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I’ve been breeding foals like crazy trying to help fill out the era classes that are lacking. I am starting to feel kinda discouraged… even some of the classes that look full or almost full are in trouble.

Here is the current breakdown:

Era 0 - safe. No worries

Era 1 - of the possible 25 stallions, three are at risk of not surviving the duration.

Era 2 - Only 11 qualified stallions and two are at risk of not surviving the duration.

Era 3 - Of the 24 qualified stallions, three are at risk of not surviving the duration.

Era 4 - Of the 20 qualified stallions, three are at risk of not surviving the duration; amongst them are an 18yr old and a 19yr old.

Era 5 - of the 19 qualified stallions, four are at risk of not surviving the duration. The oldest in the class is 19.

Era 6 - of the 9 qualified stallions, one is at risk of not surviving the duration.

Era 7 - of the 15 qualified stallions one is at risk of not surviving the duration

Era 8 - Of the 26 qualified stallions, six out of the top 25 are at risk… amongst them are two 18 year olds and a 20 year old.

Eras 9-12 do not have any stallions at risk of passing.


In addition to the stallions who might not survive to the finish, there is the issue of the stallions that are on the board by merit of past foals that are still under five years of age. I did not go through and look at every single stallions production records, but I know that I myself have two stallions on the board for era 4 and two for era 5 that will not be there at the end because no one is choosing to breed to them and most of their qualifying foals are going to age out of eligibility before all is said and done. I am certain there are more stallions the same way because I see stallions on the leaderboards that belong to players who are no longer active or who are on an announced hiatus.

All in all, the only safe eras are 0, 9, 10, and 11.

This is so discouraging! My barns are packed to the gills with foals that can’t be sold, have no payout to speak of, and have nothing to do with my personal breeding goals. Frankly, I’m starting to feel some futurity burnout here It’s harder to play now… my stud income is non existent/in the negative, the auctions are no longer profitable, and private sales have dropped as well. The way the futurities are currently set up seems to be hurting the servers economy.

The futurity is an awesome idea and I was super excited about it. Maybe some changes in the future could help keep it fun… mini games with the possibility of earning prizes like barns so we have places to put all the rando futurity foals maybe? Age restrictions on stallions competing? Discounts codes for barns after a player has locked in a certain amount of qualified foals? I don’t know… I’d be interested to hear how other players are feeling about it right now, the obstacles they’ve encountered, and their thoughts on making the whole thing more feasible.



I see a lot of players putting forth a lot of effort… quite frankly I think that the insinuation that we are expecting awards for minimal effort is a tad bit insulting.

I just looked through all the era chat rooms. I see lots of people posting studs with no other comment, and zero working together in all but one or two rooms. People might not like being told forest is not working together like other servers are but it is the truth. The other servers look like they will fill by june or be very close.

It is completely feasible when working together. That is not happening here.

It is highly normal during breeding season for most foals to be sold back to the game. Everyone has too many foals and no reason to pick up other people's culls. I did look into the metrics and I can assure you the new system is more profitable for sellers. Forest server has the least engaged forum shoppers though.

You can't dump locked horses into the auction and expect them to sell without advertising them. That does not mean they can not be sold though. There are players who have offered to take locked foals as they do have space. If you really are struggling with room, make a post and ask for help from other members.

If a group of 5 players worked together as a consortium they could get an entire era qualified in a single season while only having to hold 50 foals each. No era in the game needs that many horses to qualify though. Two players working together could qualify 10 stallions for the lb while only having to hold 50 foals each. It is completely feasible without much effort to fill an era, and there are 5 months to get it done.

I make a point to be fair and meet members at a compromise if it is needed. If we get to June and I have seen some real effort but it still is not enough I will make tweaks. I have been seeing that effort on mesa. After I made this post members of bluegrass started making it, when they had not been before. As of right now, I am not seeing the kind of working together needed on forest.

There is a big difference between the 25-plus responses to this thread on that server, and the big step up in era chat room coordination they started doing on bluegrass, and the radio silence I have received here. The only response I got was a complaint about this post was somehow insulting and how there needs to be even better rewards. The response here has not exactly inspired me to want to make the rewards even easier.

I know at one point it was mentioned somewhere that we flooded the forum with Breeding adds and some were not a fan. A few did start a discord which has been amazing *personal opinion. I know many a handfuls of breeders working more than just their stud even to make sure the boards are full. I do not play on other servers *for the thankfulness of my wallet* so I'm not sure what you mean by more active. (I am in the discord) and it is very active. Daily if not hourly updates of trading or selling. The reason I haven't put more studs out was being I'd rather help others with their adds and promotions. I've made more than 50 FT babies in a day lol but still I think there is effort being made but everyone seems to be putting in different amounts. For promotion or to promote. There just not all going to be the same. The people putting the effort just want to see other do the same.. Now I know not everyone is going to do the same amount as me lol but still they promote but at the same time some promote but don't help others. *this was in alot of different directions im sorry.

Hi Ammit - I hear you saying that you aren't seeing a ton of effort here. Part of that probably does have to do with the discord server, where 23 of us are active and there are daily posts. Currently, we're working on targeting specific eras to fill up the boards, now that we got to see how things went in February.

Discord is enormously easier to coordinate breedings, even more so than the chats on the site itself, because the tags from people who want straws from your horse are direct notifications (at least, on mobile). I have trouble remembering to check other chats because of memory issues from a brain injury, but I can let a discord notification sit in my notifications on my phone until I'm available to send the straws.

I understand you can't see the discord chat and may disregard it because it's not on the site, and it's hard enough to set up chats that function even without creating direct notifications of any type.

I just wish the discord could publicly show our efforts over there. I spend hours a week coordinating which of my mares I will breed to which studs, I am working on ads to share on the forums as well, but I do not have much free time where I am not forced to rest by pain and can physically do the edits to create an ad.

This futurity stuff seems to me to go a bit beyond the "game for busy players with only a few hours to spare a week" concept of Hunt and Jump. I'm sorry that my statement probably sounds cruel, and I know your answer will probably be to just not do the futurity if I can't dedicate time to it.

I don't have any answers, really. I wanted to chime in to show that there is effort happening for the futurity, even if it's not visible. directly in game.

I am part of the discord group so most of my breedings to futurity studs has been through that to help support the members who are also helping me out in return. It is easier for me to keep track of and coordinate than the era chats.

I don't think futurities need to be easier. I think it is still early days and members are figuring out what works for them.

It seems like it would be quite easy to get all the boards filled if everyone not only promoted their own stallions, but also made the effort to support another player and use a stallion not currently on the boards.

I've bred almost 400 futurity foals this season, but I'm not in the discord. I got in early, bred the studs that were there (that I had mares of equal or higher Era), and now I check every day to see if someone has added one that I have a matching mare for (sometimes that's the tough part). I'll continue to do this, but I'm not really sure what else I can do to further the futurities. It kind of depends on the RNG gods whether or not the foals do well and earn points.

I, personally, like the challenge and the longer-term timeline. It's more gratifying to me when you earn something rather than have it handed to you, so I wouldn't expect any sort of hand out. I enjoy coordinating on the forums and the discord. I believe we can get close to filling the leaderboards, between those of us giving it a shot!

I am really glad to hear the discord group is working well for folks, and you are making friends. That is exactly what I want to see.

As things stand right now forest server has the lowest percentage of filled futurity slots. You are way behind mesa and moderately behind bluegrass in that regard. Since the people working to fill the eras are doing so off-site I can't see it. That does not mean you are not making an impact and that the boards are not better off than they would have been otherwise. Just that I can't possibly know how much you are or are not doing. I will be honest while it sounds like a busy discord group, which is fantastic, it does not sound particularly more active than the other servers, and given that forest is the farthest behind the efforts may not be as effective as they might be. There may be other contributing factors causing that disparity though. Perhaps more era-specific targeted coordination is needed? No clue obviously as I don't know what you are trying. :)

Discord has some good benefits over forums (and some downsides) and I personally use it a lot. I am glad to hear it is going so well.

I am also very glad to hear no one else took the post as insulting and that people are feeling hopeful about getting things filled. I agree with BlueValley's take. I think this is quite doable and I think the gratification for those who come out on top will be fantastic. It is more work than the regular leaderboards for sure, but for those who can and want to put the time into it, it should be a fun ride.

That is the great thing about the discord, everyone in there is breeding to eachothers. No one is doing all of the taking, most everyone is breeding more to other people's boys. We just started targeting Eras specifically today and finished qualifying Era 1. Era 4 and 5 are next.

Those who don't want to participate on the Discord server should still be working together to not just promote their own stallions, but help out other members. Just promoting your own stallions isn't going to fill the boards.
I've helped get multiple stallions onto board that I don't even own a stallion for. It's a great feeling to help out other members.

It just takes 10 mares to get a stallion on the boards. Between the stallions listed on the forums and in the era chats it would be easy to fill all the era boards if everyone just bred 10 mares to a stallion who hasn't qualified yet. A lot of really nice stallions are up for stud for just 1 hb in the era chats.

I will be honest I haven't been as active as I should be. The biggest thing is because my life is really bust right with a Junior and Senior in high school. College visits and maintaining everything at home hasn't been easy.
I do show my futurity foals and am trying to figure out the breeding aspect to breed to other futurity stallions. I had a few lethal whites with breeding last year. I know I need to participate more.

Also can I say that I am loving the updates on this thread on what eras need help so I don't have to look at it myself and just need to go to that chat and scroll through the studs. I did manage to breed some mares to Era 4 studs, I think I qualified 2 boys as is?

Part of the reason I, and maybe others, struggle a bit is the sheer number of studs up for breeding can be a bit overwhelming. Some of them are older and might pass before futurities begin. Does make me wonder if we could have a mass "Clear all for breeding in this chatroom" button for the owner or maybe mods. And if people are serious about getting their studs on the listings they can put them back up

Boom! Look how many are filled now. I TOLD YOU all you needed to work together in a targeted way and as soon as this server started doing that the boards started filling up like mad. If a server working together can get some 5-8 eras qualified in 12 hours it proves how reasonable and doable the requirements are.

This is EXACTLY the kind of working together I was talking about. I am glad this server finally got themselves into gear. :D


ObsidianKitsune adding a clear all option won't help when the moderators of the era chat rooms are not moderating them. A programming solution won't fix what is not a programing based problem.

Breeding Circle members worked super hard last night to get boards filled. We are working on getting the last couple filled ❤️

Dang, I love you guys! This is the most awesome community ever! :x

Now that my obsessive compulsive ADD anxiety can be put to rest this feels exciting again!

Basically the foals need to be bred and owned by someone other than you and must be the same era as the stallion. A stallion needs to have 10 foals under 6 to qualify. A stallion's standing is based on the number of points earned by his top 10 highest pointed foals.

I highly recommend the discord channel!
https://discord.gg/NA2hjCP2

I am new to all this stuff and i just join. How do i go from here?