Save Our Sales.

I'm debating on turning my inactive club into an active one, but moving in a different direction.

Save our Sales would be a club made to buy up so named 'unnecessary' horses on EV, and remove them from the game by whatever means.  This could be as simple as gelding stallions to letting them age/starve on an account in order to speed up the process.  The idea stems from my most active breed, paints, being bred to the point of pointlessness.  Paints are at dirt cheap prices and with around nine pages of horses who hardly ever sell due to the overpopulation of the genes that are up for sale.

Save our Sales would focus on all breeds, not just paints, and seek to remove horses considered undesirable from the pool.  A secondary gig for members can be to raise fresh foundations to release into the pool (or their second generation foals) to help freshen the gene pool for all breeds that need it.  It wouldn't be anything extensive, simply something as easy as 5 horses a week removed per member would be enough to clean up the lines over time.

I'm just testing the waters to see who might be interested in the club (or possible admins/help) because of similar problems they've come across in their breeds.

Disclaimer:  Everyone considers 'unnecessary horses' in their own way.  This is not to cull perfectly good horses from EV, but to help ease up on the bad horses that are out there to help members both old and new sell their horses with a little bit less difficulty.

I am already doing something like this on my spare accounts for riding school profit, so I'm not opposed to this idea.

I don't think it would be too bad of an idea. 

I would join the club. I've culled over 1k horses in last 2 months. This account and my spare account can hold up to 350 horses altogether. My method is buy cheapest adult horses in the market until my slots are filled up and just ride school them until they died by starvation. At this point, I have horses died on daily basis so I can buy horses daily now.

EDIT:
And yes, I do earns profit daily.

Last edited on 2018-10-22 at 20:51:12 by Demon

I'd be interested in this. I'm trying to do something similar where I buy the cheapest horses on the market (usually all the ones listed for $100 - $1000) and relist them for $5000 (though I've been thinking I should probably go for more). And because I for some reason am far too sentimental about pixels, I take care of them until they sell or die of old age. This way sifts the unwanted horses from those who are actually wanted but just underpriced.

I did a thing similar to Demon on my 2nd acct but on a much smaller scale due to lack of space & in 1 month culled about 200 horses & turned a riding school profit of about $50k a week which was the easiest $200k I Ever made in this game which was quite sad in a way. But either way I'd be interested in this. 

Maybe there should be some kind of club guidlines drawn up to point members to the type of horse it aims to cull to,avoid any confusion as you already said people have different ideas about what makes an "unnecessary" horse.

 

I'm in... 

It's worth a try.

Super basic look right now guys (and I have to figure out if I can removed registered horses) but here it is!

http://www.equiverse.com/club.php?id=112

Joined! I'm already doing this on my spare :)

Id be up for this.. Ive already been doing this, mainly with appaloosas.. but Im totally up for this.. Im actually in the process of dedicating an unused account..just to send horses to greener pastures.. 

I just set a record for myself. Today, I have 41 horses died. Normally, I have 15-30 horses died daily but never 41!

Just a thought - instead of buying underpriced horses that no one wants, how about buying properly priced horses that have value.

The cheap ones can sit forever, and it affects no one except their owners.  Actually, in a way, when you buy the horse, you are rewarding the low price and/or inferior horse.

However, if you make it a point to buy good horses for appropriate prices, you reward the good breeders and reinforce responsible pricing.

I really think we really do tend to focus on the wrong end of things.  If you want to support a company that makes a well-built car, you do it by buying their cars, not by buying up junky ones and destroying them.

The added benefit is that you don't have to make a judgment call about what makes an objectively "bad" horse or "good" horse, just what horse suits you.

Thought it might be something to consider.

@confessor - 
I buy all the good horses as it is, at least the ones that will fit well enough into my herd.  I'm buying the bad ones because I hate the search for horses, and a lot of people will buy these cheap horses because they're cheap, have color and confo, but are bad horses.  

I literally just bought 28 horses for about 100k.  All bad horses, from my objective opinion.  Then I turned around and bought 6 horses for 120k that actually fit my breeding program.  And some others randomly as I was going through looking for horses to cull.  I'm not ignoring good horses that fit what I want in lieu of buying these bad horses, I'm buying both, and taking the bad ones off the game so hopefully a new breeder will have a better option of good horses, rather than trying to learn how to spot a good one from what was 9 pages of Paint Horses.

If I can reveal these 5-10k good horses by removing these bad 3-8k ones, I will. Because if you're new and lacking money and see a horse that's statted for so cheap, you'll buy it rather than buy it from the breeders who are trying.  I just want to give them a chance to see these nicer horses, or at least ones that I feel contribute more to the future of EV.

Last edited on 2018-10-27 at 16:43:00 by Nittrous

Out of curiosity, what is your definition of a bad horse?