Horse Height and Group Messages

It's Spring time in Equiverse! Don't forget to check out the Spring backgrounds in the General Store this week!

Horse Heights
Horse height is now in the game! It does not currently affect images as I have yet to figure out how I want to implement it. The value can be found at the top of the Conformation and Health section on horse pages. Heights will not affect show results, they are just for fun at the moment :)

All horse breeds in the game have been assigned a minimum and maximum height value based on real world registration requirements. All horses have been given a random height between those values - there is a bias towards the "average" so there will be more horses around the middle of the values than at the edges (as you would expect anyway). Newly generated horses will receive a randomised height between the two values with the same bias towards average.

Breeding heights will take the values of both parents, add 1 inch to the tallest and remove 1 inch from the shortest and will then take a random height from both values. In this way, it is possible to breed taller or shorter than both parents. There is no bias towards average when breeding. As of right now, there is no way to breed outside of the minimum and maximum limits, but it's something I would be open to if there was call for it.

If you breed parents that have no height set, the foal will receive a newly generated height like all other horses in the game at the moment.

* Those who got on early may have noticed that their horse heights have changed. I had a small error in the coding and had to wipe horse heights that had been set already a couple of times.

Group Messages
You can now turn any of your conversations into a group message. If you are the conversation leader (you are the leader if you were the person to initiate the first message) then you can invite and remove members from the conversation as well as promote another member to conversation leader. Newly invited members will not be able to see conversation history before they join.

There is now a list of participants on the conversation page with online/offline flags.

Instead of hiding conversations, you can now leave them entirely. This is the only way I could feasibly do "hiding" conversations unfortunately so hopefully it's not an unreasonable change. I have removed the multiple "hide" checkboxes and forced leaving to be done from the conversation page as removing yourself is permanent unless someone invites you back.

This is it for this week, I had planned on a bunch of bug fixes but the group messaging system took me a lot longer than I anticipated and I want to hang around a bit in case of any bugs :)

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Abbey 🌸
Posted on
2017-06-13 14:03:20

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Yay! Thanks Abbey!	Posted by Zest (#29268) 13th June 2017 at 14:09:18
I love the "heights". Thank you Abbey for all your hard work	Posted by Blue Kat (#108751) 13th June 2017 at 14:10:16
Thanks for the wonderful updates!	Posted by Shetlandlover's Rescue (#110151) 13th June 2017 at 14:10:22
Thank you so much :) great update.	Posted by ❦BlueEyedLuv❦ (#103923) 13th June 2017 at 14:12:32
Thank you for all your hard work Abbey. It's amazing that you are the only one running this whole game and still managing to have a life outside of this game.	Posted by EagleeyeoftheEye (#111023) 13th June 2017 at 14:13:13
I LOVELOVELOVE the Group Messaging! Thanks Abbey!	Posted by Dragonfly (#89253) 13th June 2017 at 14:15:58
Everything looks wonderful Abbey!! :D	Posted by kimtia (#48) 13th June 2017 at 14:22:51
Thank you!! :)	Posted by Entium (#111249) 13th June 2017 at 14:46:20
Nice Thank you I love this Game!	Posted by ＶＯＮＡ (#112016) 13th June 2017 at 14:49:14
Woot woot Abbey!	Posted by Wonder Wiki (#24715) 13th June 2017 at 15:27:42
Thank you so much, Abbey!	Posted by «𝖑𝖊𝖔𝖓» (#99805) 13th June 2017 at 15:35:06
Good job, Abbey, I was excited when I saw the horses height's. What a pleasant surprise early this morning. Thank you.	Posted by Rivendell Riding Academy (#105123) 13th June 2017 at 16:31:40
Awesome! Thank you!	Posted by Rose - Ravendell Stud (#21273) 13th June 2017 at 16:33:06
Thank you Abbey!	Posted by AlphaDelta (#103213) 13th June 2017 at 17:19:37
thank you abbey! ♥ omg loving all the updates~	Posted by madoka. (#87262) 13th June 2017 at 17:43:07
Thank you for your work, Abbey ^.^	Posted by ✧Strada Primus✧ (#99522) 13th June 2017 at 18:49:33
Thank you, Abbey!! I would absolutely love it if you could breed outside the minimum and maximum height limits (but keep the limits for newly created horses). Maybe there should be no hard maximum or minimum, but it becomes more difficult to breed to a certain height when approaching a certain value? So it's never impossible but more difficult to breed giant or dwarf horses. Also, is there a guide to maximum and minimum horse heights?	Posted by Syrien 🐇 ☽ (#86327) 13th June 2017 at 20:35:32
Thank you Abbey for all your hard workðŸŽðŸŽðŸŽ	Posted by mgarabs (#90033) 13th June 2017 at 20:39:42
Awesome to see heights are here! Can't wait til they're affecting the art too. :D	Posted by UlyssesBlue (#60734) 13th June 2017 at 21:45:09
Awesome! I like the heights (though I hope they stay as a "just for fun and an optional goal" thing, not something that's going to impact playability, though affecting art could be cute.) I'm glad to know that in the future it will be inheritable, but that for now it's random. I was trying earlier to figure it out, since some of my related horses were so different from each other!	Posted by «» Only the Wind (#55431) 13th June 2017 at 21:54:33
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