The Paint Horse Club thread

This thread is for discussion matters of the Paint Horse Club

Questions to discuss:

1. New registration requirements



This is how new registry settings page looks. Stats, points, conformation, and grade are the same for 1st gen. horses and for the 2nd gen. and up. My suggestion is that we rise the bar a bit, so the 1st gen. horses could be accepted when they gain some stats, points, and grade.

As for requirements for studs and broodmares, currently they use the same settings as the main registry. I asked Abbey if she plans to add separate settings for studs and broodmares but currently it is as it is.


2. Membership fee: One Time Join Fee or Monthly Fee

Which we choose? Personally I would prefer monthly fee because we have 403 members, and with reasonable amount of EVD as a fee the club will have steady source of income. What's your opinion?


3. Breeds: Do we continue to register the Quarter Horses?

As you remember, this question was raised last months, and we decided that QH will be allowed to the registry. However, currently registry settings have no option for adding color requirements. I plan to ask Abbey about adding them but what is our course until then?


4. Admins
Who would like this awesome responsibility of helping me running the club? :D

1. Sounds good! The pic is the settings, correct? I would say maybe a bit higher imo.
2. Monthly fee does sound good, however, not too high for newer players
3. Color requirements sound cool! 
4. I would love to! That is if I... qualify? For what you're looking for.

The settings on the pic are not actual, I temporarily set them to be very high to prevent the registration until we sort out the requirements. Or I'll set them to check manually, to sort out those that horses that don't fit the requirements that are posted on the club page.

1. I agree with "setting the bar slightly higher" so that first gen horses will have to gain some stats, ect before being registered. Should motivate an overall increase in quality of horses being registered in the long run =)
Not too sure how to work around the min conformation though....maybe let each member vote with what they think the min conformation for a foundation should be (for example, personally I avoid breeding foundations with less than 55 average conformation, but that's just me) and set it to whichever gets the most votes? Just an idea =). 

2. I'm not sure on this one. A once off fee is convenient and possibly more cost effective for the player specially considering one pays to have a horse registered, and if the size of the "stud" is large, that can be quite a sum after breeding season.
 **I realize not everyone registers their horses, but I'm talking about those that do**
 However a monthly fee has it's advantages too (as you said, a steady flow of income, a little "realism" factor to the club system, less "begging for donations" around competition time and so on).  So I'll say this, if the monthly fee AND registration fee are reasonable amounts, then the monthly fee could work. 

3. I'm still sticking to my opinion from last time, as long as the horses meet the color and other requirements, I still love the idea of the cross registry =) 
Until "color requirements" are added to the system, maybe set up a chart (like before) stating which colors are permitted, have it posted on both QH and Paint pages, and just ask the owners to be extra vigilant when requesting cross registration?

4. I'd be willing to assist if it's needed.

1) I agree with the slightly higher requirements even though I still have some low conf foundies I have raised my own bar to a minimum of 60 conf unless it has a really awesome pattern/color combination. Many of my horses are not registered I only register what I feel are my best horses.

2) stay with one time fee. I have noticed that a lot of the time my horses may be the only ones in club shows. I think we need a way to increase participation in the club shows.


3) I don't care either way

Last edited on 2017-08-09 at 08:11:53 by HiddenAcresPaints/Chiwing

1. New registration requirements
I agree, I do think that foundation horses should be registered later in their life. A lot of people will register their newly purchased foundation horses then do nothing with them. 
Personally, I think we should have 300 stats as minimum. Foals that doesn't meet the requirement can be registered in their later life.

2. Membership fee: One Time Join Fee or Monthly Fee
Monthly. We have 400+ members and I am pretty sure that half of them aren't active anymore. Monthly can help with filtering out non-active members.

3. Breeds: Do we continue to register the Quarter Horses?
Personally, I disagree with this... I do not want to see Quarter Horses in stud/broodmare/sale... I am a Paint Breeder and I have no use for Quarter Horses since I can't breed them to my Paints. If Crossbreeding is introduced in future, sure, I am fine with adding Quarter Horses AFTER crossbreeding is introduced and ONLY IF Paint Horse can be crossed with Quarter Horses.

4. Admins
I might be interested in Admin position. However, I want to wait until school start so I can see if I have time for this as well.

1. I agree that it should be raised a bit. All foundies are the same at the beginning so why should one be registered when first "born" versus others. Definitely the least amount of stats should be 300.

2. Monthly would work out great. if we have that many members and yet so few comment and actually participate. Plus, it is a good way to build up the bank.

3. Eh, I breed paints AND quarters so it does not really matter to me. Though I would prefer to add it later till maybe we add crossbreeding.

4. I am very interested in the Admin Position. 

Ok, I've set the min stats to 300 and left min confo at 50. The registry type is set on manual for now, to see how it  works and make sure that any horse dropped out of the club registry due to some bug is registered back. Later I'll switch it to auto.

If you have found any bugs/glitches, please say so here. It would be much appreciated.

Membership fee: One Time Join Fee or Monthly Fee
I do not mind the monthly fee. Though i feel that what it is set at now is way to high and if it remains set that high i will be dropping this club. I for one do not always chat and I work a lot so no one is on when i am. I do play everyday and like this club as i have been here for some time. If the monthly fee was lower it would still allow a build up of the bank funds but would not only be a few core members paying it.

Breeds: Do we continue to register the Quarter Horses?
Quarter Horses are not paints this is the paint horse club.Quarter horses have their own club and if they want to be part of a color club there are a few of them around now. I do not agree with them being part of our club as they are not breedable to paints.

@Magic Happens, I apologize for any misunderstanding, I honestly was under impression that 350 EVD per month is a reasonable fee. What are your thoughts on the amount of money the club should take as the month fee?


And to clear my position on Quarter Horses: both I and the president of Quarter Horse Club have come to an understanding that it would be interesting to add the element of real life in the functioning of EV clubs. Real life QH and Paint Horse registries allows cross-registering. The idea was that Paint Horse Club allows registration of QH with paint markings, and the QH Club allows registration of Paint Horses without paint markings.

@ Rook,

I love the idea of cross registration... only if crossbreeding is introduced. Currently, I used the club to help me find a decent studs/broodmares/sales. I really don't want to waste my time to bypass all quarters since they are pretty much useless to my herd. I cannot breed them to my paints and I don't breed quarter horses so I won't buy them.