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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Abbey 🌸
Posted on
2017-04-03 14:31:14

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i don't know if it's a bug or not, but i was able to train locked foals	Posted by C.razy A.ngel (#6051) 3rd April 2017 at 18:14:54
very cool!! thank you :)	Posted by ❦BlueEyedLuv❦ (#103923) 3rd April 2017 at 18:44:56
Goal training is really cute! Nice update!	Posted by Sparkles (#88639) 3rd April 2017 at 20:38:37
I am extremely excited about flax and grey tweaks! [And I love with all the tweaks that you can select how many copies o the gene you want to change, so you can get homozygous or heterozygous. It means I can tweak it if I just don't get what I wanted in a foal, while keeping it possible based on the parents' genes!] Foal training is great! I like all the different little messages you get when you interact with the young horses. They're cute. :) And I like the variety of training options there are. I'll be excited to try them all over the next couple weeks with my younglings.	Posted by «» Only the Wind (#55431) 3rd April 2017 at 21:30:44
I wanted to check out foal training yesterday and I did that on a horse, that right now is 3 years old. I can't complete the training, because game says "invalid item" or sth like this, horse has 4% of training. I thought it may disapear when I train it normally through Training Center. He didn't get any boost points (was trained in his specialty) and still has 4% Young Horse Training on his site. I can't take the tack he has or change specialty.	Posted by Ina (#108530) 4th April 2017 at 04:20:52
Thanks Abby	Posted by Kat of RKO (#87162) 4th April 2017 at 04:46:11
I'm having the same problem as sikora	Posted by Chassie (#102165) 4th April 2017 at 05:49:30
foal training and a flaxen tweak are the perfect combination to peak my interest :D thanks for your hard work Abbey!!	Posted by coldbrew (#76258) 4th April 2017 at 06:39:38
sounds awesome Abbey! I am gonna try training on my new foal ASAP, lol! :)	Posted by Midnight Outlaw (#98451) 4th April 2017 at 07:17:29
Keep it up Abbey! :) Great work! I was wondering if there is a way to make sure that all foals have been trained? Or do you need to check it one by one if you are unsure about it? xD	Posted by Atanza (#100437) 4th April 2017 at 08:13:47
I just clicked 'complete training' and my horse did not receive any stats. Though he had been trained two or three times. Is that supposed to happen?	Posted by Timberbrooke Meadows (#100392) 5th April 2017 at 07:10:58
Ok, today training completing is working, the horse has received stats, yesterday's boost point and tack.	Posted by Ina (#108530) 5th April 2017 at 10:02:01
Is it normal, when you complete a foals training, if it's not 100% done that the foal loses about 40 stat points? I just finished a foals training and it was finished after the update to include foal training and it said I gained +0 and +1 stats but the horses stats went from 418 down to 374. Is this normal? Sorry if it makes no sense, I am very bad at putting my thoughts down.	Posted by PlymouthFury (#99554) 6th April 2017 at 04:53:47
One thing I am NOT happy about is what happens when you finish the foal training, the horse looses several levels and over 150 stat points! 3 yr stats R2-762; after foal training L5-595: 3 yr stats R2-734; after foal training L5-586; 3 yr stats R2-712; after foal training L5-564 I've noticed this happening to all my youngstock that turn three and progress beyond the foal training. I understand that none of these horse had foal training from birth so they would not gain a lot of stats, but loose stats?	Posted by Rancho SoCal (#101472) 6th April 2017 at 10:48:53
My horse is already 3 and I've done some training in the arena, yet on the horse's page it's showing me that I haven't finished my foal training... but it won't let me do any foal training. Any advice on how to fix? Thank you.	Posted by bakalo11 (#109650) 9th April 2017 at 09:45:23
The foals losing points is a bug. Post it in the bugs board where it will be seen.	Posted by Storms - /A/A Main (#28387) 10th April 2017 at 06:12:09
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