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I’m pretty sure it will stop you. You can’t take bids back, and you can double bid on the same horse (bid up your own bid), so be careful if you have limited funds.

If you have less than 20k points, every horse you make on the Create a Horse page will have some points. This can be a good way for you to make some hbs, particularly if you make ExPerf, ExPro and Rank Special mares from the Herd Helper daily thread. If you creep above 20k points, you stop getting this perk, but if you drop back down again you get it back. Bred horses (foals from your breedings) don’t get this perk. There is a whole strategy to creating and selling pointed creates, but it came in after I was well established so I’m not as solid on how to do it.

You will find the community in this game rocks. We do a pretty good job taking care of each other, so I would highly recommend that you just enjoy the ride these first few weeks, harvest your new player perks, learn to use the Horse Search (a skill that will vastly improve your playing experience) and work on building a show herd. In just a couple months it will be Christmas and Secret Santa time, and that’s when the community hits high gear and amazing things happen.

The horse search is definitely going to be your friend for that! Start playing around with searching for horses with different combinations of genes, and just keep looking until you see something that's "ooh pretty" for you. Collect a handful of links to horses you like, find what the common denominator is between them, and then start breeding for it!

I totally know what you mean, I played well over 2 years before I decided I wanted to focus on heavy brown based beauties. I actually made all 3 free accounts, then bumped them up to basic, and tried out lots of different things while I was learning the game. Then when I was more established merged them all into the account you see today. I also have a couple of show ponies for you, are you in justanotherchat?

What is the base price for a 210 stall barn? Its been so long, that I cant remember for sure :)) I wanna say 90 IVs? Whatever it is, put up a horse for me for that price (whatever number of IVs x 12500), and I will pick it up when I'm online, so you can buy a new barn. I'll add you to my chat (it's named Maribo), so just put it up there.

If you request to join justanotherchat I will put up 2 older show ponies with good points to get you a boost. If you roll a Expro brown herd helper I will buy all the female foals for full lifetime payout.

@Seaswell I'm pretty new here and trying to get the hang of things. What do you mean by buying all the female foals for "full lifetime payout"?

@SabreBaby on your horse's page, if you have done the performance testibgnon the horse,, there is a column of information including daily points, lifetime points, and at the bottom of that there's a line reading "Current Lifetime Payout" and a number. That number is how many HBs the horse would earn in its lifetime just from the daily payout. If you do any training or enter the horse in shows, that number can increase.

Since the game is designed to help new players out, if a player has under 20,000 points, their horses are generated with a random number of show points to start with (which affects the lifetime payout). The HBs you earn from shows is what brings in the money you need to run a breeding program. So established players who don't get points assigned to their creates anymore will sometimes buy horses that newer players create to get that starting point boost that they no longer get.

I don't know if that makes sense? I'm a newbie as well so my understanding is still somewhat limited.

I prefer Draft females, any age. But I'll take the ones you have even if they are smaller cause I can fix that. Just message me the links so I can pick them up.

I also popped up the show ponies for you.

Thank you so much Hun. Justa should be around in the next couple of days.

Any age is good, as long as they are heavy. I definitely prefer mares.

Also thank you for gene testing your horses for sale. I found one in your sale thread today too.

Take the risk. The ones who fail that you don't want to keep are great for the auction. Higher pointed ones are great for your show barn.