*Player Trophies - Improve Horse Market

Okay, so I've been brainstorming ways to help improve the horse market and breeds in general.  I feel like while the game is amazing and fun to play, there isn't a ton of incentive other than personal pride to raise our horses, and even less incentive to buy or sell those horses.

So, my suggestion is player trophies.  Yes, we have the lovely horse trophies for showing well, but we could get some for ourselves to help foster better buying, selling, breeding, and everything practices.  If you support, feel free to throw your own ideas in there on trophies we could have.  If you disagree, feel free to tell me why.  c:

Remember, these are trying to get people to buy, sell, breed, and strive to get the best horse (the whole point of Equiverse!).  All of these can have multiple trophies, getting increasingly harder to achieve so they're something to work towards.  There are a ton of these that could be created, but I just want to give some examples from the top of my head, I can add any other good suggestions to this list.  c:

Trophy Examples:
- Sell a horse.
- Sell # of horses in flat sale.
- Sell # of horse in private auction.
- Earn x amount of money in horse sales. (5k, 10k, 50k, 200k, 1 million, etc)
- Earn x amount of money in stud fees.
- Own x number of horses (10, 50, 100, etc)
- Earn x amount of money
- Take care of horses for x consecutive days.
- Buy x number of horses.
- Breed x number of foals (I believe with ones like this it should have a minimum stat requirement to start, to avoid random breeding.  Ex: Breed 5 foals over 300s.  Breed 10 foals over 400s.)
- Breed x number of foals with conformation over (50 confo, 60 confo, 70 confo, etc).
- Reach x number of stats with a homebred horse
- Reach x number of stats with foundation horse.

- Breed specific:
- - Own a (breed) horse with (gene type: At, Z, Cr, etc)
- - Foal a (breed) horse with (gene type: At, Z, Cr, etc)
- - Breed x number of x breed foals.
- - Stud x number of x breed studs.
- - Earn x amount of money in stud fees
- - Raise x breed horse above x number of stats.


Like I said, there are a ton of these, but having trophies like this (maybe with small EVD incentive for reaching) I feel will help invigorate the horse market.  I'm sure I could have explained it a lot better, but I'm sleepy and my brain is jumbled, hehe.




Last edited on 2017-08-29 at 15:26:45 by River

I love these ideas! You've clearly put write a bit of effort into writing them all out, so thank you!

Thank you for this wonderfully detailed post (and thank you to Dusty for replying to it and bumping it up, this completely missed my radar for some reason).

I'm hesitant to add trophies/achievements for players because once they've been achieved there's no real incentive to carry on doing them.

What I would be tempted to add (and use these fantastic examples for) would be a daily quest. Members could maybe choose one quest each day from a selection (which would also update each day) to work towards, the quest would stay active until it's completed or discarded.

Players could maybe have 3 active quests at any one time, and they all reward either money, or items, or for particularly long/arduous quests perhaps an EVC.

Once they've been completed, the quest could then have the option of showing up again in the daily rotation to be selected again - so they'd all be repeatable.

I really like that daily quest idea! Especially if it stays active without a time limit, since a lot of the suggestions Nittrous had would be hard to do within a shorter period.

Oh definitely - they'd stay active until the member decided to either remove it themselves to make room for a different active quest, or until it was complete. I might introduce time limits, but it wouldn't be "earn $1mil in horse sales in a day" haha.

I definitely love the idea of them being a daily quest, especially if we had the ability to keep them up as needed and discard them if they weren't something we would be interested in trying to achieve. c:

Abbey, I get what you're saying about once the trophy is earned the incentive is gone, but for some of these achievements maybe a badge system would work where the badge is only visible while the user is still achieving the objective? It wouldn't work for all of the proposed trophies above, but maybe for some of them.

I have a really hard time parting with my babies right now.. I have sold a few but I don't think there should be trophy's for selling. I do spend money for breeding to outside studs. I guess maybe because I still feel "new" to the game I am not ready for something this elaborate