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What are Futurity prospects?
  • I just got a basic upgrade on my account. I'm curious on the futurity lock that locks futurity prospects from being sold. What are futurity prospects? How to make them? Why do you have to lock them?
  • Congratulations on the basic upgrade!
    The lock is basically to "hold" the foals in the game so that they earn points for the sire or dam they are locked for.
    This foal is locked for its dad for the Era boards (same for Futurity foals, but you need 10 locked by other players vs the 5 for Era boards)
    They can also be locked for the mom's to.
    (Mare example, they need 3 locked or breed by other players for board qualifying, so offer eggs for sale to get the 3 used )
    Color devision doent need locked foals.
    Futurity and Era boards both run as Era competitions so the sire or dam for example show below are both Era 2 so since I locked the 5 needed it placed dad in the running for the Era desired.
    So once the foal is made if it's acceptable to be qualified it has a option to lock the foal on the control page of the foal (same page as genetic, performance, breeding testing)
    You then lock the babies and show them so their show value boosts mom or dad up or down on the boards :)
    You can't lock foals from your own pairs,
    Example being if I owned coffee and autumn the resulting offspring wouldn't be eligible for locking since the Futurity and Era locked babies must be locked by other players the don't own or previously owned the parents
    Just think of the moto sharing is caring:)
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  • To answer the original questions:
    Futurity prospects are foals that are sired by a stallion that you do not own, and are the same era as that stallion. The stallion need 10 qualified foals to make the board. If he has more than 10 qualified foals, only the top 10 foals based on points from showing count. Foals are qualified from when they are born until they turn 6.
    Eras are a whole different thing, and I can explain that if you want me to.
    You make them by breeding to another player's stallion. You have a basic upgrade, so you can use straws to breed, make embryos, or you can do live cover.
    Stallions are advertised in the era chatrooms and forums. Some players have their own forum thread to advertise their stallions, some don't, but there's a monthly futurity swap in the Games, Contests, and Giveaways forum where you breed 5 foals to the most recent stallion posted, lock them, post a link to those foals, then post your own stallion to be qualified.
    This was this month's swap...
    https://mesa.huntandjump.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/8764/futurity-swap-game-october-2024-special-for-this-month-big-raffle-prizes#Item_72
    You don't absolutely need to lock them, but some players strongly request that you do because some players (apparently) just breed to send to auction or send back to the game. I have had it happen to my own stallions, which is why I like advertising through the swap game.

    To correct some things mentioned above:
    Mare's foals don't have to be owned by another player. There are no mare futurities. I have had mares make the board that I owned and only I bred to.
    With a basic upgrade, you can make and sell embryos, but not eggs.
    Era boards don't need locked foals, the foals can be from your own stallion.
    Futurity boards don't NEED locked foals, it's just an extra level of security to ensure that it can't be sold back to the game. Locking does not increase training ability or show value.
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  • This is sort of related so I guess I will ask it here. I have a basic upgrade as well and I am confused about the embryos. I can make them but not use them? Is that right? If so what is the purpose of creating them?
  • You can make them and use them. You can't collect eggs.
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