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I have removed a post that crossed the line into toxic and abusive. (Ranting about totally unrelated things that happened over 5 years ago). While verbal attacks are not welcome, feedback of course is.

You can't merge databases like that. It's not just the user and horse ID numbers. It's the barns, upgrades, show results, colors, EVERYTHING. It would be like merging two different time streams and trying to resolve all the conflicts. Also why would we even want to merge them? Tons of games have multiple servers for the same product. That's a totally normal and common part of games. It makes it so you can have more players with out crashing things. :)

I will continue to play and I will adjust HOW I have to play. I am in the camp that wishes we had more notice to be able to change our game play. I hope this is a push for new players, not just a push to out the older ones.

This the most expensive game I ever played, and in the past I did invest hundreds of real dollars. I am pretty self-sufficient now, but I think I earned that.

My show horses will never have a chance at a name in my stable now, but that is OK! The game ran way to slow for me for so long, I had to just dump them in barns the past few seasons. Now the game loads SO much better, but I won't have the time to catch up and name them. Maybe with the bulk name generator that can change.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent.

Yeah. I have mixed feelings about this myself. I'm a dinosaur, but not a big dinosaur. I just broke 1000 stalls this season, so I'm not what I would term a big barn by my standards, and it has taken me nearly 8 years to get that far. However, due to the change in breeding season length, instead of having 8 months to GMT horses and whatnot (IE, spend real life money because my barn income isn't enough to support it, since I didn't show horses under the old show system), I won't have the time to plan and budget my money so I can spend money on this game. I mean I get why Ammit is doing this. Sometimes you gotta do what's best for the business model, and not what's best for long time consumers. It's just going to be a very difficult transition for me. So I will have to re-evaluate my breeding goals and whatnot. I will also have to look at my horses and do a serious cutting back which means my old favorite lines will have to go. I fear at this point, that it might be the end of the line for my foundation breeding stock, since I won't have the time flexibility to GMT foundation stallions to my liking because of budget constraints. I don't go for the super expensive GMT genes, but I do like having DP, and that's not cheap by my standards. I also will have to decide exactly what base colors I am breeding for and stick to that. I also most likely won't be buying any more LE genes either, but I am not ruling it out yet.

Like someone else said, thanks for letting us vent.

I'm obviously firmly in the camp that isn't excited about this in the slightest, but change is never easy and you will inevitably lose some players any time big changes like this are implemented, it's the nature of the beast. It just sucks that this particular change is one that will likely drive out some of the long term players. A lot of the players I started with were around my age or a few years younger, meaning we've gone through a lot of major life changes in the last 10+ years, and the slower nature of this game is the only reason we've been able to hang around this long. It will be sad for sure to lose some of those players, or to end up leaving myself, but I completely understand that new players are imperative to keeping the game going. I played a lot of FB games and such years ago, and saw most of them die out. Even then, my observation was that the way the games were set up made it incredibly hard for a new player to get going and basically impossible for a newer player to ever reach a point of being competitive with longer term players, regardless of how much real money they pumped into the game. Inevitably, in any game, your longer term players will often spend less money because the cash spent earlier on has helped them be more self-sufficient (which I already mentioned was certainly the case for me - I spent a LOT of money between my first stint on Hajinc, Shoco, and my return to HJ1, more than I care to even know, but now I don't contribute any actual cash beyond my monthly upgrade and maybe an occasional pasture simply because I don't need to). Without the new players coming in, hanging around, and putting money into the game, those other games couldn't sustain themselves. I don't want that for the game or for Ammit, even if it means I have to end up bowing out.

I hope it ends up being one of those things that I'm blowing up in my mind that turns out to be no big deal (or even a positive thing), but I know I'm that weirdo that will stress out and feel like I'm wasting my upgrade fee (you know, the one that's equivalent to a trip to Starbucks... Yeah, I already said I was weird) if I miss a breeding season or don't get my breeders named before the year rolls (I stopped naming the altered horses literally years ago). If it does end up being an issue for me though, I harbor no ill feelings or anything about it all, and thank you Ammit for providing a game that we feel so passionately about.

. 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 hekp with some of this and to be honest while I understand why it must be done, I'm just not happy. If a fast paced world.. this is just relaxing and informative and peacefull for me. they change is goingto be hard...

With life and work and the lack of decent laptop it takes me 2 months to get through breeding my pretty huge herd. Now I have to narrow it down to 1 month... ick. Time to cull.

Gonna be a big change, played this game for 11 years at 2 month breeding seasons, but then again bigger changes have happened in that time that have endured!

I can see myself moving over to HJ2 eventually, I had started a few free accounts years ago but let them fall to the wayside in favor of my premium here. Guess it may be time to start investing in 2 with another free account and building some foundation lines in preparation. Just sad to see that necessity after building lines over years, buying genes and horses with real money to just see that go away down the road. But I suppose there's still plenty of time to keep making pretty ponies over here.

I worry about that as well.. I've been keeping a lot of stuff close to the belt and I only share in group or with a few select people. I brred color but I breed quality as well

Clearly I'm a bit behind the bandwagon and I don't normally comment on these sorts of things but I feel super anxious about this change. I struggle as it is so not sure where to go from here. I won't say much as most of the long term players who replied have said it for me. Wish it was the same as 6 years ago, the community has changed so much.

I also enjoy having profiles on both servers...so I really hope for a revival. This is an awesome game, and it was quite by accident I discovered the second server, and increased my happiness! I have different goals and breeding program in three different profiles (on on HJ1, and two on HJ2) that I would sure hate to lose any one of them!! I would love to know if there are any updates on this situation.

I noticed that server one suggests that New comers join hj2.