Spotted Racing Thoroughbred Breeders Club Studs

[Soaring Hooves]

Can spottedleaf10 use him for breeding a foal for me? They are borrowing a mare of mine right now

I think I will be asking you for a studding soon(now work for you? )

Now's totally fine. I've put him up. I'll leave him up until I sign off, or until you're done.

[Silverine]

Can spottedleaf10 use him for breeding a foal for me? They are borrowing a mare of mine right now

Now's totally fine. I've put him up. I'll leave him up until I sign off, or until you're done.

Of course

[BlackOak2]

Yes, heart is incredibly hard to find and maintain sometimes. Gotta get it when the getting's still good. In my case, those your horse is beating, I wasn't expecting too much from anyway, the have good stats, but I keep popping bombproofs. That's not too big a deal, I have enough better temps about. But it still is surprising when you have one that is only mediocre on paper then starts delivering the goods when tested. It's like:

I've had a few BP TBs pop up. I think they're from a different outside line that I bred in. What surprises me is that he's getting firsts and seconds with what I consider to be rather mediocre scores - he usually scores in the 42-44 range, his best is 42.00. How he's getting firsts with that when my Tchenis struggle when scoring in the low 41s is what gets me. Do the horses with heart just intimidate everybody else into doing worse?

That IS a possibility! I've always considered that the heart gene makes that horse do better, not the others do worse. But I've also had such horses with rather mediocre scores do like your horse in sprints. It is kind of weird, sprint racing at times appears quite easy to dominate, but with horses that SHOULD dominate, they tend to fail. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are though.

[Soaring Hooves]

Nevermind! It will just be me breeding my mare to him

Can spottedleaf10 use him for breeding a foal for me? They are borrowing a mare of mine right now

Of course

[Silverine]

That IS a possibility! I've always considered that the heart gene makes that horse do better, not the others do worse. But I've also had such horses with rather mediocre scores do like your horse in sprints. It is kind of weird, sprint racing at times appears quite easy to dominate, but with horses that SHOULD dominate, they tend to fail. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are though.

I can see it in my head:

It's the post parade. The horses are lining up, getting ready to enter the gate. Then up he walks. Head high, chest puffed out, strutting his stuff like he owns the place. Because he does. This track is his. Those other horses might run fast on a good day, but nobody else is having a good day when he is running.

He gives them the side eye, flicking his tail tauntingly. One or two competitors try to stand up to him, maybe bumping into him in an effort to show that they will not be cowed. But no, faster than the handlers can react he has snaked his head out and nipped the other on the shoulder, taking a small patch of hair with him. The other horse nickers in protest but backs down. Then finally they are all loaded in their gates. When those doors pop open he breaks first, bolting to the lead. The other horses dare not attempt to pass him. For this track is his.

[BlackOak2]

That IS a possibility! I've always considered that the heart gene makes that horse do better, not the others do worse. But I've also had such horses with rather mediocre scores do like your horse in sprints. It is kind of weird, sprint racing at times appears quite easy to dominate, but with horses that SHOULD dominate, they tend to fail. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are though.

I can see it in my head:

It's the post parade. The horses are lining up, getting ready to enter the gate. Then up he walks. Head high, chest puffed out, strutting his stuff like he owns the place. Because he does. This track is his. Those other horses might run fast on a good day, but nobody else is having a good day when he is running.

He gives them the side eye, flicking his tail tauntingly. One or two competitors try to stand up to him, maybe bumping into him in an effort to show that they will not be cowed. But no, faster than the handlers can react he has snaked his head out and nipped the other on the shoulder, taking a small patch of hair with him. The other horse nickers in protest but backs down. Then finally they are all loaded in their gates. When those doors pop open he breaks first, bolting to the lead. The other horses dare not attempt to pass him. For this track is his.

Heart... well, more like the total dominion of a lead stallion of HIS herd.
Somehow I imagine all of these horses to be the pushover sort. It's gotta be the way they're standing. Our admins do have to add in the different poses for our different breeds...

[Silverine]

Heart... well, more like the total dominion of a lead stallion of HIS herd.
Somehow I imagine all of these horses to be the pushover sort. It's gotta be the way they're standing. Our admins do have to add in the different poses for our different breeds...

Well, I mean, I'm sure he does run his heart out. But intimidating everyone else is the only way to explain them all having a bad day at the same time.

I'd be really curious to see the mechanics of the show scoring system. At what point is the horse's score determined - when they enter, or when the show runs? Do the other competitors factor into the score? What exactly does heart do to that score? Ugh. As a programmer I have so many questions!

[BlackOak2]

Heart... well, more like the total dominion of a lead stallion of HIS herd.
Somehow I imagine all of these horses to be the pushover sort. It's gotta be the way they're standing. Our admins do have to add in the different poses for our different breeds...

Well, I mean, I'm sure he does run his heart out. But intimidating everyone else is the only way to explain them all having a bad day at the same time.

I'd be really curious to see the mechanics of the show scoring system. At what point is the horse's score determined - when they enter, or when the show runs? Do the other competitors factor into the score? What exactly does heart do to that score? Ugh. As a programmer I have so many questions!

I have at least one answer I can offer. The score is calculated the moment the horse is entered into the competition. I know this, because we have rehomed horses appearing in some of these competitions. We can rehome a horse the moment after we enter them in a competition. And since a rehomed horse is entirely deleted from the game, it only makes sense that the horse's score is calculated upon entry. With the understanding that it's calculated at that moment in time, I can't see how at least the initial score of a horse can be altered by other competitors. However, final scores might be. But since we don't always have initial and final scores throughout every competition style we have, I would assume that keeping it more uniform is much easier than having one thing for one competition and another thing for another competition.
As for heart. I imagine that it boosts the score that horse earns in that competition at that moment of time, by a certain set limit. Such as an average heart can boost a score between 3 and 5% and a great heart will boost it between 5 and 10%. Exactly how it's determined or what it actually does, I can't actually say. It just started to come across more heavily in that pattern as I watched over certain horses, both related and unrelated.

I, too, would like to see the mechanics of the scoring system. Even just understand how some of them are determined. But I suspect, because that would offer us too much of a view into what to search for and breed for in our horses, the actual game design itself, that we will not be enlightened to it. At least not directly.

[Silverine]

I was wondering if instead of calculating the score at entry, they instead store the pertinent information of the horse - BR score, conformation, training, etc - and then use that data to calculate the actual score at run time. It wouldn't really make sense to do it that way - it would be a lot of extra data to store - but the fact that it's even a possibility makes me super curious.

[BlackOak2]

I was wondering if instead of calculating the score at entry, they instead store the pertinent information of the horse - BR score, conformation, training, etc - and then use that data to calculate the actual score at run time. It wouldn't really make sense to do it that way - it would be a lot of extra data to store - but the fact that it's even a possibility makes me super curious.

I suppose that is a Real possibility. I never considered they might do it that way, because like you realized, that would be a lot of extra data to store.

I'm curious now if we had an admin answer that for us, or if we can get them to. Considering it... I'm almost positive something was answered about it already, but I think I'm also confusing my own repetition of the answer with a memory that admin might have.