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BVtwo · Jun 1, 2022 2:00 PM

Day 1: feeling very limited by funds. Maybe a little bonus cash daily for like two weeks to encourage creating/buying horses?
I like the achievements and how simple some are to get, but someone else mentioned that it might be beneficial to have rewards other than barn space. Perhaps an option to choose between a stall and X amount of hbs?
Annoying to train and enter each horse into shows, I imagine this will become more tedious with more horses. I know we want some incentives to upgrade, but as a new player I'd feel a little overwhelmed by having to train each horse individually and show them all individually. Not sure how to 'solve' this one yet other than simply saying 'buy the upgrade' (I love the deal offered for the 3-month upgrade).

BVtwo · Jun 2, 2022 6:32 PM

Day 2: listed some pointed creates for public sale. I'd love to be able to list them in the pointed creates chat (which I can't do as a free account). What if free accounts could list horses in buddy chats, but could only list a limited amount at a time? Say, 5, or something?
I know some others have suggested a tutorial of sorts, and I think it would be beneficial to have a walk through tutorial where certain tabs are highlighted and once the user clicks on it there is a more in depth explanation of what one could do there.

BVtwo · Jun 4, 2022 6:47 PM

Day 3: I've discovered that some of the achievements do reward the player with hbs--big fan of that! I think it would be really neat to have more achievements that help a player get more in depth experience. Maybe some that are like 'find a horse in the search with X gene(s)', then they could learn a little more about the search and genes of the game.

Other thoughts as achievements:
- 'send a message to another player'
- 'edit your forum signature'
- 'comment on 5 other forum posts'
- 'visit the genetics guide'
- 'visit the GMT lab'
- 'visit the cloning lab'

BVtwo · Jun 6, 2022 7:45 PM

Day 6: I've made it to the 5k points and earned 100k. I'm now pumped to save my money and put it towards a basic upgrade, since I'm only 9 ivs away at this point. I wonder if it would be worth it to put something in the game alerts that's like a congrats message and mentions that the basic upgrade for a year is only 30 ivs, since a newer member may not know where to look for that info.

Love all the additional text with each create! Very informative.

BVtwo · Jun 10, 2022 8:56 PM

Day 10: I'm very appreciative for the additional hbs earned from achievements! Very excited to hunt down my favourite herd helpers and build up a little herd of pointed creates.

Maybe there could be a button/link in the create a horse page that would lead a new member to the herd helper forum? This way they could explore the different helpers if they hadn't found them in the forum yet! Or it could be another way to encourage them to check out the forums.

BVtwo · Jun 19, 2022 6:10 PM

Day 19: I decided to continue playing as a free account, although I could have purchased a basic upgrade by now.

I may or may not have forgotten to train my horses last week. Would it be possible/pertinent to have a reminder somewhere on the home page maybe? I think it would fit in nicely under the 'collect weekly pay' button!

I think it would also be cool if as a new player I had the ability/option to name a show, or offer name suggestions! I'm not sure how automated that all is right now, but as someone that would love to do more it would be a neat thing to contribute to!

BVtwo · Jul 1, 2022 9:21 AM

Final thoughts: I love the changes that have been made. I think they all increase a new user's experience and offer fair incentive to continue play and even to upgrade.

One final thought/suggestion. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned previously or how much of a programming challenge it would be, but for those players interested it would be super cool to have a mentor/mentee program. Maybe it only lasts a week, a month, or something, where a newer player could be 'assigned' an older player to ask all their questions (maybe as an additional tab on the forum next to 'mark all as viewed'?). I know the forum was a big help when I was a new player myself, but it would have been pretty cool to forge a bit of a deeper relationship with someone earlier in my play. It could also be beneficial to those that don't want to use the forum as much as others.

I think this whole experiment was an awesome idea! I'm thrilled with the changes made, and I appreciate so much that Ammit has been so open to updating/modifying things! What an amazing creator and admin we have. :x

Ammit · Jul 2, 2022 12:30 AM

Really great feedback and ideas.

I sent you 3 straws from Brand New Day, 5 gmts and a 30-acre pasture.

BlueValley · Jul 2, 2022 7:02 AM

Thank you very much, Ammit. :)

Ammit · Jul 2, 2022 8:47 AM

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