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Manual Account Progression

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I am currently trialing a new method for our daily cron.

Currently cron just runs. At 4am EV time every day it ages horses, and all the rest. With the new method, cron will not run in its entirety. The majority of the cron will be triggered when you log onto your account for the first time after 4am and click a button specifically asking to progress your account. Only then will your horses age, lose hunger, etc.

This means that technically you can just not progress your account. Your horses would be safe until the next time you did choose to progress. If you ever need a couple of days away from the game, or are rushed into hospital, and can't access your account so that you can lock it - no problem, the game will essentially freeze everything with this new method.

Instead of making it immediately site-wide and encountering possibly a ton of bugs all at once, I've decided to - for now - make it an opt in system. Basically I need at least 10+ regular players to opt into the new system, keep track of everything that you do, and make sure that all notifications show up (horse care, showing activity, foal notifications), that nothing dies if you don't log in for a few days, etc.

To opt in: go to your Home page, go to your Account Settings, and there is a new dropdown box for "Opt In to Manual Cron". Select "Yes" and update your settings.

This will eventually be applied to every account, and it will not be an option to stay with the old method. I am only allowing an opt in for the bug testing that will be needed.

If you find any bugs, please post them here

I hope I've explained everything well, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

What is cron? Cron is what makes your horses age, become a bit hungry, and reset daily limits like showing/riding as well as training. It's also in control of making your Deluxe/auto-showing/auto-care days tick down, it births foals, checks to see if any horses have been uncared for so a notice can be sent out, etc.


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 Posted by

Abbey 🌸
Posted on
2017-02-17 01:57:35

Comments

Abbey, I don't know if this has anything to do with this new system (or if it is just a bug in general, I don't know if the owner of this horse is using the new system), but the foal that I was supposed to get today has not been born, and it says that the mare will give birth tomorrow.

Right before my post on the 18th of february, I bred with the broodmare. She should have given birth today.
Something went wrong here. The mare probably has been locked for one day, which causes the foal not to be born on time like you said it should have.

Posted by

Atanza (#100437)
23rd February 2017 at 14:27:04

This account didn't reset for progression today I tried locking then unlocking and still it won't reset

Posted by
HiddenAcresPaints/Chiwing (#101063)
12th April 2017 at 06:56:47