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I have been doing a large number of updates to pastures the past few weeks, a combination of closing some exploits, fixing some bugs, and getting images generating smoothly.

Here is what you need to know:
An exploit in the game allowed users to create unlimited foundation mares, breed them in pastures and then auction both the mares and foals back to the game 3 times a week to produce a large amount of HBs. This was not just hard on the server but also damaging to the game's economy. To close this exploit pastures have been capped in the number of foals you can breed in them each season. A pasture can produce 3 times the number of foals as its size. (30 foals per 10-acre pasture, 300 per 100-acre pasture etc. ) Pastures have always been intended to be used once per season (hence the 30-day boost) so this is just bringing that more in line with how they are supposed to be used.

Not sure how to make your breeding work now? Ask if you need some help figuring this change out.

There were a bunch of issues with images being tagged as needing full from scratch image creation when they already had an image. This has been fixed and should mean way faster refresh times on your imaged. If an image is stuck and not showing an update you may need to reroll it.

Foals born in pastures will now automatically have their images generated in the background. Depending on your upgrade level and how busy the server is this can take a few minutes or a few hours. All pasture foals go into a giant line to get their images. Foals owned by premium accounts go to the front of the line, foals owned by basic accounts go next, and then free accounts. (Don't want to wait? You can always open your foal's page and have the image generated right away. This is only for background generation.) Higher-level upgrades get to cut in front of lower levels as a perk of supporting the game, but everyone will get their images eventually.

I did notice an issue yesterday with some barns producing thousands of foals in a single day and holding up the queue for hours. A new change was implemented this morning where if you have over 500 in the automatic image generation queue all new foals you produce will have to wait at the back of the line. They will still get images but they have to wait for all the smaller barns to get theirs first.
-Specifically how this works is you will be given a warning under your "Breed This Pasture" button, informing you that you have over 500 foals in the queue. You can choose to wait or breed the pasture anyways (100% ok to do). If you breed the pasture anyways all foals in that specific pasture will get flagged for delayed generation. Basically, those foals let everyone else cut in line in front of them. That way you can breed all the foals you want at one time without negatively impacting anyone else.

If you want to see the current status of the automatic image generation queue you can go to the "Who is Online Link." It is located in your user profile information drop-down next to the chat and PM icons in the top left. This will tell you not only how many foals the game is working on right now but how many you have to go.

Final note, I have been doing work on gray this week (because a chrome update broke the tack editor and I had to wait for SysAdmin Haystack to be home to fix the issue). Expect some gray news soon!