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Who can say no to more pastures?

It IS a big transition for us, but there's zero way around the fact that pasture breeding is faster than manual breeding (nevermind the other advantages pastures give.) I know a few more of these would help me organize breeding better than I do now.

Yes, this would help greatly. Thank you for listening.

Yes! This would help a TON!

That will be an awesome help for a lot of people! Thank you! I utilize pastures pretty heavily anyway, but will welcome the opportunity to pick up another. Better start saving, I just cashed in on a 1000 stall barn a few hours ago. lol!

No. Flat rate.

Sounds like this should help out then. I'll bump other projects to work on this tomorrow for you all. You also have your higher daily payouts already so that should help fund some pastures and help ease the time needed for breeding.

Thank you.

This is brilliant. Just to help take some pressure off since RL commitments seem to be exploding out of control and game time is getting pretty tough to find.

Horses in pastures do not show, so they do not earn points.

Whether it significantly impacts your income will depend on what percentage of your herd you keep in pasture, and whether you just put them in the pasture for rapid breeding. Technically you won't have more horses going forward than you did before; you'll breed every month instead of every 2 months, but you'll be losing horses every month now too as they age out of the game more regularly.

Also our income

OKay Sorry for the repeat here. I posted the following on the "venting" thread, but I didn't get answers to the questions. this thread has more people commenting on it. I feel with the new change I am going to need help from other players that already have HJ2 accounts.

Again I apologize for the repeats and whatnot:

I've been here for 11 years and I really don't want to start over. I adore the more relaxed pace here. I really don't want to have to start over again in fact I don't think I would. I;ve spent too long building what I have.

I understand the need to make it easier on the servers and and to try to get new players over here.

I am really not happy with the horses aging so much faster. can you not make them age .5 years (6 months) instead of 1 year each month? maybe allow them to live longer and breed long to balance it out. I spend too much on them for them to age out that quickly and I know some of the old time players do as well.

I also don't fully understand the new aging processes and how that's going to work. I tried hj2 and I found it too different and too fast paced. I came here and stayed.

What will this mean for gmts, and the breeding lab?

I do a lot of gmts and boosting and cloning.. how is this going to be affected?

I saw a post about pastures.. does this mean I need to increase my number of stallions to get everything bred and then only keep my special girls for AI? Will there be changes to the breeding lab? One change I wish for is that the horses drop down menus didn't change until you change them or you run out of eggs/straws.. kinds of like the selling ones don't move.

Are the genetics going to change? Whats differnt on HJ2?

This is a lot to grasp in a short amount of time. I am pretty sure I am going to need a little (okay a lot) of help with some of this and to be honest while I understand why it must be done, I'm just not happy. In a fast paced world.. this is just relaxing and informative and peaceful for me. they change is going to be hard...

I really don't want to start over. I

I don't understand why you think you would be starting over. I think you may have misunderstood what is happening. The game will be identical to now but you breed every month instead of every other. Nothing else is changing.

Thanks for the pasture purchase option, I just want to add one thing I think will be an issue for me and anyone who buys and sells anything to me. I like the two month aging because I work full time, and am busy outside work. This means it can take some time for me to respond to horse, straw and egg sales. Limiting each year to one month means I will probably be out of my means time-wise to respond to requests. I’m a full time working adult, and although it might not seem a big deal to some to just get on and get straws, eggs and sales sorted, it will affect me that way. Four weeks just doesn’t seem like enough, especially when the generations will go by quickly. For me, I believe my overall quality of breeding will decrease. I probably won’t GMT as much because I won’t have time to breed the way I want (which includes organizing my barn). So I don’t know where my daily show bonus will go. I’m supposing I’ll give it a couple months to see if I can find a way to utilize the game the way I do now to justify a premium membership.
I’m not saying this is negative as a whole, just saying what I think will happen with my game play. I understand the need as far this as far as server stuff goes (well, I actually understand nothing about it, but I believe it).
Again, these are just my thoughts.

Totally zoned out after reading the initial post about the shortened years and thought, wow I could really use more pastures, but I can't put the RL money down, Ammit said she'd never do IV pastures.

Pleasantly surprised, thank you!