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So the first two questions kind of tie in together. Comparison testing can get very expensive. Quite often what people will do first when they start comparison testing is to create a "Stud benchmark". This is the best stud that you have at the time. You can get three results with comparison testing:

Better Than
About as good as
Worse than

Basically, you find out what the best quality stud you have is. If you have a lot of studs, this can be difficult, as two horses that test "About as good as" each other, only one could test "Better than" a third horse. Some people do sell Benchmark studs too.

This usually comes after doing all the testing that you use to cull, like BA/SBA, colour, consistency, etc. Rinse and repeat for mares, but often one has a LOT more mares to go through and thus they are more expensive to do.

Which does bring me onto PT and consistency. A consistent horse can have higher PT than if it was inconsistent. While consistency is slightly random, inconsistent horses are more likely to produce inconsistent foals and so culling them from the breeding programme can help boost the PT just a touch.

Once you get high enough Star/Gold horses, it is a slow crawl to the top. You're actually doing very well!

For selling horses, this games market can vary wildly between day to day, or rather timezone to timezone. Different people can breed for different things, so sometimes your foals won't sell at all and then yes, auction is the best option.

Quite often what I do when I sort the horses is I'll put the culls into a barn. You can search by barn ID, which is very handy for culling/selling! There is also a handy dandy button in the barn page, that says "View all horses in search". Once I have them more or less sorted, I'll make a forum post advertising them. I make sure to note what restricted genes, if any, could be in there as well as what "fun" genes there are. I tend to price the fillies at 5-8k, and the colts at 3k. After a week or two, I'll chuck them all into the auction, once again making a post on the advertisement page I had already created that I'm putting them all into auction. Quite often I'll sell a handful of fillies, maybe 2-3 colts. In the auction another handful of fillies usually gets sold as well, but the vast majority will be bought by the game.

No problem, hopefully all goes well! If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

One thing I did neglect to mention is if you want to sell some of your foundations, and they have points. Pointed creates tend to go for, at least, half of their life time payout. You can also search the average sale price of a RS by going to Member Home -> Account and Stable Management -> My Herd Helper Collection. It will list all of the HHs, with that page only showing Rank Specials. It says how many are in game, how many you own, their effects, and then the average sale price. Always good to double check before selling any RS.

For Foundation horses, which would be any horse you can create through the create a horse page, they can only paper
Failed/Showable Only
Yellow/C
Red/B

So a Red/B foundation horse is the highest you can get without looking into boosting.

For why certain RS go for a huge amount of price, it is several factors I think. One would be rarity. Some RS are only released at certain times, like Friday the 13th we'll get a RS called "Freaky Friday" If the RS is new, then there is basically 1 horse of that RS per person created, and not everyone will create it.

Another would be certain genes. Some of the genes you cannot find on a random create, you either have to gmt or pay real money to put it on. For example the gene Satin. It makes a horses coat shiny, like satin fabric. You cannot find this on a random create, but you can gmt it on. You need 2 copies for it to show (recessive), and it is 20 gmts per copy. So if you want a foundation with hom satin, starting with a RS that has a single copy of it can save you 250k hbs for already having that single copy.

While people tend to like different genes, different combinations, one thing that I feel is slightly site-wide is a love for DP. For example the New Coke RS is hom DP, as well as the Cherry Drop. I think both are red papered as well.

Foundations are often the start of new breeding lines, especially for those that breed even generations. So a new foundation stallion or mare might be bought to put all the new seasons genes on. New genes can only put on foundations, as lined horses can only get whatever their parents have. I'm one that always picks up foundations of the new era with DP when I find them

Haha don't worry, no bright lights or polygraphs here xD

Thank you guys so much, that makes a lot of sense. So if Im making new creates (whether to use myself or sell etc) is it actually more useful to create colts?

Phew, there is so much more nuance to this than I even began to glean, LOL! I haven't even gotten started on understanding what eras are all about. Most of my stock are Era 0 and Era 4 since that's what my two best stallions were when I started widdling things down a little more.