Freezing Ability to Breed While Horse Is In Auction
Oncamimus [Platinum || 27 posts] on 10/01/2022 1:53 pm
So, I'm normally a player who is more withdrawn from the community due to my incredible social anxiety...but I came across a problem recently...and I don't want this to happen to others.
Basically...I was bidding at Auction for a lovely Marwari (my current favorite breed). I look carefully at several things before I bid usually, especially with Marwari, because of various aspects of the game...in this case, I was looking to see how many offspring the horse had (as a rare breed, Marwari can only have so many offspring) and though my memory fails me often (I have memory issues)...I'm pretty certain that the horse had no offspring at the time of first bidding...I did eventually win the auction, and didn't see right away what had happened, as I'm in the middle of organizing my stables and working on creating foundation horses for crossbreed campaigns. I decided that today I was going to make a concerted effort to get all transport horses into my stable or boarded, and that's when I noticed that the Marwari I bought had been bred to a horse a day before the auction ended...
I don't really normally have an issue in rescuing or buying a horse that has been bred, due to the fact that you can usually see before you commit to buying that this is the current status of the horse...but with auctions it's different...you place a bid and wait...and the status of the horse can change during that time after you bid. You can't retract bids if you notice something off. With horses with breeding limitations like Marwari, this can significant change your initial choice to bid on said horse. If the breeding had occurred before the auction, I wouldn't have minded waiting for the cool down...but literally the day before the horse is won? Frankly....feels....real bad...
I propose a safety measure, specific to auctions, that freeze the horse temporarily while in auction, so that they can't be bred, shown, etc during this time. This will ensure that the horse you see is the horse you get when it comes to auctions.
Thank you for your consideration and potential comments!
I support this! I normally freeze any horses that I have in auctions, but having the game do it automatically would make it much easier.
Support
Support!
Support! Might I also add a freeze feature for horses in normal sale too?
I don't think I'll support. I'm fine waiting. I don't go for stuff that requires high levels to breed. I recomend just getting a baby Marwari/teke and getting everything trained up. Also go look online for fast ways to level stuff up. This isn't one I really want. I understand the person who's auctioning the horse.
Imagine you accidentally put a horse up for auction, and you want to breed it again. Imagine how that person would feel with this update? And when your selling a horse, you might wanna have another kid with its pelt, yet you can't cancel auctions, can you?
May I add that if they breed right before auctioning the horse it freezes and that goes for breeding time meaning that you'd have to probably wait longer-
I agree with rosi- if they freeze the horse straight after it's bred, it's gonna be a real annoying problem, more then even before.
I support this!
I can see it being a very big problem for breeds with limited breeding opportunities like Tekes and Marwaris, but also older, high-level/high PS horses (or even just horses that look flat-out pretty that you'd like to try getting genes from-) that you might be aiming to bid for. And ultimately, breeding a horse before you put that horse up for auction would be just as fine, since when you're first looking at the auction (and the horse itself) with the intent of bidding on it, you have an understanding that it has already been bred before and you can take that into account when you consider placing your bid; not only that, but the horse doesn't continue to age while it's in auction.
It's a lot better than bidding on a horse auction for, say, 30k bits, then if you win, you go to check the horse page and bam; the horse, whether rare, old or both, was bred for possibly the last time. I personally haven't had that experience yet, but that would absolutely suck.
And even if it's not the horse's last breeding, if the horse was bred the day before the auction was won, you're still stuck with the cooldown regardless. At least if it's in auction and frozen right after being bred, it's something that you can acknowledge rather than it being an unfortunate surprise when you won.
You realize they will wait till it's breedable again, breed it, and put it up for auction. Meaning that it will now have to wait the full days instead of half that time(or less!) edit: somebody else said this too-
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Support!! Imagine you bid say, 50K or more on a Akhal-Teke, Marwari or Chincoteague. It has one breeding left when you place the bid, so you want to buy the horse with the expectation of getting a foal from it.
Then, it is bred before your bid is accepted in the auction
now you just dropped 50k+ on a horse you can't get a foal from, ever!
Horses should definitely be frozen while in auction
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