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In this Discussion
- Ammit July 2022
- AshfordAcres2 July 2022
- ClicknikStables July 2022
- ObsidianKitsune June 2022
- rachrobe2 June 2022
“New” User Experience
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My notes so far:
1) the achievement goal rewards aren’t very motivating, especially the ones that give you points towards more stalls instead of hbs. I’m finding that money is more important at startup, because you run out quickly in the beginning.
2) maybe starting with more cash in general would be helpful. If you were going to start a new real life breeding program or barn, you’d likely have investors or a bank loan with significant capital to start it up!
3) the placement of achievements at the bottom can be difficult to notice on the mobile site.
4) the cost of performance testing each horse feels disproportionately high compared to startup income. Could new users get a discounted rate for the first month of play, to emphasize the importance of quality?Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386 -
5) Pastures - I feel these aren’t explained well, and know that when I started my first account I spent a lot of money direct breeding instead of utilizing pastures because I didn’t know the benefit. I think breeding in pasture should be added as an achievement!Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386Thanked by 1FolliesMarionette
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Circling back around to say the new achievement incentives are amazing and exactly what new players need to get started well!Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386
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New thought on the pointed creates:
The 100,000 total cap may become an issue down the road for users who take a step back for a while and have to rebuild. If their show ponies are all gone and they have no income, but hit the total cap when they first started playing, they’re going to be dead in the water.
Maybe it should be 100,000 cap per real-life year. That way if someone uses all 100,000 making 4 year old mares to breed, by the time they aged out (14 months RL time, 14 years game time) their 100,000 cap would reset. It would still have the intended effect, while not killing people that may take a break and return later.Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386 -
This was already taken into account and why we have a living cap.Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
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Doesn’t the 100k total cap supersede the living cap though? So if someone initially made 100k worth and kept 60k, then took a break and came back and all 60k living had passed, wouldn’t the 100k total cap still prevent them from making new pointed creates?
Or am I misunderstanding and the 100k total is a living cap as well? -
I thought the 100k was the living cap, and the 60k was the holding cap?Producer of Volcanic Glass Drafts. Lapisobsidianus.
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On the look out for pointed createsThanked by 1Ammit -
You’re right that 60k is the points held cap. But you also get capped if you have created 100k even if you have almost no points (which is why that one user on mesa flipped out). I’m not sure if the 100k is a living cap? The language on the create page isn’t clear on if it’s 100k ever created or 100k that you’ve created that are alive, so I’m not sure?
“Accounts can only create horses with points if they have under 60,000 points held total AND have less than 100,000 points among all horses they have created. Your points per create start to decrease as you get closer to the cut off. Make sure to collect as many pointed show horses as possible to give your barn income while you wait for your home bred show horses to earn up points.” -
Yes, 100k is the living cap. Check the forum post announcement about the change. It explains that it is a living cap and why we have one.. The create page doesn't need to bog down new members with that info so it is not found on the create page.
https://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/86433/pointed-creates-and-achievement-changes-to-help-you-members-and-older-ones-too#Item_22Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
she/herThanked by 1ObsidianKitsune -
Ahh gotcha, I totally understand why it doesn’t say it on the create page. Just didn’t know where the full info was! I assume if it stays this way it will get incorporated in the to FAQ page? When I started I definitely went there the most to find info because the forum was intimidating for someone who has never used forums before.Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386Thanked by 1Ammit
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We are hoping to get a wiki installed in the next few months that members can create guides for.Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
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A wiki would be amazing!Mesa: rachrobe #3258 (main account)/ Forest: rachrobe2 #54606
she/her -
That would be really great. There’s SO much that can be done in this game that a wiki would be really helpful.
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A thought - maybe the Rescue account should have a link on the menu? It’s a really great resource for new players to purchase horses with specific genes they want when starting out, but I didn’t know about it for quite a while, and I keep forgetting the ID/name to search. Or maybe a pinned forum post? Just some way to make it more obvious to new players.Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386
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Final(ish) thoughts.
I started playing this game on my mesa account in late April 2022. I loved it, but almost immediately ran out of money and had to wait to play more. I quickly made my main Forest account to keep enjoying the game, but ran into a similar issue pretty quickly. I was able to keep playing a bit longer on Forest because of some extremely generous well establish players who willingly overpaid for horses and gifted me exceptionally pointed show ponies.
The problem became they were so generous, that I hit the point cap very quickly! I wanted to engage in the game daily, but wasn’t bringing in enough to make and test even 1 create per day. It felt like I was stopped dead, because I couldn’t make more pointed creates but I couldn’t afford to buy pointed ponies.
It may have been serendipitous, but shortly after I posted about the struggle to get going on my accounts, Ammit began making new member changes. I joined the FB group and on a post calling for suggestions asked if the pointed creates could taper off instead of ending abruptly. Ammit said she liked the idea.
I’m so glad it was implemented! Game play not just on my new user account, but my primary accounts got instantly better. I haven’t hit the overall cap yet, but I feel comfortable with my daily showing bonus at this point that when my creates are no longer pointed, I know I’ll be okay.
THANK YOU Ammit for hearing my suggestion and being open to trying it. It has made all the difference in the world, and has made a long term prayer out of me!Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386 -
Thanks I sent you 3 straws from Brand New Day and a 10-acre pasture.Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
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Thank you!
Sorry, just saw your post about thank yous on this and can’t figure out how to delete. -_- -
Np. :D
.Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
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Commenting from my main account because I’m too lazy to sign out right now.
I assume it would be cost prohibitive, but I wish there was a way to use your credit card directly or through something like square instead of PayPal. I have had wayyy too many family/friends that got their identity stolen through PayPal that I don’t use it.
I may be the only person to feel this way, but I thought I’d mention it in case it’s an issue for others as well! -
Paypal is a very secure website and has no history of breaches. It has an excellent safety record. However, because it is so popular it is a target for phishing and if your password gets stolen from a different website and you used identical passwords they can easily get into your account. Basically, PayPal can only ever be as secure as people are secure with thier passwords. Square is not a particularly better site for security and is just as likely to run into the same issue.
That said it is always a good idea to have multiple payment gateways for lots of reasons including just personal choice. It is something we would like to implement but the reality is it will be a total nightmare project and will require all hands on deck and might break the entire game so we are being very very cautious about starting that path.Need to contact me? Read this first. Only send me a PM for PayPal issues or if I ask you to. Otherwise, make a forum post. You will get a better faster answer by making a post.
I sometimes get busy and miss things. If your private message, question, etc. gets missed please ping me so I can follow up with you. I am also always happy to explain or clarify. (HAJ does not have a customer service email, please send me a forum message! )
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Now that I’ve been playing longer and have more horses, I’ve noticed that sorting/finding the horses I want can be tricky even when using more than one barn to try to organize. I might be missing something (if so, please tell me so I can use these features!) but I find myself wanting:
1) the ability to search my horses specifically for ones that have no living offspring. This would be helpful in focusing my breeding program, because, for example, if I could search for all 7 year old mares that don’t have any living offspring, I would know that I’ve bred a mare for 3-4 seasons and have not liked/kept any of her foals, and would likely sell her.
2) the ability to sort within the barn page by the listed category. Kind of like an Xcel spreadsheet, so I could click on “PT” and have it either ascending or descending in level, without having to go to the search where they have pictures. I’d like to see them directly lined up in the chart format so the direct comparison is easier.
Just some more thoughts I thought I’d add as I go along!Main Account: ClicknikStables #54386