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I was glad to see this - The leaderboards have been filled with boosted clones for a while now which made it reeaallyyy hard to compete, even just for futurity. It honestly made me feel like boosting was cheating and kept me from doing it with all but 1 of my horses (who is a foundy, boosting just brought him to A papered so he could be used in my gen 2 without bringing my **Gold mares down too much). I might be more open to it now as it feels more evenly accessible, which is an interesting mindset shift.

I bought 300 pointed creates with high show scores today, so I'm definitely in the same headspace as you regarding boosting my show herd, haha.

I don’t mind the change, I don’t think much will change for the bigger established barns because it shouldn’t be a problem for those that have a large show base to make the switch. The only difference for me is that I won’t have anything to spend my GMTs on since I’m not into heavily modded foundations anymore after I moved to bootstrapping.
I think now the gap may instead be in the bigger barns that can afford to do the 50 ivs and double boost compared to smaller barns that can’t as readily spend that much.
But I’m sure there will be significantly less maxed out horses entering the leaderboards, which might make it easier for smaller barns to get on the boards in that sense.

@VenemousGiant I said I would consider boosting more in future with the present changes, so I understand it will still happen. If bigger barns can't boost for free anymore via won GMTs, it makes boosting more evenly accessible, as I said.

I find boosting makes futurity hard to compete on because people want to breed to boosted horses more than unboosted horses. It still creates an unfair advantage for long-standing, wealthy players who are winning GMTs every month to go towards free boosting. (Even my boosted guy is an example of this, though a non-controlled one, he has around 5x more futurity babies than my other futurity stallions, with equal marketing.)

As far as I know boosted horse's foals are still the same Era as them, which would still put them on Era boards outside of Era 0? My boosted guy is Era 12, and all of his foals are also Era 12.

I didn't say boosting and cloning is cheating, I said to me it has felt like cheating because it puts less-established players at a tremendous disadvantage. It's something I've been apprehensive to participate in in the past, for that reason. That's just my feeling on it :shrug:

My point was simply that I'm excited for the changes and think they were positive. I hope they create a more equal playing field, and that the GMTs won go on to create some new gene combos that will inspire :)

@Gracie3B, Ah, I see. Boosting and maxing-out sound the same definition-wise (the words) and my TBI brain didn't even realize there was a difference. When VG said boosting is done via IVs, I thought they were just reiterating the change.

It's like how 2x boosted and double boosted mean different things, lol. (From what I've seen in the breeding forum threads.)

I was referring to boosting / maxing out the parents only, not the foals in regards to futurity, but I get what you're saying.

The change from GMTs to IVs for boosting won't affect me too much. But hopefully it'll make MOA more accessible for smaller barns. I only max out a few horses each month, the ones I really hate to see altered (mostly lined Chimeras). Hopefully with these changes we'll see some new names on the leaderboard soon!

For those players who have more GMTs than they know what to spend them on I bet you could really make the day of some smaller barns by making and giving away some fancy foundations. :) If you can't spend it might as well share it!

@Ammit I'm already working on it ;) ♡

I pulled 32 this morning and it worked fine but I am not on mobile. Even though I had to wait for page loads, that was faster than finding the names on the list. I'll be doing more testing as the season goes on.

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I’ll also add that I love the straws and egg pulling being on the pages- I have many mares to pull from and it’s so much easier than scrolling through and trying to find them all :x It makes good use of my 9848384882848384838473 hunt and jump tabs I always have open haha! :))

Adding as well: I’m on mobile, it works great! So much easier than the advanced breeding lab

Would it be possible to have egg and straw pulling in the lab like it was and on the horse page for people who want it there? The way my horses are named and with my hormone induced amnesia (don't get perimenopause, ladies) I can figure out what horses I need to pull eggs from by looking at the list but if I have to go to each individual barn to look at them all separately it's going to be a ton of work and very confusing for me. Not only that but I'm going to really struggle to remember what stallion I need to go get straws from and how many I need. I absolutely will not know why I opened the stallion's page once I get there, so having everything in one place is more convenient and usable for me personally. I'm also using mobile and I never found egg and straw pulling difficult. Implanting embryos was always hard though.

My 2 cents on the straws/eggs: I would reeaally love it if we could have it in the lab too. It takes me alot longer to go to each page. I name my pull mares so that they are always on top of the list, so pulling eggs was literally seconds of just clicking the same place before. And with straws I have to go to each page, while before I just checked the list to see which of my boys need to be collected from. Now I have to either look through my whole list of straws, or go to each page just to see if I need to pull more straws from my special boys. Both eggs and straws are a whole lot more clicking than before.

Can I suggest, if you add the stallion straw page back, that it isn’t the first page on the list? It’s so laggy for me. ^_^ I would love to keep a mare pull page though since I have them all sorted and I pull the t4s every season.

I do enjoy pulling mares from the pages though. The statics would be easier to pull from a list, but the eras change so quick that it’s easier from their pages.

Sorry I meant if you add something like it**the stallion page always lags like crazy and locks up my computer. I had to save other links to bypass it :)

A centralized pull location would be cool as well. However I really am enjoying how much less clutter there is in the breeding page today with breeding season open. It’s so much easier for me to pull my mares from their own page and feels so much less of a chore. I’m really having fun! I thought it would be a weird change to get used to but it really is working well for me, especially on mobile where it can be a little difficult sometimes. Fantastic work, Ammit!

Ok Ammit, I just tried searching by name and it could potentially work but I'm having trouble because I keep a lot of intact mares as surrogates. Entering # in the name field and selecting "not like" doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to filter out unnamed horses/horses who just have their ID # as a name that I'm not seeing?

Great idea with the 'z'!
I start my surrogate names with ISH for intact show horse.

I actually had just put Z on most of them last month but missed some. I'll have to finish that because it's also makes implantation much easier. For what it's worth I didn't have as much trouble with maes yesterday as I expected and I kept multiple tabs open to pull straws and it worked fairly well (which I normally try to avoid on mobile).