,
    Since I am elf this year for Hj1 and not participating I am currently sorting through Stallions I will be offering straws from, mares I will be offering eggs from and horses I will be willing to part with as SS presents. I will post the links a bit closer too but just wanted to let you all know I am still keen to participate and can't wait to help out.
    Since I am rather time poor, if you don't get a reply inside of 12-24 hrs on the forum, feel free to post on the facey page and tag me (Sara Pontin is me!), or message me on facey. I will do the best I can to be around as much as possible tho :D
    Player ID 76088
    Licensed for Mushroom, Onyx, Splash M, Shatterglass, all Ice genes (bar 18), all Axiom genes, Warp, Void, nacre, all paintbrush genes, thunderstruck, watercolour, inks
    It, toner and some phantom genes

    Breeding black based, Grullo and GP horses along with a boatload of fantasy and ice horses
  • @Corvus - Clare is right about not being able to send GMTs, but you can definitely use them to make a perfect horse for someone for SS. Its up to you on which group you want to do (or you can do both..) but GMT work would definitely be acceptable for the Over 100K group - as well as your LE gene studs, if you want to share from them. Beyond that, even if you had zero of your own in hand - the community will fill in holes on the Over 100k requirement on the studs/straw/horse auctions and ads coming up soon. You can either trade or sell straws to make up the amount, if you want to keep your GMTs for yourself later too! If you want to do the Under 100k, GMT work would be spoiling someone a bit - but to be honest, that is what this time is about and it happens more often than not in the Under group anyway. So I guess my answer is, enter whichever is more comfortable for you :D
  • I have similar questions to Corvus. I would also like to join in but I'm not sure how to 'price' things that aren't obvious. Would a horse be create price no matter what? Or would you take into account generation, paper level, rare colour etc? Same with straws/eggs. I also worry that I don't have anything wonderful to give, but I see what you mean about the community helping out. We have some very generous members in this game.
    HAJ 1 - WhiteValley #60847 HAJ 3 - minimum #175
    I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

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    White-Valley-2
  • Okay hopefully I did that right ... kinda got crazy here *flash movement as oldest reminds us that she has a "cadet thing" arg *

    Corvus7

    Can find me on Mesa Server 348

    Home of the Chimera Obsessed
  • How do you decide which group to enter? I'd be far more able to spoil someone in the under 100k group, since I don't really have extra RL money to spend, but I also have a higher number in mind for what I could reasonably spend in game cash (and perhaps a GMT'ed horse or two from sea pony madness a few days ago).
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  • @HiLo I have the same thing, not able to spend RL money. I signed in in the under 100k group, I like the feeling of sharing more than what I'll get. I remember one of my first Secret Santa's that an older member got super generous with me, with a GMT'd horse and special genes and stuff. At that time I couldn't give much back, but that Secret Santa really helped me started some very nice lines and helped me grow. So I enjoy the giving far more than the recieving, it is fantastic that I have more now that I can share and that I can help a 'younger' player with! So that's why I signed in again for the under 100k group. The unexpected 'extra' surprises that you can give, that feeling of giving them and then the reaction of those players on those extra surprises are absolutely the best! (Not that I'm saying this isn't possible in the over 100k group, but for me personally I like to be able to gift on the same level or a little bit more ;p)
    HJ1 160524
    HJ2 136

  • Thanks @MasterStablesMS :)
    Post edited by Helia at 2015-12-06 12:42:39
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  • Master StablesMS - very good point. If you don't feel comfortable that the amount you have or can spend reaches the 100K amount, do the under and spoil the spots out of your under SS recipient.

    That said, it should be based on value, not actual money spent to pull or purchase. Meaning, if you can get an LE straw to send, its worth far more than the 500 hbs it takes to pull it. However, don't get hung up on the numbers.

    Think of it this way: Under 100K is spoiling someone with some restraint (forced or by design), Over 100K is going way over the top with the spoilage, with no concern for money or restraint.
  • Annnnd, I have everyone signed up that I received messages for again.

    GUYS! We have a week left yet and have almost double the entries of last year already. Super stoked to send out names; it's gonna be so stinking exciting!

    PS: I have pseudo evil plans on a giveaway for SS entries - if that helps anyone in deciding whether to enter or not :-p
    Thanked by 2Heart of Valor Ammit
  • Hi am I too late to sign up? I am kind of new but I could give a horse or something else. this just sounds really fun so I would love to try it :)
  • how to you check your forum name? sorry, as mentioned I am pretty new. thanks a ton!
  • @HighHopeStables, your forum name is HighHopeStables :) It's the name that appears above your posts (and the one that I used to tag you here!)

    And yes, you still have time to enter! The deadline is the end of the day on Dec. 12, so hurry and get your entry in!! Can't wait to Santa with you (if that even makes sense...) :)
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  • I will do this! Someone please remind me tomorrow!
  • OK all updated on responses again. Keep em coming, yay!
  • I can't wait!!!
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    ID 211323
  • Got everyone responded to at this point for any entries I have received thus far.

    OK everyone - you have about 26 hours left to enter. Once these close tomorrow at game time, I will be working on them to send out. I hope to have them out prior to the 14th, but depends on the schedule and how many last minute entries we get. Get 'em in early so I can get 'em out early!
  • I dont think I ever got a response
    Sent another one first one must not have gone through
    Post edited by Gizmay at 2015-12-12 07:47:24
  • Everyone should have received their Secret Santa recipients for both over and under 100k on HJ1 (HJ2 will be out tomorrow I believe.) If you signed up and did not get a PM from me on who you got, message me ASAP to get it rectified!
    Thanked by 1Heart of Valor
  • I can help out if you find yourself needing a back up Santa for either category
  • I know I missed the deadline but I'd love to help out if needed.
  • We were supposed to get the ID's of the people we're SS-ing for today, right? I still haven't gotten mine, and I PM'd about it? Just making sure I wasn't skipped
  • @MW - I got your PM and am looking into it!
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  • If anyone entered into SS and did not receive their respective gifts from THEIR SS, please send me a PM on the forum or on FB. Hope everyone enjoyed and had a fantastic Christmas!
  • For any that have not yet revealed due to technical difficulties or being out of town, please at least shoot your recipient a message letting them know they have not been forgotten about. Thank you!!
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