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Red Cheetah Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Fri May 03, 2019 11:36 pm Posts: 368

Competition Ideas

Post by Red Cheetah »

Most of my HWO money making revolves around competing horses. These are a few ideas that I'd like to suggest in order to make player-made competitions more user-friendly and unbiased, and some would just be fun additions.

1. The amount of horses able to be entered by the same person should be limited. I was browsing through my results when I noticed a ridiculous amount of horses had been entered by the same person, like 28 or something. I think it would be very convenient to host competitions and be able to choose how many horses are able to be entered so one person cannot have a big upper hand. I believe this would make things fairer. This will not count for events such as racing since only one horse is able to be entered anyway.

2. Similar to the suggestion above, I also think that it would be good to host comps where the overall amount horses allowed to compete is able to be limited. I don't really have much to say about this one. I just think it would be convenient if I'm testing my horses to see how good they do without having someone enter a bunch of other horses that would mess up my results. I've never had this happen, I'm just providing an example once again.

3. Be able to withdraw your horse from a competition. I think this would be a good idea simply because it's annoying when I accidentally enter a "one horse only" competition (such as racing) with the wrong horse. It would be useful to withdraw the horse and replace it with the right one.

4. Maybe there could be special championship competitions where the winning horses can get ribbons or trophies. These competitions could be hosted by premium players who are able to host lvl 10 comps or maybe even the admins themselves if it wouldn't cause them trouble. There could be a limit to how many of these "championships" could be hosted so getting a trophy would not be a common occurrence.

5. Invitation-only comps for those who are doing breeding club competition hosting.

6. Finally, I think that it would be cool if you were able to enter a certain horse in competitions via the horse information page. That way, you wouldn't have to scroll through all of your horses and pastures.

Thank you for reading. :)
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Re: Competition Ideas

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conletra83 wrote: thank you for reading. :)
Nice suggestions! :D

1. I do not completely agree with this one.
The amount of horses able to be entered by the same person should be limited.
a.The number of horses you can enter already are limited (where they can be and where it is logical for them to be). For example you can only enter a horse per player in a Racing competition while in a marathon driving competition there is no limit since each horse is judged separately (on a different time) which allows you to enter many horses.
I think it would be very convenient to host competitions and be able to choose how many horses are able to be entered
b. Yes, it would be very nice to have the option to do that. However, I do not really see the point behind it
I was browsing through my results when I noticed a ridiculous amount of horses had been entered by the same person, like 28 or something. I think it would..... so one person cannot have a big upper hand. I believe this would make things fairer.
c. Keep in mind that competitions (and how many entries a player can have in that competition) are made to be like ones in real life. A person cannot have the upper hand in a competition that is for sure.
Even if that person enters many horses you also have the ability to do that as well. People who are entering many horses also know that they are going to pay the fee for every horse and that most of their horses will get a place under 3 wich will mess up their win %.

2.
I also think that it would be good to host comps where the overall amount horses allowed to compete are able to be limited.... I just think it would be convenient if I'm testing my horses to see how good they do without having someone enter a bunch of other horses that would mess up my results.
a. Your horse's results are not going to be messed up. Your horse will get what he deserves, if he is good enough to get the first place then he will if he is not then he won't. Not giving the chance to compete your horses against other player's horses will not help you, it will just give you a 'fake' position and win %.
The same things applies to when you want to test your horses, I can have a really bad racehorse and compete him with other horses that are awful in Racing. So my horse will naturally get the first place which meens that he has successfully passed my test, does that mean that he will still get 1sts when he competes in normal and not test comps?

When you enter your horse in a competition the score that it will get will not change by the number of horses enter. But the place it gets, will.

This is exactly how you can see wether a horse is a good one or not.

3.
Be able to withdraw your horse from a competition. I think this would be a good idea simply because it's annoying when I accidentally enter a "one horse only" competition (such as racing) with the wrong horse. It would be useful to withdraw the horse and replace it with the right one.
Yesssss! I cannot count how many times I have entered the wrong horse in comps with high reward and therefore a high entry fee!

4.
Maybe there could be special championship competitions where the winning horses can get ribbons or trophies. These competitions could be hosted by premium players who are able to host lvl 10 comps or maybe even the admins themselves if it wouldn't cause them trouble. There could be a limit to how many of these "championships" could be hosted so getting a trophy would not be a common occurrence.
:mrgreen: yes, I love this!

5.
Invitation-only comps for those who are doing breeding club competition hosting
Hmm, while this would be helpful for clubs it is pretty easy to picture players using this for their own profit.

For example entering a branch of their awful horses and a good horse they have so that it can get more points (same with money) which will definitely mess up the rankings

I am not sure I understand the 6th suggestion :lol:
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Re: Competition Ideas

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Veterinarian wrote:...
I appreciate your feedback. The sixth suggestion simply means that when you go to a horse's profile you should be able to find certain competitions where you can automatically enter him from his profile without having to flip through pastures and barns. If there was an "enter competitions" option you would be able to search for competitions and he would be the only horse shown up to enter instead of a list of pastures. I can see why it might be confusing. I'm not the best with words. :lol:
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Re: Competition Ideas

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conletra83 wrote:
Veterinarian wrote:...
I appreciate your feedback. The sixth suggestion simply means that when you go to a horse's profile you should be able to find certain competitions where you can automatically enter him from his profile without having to flip through pastures and barns. If there was an "enter competitions" option you would be able to search for competitons and he would be the only horse shown up to enter instead of a list of pastures. I can see why it might be confusing I'm not the best with words. :lol:
:lol: thanks for clearing that up!
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Re: Competition Ideas

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Veterinarian wrote:
conletra83 wrote:...
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I don't agree with changing the limits on how many a single player or overall entering horses into a competition. Right now, it will further limit how much competition we have, we don't have a very large player-competing pool as it is.
However, for single-run competitions, once 20 entries is hit, the competition automatically runs (or is supposed to) in the next batch-run by the system.
Reoccurring competitions will only run on the day and time they're set to, so they're not affected by the auto-run.

I would also like to withdraw a horse. But the way the system is set up... I don't know if this will ever be possible.

#4 - the trophies and ribbons... this is already scheduled to be added at some point, and I do also look forward to it. :mrgreen:

I'd also like invitation-only. I don't know if this is scheduled to be added, but it certainly would be a nice addition IF it were to be. I don't know how people would be able to take advantage of this, in a different way that some people already take advantage of our competitions already. I don't really see a difference because the same could be said of breed-restricted competitions.

And as far as #6... as long as a horse is under 20 years... there is a link on the horse's profile page that will take you to a competitions page for that horse. So I'm not sure I understand if this is what you're referring to...
It's there on the bar that's highlighted "Competition Record".
Is that what you're referring to?
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Red Cheetah Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Fri May 03, 2019 11:36 pm Posts: 368

Re: Competition Ideas

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BlackOak2 wrote:
Veterinarian wrote: ...:
I don't agree with changing the limits on how many a single player or overall entering horses into a competition. Right now, it will further limit how much competition we have, we don't have a very large player-competing pool as it is.
However, for single-run competitions, once 20 entries is hit, the competition automatically runs (or is supposed to) in the next batch-run by the system.
Reoccurring competitions will only run on the day and time they're set to, so they're not affected by the auto-run.

I would also like to withdraw a horse. But the way the system is set up... I don't know if this will ever be possible.

#4 - the trophies and ribbons... this is already scheduled to be added at some point, and I do also look forward to it. :mrgreen:

I'd also like invitation-only. I don't know if this is scheduled to be added, but it certainly would be a nice addition IF it were to be. I don't know how people would be able to take advantage of this, in a different way that some people already take advantage of our competitions already. I don't really see a difference because the same could be said of breed-restricted competitions.

And as far as #6... as long as a horse is under 20 years... there is a link on the horse's profile page that will take you to a competitions page for that horse. So I'm not sure I understand if this is what you're referring to...
It's there on the bar that's highlighted "Competition Record".
Is that what you're referring to?
Oh, I had no idea it was there! Yes, I guess that's what I meant. :lol:
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Re: Competition Ideas

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conletra83 wrote:
Veterinarian wrote:...
I appreciate your feedback. The sixth suggestion simply means that when you go to a horse's profile you should be able to find certain competitions where you can automatically enter him from his profile without having to flip through pastures and barns. If there was an "enter competitions" option you would be able to search for competitions and he would be the only horse shown up to enter instead of a list of pastures. I can see why it might be confusing. I'm not the best with words. :lol:
There already is, its above the competition part.
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Re: Competition Ideas

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RenegadePegasus wrote:
conletra83 wrote: I appreciate your feedback. The sixth suggestion simply means that when you go to a horse's profile you should be able to find certain competitions where you can automatically enter him from his profile without having to flip through pastures and barns. If there was an "enter competitions" option you would be able to search for competitions and he would be the only horse shown up to enter instead of a list of pastures. I can see why it might be confusing. I'm not the best with words. :lol:
There already is, its above the competition part.
Yeah, I recently found out.
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Re: Competition Ideas

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conletra83 wrote:
RenegadePegasus wrote: There already is, its above the competition part.
Yeah, I recently found out.
Oh sorry.
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Re: Competition Ideas

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RenegadePegasus wrote:
conletra83 wrote: Yeah, I recently found out.
Oh sorry.
No worries :)

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