Today we launched a new feature that will help people navigate upcoming restricted tournaments a lot easier. The feature works from your stable page and your stable summary page. When searching for Green or Blue Restricted Trainer Tournaments, it will automatically bring back by birth speed rating the tournaments most applicable for your horse. You will no longer have to scroll through literally hundreds of tournaments. With that said, if you want to expand the options in the Blue or Green Restricted Tournaments, there is a radio button that allows you to bring back all results, like we currently do now. Personally, for Green and Blue Restricted Tournaments, why would you want to go beyond your horse’s capability? This new feature will save players a lot of time when entering Green and Blue Restricted Tournaments. This horse racing game feature was published live this morning.
Next week, could be as early as Tuesday, we are releasing the new Horse Challenge Program. This program allows players to actually race their horses against other players’ horses in one-on-one match races for game points with those races occurring instantly when the challenge is accepted. All horses will be categorized in birth speed rating range and players can challenge their friends or any player in the community to compete head-to-head. This process has no effect on your horse’s aging process, it does not interfere with his tournament schedule – it’s just an exciting racing opportunity while you’re waiting for that perfect tournament to come available. Please keep in mind that only horses not entered in trainer tournaments are eligible for this feature. So, again, it helps fill the void between tournaments.
All the statistics, including wins, game points earned, etc., are kept separately from your other trainer game statistics that you earn in tournaments. In other words, every horse will have three sets of racing statistics on your stable page - those associated with our tournaments where you compete against a bunch of other players, those associated with Yellow Tournaments where you race against computer horses (non-player horses), and those statistics from Challenge Races where you go head-to-head with other players as one-on-one horse racing competition. This new feature also introduces an entire set of new badges. Players will be able to challenge other players with game points so they can put their points where their mouth is.
Another new feature that we have just started developing will help fill the Blue and Green Restricted Tournaments. Once this feature is released, Blue and Green Restricted Tournaments that require up to three additional horses in order to run, instead of being canceled, will automatically be filled with community horses. The community horses will only be entered in the Green and Blue Restricted Tournaments when a minimum number of horses is not met so the tournament runs instead of being canceled. The community horses will be entered right before the tournament cancels, preventing tournaments from cancelling. Again, we will only fill these tournaments with up to three community horses. In other words, there still must be a minimum of five horses entered in order for the tournament to run. But, if players know that community horses can be entered, they might find themselves entering tournaments with just a few entries knowing that this program is in place. Please keep in mind that community horses cannot win the game points associated with the tournament. They will just fill the preliminary races and will not be part of the final.
We’re still tweaking the frequency of the Puzzle Program with Yellow Trainer Tournaments. It currently requires seven Yellow Tournaments for each puzzle play, but we’re going to reverse it back to six. This way, a player is guaranteed two puzzle plays if a horse is only entered in Yellow Tournaments for his entire career. Even if you send the horse for a vet visit, turning the number of Yellow Tournaments back to six, will ensure that you get two puzzle plays during a horse’s career that is strictly tied to Yellow Tournaments. Of course, if you want to run a lot of puzzle plays with your horse, enter your horse in Blue, Green and Red Restricted tournaments, where you earn at least one puzzle play for each completed tournament and multiple puzzle plays with each completed General tournament, especially the General Trainer tournaments that consist of Grade 1 or Grade 2 preliminary races.
The new desktop client is coming along. I plan to show a video of it in the community by the second week of February. In addition, we’re working on the championship fictitious wagering platform where players can win thousands of dollars by wagering on fictitious races filled with champion horses. You earn entries by the size of your active stable and the number of active tournaments you’re in. In other words, the bigger your stable and the more tournaments you’re actively participating, the more plays you will earn in this new program with chances to win big prizes. I actually expect this program to be much more successful than the Puzzle Program.
Mike
<<< Restricted Tournaments that require up to three additional horses in order to run, instead of being canceled, will automatically be filled with community horses. The community horses will only be entered in the Green and Blue Restricted. >>>
Sounds good. I already entered three times tonight, hoping that the races fill. I think this is a good idea. Something had to be done to keep these tournys from cancelling.
A win win for all.
I love the new tournament search, it saves a lot of time and gets you to the tournament you are looking for a lot quicker, well done HRF!!!.......As far as the horse challenge program goes, it sounds like a great idea and a lot of fun but lets hope that members do not "abuse" that program!!!
Great to hear that though has been given to fill blues/greens with pool horses so that races are not cancelled.The new tournament search is most welcome.Well done HRF.2013 will be an exciting year with many new aspects to the game coming into play.
yes but will these filler pool horses being putting up the cost of entry and race fees? if not the pools will not be worth running as the the winning purse will be barely more than the entry fee/races and all other places will be a loss
I saw the new tournament search earlier and liked it. Filling the blues/greens with pool horses is nice too. Xanadu, I guess if the pool horse can't race in the final you can't expect them to pay fees either. Better to race for something than nothing. I would have held onto a few horses I retired this morning had I known this was coming.
Just a suggestion if tournaments don't fill would keeping them open/extending another 48hours with the option to withdraw be any good?
if you have 5 horses and they all run just one prelim figuring thats all they need to make final that leaves a pool of about (blue rest) 32000 (after hrf's cut) making 1st place about 17500 with the way its paid now meaning with the entry fee plus 1 race being 8500 for a blue you would have to win to make anything 2nd place would break you even and the amount of the winners profit would be equal to a months stable fee and with the trny taking its usual two weeks or more where is the worth (that is not including if you horse needs lasix to run his best distance as well or a bit or anything) which would reduce the profit all the more. And lets not even go into the greens which would make you less than running a yellow.
Puddles says community horses. Others are saying, pool horses. Which is it? Arent they, in fact, a different group of horses??? Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe it does. Just curious.
Think it's a good idea to auto fill tournaments also..as long as purses stay the same if there were 8 player horses in the race...I'm with xanadu77 about green tournaments ...It's impossible to pay stable fees with green horses...and almost with blue horses...this is not right...think the match race is good..a lot of people want this...The new game client...i do not want to give up dat files.
I think 5 is a little bit of a low number if no points will be entered from the "pool" horses. what might work( i dont know if its possible) is have at least a minimum of 6 horses in a tournament and limit the final to 4 or 5 horses,if you limit a final to lets say 4 horses(in 6 horse tournament) maybe you will get all 6 entrants to run the whole 3 races in a tournament knowing only 4 will make final.........
I like the new tournament search feature, it saves time. The Horse challenge match races will be like challenge buddy but one on one? Sounds like a hit to me. HRF, still the number #1 horse game site on the net!!
maybe a solution to the green & blue horses and their stable fees is to have lower monthly stable fees for the greens/ blues / general horses based on their BSR number bracket..
like the new green blue search, probably kill off reds. nice to see 130s up in gen only. could you have hi-lo bsr for grade one two three ?? all this removes most of the taste of the puzzle program good idea !!
Starfish has had it up to here with the BS of the HRF race tampering stooges. Starfish is declaring war against these corrupt, race tampering HRF weasels. It's true that this game does suck. It continues to unravel almost daily while management desperately tries to ignore the community voices thinking that if they can somehow keep dreaming up new changes to the game (upgrades my ass) everything will turn out alright. Keep dreaming stooges. So John sorry but this games isn't worth $9.95 a month it's totally worthless because the stooges keep tampering with the tournament race horses and the race results. Now the rewards and puzzle prize winners are mostly really company spies getting their pay checks along with their 1099's. Meanwhile all management can do is ignore or encourage this illegal abuse and dream up their next great upgrade (my ass) gimmick. So you retarded morons have a lot of abuse coming your way.
When will the new feature of adding pool horses so races don't get cancelled come into affect? Looking forward to that change, frustrating when races i enter keep getting cancelled.
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