Irish Cob Redo, Campaign Changes, and Breed Vote!
Hello everyone and happy update day! Today we release new Irish Cob Art, announce a change to campaigns, have our FINAL round of new breed voting, and squash a few bugs.
🐴 NEW: Irish Cob Art Redo
Today we welcome our new Irish Cob art! Irish Cobs are currently our #3 most popular breed with 2,937 horses! The new art is similar to our previous Irish Cob with a galloping pose, long wavy hair, and giant feathering. All Irish Cobs in-game have been updated to display the newest art.
🐎 New Breed Final Vote!
We have narrowed down the top favorite breeds from 3 rounds of voting and we now have our 4th and final vote! This vote allows you to pick your top favorite breed from the list. Voting is allowed for all your accounts. To vote click here.
Fundraiser Reminder: Museum of Chincoteague Island
As a reminder, we have our Chincoteague Pony Coin fundraiser currently running! Previously HoFa has aimed to launch at least one fundraiser a year for causes and organizations we believe in. In 2023 with the release of the Chincoteague Pony, we fundraised $2,556 for the Save the Beebe Ranch fundraiser through the Museum of Chincoteague Island. With the re-release of Chincoteague Ponies we are renewing our dedication to fundraising for the Museum of Chincoteague Island by contributing 25% of Chincoteague Pony coin sales to supporting their museum. Chincoteague Pony coins will be for sale for $5 for 2 coins in the ingot store from now until April 30 at 11:59pm EST/game time. To donate to the museum directly, follow this link.
🪙 Campaign Price Changes
Today we must announce something that has sadly been a long time coming and we have pushed off as long as we can. We understand this change is going to upset many of you currently working on campaigns but we have tried our best to hold off as long as possible. Due to increased costs of art, coat colors, and tack we must increase the cost of releasing campaign breeds. Campaigns currently cost $500 to fully fund them for art. However, the total cost of a campaign after greyscale, coloring, tack adjustment, time to upload and storage pricing range from $700-1,000 each. Due to this, we currently lose money on campaigns and thus releasing them is no longer sustainable. To fix this issue we will be increasing the cost to release campaign art to $1,000 each. Anyone who does not have 100% funding by May 15 will have their total changed to the new art cost of $1,000 per campaign.
🦟 Bug Fixes
- You can now register horses again
- Chincoteague Coins now have markings 1-6 available again
- Added a fix for the +/- PS in the design lab maxing out at 100
- Light tan harnesses can now be bought again
- Fixed assorted NSH tack pieces
- Fixed AMH dapple layer
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Cheers,
The HoFa Team
I am sorry to hear that. I personally have spent more on the site than I have before. It does seem that the site has had more daily traffic recently too. I honestly think that the site will see even more traffic if the rendering times can be fixed (I have some technical opinions on this) and the clunkiness with form validation and other UI conventions.
Recently when using I do find myself wanting more ways to spend money other than buying horses.
Unfortunately, everything needs money to function, so campaigns only make sense if they're generating revenue for the site. I hate to see it, but it's understandable and entirely optional for players. I hope to see HoFa continue to grow and improve - if it takes longer to fund a campaign for it to make financial sense, so be it.
Thanks for the update.
OMG i can make my custom chincos now hehehehehe
Please change the irish cob art back! The new art does not do the breed justice and now the Irish cobs don't look even remotely realistic 😭😭😭
Yeah… I don't know how to feel about the new art for the Irish Cobs… I feel like the foal looks the best and then they age into cartoons? Every now and then I do up a breed coin and my most recent one looks nothing remotely to what I was going for… In all honesty… I prefer the old art…
I don't know if I will continue to subscribe anymore as I've put a lot of work into the old style, I just can't for this new art…
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