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Quick suggestion on the new player prize: "Your choice of either 750,000 HBs, a 60 stall barn, or a 30 day basic upgrade."

Since a year's basic upgrade costs 375,000 HBs (30 IVs) in the IV exchange (only half of what you're offering as plain HBs), maybe make the upgrade prize option a year's basic instead of 30 days?

HTRanch, ID #43830

Pasture Bonus

If you have mares in pasture and have looked at your pasture page, you may have noticed that your mares have a number between 1-30 next to their profile. This is their pasture bonus, and is measured by the number of days a mare has been in pasture.

Cool HT, but what does that number do?

Each day that a mare spends in pasture before being bred increases her chances of throwing a better-quality foal.

Think about it like this: much like coat color, breeding and performance quality are inheritable, which each horse having a range of quality that they may pass on to their offspring. A mare may throw a low quality foal from the lower end of her range, or a higher quality foal from the higher end of her range. This is one factor that can contribute to foal quality being worse than, the same as, or better than their parents.

Each day that a mare is in pasture increases the chances that a mare will throw a foal who has inherited quality from the upper end of her range. This in turn increases the chances that your foal will pass breeding advice.


Bonus info! Pasture breeding is not the only way to create foals on Hunt and Jump! Mares and eggs bred via straw are automatically given the equivalent of a 15-day breeding bonus. Mares bred in the stable by hand are not given any bonus.

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Buying Genes:

There are two ways to buy genes in the game: 1) the GMT lab and 2) the rotating gene sale.

Using the GMT lab requires having GMTs, either purchased with real money, traded for with horse bucks, or obtained by turning in a candy or sea pony. If you have GMT tokens, click on the "Advanced Facilities" tab and go down to the Gene Mod Treatment. Once in the new page, you'll have to choose the horse you want to modify from the dropdown menu at the top, then hit the "Modify horse" button. In the new page, you can scroll down and find the genes you want to add to the selected horse. The price of each gene varies, some a cheap as 1 GMT, others 25. None of the genes available in the GMT lab are restricted, meaning you can breed and sell the genes to anyone in the game. Occasionally, Ammit will put restricted genes up for sale there, too.

*Note: if you are modifying a lined horse, you can only add genes that the parents had. Each missed gene you add to the foal will be only 1hb, regardless of the price of the gene when added to a foundation horse.

To add a gene, simply click on the green button on the right side of the page. You can add up to 2 copies of each gene type, one from each parent. When you click the button, the game will jump you up to the top of the page and ask you if you're sure of what you want to do. You have to click this button to actually get the change to happen.

Buying genes via the RGS is slightly different than using the GMT lab. Different genes are put up for sale on a 15 day rotation. Some are also available in the GMT lab, but most are only available in the sale page. To find what's up for sale, click on the "Upgrade" tab and then click on the "Buy Upgrades" button. This will take you to a page that has all of the items you can buy in the game, separated into different tabs by type. Click the "Limited Edition Gene Sales" tab and you can scroll down to see everything available.

Similar to the GMT lab, you have to select the horse you want to modify from a dropdown menu at the top of the page. A thumbnail of the horse will appear next to every gene available, along with 2 yellow buttons below the pictures that say "Add to Cart". Clicking one of these buttons will add one copy of the gene to your cart. The game will take you to a checkout page where you can choose how you want to pay, or if you want to remove the gene. You can continue shopping by simply closing the tab.

Once you get all of the genes you want, click either the paypal checkout or the checkout button. The paypal checkout will automatically take you to the paypal site. You'll be asked to enter your info (if you have it) to access your account, then asked to confirm the payment. Once this is done, you'll be brought back to HJ and the genes you purchased will be on the horse. If you don't have paypal, the regular checkout button will let you enter card info and finish the transaction that way.

Hope this helps. Enjoy the game!

SandycreekFarm
ID# 441

About the Showing System

The best way of making money in Hunt and Jump is to train and show your horses. They can be trained once each week and shown twice each week. A horse’s PT score determines how many points will be added with each training and how long it will continue to add points to its show score. The higher the PT score, the more points are added with each training and the more quickly a horse will work its way up the Leve/Grade ladder. A Perfect Foundation has a PT score of 9.9. It will add three points to its score each time it trains and will level off (stop adding more points to its score) when it turns 10. The consistency of a horse determines how widely its score can vary. Consistent horse will probably not have more than 2 or 3 points difference in its show scores until it levels up into the next Level/Grade. Starting in Level 2, the point spread for each Level/Grade is 10 points, until the horse reaches Level 6. At that time, the size of the point spread for each Level Grade begins to increase.

The shows are divided into 8 Levels which represent an increasing difficult jump course for each level.

Level 1 classes have the horses shown in hand—on a lead line, not ridden.
Level 2 classes (Green Under Saddle) have the horses being ridden around a course with no jumps.
Level 3 classes (Green Over Fences) have the horses ridden over lower jumps in simple patterns.
Level 4 classes (Training) have the horses competing over higher or fairly difficult jumps in more elaborate patterns.
Level 5 C classes have higher and more difficult jumps and more complex patterns.
Level 6 B classes are increasingly difficult to navigate.
Level 7 A classes are yet more difficult.
Level 8 Grand Prix classes are the most challenging.

Within each Level there are 4 grades that represent the areas from which horses can be entered into the show.
Local shows attract horses from a fairly small area, rather like 4-H horses from a single county in a state in the US.
Regional shows attract the best horses from a larger area. For 4-H competitions, that would be the best horses from across the entire state.
National shows draw competitors from a whole country.
World shows draw the best horses from many countries.

FolliesFantasies #43484

Naming Horses

1) Horse names may only contain letters, numbers, spaces, dollar signs ($), and hashtags (#). Dollar signs ($) may not be used on the Create A Horse page, but will work everywhere else. Names must be unique (not used by any other horse in the game).

2) On the Create A Horse Page: Names are subject to all of the conditions in item (1) above, but you may not use the dollar sign ($). Names are limited to 25 characters, but by using the hashtag (#) you can get a horse name that is 31 characters long! When using #, the # symbol will be replaced with that horse's unique ID number. Example: you have activated a Rank 3: Silver Black herd helper. In the Name field, you enter Silver Black # When the horse is created and you open its page, you will see that its name is Silver Black 8654840. This name will continue to populate the Name box for as long as you are on the Create A Horse page, and is extremely helpful when creating multiples of the same horse - that particular herd helper allows you 15 creates plus 3 creates for every share. Now you can quickly create all 15 of your Silver Black horses, and they will all have a unique name because you used the hashtag (#) to include their unique ID number.

3) On a horse's individual page: Names are subject to all of the conditions in item (1) above, and you can use both $ and #. Names are limited to 25 characters, but by using the hashtag (#) you can get a horse name that is 31 characters long! The $ is nice to have when you want to mark that horse for sale/auction, so you can instantly recognize it in the list on any barn/search/pasture page. As on the Create page, the hashtag will be replaced by that horse's unique ID number. Just type in whatever you want in the Name box on the horse's Control Panel tab.

4) Renaming whole barns: You can select multiple horses in a barn (this does not work in pastures) and change their names all at once. Names are subject to all of the conditions in item (1) above, and you can use both $ and #. You can also select random names for them by using the @* symbol (see Example 3). Names are limited to 30 characters, and the # character counts as 7 of them (the current number of digits in a horse's unique ID number). If you enter a name that ends up being longer than 30 characters, this option will simply cut your names off at 30 characters. You can use a maximum of three @* symbols in a name, and this only works from the barn page.

• Example 1 - Adding Before/Adding After: You have 30 horses in a barn, have decided to sell 10 of them, and want to mark their names with a $ so you remember. Select those 10 horses on the barn page, scroll down to the bottom, and enter $ in the Rename Horses box. Choose the Add Before or Add After option, click Rename Horses, and confirm your choice in the popup box. You will receive confirmation, and when you re-sort the horses in the barn all 10 of those horses have $ before or after their names. (You can add anything you like in this manner, not just $ - you can tag horses to "sell" or "show" or whatever you like, subject to character limits!)
• Example 2 - Replacing: You have 30 horses in a barn, and you want to rename them all as show horses. Select them all using the check/uncheck control at the top of the column, and scroll down to Rename Horses. Enter your new name in the box (Example: Show #), choose the Replace option, click Rename Horses, and confirm in the popup box. *Poof!* All of your horses are now renamed Show 1234567, or whatever their unique ID number is.
• Example 3 - Replacing with random names, using the @* symbol: You have 30 horses in a barn, and you want to rename them all randomly. Select them all using the check/uncheck control at the top of the column, and scroll down to Rename Horses. Enter your new name in the box, using up to a maximum of three @* symbols. (Example: SHOW @* #), choose the Replace option, click Rename Horses, and confirm in the popup box. For each time you entered @* a random English word will have been chosen. You should end up with something like this (note the second name that was cut off at 30 characters):
  • Silver Black 8654840 is now named SHOW Catfish Mpegs 8654840.
  • Silver Black 8654924 is now named SHOW Naturals Philippines 8654.
  • Silver Black 8654858 is now named SHOW Citizens Flux 8654858.
  • Silver Black 8654854 is now named SHOW Heritage Compared 8654854.

4) Sorting: When sorting any barn/pasture/search page by name, names beginning with $ will always be at the top of the list, followed by any names beginning with a number, followed by letters alphabetically.

Wildland Acers #11524

Finances: Tips on how to build an income as a new member:

Disclaimer: As with many things with the game, this is not supposed to be a one true way to gain money, but will give you resources and tips for you to draw from.


#1. Be Aware of your finances.
It is so hard to not get on and start breeding as many horses as we can, it is a breeding genetics game after all, but things add up more quickly than one would think. You start with 25K horsebucks, and can get 5k extra from weekly pay making it 30k. Created horses cost 2,500 a peace, so if you only just fill up your pasture the 10 mares would cost 25k, the stallion would cost 2,500, leaving you 2,500 left, and pasture breeding them would be 1000, leaving you left with 1,500, so keep that in mind when trying to use your starting funds the most effectively. My advice would be no more than 3 or 4, at most 5 breeding mares to allow other funds for developing other assets at first, but that is purely advice.

#2. Pointed create horses will be your biggest asset.
Show points each horse has will automatically give you funds every single day you have that horse. The more points you have the larger these funds, or "daily show bonus" will be, with it being roughly 1 horseback per day for every 10 points had. All horses with points will contribute to this and all horses can be shown to increase this amount, but foals will take a long time to build up the amount of points that many creates will be created with, so having far more pointed creates, especially geld or spayed "show horses" that train better for potentially more points than foals is needed till you have enough show bonus to afford extra barns to let a lot of foals collect points.

#3: Run breeding advice on everything first!
It is free, and even though it hurts, the more spay/ gelded show horses you have to breeding horses the better you will be able to afford a larger breeding project. And if you avoid spending money on paid tests before fixing a horse you have saved that much money!

#4: Use comparison testing sparingly.
Yes, you can do it, yes it is a major asset for seeing if a foal is better than its mother or father for breeding the best quality horse, but each test is 8k horsebucks, so it is just too expensive when starting out. I would start with only considering possible new breeding stallion foals for comparison testing at first, not testing mares, but just keep the stallions for a few months without testing, allowing them to build show bonus for you till your bonus grown large enough to be able to easily afford it. only comparison test fillies once you are really established as far as funds go. Instead of comparison testing fillies, performance test foals and use the average performance test of the foals to compare mares to each other for culling purposes. (Performance test score does not indicate a horse's breeding ability, but both performance and breeding abilities come from the breeding ability of the parents)

#5 Create the rank specials shared with you!
Ammit will sometimes share a rank special herd helper with you on the create a horse page. A schedule of when this will happen for the next few months is on the bottom of said page. These horses have various sought after genes or breeding abilities that may or may not work with what you are breeding for, but especially when you are starting out, create all the rank specials! If you do not use this horse for breeding it can be sold for way more than you created it for on the market. Even low value rank specials usually can be sold for 4 times their create price unbred and some can be regularly sold for three times that price. Searching for horses of hat rank special for sale can give you an idea for the going price for that special. Being unbred is crucial for these high prices as many established players like to genetically modify them, and will often pay more for being able to do that, plus players often will create their own stallions from herd helpers if they want one so mares will usually sell quicker.
(PS) Every 6 days you check the create page you will often get a rank special for your daily herd helper too. You do not need it to be shared directly by admit to be able to sell it, plus if you share the herd helper from a daily herd helper using the provided button you can create a second)

#6: Use the lifetime payout feature.
Under the line telling you how many points your horse has is a line telling you the horse's expected lifetime payout with the points it currently has if it ages out at 17 (the earliest age for a horse to age out of the game for old age). Use this when buying horses for show horses to see if they are cost effective, and for deciding which show horses to keep if you need to cull for space. Also for smaller barns that still can create pointed foundations but have limited barn room for keeping a horse throughout its entire life, you can cash out on some of that money for selling pointed creations for over create price but under lifetime payouts to barns with the room for keeping them longer. I would suggest advertising pointed creates with at least 9k in lifetime payouts for 5k, which you could then use to buy 2 more creates every time one of them sells.

#7 Train and show all horses not in pasture.
Mares want to be left in pastures to create a breeding bonus for better foals, but every horse in your barns can be shown twice a week to earn more points to increase your daily show bonus. To increase their likelihood of winning points and to increase their ability to earn more points in a show, you can train your horses every week using the train your horses tab on the left side of the screen assuming you are not upgraded which trains automatically for both basic and premium upgrades. Twice a week you can show your horses. This is done individually for non upgraded accounts, by the barn for basic upgrades, and automatically for premium upgraded accounts. No matter how you have to do it, showing your horses will help you earn bigger show bonuses with the same number of stalls and can help you get closer to getting a basic upgrade or other things that will help your experience in the game become easier.

Wish you the best luck in getting your finances under control. Have fun!

Congratulations to ALL of the folks who contributed to the Back To School/Talented Tutors contest! Is it ok if we use some of your explanations on the “Basic Information For New Players” Announcement thread?


1st place prize for Tutorial– a 60 acre pasture, and one 5% boost tokens and 500,000 HBs on Forest/HJ2 goes to @Ktarpey’s lesson on How To Make Money Selling Pointed Creates!

2nd place prize for Tutorial – a 30 acre pasture, and three 1% boost tokens and 300,000 HBs on on Forest/HJ2 goes to @Lallyhop for teaching us about Paper Levels and How to Use Them!

3rd place prize for Tutorial – a 10 acre pasture, and one 1% boost token and 100,000 HBs on on Forest/HJ2 goes to @Danaerys for taking on the daunting task of explaining How the Search Works!

Random new player drawing prize – Your choice of either 750,000 HBs, a 60 stall barn, or a 30 day basic upgrade on Forest/HJ2 goes to @Miamoo2

Random new player drawing prize - Your choice of either 750,000 HBs, a 60 stall barn, or a 30 day basic upgrade on Forest/HJ2 goes to @silverborn

Random new player drawing prize - Your choice of either 750,000 HBs, a 60 stall barn, or a 30 day basic upgrade on Forest/HJ2 goes to @KaschStable

Voting winners you will have to contact me via PM to let me know which prizes you are interested in.

I LOVED all the topics you guys picked! TERRIFIC job!

Wow! This was so much fun- so much helpful information shared :)

Yes, please share what I wrote anywhere it is helpful. And thank you to everyone who entered. There is so much to learn on this game, I was hoping all the entries would be available for longer than two weeks when regular posts expire.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Congrats to the Winners!

If anything I wrote might be helpful then certainly feel free to share it!

@ShowJumping4Ever The last post in this thread was made three years ago, you can check dates by looking next to usernames. It's long dead. :)

If you have any specific questions though, you're definitely encouraged to start your own thread asking for help and explanations!