Open Beta Testing V3 Layout

[Hidalgo]

I don't have an in-depth review to give as I've only dropped in to check how the game is progressing every few months. I love a lot about this game but the lack of progress over the years was a bit... unmotivating. (This is not meant to be a complaint, I know you don't have a ton of manpower) Anyway! I've enabled the V3 layout and clicked around a bit, and it does seem nice, even though it will definitely take some getting used to
I wonder if we could please have an option to close out the big red banner that says "This is a preview build! It's incomplete! Expect many bugs and errors!" It's fine for the most part, but when in the stable viewing horses it covers over the horses heads and I'm sorry but I'm really having trouble getting past that Otherwise I'm loving the new art and hoping the horse art being redone is top priority, and once it is, I just may have to make myself the time to come back!!

[Calm Blue Ocean]

It took me a long time to figure out how I felt about the new game design. In general, I feel like it's heavily overpowered. What I mean by that: the user has to make about 2-3 times as many mouse clicks to look at the information they need. This is very inconvenient, especially if I need to do a lot of horse breeding. To click on the “Breeding” button I have to do twice as many actions, to evaluate the offspring potential - four times as many! I really appreciate that the new layout has many new features, however, I would rather stay on Smarthvo1. I read in another thread that you are planning to remove the old design. Please don't do that, the classic layout is legendary.

[Tom]

It took me a long time to figure out how I felt about the new game design. In general, I feel like it's heavily overpowered. What I mean by that: the user has to make about 2-3 times as many mouse clicks to look at the information they need. This is very inconvenient, especially if I need to do a lot of horse breeding. To click on the “Breeding” button I have to do twice as many actions, to evaluate the offspring potential - four times as many! I really appreciate that the new layout has many new features, however, I would rather stay on Smarthvo1. I read in another thread that you are planning to remove the old design. Please don't do that, the classic layout is legendary.

The reason why we had to make the new layout is the old one was built on old technology and we would be unable to add the features we need to it. That's why some things only work on the new layout. The old layout will be removed because it will stop working properly. It already gives errors in some cases that we cannot fix.

However, if you give us examples of your workflow when playing we can try to remove pain points and streamline things for you. Our goal is to make the new layout better than the old one. So please keep letting us know what isn't working for you!