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I would pay to “boost” a horse to *** without losing a gen.

Do you mean era?

I would pay 8k rather than 4k to be able to mass test my horses verse another horse.

That would be a coding project and coding is very expensive so not something I can offer. Unless you want to pay the 100 dollars an hour to pay to code that, and I am guessing not. :D A bulk comparison test option is an interesting idea for a different time though.

For a token you are thinking something you just buy for say 50 bucks with no expectation of return except for a shiny next to your name? Basically, a donation thank you?

Love the idea of impossible clones, assigned herd helpers and straws/eggs from archived. I also think a best in barn comparison would be awesome!

#1 thing for me right now would be pastures. I would love the ability to rearrange and upgrade i.e. I have 3 separate instances of having two pastures (30 & 60) for one generation that I would love to combine and then upgrade to 100. Kicking myself for not just buying 100's every time

I will be totally up front here and say that I am unlikely to be able to drop this kind of cash. That being said, I hope it is still helpful to suggest some ideas that might generate interest from other players:

Cloning deceased horses

Boosting any horse to ***star or ***gold

Design your own rank special herd helper to be permanently added to the game

Design a fantasy BC to be added to the game (My thought would be that "design" would be getting to be part of the creative input process to direct Jenx in creating the artwork. Like saying I want a zombie horse, and it should have bloody ribs showing, and worms for hair.)

Bulk price to buy all gene licenses at once

Custom background design that will only be available to that player

Activate sea pony fishing on their account for one week or one month

I will keep pondering and edit if I think of more.

Idea #1
Rank Special Herd Helper bundles for 1 time purchase - say you get 5 with ability to share (so ten total) with either 5 random or 5 pre-set.

For example, a 5 pack chimera could be 4 of the more common and 1 highly sought after.

Or even just singles, the ability to purchase a herd helper rather than hoping you roll one.

Idea #2
1000 pt show horse purchase. I don’t know how much these would cost, but maybe a one time purchase, or a bundle of 5.

Idea #3
24 hour access to Witching Hour / Appy Hour or the 1 in 5 chance for Brindle (from St Patrick’s day last year- some of my favorite horses are from then)

It actually would be very difficult to do a bundle of herd helpers because of how they work. A single is doable (with lots of possible creates) but not multiple different herd helpers.

" would we be able to pay other players?"
Possibly but it would depend. That is a question with too many complicated branching possibilities for me to give a definitive answer to.

"Please note I will need minimum orders of 50 USD to make this profitable but I am willing to sell smaller things worth less than bundled if people have ideas. I am also willing to sell WAY larger things. Let me know what you can dream up."

I would not expect that to cost 50 alone. :)

I like the HH roll idea,
Also the sea pony one as well
I really like the custom HH imput where we'd have some say and create rights that would be cool.
Because I'd love to have more BC fantasy styles, like Kelpies, Zombies, Pegasus, and Nature themes as well like forest, winter, summer ect.
The pointed Show Horse
The barn conversion one.
I'd love a Monthly GMT subscription?
Where we could pay like 20$ and get 4 Gmts a month or something like that, and Like the 15 gene roll over like every 3/4 months have a GMT sale?
I know I spend most of my real money on GMTs due to being a lower daily income on my accounts so I usealy spend the 45$ for 10 GMTS alot Hell I'd be willing to spend 15/20 a month for premium sucription if the bc and a few GMTs were included could call it the Ultimate Sucription
Also a beginner package would be nice
Could do Levels of it where for 10$ you'd get 5 slot pasture or something like that.
20$ you'd get a higher create points for x amount of days
As the price category goes up so does the rewards?
Like my game I play on Xbox does Monthly deals where we spend our gold or money and get rewards
Something like that would be really cool and with and with as much as EVERYONE spends on the GE every year it would be a more accessible way for lower accounts to participate easier with creates and GMTs

I might be willing to go up to 50% off on something like a 1000-stall barn but not 85% +percentage. That will hurt us financially not help us I am afraid.

A bunch of the ideas above are very coding-heavy and not something I can offer at this time. I still have to do all the regular coding. I am selling my overtime hours for this. So if I skip your idea just know that is probably why.

I have gone over the ideas on all three servers and these are the ones that stand out to me as really very doable. I have ranked each one by how much time they would take me to do because this sale is all about selling my time. I have not included any kind of shop/gene sale as that would be a different sort of sale event and not part of this particular special offer. T1 is the least and T4 is the most time expensive.

The ranks are not a price, it is how much time it will cost me to do this for you. I still need to factor in other things to make sure the pricing is balanced for what you get. I would love for you to let me know what you would be willing to pay for the ideas listed below.
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Here is how it will work. I will add a token to the upgrade shop that costs 5 USD. You will purchase however many tokens you need for the amount of work you want done. The minimum order is 50 USD (or 10 tokens) worth of work.


T1 -Change the name or breed characteristic of a horse you used to own but is now deceased.

T1 -Make any unbred foundation horse breeding cap quality (with a 7-era penalty). You may then double-boost that horse on your own if you so choose. You must already own the boost tokens to do this.

T2 -Convert any pasture into a larger version, just pay the price difference, rounded to the nearest 5$.
T2 -Convert any barn into a larger version, just pay the price difference, rounded to the nearest 5$.

T2 -Pick any herd helper rank 5 or below, get 250 creates, and lasts 5 days
T2 -Pick any normally available, RS herd helper, get 100 creates, and lasts 5 days
T2 -Pick any, Special event only RS, get 50 creates, lasts 5 days

T2 -Convert any unbred rank special you have into an exceptional (or normal) version of that rank special. Discount for bulk edits of horses in the same barn needing the same edit.

T2 -Have 10,000 show points assigned to 1 horse of your choice.
T2 -Have 2,500 show points assigned to 3 horses of your choice.
T2 -Have 1,000 show points assigned to 5 horses of your choice.

T2 -Breeding ability consult for 1 barn: I tell you with 100% accuracy, which is your best and worst breeding horse (or horses in the case of a tie) in that barn by looking at the hidden numbers. With extra attention paid to who is intact or not. The cost is per barn.

T2 -Breeding ability consult for 1 horse: I tell you with 100% accuracy, which is your best and worst breeding offspring of a horse by looking at the hidden numbers. With extra attention paid to who is intact or not. The cost is per sire/dam.

T2 - 100 straws, or 25 eggs from any deceased horse with the last owner’s permission*
T2 - 25 eggs from any mare you own, up to 500 eggs total


T2 -Clone any deceased horse with breeder permission*, or any foundation horse you own regardless of breeder, or any lined horse you own with breeder permission*. **

T3 -Clone any lined horse and have it be created as a perfect ability foundation horse. **

T4 - Design your dream Herd Helper, and receive it for 50,100,or 250 creates, lasting 5 days depending on how many GMTs it is valued at. Hard limit of 20 GMT worth of rare genes per herd helper. (Exceptional status counts as 5 GMTs)

T4 -Create a background tack pack: YOU create up to 10, 500 by 500 px images. They must all be approved before I will accept payment. We will add the game logo and add it to the game as an option for any player to purchase, and you will get it automatically unlocked.



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*Permission is deemed granted automatically if the breeder (for cloning) or prior owner (for seed stock) if the player has been inactive for 6 months or more. If the player is still active, permission must be obtained before I am contacted for this service.

** You will purchase my time to do this cloning for you with USD, but will still need to cover the cost of the cloning. We can work out covering that cloning cost with USD if you prefer but just know the genetics of the horse will impact the final price.


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Please let me know what YOU would think is a fair price to pay for these services. Thanks.

I am more looking for what people would personally be willing to pay and/or think is fair to my time and to other players.

What do you think is a fair value for these services ignoring what the cost of GMTs are in the shop?

(Tack packs are by IVs not GMTs)

So it sounds like you think 50 to 100 to design a herd helper, and 50 to create a backgrounds-only tack pack where you create all the art? Did I understand that correctly? :)

Could this be adjusted for Mesa? Cause that’s -1 for us.

Negatives always become era 0.

What if we want to break them apart?

I could maybe do that. It would be a T3. You would just pay for my time not for the pastures in that case.

Talk to me about eras.

You will have to tell me what you want to know about them.

How rare a herd helper is depends on what modifications are triggered by that herd helper. Buying a custom herd helper would be one price for whatever it is. Then the rank, and aviablity of it would be set by me based on what the herd helper did. Making a new herd helper would add it to all servers, but you would only receive the "special lots of creates event" on the account you purchased it for. If you want that "special lots of creates event" on other servers you could pay for just that (the T2 version) for any account you wanted.
I have no limits on how many herd helpers can be in rotation in the game. It is based solely on what the hh does.


1,000k, is a million points and I am not actualy sure the game would let me make a horse with that many. I am not opposed to selling one, though it would have to be around 100 times more in cost than the 10k point horse of course.

I can do a height/weight swaps at a T1.

Flat-out buying a herd helper with a huge number oc creates is one of the options already listed above.

I decided shiny thing would require more coding than I probably want to mess with. It would be easier for me to give everyone who buys something from this sale one then have a specific category for just the shiny thing.

Definitely interested in the pasture upgrades and would also be willing to pay for your time to combine some. It would be a huge huge help to my monthly breeding! I would likely upgrade my two 60's to 100 ($40) and the possibly combine 3 30's and a 10 (willing to pay $5-$10 for just combining?)

Would also be interested in the create a RS HH, but honestly I don't want or need 50 creates. I would pay $25 for 10 creates of Red Ribbons.

Ok, if these tokens are able to be bought for others, I'd try to be able to swing $50, for some of those. Looking especially at finding the best horse in barn or pasture, and possibly EDIT UPGRADING pastures or barns.

Just curious from a coding perspective, how is combining more complicated that splitting? Even just combining my two 30's into a 60 would be a huge help! The 30's just aren't working for my breeding style and only being able to pick 1 stud :(

To quote summer above
“ T3 -Clone any lined horse and have it be created as a perfect ability foundation horse. **”

Talk to me about eras.

I'm sure she was referring to the Era of horse in question and how would it change or stay after converting to the foundation status?
For example if she wanted one of her top Era 4 converted to a foundation
Would it change the Era ect...

Totally understand that! You had just mentioned breaking pastures apart as being a T2 above so I figured combining wouldn't be much different.

Excited either way - this a cool opportunity to "god mod!"

Edited my comment above.

New question: what possible time frame would this be? It'd be perfect for me next month; I'll blow my hbs on that instead of an upgrade :D
I had something else but the children distracted me lol

Pricing: I'd love if the T1 or T2 levels were "affordable", and to me that's $25 to $50 max. If I can get 2 special items for my $50, I'll feel more justified in the splurge. However I feel like something I really want, boosting any horse to cap, should probably be more expensive, even though it's only T1 haha!

I think a shiny token for everyone who buys from the special sale is a great idea! Maybe an additional one for EVERY $50 spent, though that may get crazy lol

Yes, I understand that they are tiers of difficulty and not actual prices!

Some thoughts on the idea of some kind of name display to show your support. What I can do is have everyone who purchases one of these tokens get something automatically added to their name. A token would cost 5 usd so you can buy just a single token if you want to help out. It would still be a minimum of 50 USD (10 tokens) for me to personally work with you on the above items but you could get a name add-on for just 5.

I am not sure yet what that would look like though. It might be nice to have something more for those who pay more.

So what I am offering to do is take a lined horse of your choice, and make a foundation clone of that horse with the same genetics. It would become a foundation of the current era. So 6 in this case. The new clone would be a foundation and be perfect create quality. It would not be lined to be clear.

Are you aware we already have a summer solstice herd helper called Bonefire?

I would assume anyone wanting to create a herd helper would have a similar motivation.. :)

I have no set time frame on this. Expenses will be on going well into June. I don't need to make this a short window.

To clarify previous comment
T1 = 2 tokens
T2 = 4 tokens
T3 = 6 tokens
T4 = 8 tokens

Also if I create a HH would it be possible to have homo satin, or S+. Or het for both with other genes as well? You said a 20gmt limit for rare genes but only 1 copy of either (sa or S+) is 20 gmts.

Also with the create a HH would we be allowed to pick one already in game and add to it?