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Foal Training!

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Young Horse Training
You can now train young horses! A new section has appeared on the pages of horses under 3 years old. Once a day, you can visit your foals and young horses to train them from a dropdown of options.

On the first day your foal is born, there will only be one option: Imprinting. I know that this is a fairly controversial term within the horse world, but it's a convenient term for Equiverse. Here, it purely means that your new foal is getting to know you and is getting used to human handling. If you complete Imprinting, the overall stats gained at the end of training will be significantly higher than if you miss imprinting, so it's definitely worth doing.

Foal Specialty will now be set on the day that you complete training, and will assign all stats earned throughout training into the relevant stat groups for the specialty chosen.

If you miss some days of training, it's not the end of the world - you will be able to complete training on any amount of progress and as long as you've done at least 1 day that horse will gain some stats.

Brand new Equine Center horses come partially trained, with 3 days complete per year of life. E.g. if you purchase a 2 year old horse, it will have completed 6 days of training.

Can I train my foals in only one area and still complete training?
Well, yes. You could Imprint on day one, then throughout the rest of the first year only focus on leading, only focus on trailer loading in year 2 and you will be able to complete with stats. However, to encourage a more realistic training programme, you will get a small bonus to stats if you vary the training.

How many stats will I gain?
I know I said previously that it would be within the 10-15 stat point range for the full training time, but that doesn't really feel rewarding for 3 weeks' worth of work. This training process will take your horses all the way from birth to the moment they are able to show.

As usual I will be keeping the exact formula under wraps, but it will be largely based on your foal's base stats and how much of the foal's training you complete. I may need to adjust amounts as we go along in case I've been too reserved or not reserved enough, but I will give you a rough idea.

If you imprint, train in all aspects of available training, and reach 100% of your training you will get the following boosts:

100 Base Stats: +57 stat points
500 Base Stats: +128 stat points
1000 Base Stats: +181 stat points

If you do not imprint and only complete 80% of your overall training, but keep a good variety, you will get the following boosts:

100 Base Stats: +33 stat points
500 Base Stats: +74 stat points
1000 Base Stats: +105 stat points

Why the inconsistency? 100 base gets over 50% while 1000 base gets under 20%?
In order to try and control stats, the higher your horse's base stats, the more slowly the training stats will creep up. I didn't want to drastically limit the amount of stats while also making training not worth doing for foundation horses. It's also a bit of a "catch up" mechanic for foundation horses. You get more of a percentage reward for completing training on a foundation horse, but you will always get more stats than that on a foal of a breeding pair.

Ugh, why is it on our horse's page and not in the arenas?
Because I want there to be a reason you actually look at your horses occasionally. That's about the only reason really :P sorry.

Other Notes
* Foals and young horses will no longer show any Equipment, Specialty, adult Training Progress or Show Result information until their training has been completed.
* I will be moving everyone onto the new cron system as of the 9th April 2017.
* Due to moving house and a few other major setbacks over the past few weeks, I will only be coding a small Easter event. I'm very sorry, I know I promised big things for Easter, but unfortunately it's just not do-able this year. <3

New Items
We have 2 new DNA Tweaks - Gray and Flaxen! They can both be picked up from the Credit Shop for 2 Credits each.


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 Posted by

Abbey 🌸
Posted on
2017-04-03 14:31:14

Comments

Thank You so much, Abbey! I'll be glad to train all of my foals from now on.

Posted by

Dragonfly (#89253)
3rd April 2017 at 14:34:48

I just tried out the foal training and I really like it! One small bug I noticed though, in one of the messages instead of saying the horse's name it said "(horsename)".

Posted by

SueHeck (#104120)
3rd April 2017 at 14:39:27

Thank you! That should be fixed now :)

Posted by

Abbey 🌸 (#1)
3rd April 2017 at 14:40:24

Is there some kind of log thing that lets you know what you have trained the foal in already or do you need to keep track of who trained in what?
Thanks Love Love the Flaxen Tweak :)

Posted by
Karina (#109133)
3rd April 2017 at 14:41:55

I'm so excited for this! Thanks!

Posted by

Shieldmaiden (#105168)
3rd April 2017 at 14:50:08

I'm curious as to what you mean by Foal Speciality?

Posted by
ℌ𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔖𝔱𝔲𝔡 (#28950)
3rd April 2017 at 14:50:50

I love the training system for foals. I have one question I give foals in the first 3 years of life hay cubes or peppermint to build Stat then convert. Will this system move those stats to the area I want them to be in? On the gray DNA tweak does add gray or remove it?

Posted by

Arbutus (#107236)
3rd April 2017 at 14:53:59

Foal training sounds awesome but I'm super excited for the grAY TWEAK YESSSSS

Posted by

River (#51565)
3rd April 2017 at 14:57:45

This is so cool! Thanks Abbey!!!

Posted by

Allie (#14241)
3rd April 2017 at 14:59:36

Thank you Abbey! This update is awesome! :D

Posted by

AlphaDelta (#103213)
3rd April 2017 at 15:02:18

Thanks! I have been wanting to train foals! ❤️❤️So exited! Thanks Abbey!

Posted by
🦋{American Elites} (#109664)
3rd April 2017 at 15:05:52

I too have the same question as Arbutus. Are we still able to feed our horses Hay Cubes and then convert them to their proper discipline to get the stats to be put into their discipline areas; or are Hay Cubes no longer going to work like that?

Posted by

💜ℱℯ𝒶𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 (ℱ𝒢) 💜 (#72812)
3rd April 2017 at 15:09:55

I found a bug:After the page loads when I train a foal, the message above the foal's picture says the foal doesn't need to be fed because that was the second last action I did with the horse. Example: I treat the foal then feed it, after that I train it and the message says I don't need to feed it. But if I train the foal first it is fine.

Posted by

AlphaDelta (#103213)
3rd April 2017 at 15:15:10

@Arbutus - you will still be able to convert training using the normal method.
@AlphaDelta - duly noted, I will look into that bug :)

Posted by

Abbey 🌸 (#1)
3rd April 2017 at 15:39:38

Any word on if the gray Tweak is a add or remove? Thanks

Posted by
Issolla (#109099)
3rd April 2017 at 16:42:23

I am so excited! I just trained my foals & had a fantastic time! Thank you so much, Abbey!

 Posted by

Valzed ❤️ 🐀 🐀 (#87263)
3rd April 2017 at 16:59:47

thank you finally this might work!!!

Posted by
giraffe1255 (#110396)
3rd April 2017 at 17:01:53

Thank you Abby for giving us a more realistic way to interact with our young horses!

Now I don't know if this is a bug but Annella is a mare but the training text at the top of the page referred to her as a he.

Posted by

Wind Blown Stables (#37450)
3rd April 2017 at 17:07:20

Very excited about foal training! The scenarios are very cute!
Also with the grey tweak, I have the same question as Arbutus

Posted by

Nienor (#97509)
3rd April 2017 at 17:17:45

The Tweaks all allow you to change the alleles to whatever combination you want so GG, Gg, or gg, so you can add or remove grey with the Grey Tweak, I haven't used Grey, but that's how flaxen worked for me!

Posted by

Sabriel (#84)
3rd April 2017 at 17:25:50