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that happened to me the first time too

Testing - the user guide says I need to use every test on any horse I might want to breed or sell. It also mentions that "Several of the tests are free." Um, no? Only the breeding advice is free, so that's a bit misleading. I'd like to see what the genetics are behind some of these horse coat colors, but I already spent all of my money today creating horses, and there is nothing left for testing them. I hope other players will be willing to buy these horses not knowing anything about them.
Let's see, each of these horses earns a daily payout, so daily money to my account. Now I'll go through my barn and look at each horse and get out my calculator and add all of this up, and I earn... ooof. A whopping 1,442 per day. Not even enough to create a horse tomorrow, but hey I can make another one on Friday. I sure hope some of these horses I created today sell.
(I will probably have to log in two or three times before I discover that my Member Home page tells me how much I earn each day so I won't have to break out my calculator.)
Edit: I have exactly enough hbs left to run genetics testing on the Rank Special horses I created today, so let's see what makes them so special.

Apparently from the news letter hidden gate only comes around every 4 human years *real time years

Basic upgrade doesn't give auto entry but does enter an entire barn and can be obtained for free. Maybe calling attention to that on the manual show entry pages would be good.

I wish I could link directly to a search of specific herd helpers from the My Herd Helper Collection page. We can do it from the HH tattoo on a horse page, it would be lovely to look at this big old list of HH and be able to click the title and go to that same search.
ETA: that might be more of an experienced player thing? There's still the newbie question of what exactly a HH is, what it does, and what makes one more special than another. And it's not like the HH collection page is easy to find, you pretty much have to be specifically looking for it, but maybe this would somehow help.

You earn stalls so slowly! My oldest account is bluegrass. I've been on there for 2.5 years and have 33 bonus stalls. The amount of barn space I've gotten from buying barns blows that out of the water. I definitely think changing the achievements from earning a percentage of a stall to earning more hbs or entire stalls/another entire barn would be much more helpful!

I think the tutorial needs to be much expanded, and last for more than a few days. I'm working on ideas of how to do that.
Make the benefits of upgrades more obvious, by using the tutorial to coach the player to buy that first promotional basic upgrade either with cash or with IVs - at that discounted price I mentioned in my previous thought.
Working the math for that - a basic upgrade for 1 year with RL money costs $25. The promo price is $1.99, that's a 92% discount over the cost of a 1-year upgrade but you only get it for three months (very reasonable!). Using those numbers, a 3-month promo basic upgrade would cost 2.388 IVs, so bump it to three or maybe as high as 6 (doing apples-to-apples math, comparing the cash price of a 3-month upgrade to the IV price for a 3-month upgrade, the discounted IV cost would be 6 IVs [75,000 hb], and that's an 80% discount.)
The reward for that would of course be the basic upgrade and all that it entails, but a maybe a reward of hbs to recoup some of the money spent? If the first 3-month basic upgrade could be obtained for 6 IVs, perhaps an hb reward of 12,500 to recoup the equivalent of 1 IV for the player.

Related thought that just struck me - I just started a kid-oriented horse game on my phone, and as it coaches me through the tutorial, it often gives me enough resources to do the required task, particularly when the task requires the nearly-impossible-to-earn diamonds.

I feel like I need to add a disclaimer.
These are just brainstorming, stream of consciousness type thoughts. They are not necessarily realistic, attainable, implementable, etc.

While the game is a business and intended to make money for Ammit, let that come from players who have been here for a couple of months and are starting to figure out how things work and are ready to move on with purchases like that.

Yes, I'm happy to support the game because I have a good time but I was NOT ready when I was new. Many people don't want to spend RL money on games until they're sure it's a "good" investment because so many games are legit pay to win. This game really is not but game life is easier with upgrades at the very least.

But making the earlier parts of the game easier and more rewarding would make it easier to convert people into long term players. I think there's a point that people aren't talking about because we aren't there yet where the pointed creates run out and suddenly you have a 2000 hb daily income. What now? You can't even create a horse with that. I'd be willing to guess that's the point where a lot of people drop off so making it easier to get past that should make more long term players which is ultimately good for us all.

Oof I don't think I remember ever seeing anything about an age. It makes sense, but I'm sure I ignored that. When I first came over to HAJinc from another game at the start of Hunt and Jump, I would have been 15 and the player who talked me into starting was younger than me...

I haven't been paying enough attention to this account. Or maybe I have, actually. My barns and are full, barely enough room for those upcoming HH creates, and I don't want to sell off any of my points. I bought a 60-stall barn and filled it. There's no room for any more breeding, and the foals I did breed I sent to auction because I'm an experienced player and I know that the profit from auction outweighs pigging up stalls at this point. I'm unwilling to purchase tack packs, so there's no killing time tacking up my horses. The difference between me and a new player is that I have an established account that I can spend lots of time in, rearranging pastures and sorting thousands of foals. It's June, so also time for the semi-annual mare purge and reassessment of breeding goals.