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
Curly, that sounds like a really fair compromise (breed official at the $500, then the new price for specific art) and I totally understand and appreciate the paying artists what they are worth issue (I'm an author and artist, and I wish more people were like you!)
Thank you!
Author ~ Artist ~ Equestrian
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Curly, I think that compromise sounds really good. I don’t really care about art so I’d probably be pretty happy without new art for my crosses. I know for me due to currency exchange I can rarely afford coins and the increased price would take me even longer to fund my own campaigns.
Curly - thank you so much for the compromise on the campaigns - being able to have it be an official breed at the current $500 just with the generic art is a great staged process and I appreciate it! Totally understand and agree that the artists need to be paid and fairly, but it's still daunting to have it doubled so that is a great way to bridge that gap.
Do campaigns have to be fully funded by 11:59pm game time on the 14th to be applicable for the $500 fundraising?
I’ve been playing since 2021 and what originally made me fall in love with this game was the art. The horses actually looked like their real breeds and the coat colors were realistic and accurate. With the new art updates a lot of the colors and breed details feel off….. and the overall style is starting to look more cartoon than real horses. I understand the game needs updates but it feels like it’s drifting away from the realism that made it so special (at least special to me). I’m also wondering if there will ever be an option to choose the old art?
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