Hello everyone, we managed to wiggle quite a few hours into our busy week this week to make some QOL updates and add some requests.

⏳ Site Speed

We are working on several things in the background to increase the overall site speed. We want everyone to know that the site may lag occasionally while we are in this process as optimizing the site is going to take Bedouin many hours to complete. This means site speed won't be a “one and done” kind of update but more like chipping away at problem areas. We are aware that the game starts lagging several times per day and are working to address these specific areas first.

Part of optimizing the site includes having to rebuild several pages. The first was done this week: the stable page. This page now loads horses per tab which allows for the page to load very fast. Each tab also only loads 20 horses from the server at one time. We hope you’ve seen significant improvements in speed here. This page rebuild took about 6 hours to complete to give an idea on how long it may take to fix other pages.

Other pages we’re looking to rebuild/improve are the herd management and mass actions. Our goal is that no matter how many horses you have, you should still be able to load pages very quickly. We hope to rebuild and/or optimize at least one page a week.

🏆 Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame is back! It’s starting off with only a couple of categories but more will be added over time. 

• Horses ranked by level (top 100)
• Total horses in each breed
• Total horses in each crossbreed

Each unfrozen horse will be ranked every 6 hours. You can see when horses were last ranked in the Hall of Fame. All horses that have been ranked will display their rank on their page so you can see where your horse stands in relation to other horses in the game. This means even horses not in the top 100 ranks will display their ranking on their profile if they haven't been frozen during ranking. Rush on out (after reading all the news) and see where all your favorites rank!!

🐴 Foundation Store Improvements

We took a look at the foundation store and thought we could do some QOL updates and add in a few requested features. 

• The number of stalls you have available now updates with each purchase.
• If you are not boarding at home, you can now see how many transport slots you have available. This will also update with each purchase.
• The success message no longer disappears between purchases, making the page move.
• A name is no longer randomly generated on page load.
• You can now choose whether to randomly generate names for horses or not. This should make it easier to figure out which horses need to be named according to your own naming conventions if you need that.

📌 Sticky Tabs

Sticky tabs when navigating between horses are back! To make this easier to use, horse images now automatically collapse if going to a different tab so you can get straight to business. 💼

💬 Registry and Club Forums

Registry and club forums have now found their way back to Horse Fable! Registries should automatically show forums but clubs need them enabled through their settings. Posts from both places will also show up in your community feed if you're a member.

If you're a club president, you can choose to notify all members of the club of your posts. This acts similar to how the game news posts are and can help keep everyone informed.

🔑 Club Keys

With fixes to crossbreed campaigns and adding back in club forums, clubs keys are back in the General Store! This means you can now make new clubs and also submit new crossbreed campaigns.

📋 New Mass Action

You can now mass update working paths! 

Just a reminder that mass actions are a benefit of upgrading and can save you a lot of time as your herd grows. Other mass actions include: putting up for sale, putting up for stud/brood, setting disciplines and careers, branding, retiring, transferring, and surrendering. 

🌟 Small Changes

• Demolishing stalls in your estate when you have horses in them will remove those horses from boarding.
• Halter show arena now shows 25 per page instead of 20 so you could see all star levels of one section (male, female, foal) without having to go to page 2 for the last 5.
• If there are no horses in Uncategorized, it will no longer show on your stable page.
• If a horse fails the criteria for the crossbreed campaign gen 2, it will show up in gen 1 and can be registered as a first-gen to continue breeding lines.
•  Images have been removed from the Shows Arena to make it more compact

🦟 Bug Fixes

• If you are a forever upgraded account, you can now upgrade to a higher tier.
• The Foal Predictor can now predict crossbreeds.
• Enter All 1 should now correctly randomly enter shows.
• You should no longer be able to accept breeding requests for horses with under 90% energy.
• Fixed crossbreed campaign criteria for gen 2s and 3s. There seems to be a couple horses who haven’t taken the change nicely, and we’ll be looking into these over the next couple days.
• Preview in lab should now switch back to adult from foal

As mentioned previously, our list is very long and we’re trying our best to chip away at it every day. Sometimes things may go wonky (such as stable tabs this past week) but we try to put in a fix for those cases as soon as we can.

Cheers,

Bedouin & Curly