Additional Show slots

Often times when I am showing my horses I run into a couple of issues. 

1. There aren't enough shows in the discipline/grade I am in need of. 
2. My shows have not run yet which usually results in me locking horses for the day because I am unable to get on later to show once mine have run and I can make more. 

My suggestion is for players to be able to purchase 'additional show slots'. This could be something that would need to be purchased daily or something that could be done more like the auto tools where you pay x amount of EVC and get an additional 20 shows per day or something along those lines. 

If it is something you could do daily I would suggest EVD be used to add them. Something like $10k per 10 additional shows with a cap of 50 additional shows per day. 

If it would be something where you could buy x amount of additional shows per day for 31 days type of thing then something like 5 EVC could be the cost. 

I just think something like this could help out a lot of players. 

Supported. 

I have thought there should be auto generated shows for each discipline/rank. Only 10/20 shows but they run at eq midnight time or something.

I totally support, my 200 shows is not nearly enough for my 500+ horses. 

Reaper - I've thought that would be a good idea in the past as well! 

Thanks for the support Laureal and Vicky

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Last edited on 2022-12-26 at 09:59:16 by 𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖆

To be honest, I don't earn all that much from showing if I'm lucky I break even with the amount I spend on shows and what I get in return. Usually, I spend around 150k on shows and I'm lucky if I make close to that. However, I am in a fortunate position where I do not need the income from shows. The only reason I do is because of the stat gain and that's it. I have a feeling a lot of deluxe players are in the same position as me, as the income from shows isn't guaranteed nor is it a reliable source of income. Also, I generally create around 200 shows per day and I'm lucky if I earn over 5k for the show entries, usually, it's less. Therefore I doubt being able to create more shows will cause any major economic problems. If you have to buy the slots each day I have a feeling you will end up paying more than what you will receive in income, especially if the cost of buying slots increases each time.

Last edited on 2022-05-08 at 15:31:53 by Laureal

i don't think deluxes really get a lot of money from having a stable, but also basics being able to host shows could be nice feature.

currently deluxes get their shows from buying arenas for $10k each, capping out at 200. that deluxe feature could stay the same and an additional one could be added for all account types where you can buy show slots without an arena for training. it could be a bit cheaper since it would only have one function unlike arenas which have two, or it could be a credit feature that gives all the slots at once. i'm not sure how many you could get from it, maybe 50 shows so that basic will cap out at 50 and deluxe caps at 150? or 100 which would double the current deluxe amount.

another way could be to just leave the system as it is but allow basics to host about half the deluxe amount? the pool of possible shows still increases, but this way wouldn't help the issue of deluxes running out as much.

i'm not sure if this makes any sense lol but essentially instead of having shows as an exclusive feature locked behind deluxe you can get some access to it as a basic and full (or extra) access as a deluxe.

I think basic accounts being able to purchase show slots is a good idea. They shouldn't be able to without purchasing the slots though. The whole reason deluxe accounts have more features is so people will pay for them. The game couldn't run if it made no money. 

I can create 200 shows/day and hardly ever do - I forget/don't care enough.

Some incentive to do so beyond EVD or a feature that would "save" my hosted shows so I can just click once/they are automatically recreated every 24 hours would probably increase the number of deluxe accounts that do host shows.

I run into a problem daily with not having enough shows and not being able to make enough shows for all of my horses, so I will support any positive ideas that help.  I have had to reach out to random players that I have never spoken to that were online to ask them to kindly make shows just so I could finish showing all of my show string.  I personally don't see an economical risk especially seeing as there is not much of an economy right now anyway, and reliable ways to make money are very limited.  

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Last edited on 2022-12-26 at 09:59:49 by 𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖆

I totally support the ability to create more shows. At the moment I have over 600 horses, however about 100 of them are locked as I'm waiting to breed them. The 200 shows which I create generally only cover my dressage horses, that still leaves my driving, endurance, racing, show jumping and western horses. At the moment it's not too bad, but I have about 150 endurance horses which usually are not shown. However what am I to do once my other 100 horses are unlocked, how will I fit all those into shows? 

As much as I support the game auto-generating shows as seen here. I believe there would be too much strain on the server, but to be honest I will support anything to fix to the current situation we are in now. My post here, accurately states the situation many of us in, and therefore there needs to be a fix. 

 

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Last edited on 2022-12-26 at 09:59:55 by 𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖆

As some people mentioned income gap between Deluxe and Basic accounts, the main difference is that we can save up on boarding, treating and showing of our own horses if we have a farmstead, board in our stables and use our shows. Most of deluxe players uses their shows, because there are simply no other shows available. The only feature deluxe can actually earn much from is training arena, but it's daily income is comparable to the games tent. I know that when the herd we take care of is big the incentive gets pretty nice from the perspective of newly created basic accounts, but what would be the point of deluxe if not giving at least a bit of advantage for spending premium currency for it? Besides, personally I have deluxe not for the income, but for being able to create shows for my horses, auto-care and to run a club. Having big heard is manageable with manual care, tho it takes ages. No chance to show all of them without having showing slots, big heard + basic account means riding school whether I like it or not. After reaching a certain population of western morgans on the same lvl, game literally forced me into deluxe.

As for showing slots, more would be welcome. I often don't use all of my slots, because the next day I usually need them before shows created the day before run. If I knew I would be able to show all of my horses without a problem, I would use them to fill all gaps. I can't really ask other players to make some for me, because when I play most people are offline and later I usually don't have time to take care of that (or it's past midnight where I live).

Btw, there is another reason why I don't like creating shows for others. I already had a situation multiple times, that I created shows for someone and nobody entered them. Someone else created these shows before me and didn't write anything under the request (because f.eg. they didn't know about it), while the player asking for them either doesn't remember to update the request or enters the shows ending sooner. It's double annoying - no income from the slots and less slots for my horses. Facing that, I would rather create shows from time to time to fill "0 shows available" than answer show request.

*edit* Forgot to say that in the first paragraph - 99,99% of time the ONLY horses boarded in my stables are the ones I sold and were not moved to another stable yet. If I get 20$ per few months from boarding it's nice, seriously. The only "income" here is that I don't pay for boarding, because I have my own stables.

Last edited on 2022-07-14 at 03:25:39 by sikora