Hello everyone and welcome to a mid-week update! We saved this update since it's quite boring and a bit more of a “cleaning up” kind of update. Today we have news about our recent community poll and some changes to auctions. 

📝 Community Poll Results

Our community poll results are in! We asked you to vote on updating all the old art to generics or not. The results of the poll show 96 of you voted with 57.3% voting to update all the horse art to our new style using generic bases. This means all breeds in-game that don’t have their own stand-alone art will keep a generic base until their art is updated.

However, we were asked if we would consider this suggestion and add these changes should all the art be updated to the new style. Of which, we are happy to oblige. As an exciting bit of an art sneak peek let’s take a look at our generic draft base with these fancy bolder base colors.

With the updated colors, we will be re-working our currently in progress bases. This means we are pushed back a bit with releases with a new goal to have all the campaign breeds done by mid-January and currently done pures done by the end of January. Thunderbolt will be working on our generic horse bases which means the switch to those will occur once those are ready to release. The date we change over to all of the new art style is TBD. We are working to both release new base colors, release updated tack, and release the full back log of all our bases. Whew. Lots to do! 

🦟 Auction Changes

Apparently during the life-time of our auctions there has been a major bug that allowed folks to magically make ingots and money appear. Thankfully, we were alerted to this but have found that the auction bug had previously been seriously abused. Due to our logging system, most of the bug abuse can not be traced back and we are having to check questionable accounts manually. Sadly, several players who abused the bug have been able to have ingots in-game without spending any RL money which has cost the game a very pretty penny and put many ingots on the market that should not be. A huge thank you to those who reported this bug to us and were honest when you realized what had happened. To those who abused the error, you will only be able to see this news from afar as your accounts have been banned.

Now on to the changes. Due to the nature of the bug and after getting input from our staff, we have removed the option to delete your auction bids. This means when you bid on an auction you can no longer remove that bid. Auctions now function like: you place a bid, a pop up asks you to confirm you want to make a bid, you confirm and your bid is placed and bid amount removed from your total.

✨ New Moderator

We are happy to welcome back our moderator pal, beni! Beni has returned to the HoFa team as one of our moderators. You will see her around the site, along with the rest of the team, with a green “M” badge.

Have a great rest of the week!

Cheers,

Curly, Roze, ERA & Beni