It’s a great day for big changes! Today’s update is the start of our major gameplay updates focusing on big core- gameplay changes. Lots has changed and lots more is being worked on. We are starting our big changes with boarding, training centers, and estate management.

🐎 Boarding

Boarding has been reworked in a 3 major ways:

• Players no longer have boarding centers.
• There is a single game-owned boarding center.
• Boarding from the horse page has changed.

Removed Boarding Centers

Boarding centers have been removed as a player-owned game feature. This is to help start the boarding system simplification process with additional changes TBD. For now, there is a single game-owned boarding center. This center has unlimited stalls and will only kick horses due to 5 days of non-payment.

A few notes:

• Players have been refunded for purchased boarding stalls.
• All boarded horses have been moved to the game-owned center at their boarding selection (DIY/Part/Full)
• Boarding Center has been removed from Estate dropdown.

Refunded boarding stalls notification.

Game-Owned Center

The game owned center has all the needed training facilities for all boarders. See more info on updates to Training Centers below. Additionally, the center:

• Charges 5/10/15 (DIY/Part/Full) for boarding.
• Horses are only kicked due to 5 days of non-payment.
• Access the game-owned center under Town> Boarding Center

Boarding from Horse Pages

The view for boarding from your horses page has also been changed. This has removed the need to select a discipline to board somewhere. This should now be simpler and less confusing. You now have the option to board at home or board away with a “save” button popping up in this box. 

🐴 Training Centers

Training Centers have also undergone one major change. Training certifications have been removed. This is the beginning stages of simplifying and adjusting the use of Training Centers. This change means:

• Payers have been refunded for all training certifications.
• Owning a training arena now trains all horses of all ranks at it.

Refund banner for training certifications.

🏠 Estate > Manage Update + Tab Groups!

The Estate Manage page has undergone a facelift! This page now has a simpler view and abilities to edit your estate.

Overview

The Overview page now has a simple view of your estate acres, stalls, feed/water storage, show creations, land expansion, and Training Center. On this tab you can buy more feed or water, easily access the show creation page, and easily edit your Training Center. This has simplified many settings and estate views into one place!

Estate Expansions

This tab holds all of your estate expansions. This is where you can demolish any expansions you have. This has been kept as-is, just moved to its own tab.

Tags & Tabs

Tag & Tabs have been moved to a single location AND have several requested features. You can:

• NEW: ADD GROUPS! You can now add groups to put your tabs in. This is an upgrade feature for anyone with an upgrade.
• Groups can be frozen.
• Add Tabs to Groups by editing the Tab.
• NEW: Drag/drop. You can now drag and drop to order your tags, tabs, and groups. Note: The order list prioritizes Group over tabs. Tabs not in a Group will show below all Groups regardless of order!
• Freezing has been simplified to a slider button vs. through the edit field.
• On this page is where you manage your horses Tags and Tabs. You can use the mass filter and selection options.

Estate Tags & Tabs View showing Tabs and Groups editing.

View of Groups on a stable page

Settings

Estate Settings now holds:

• Estate Name: This displays on your stable page AND Training Center page.
• Brands and brand rest purchase. This makes the brand reset option more obvious.
• Stable settings for moving between horses and open/close horse transfers.
• Enter All options. This has stayed the same.
• Estate Descriptions. This updates what you see on your stable page.

Notes

Notes have been kept as-is.

📜 New: Profile Update

Profiles have been updated in their layout to move the player avatar off of the banner. There are also changes to locations of buttons and info. This is the first part of the profile page updates.

New profile page update.

💻 New: Forum View

The forums have gotten the first of their updates which makes the pages a bit nicer to view. This includes adding the upgraded player name gem and adjusting the layout for replies and initial posts.

New forums view showing an initial post and a reply.

🏆 Shows Pause

To lessen confusion of discipline entry, there is now a pause on entering discipline shows at show roll-overs. This pause lasts for 15 minutes to allow new shows to populate.

Shows Arena View

Show pause on the horse page view.

🦟 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with design lab variant selection of KIT genes defaulting to variation 1.
• Fixed harnesses on Shires.
• Fixed POA racing pads.
• Fixed sage western and english pads for Cobblestans.
• Fixed W3 and W5 layers for Shires.
• Fixed assorted issues with entering horses using EAs and “No shows match criteria.”
• On-going: Began a portion of updating images to reflect foal -> adult images and needed base/marking adjustments. Some horses may change how they look. Changes are uploading/complete for:
  • Stock Foal
  • Mustangs
  • Appaloosas
  • Others are coming in the following week(s).

This is the start of major game changes based on player feedback! Additional updates will focus on continuing to simplify game play and keeping the game accessible for our free-to-play players while also adding even more value to subscriptions. Enjoying the updates? Want more changes? Support HoFa updates through upgrading or purchasing ingots! We have lots of changes and art in-coming and everyone's support helps improve HoFa!

Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!

Cheers,

Curly