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First up BC changes
When BCs first came out they were completely linked to breeds so we had a script that at the end of each month cleaned up any horses that were not the right BC for their breeds. We have since shifted away from this meta but the clean-up script was still intact. It now only edits the BCs of foals aging up into their adult form. You won't have issues anymore with the clean-up script changing the BCs of horses you hand-changed to a new BC. (Again except for foals which age up to their breed settings.)

I have also added a bulk BC editor for premium upgrades. Should allow you to rapidly fix any horses that got accidently swapped on you.

Client Side versus Server Side generation
There is an additional issue going on that has been causing some confusion because it looks like a BC issue but is not. If your pastures are generating as national types instead of the set BC or your aging up horses are showing as national, tack is in the wrong places horses are floating, etc you are not experiencing an issue with BC settings.

The game has two kinds of image generation. Client-side generation happens when you refresh a horse on its page (or use the Advanced tack editor). It working fully correctly right now. We also have server-side generation. This is the generation that happens silently in the background. Right now client-side generation is happening all in one go but server-side generation is happening in two steps. Old generation and new generation. The old generation only makes the old BCs and the new generation fixes it to the correct BC. The new generation 1) can fall behind and 2) sometimes does not fire correctly. For example, I believe no pasture foals are getting the new generation system on any server.

As of right now bluegrass server is backlogged and is still processing new generation requests from Jan 2nd. The other two servers are caught up on new-generation requests. Any horse with old generation on Forest or Mesa is stuck and needs an image update to be triggered to get it moving again. There are a number of bulk management features that trigger image updates you can pick from to trigger this.

Why was this not fixed before? And when will it be fixed
The old generation has critical features we need to make the server-side generation work, we have to run it, but it runs on an old operating system that needs to be updated before we can unify it with the new generation. It's a pretty complex thing to fix. We would have loved to get to it soon but we had to get out gift exchange and payment system updates first to keep our business afloat.

Work on this fix has already started and we expect it to be solved before Feb rollover.


Health Stuff and Travel
Sorry, it took me over a week to get the BC fixes out. I had a nasty flare start-up at the beginning of the year that I am only just now getting over. It's been a very difficult and painful one that made it impossible to work.

On Monday, Jan 15th I am flying back to Bulgaria. There will be a break in customer service while I travel.

Work on the next BC has already started (Irish Draught!) and I look forward to focusing on UI updates in the coming weeks and months.