Money management and saving tips?

[RoyalCrownAcres]

I was wondering what your money making tips are?

I've acquired about 45 million in this game, and these are my personal tips that helped me get to this point:

1. Offer desirable stallions for stud.
This is how I make a good chunk of my money. I breed racing Thoroughbreds just to offer the stallions for stud for about 25k a breeding. At this moment in time, I have about 6 standing at stud that are used regularly by other players. I also have a high movement stallion standing at stud on my side account, as well as a 65 speed Thoroughbred stallion standing at stud for 75k, and various other rarer breed stallions around 5-10k. This alone keeps me afloat and my bank account steadily growing. So go on the market and look for a desirable stallion: whether that be a 66 speed Thoroughbred or a 66 strength Belgian, and put him up for stud. It will be an investment, but a worthy one. Also- make your stud ads stand out. I've noticed since taking the time to make my stud ads look nice made players notice my ad and use my stallions more. If you'd like me to show you how to do so, I'm more than willing to give you some tips!

2. Invest in/breed a Level 10 grinder that you can also compete in competitions.
Grinders are also very important to me, and having a good one is crucial. I am a big breeder, so I need to make sure my grinder is making more money for me per turn than my horses are eating. I also have a theory that you get more turns awarded to you by Level 10 shows, but it's simply a theory . My grinders are duel purpose in which they are also my competition horses. Competitions, depending on what discipline you're showing in, will earn you a nice chunk of change as long as your horse does well. I also breed my own grinders, versus buying them from other people.

3. Breed a rarer breed of horse and sell off the foals.
Pretty self explanatory, and this one may take a little while if you're breeding from scratch. I bred Newfoundland Ponies when there was only a couple in the game, and sold them for 50k a pop, and currently have a stallion at stud for 25k. I can offer the stallion for that much since I'm the only player in the game that's currently offering that specific breed for stud. I will say he isn't used super often, but he is used and I graciously welcome the extra 25k now and again.

4. Contests
I wouldn't rely on this too much, but keep your eye out for high-prize contests. There are some very generous players on here that host million dollar contests and it doesn't hurt to enter. I won 10 million from a contest and it definitely was awesome lol.


I hope this was helpful! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

I’d be very interested in learning how to make my adds pop! I think I’m going to take some Tips from BlackOak, and, with that, what are your tips for breeding and selecting grinders?

[Zebracat1234]

I’d be very interested in learning how to make my adds pop! I think I’m going to take some Tips from BlackOak, and, with that, what are your tips for breeding and selecting grinders?

The way I go about making my ads pop is adding bold, italics, underline text, and you could even add colors! Stud ads and market ads allow (limited) html. So let me show you an example:

Which one would catch your attention more?

Racing Bred Filly

61k GP
Gold: Speed, Intelligence
Green: Stamina, Tempo


or


Racing Bred Filly

61k GP
Gold: Speed, Intelligence
Green: Stamina, Tempo


Highlighting key points in your stud/market ad and making them pop with simply bolding, italicizing, etc. will make a huge difference. It also makes your ad look much cleaner and well put together.

To bold something, it's enter text inbeteen [ /b]
Italics: text [/i ]
Underline: text [/u ]
Colors: text[ /color]
(Remove the spaces between the brackets.)

Try using some of those codes in your ads and it should help your horses' ads stand out. Hope this was helpful!

[Zebracat1234]

...what are your tips for breeding and selecting grinders?

As far as breeding and selecting grinders, you should try to be breeding horses for a specific discipline, rather than just breeding for lots of gold stats/high HGP. You will have much more success that way. It will take some time for sure if you plan on breeding your own competitive line, but it is extremely rewarding, both money wise and personally.

[BlackOak2]

I’d be very interested in learning how to make my adds pop! I think I’m going to take some Tips from BlackOak, and, with that, what are your tips for breeding and selecting grinders?

I posted a new topic where I am selling a bunch of horses, such as Andalusians, Friesians, 1 Thoroughbred, and some other breeds. But no one seems interested.... Is there something I am doing wrong? (the topic is called ¨Friesians & Andalusians For Sale CHEAP)

There have been some other questions again about what makes horse's stand out in stud and sale ads again.

Recently, I added a topic to our help, guides section that covers things that you need to think about when posting. It's to help get those gears moving.

So, in ADDITION to the other advise you have gotten and will get from other players, please also use the guide to help you along.

It appears that not many have been using it... perhaps not many need it, and that's more than fine. From the time I've posted, I have switched over both stud ads (of which I have very few, at the moment, none standing at Black Oak Farms) and all of my sales ads. But by just switching over, I have experienced my sales do tend to move a little quicker (of course, maybe it's not the ads themselves, but the fact that a lot of them are grinders).

Here is the link: http://www.horseworldonline.net/forum/v ... 12&t=15900
It's designed for quick copy and paste as well.

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Now, for my own two-cents for your grinder question, Royal.
Along with what's already been offered (all good advice), when I look for a grinder, I'm not too picky myself. Over 40 HGP with no negative and preferably no neutral comments. Colored comments in the 40's is rather negligible. I prefer a grinder in the mid to high 50's and I avoid any grinders in the 70's. The one's that I'll purchase off the market look a lot like this mare that I bred for quests:


Her conformation stats:
Speed 27
Strength 26
Stamina 27
Balance 42
Movement 58
Agility 23
Tempo 35

Rather unremarkable. Even for me. But she proved a good, solid grinder, did okay enough in the competitions (especially in relation to her HGP score, just a little lower than where I would have expected her to be)... but she produced a record breaking son (I find myself proud of producing one from a merely adequate grinder/quest mare and rather a random sire from the market, although I did do a little research).

From that son of her's, I have produced my own personal line of grinder/competition horses. I was only intending to produce a line of adequate grinders.
Now I don't have to purchase anymore grinders. I still do, but only to train up and comp them to see if they'll fit into that line... however, I will also purchase and train for newbies or returnees. And I use the same purchase rules for them as I have for myself.

As for breeding grinders, if it were me starting over again, I'd aim for the same that I would purchase: avoid negative comments, keep it above 40 but for grinders, below 70 (this includes breeding to high HGP 70 studs from the market with the sole exception that they come from a proven competition bloodline). Comments need to average out or be better then both parents (as well as HGP with little exception). And for the grinder bloodline, you can likely ignore the evaluations for the most part. Once you have a competent grinder that also works well in some player-made competitions, then that's all the line is for. Only breed to other proven grinders and only keep and breed those grinder offspring that match the skills of their parents.

So on match-making... I found quite a bit of success for grinders (not for competition lines), on adjusting the base. Use your grinder to make the decision for you. If you find they're an excellent cutting horse, find another cutting horse to cross with... if the resulting foal ends up being excellent in cross country, then find another that's proven in cross country. It won't specialize your bloodline, it will keep it rather diluted. But it will keep that base strong and it should keep producing suitable grinders on a regular basis.
There will always be exceptions, but I've found that using this tactic has worked very well for my grinder bloodline (now transitioned to a competition bloodline, go figure...).

Of course, at some point, your grinder line will become your competition line, much like mine did. So keep that in mind when you're looking on the market for grinder prospects... What I mean is, though a great grinder may come from a bloodline that has never competed, a grinder can also come from a line that is proven. Though you may go through more of the unproven foals on the market, you'll have the chance of getting a really great grinder and having only purchased it for a couple dollars.

Hope that helps!

[HorzeLover101]

I have never been able to have more than 500k at once. I was wondering how people earn money well. I have a few nice show horses, but they usually get to a certain level (sometimes 3, sometimes 7) and then start losing. It doesn’t matter if I drop them a level or not, once they reach a certain point, they drop quite a bit. I’ve started buying horses cheap of the market to train and sell, but because training takes 2-3 in game years and it takes a bit of irl time, it’s not always reliable. I used to train for the public, but with real life school, horses, and family I can no longer do that. I enter horses in local and player comps. I also have a few show horses on my side account that I enter regularly. I was wondering what your money making tips are?

When I first got into this game i waas barely able to hit over 20k. I finally bred some Arabians and was breeding high quailty. I was selling them between 20k-200k a piece. Thats where i made my first money. But the game is involving so that isnt going to do much. So then i started training my own horses and entering them into comps. But even that wasnt enough. I look for comps that held high-dollar stakes for a certain breed then entered in those shows. Thats where i earned my first 10 million. After that I have a side account with grinders that i just enter into local shows and use as a breeding account. Earned my first 1 million on there within a week.

Ways To Earn:
- Breed/Sell Horses (Those that are actually worth something= rarer breeds or high quailty or even certain coat colors)
- Enter into local shows (have side account to do this)
- Enter into competitions (High dollar stakes is where its at)
- Contests (A lot of people enter and odds may be slim but still worth a try, ive won a few so they are good )
- Training (You can train for other people. I train for 25k-200k a horse depending.... Some people even charge up to 1mil. But it all depends on how fast you are, how much you train them, weight and temperment changes etc. A lot goes into training! )

If you have any other questions just ping me here or if you have/get premium then inbox me a private message

Thanks! Hoped this helped