Mass competition creation/comp creation presets

[Cypress Creek Test]

I checked to see if there was already a topic on this and there wasn't.

Anyways.

The new update cleaned up the available competitions, which is nice, but it also means that competitions established during premium will stop recurring after said premium expires. Which is probably why we're having such low numbers of available competitions. It's also relatively tedious to manually set them back up.

Would be nice to have the option to do one or more of the following:
a) copy a previously run competition to a new slot;
b) create more than one competition at a time, or have a prompt to "create again";
c) be able to save presets with competition name, discipline, level, prize pool, etc for future use.

This would still require some degree of manual setup but be much less time consuming.

Or it would be nice to be able to preserve the runtime of recurring competitions so that they can continue to recur after premium expires; maybe 2 protected slots per account? Or to solve the "not enough competitions" problem maybe the game itself could host 1 competition in each level and discipline per day.

[Fendy]

I would love if competitions ran when 5+ horses are entered. I breed for In Hand Jumping and there is hardly ever a competition to run, the old system was way way better. This limits my game by miles and it's super annoying. :3 I can't even test my horses and after training them i need to wait days for shows to run. -.-

[Tom]

We have a big update for competitions planned, but it will come after the new artwork. There are some good ideas here though so please keep them coming!

[Fendy]

It's kinda annoying that things have changed, and now are being changed back again; yet we are stuck with this broken system for months. Would love to have comps run directly when there are x horses in there (for now) so we don't need to wait for months untill after the new art is added.

[Tom]

They aren't being changed back, new systems have been designed and things will work better when we are able to implement them. The competitions were fundamentally broken and people were relying on a bug. Now that is fixed and things are no longer broken. The next update for competitions will make it so training, local shows and competitions all work in a more useful and sensible way.
I am sorry for the wait but the project we are working on now is quite involved and is fundamental to the game so it has to be done right and that takes time. I will discuss with Larissa if there are any quick fixes we could apply now to the competitions though.

[Fendy]

I understand that there needed to come a new system, but even with a lot of upgrades i can only run 5-6 comps myself: these comps run after 3-4 days, so every time i need to wait for days to be able to progress with my line - making it hard to play. In Hand Jumping is not pupulair like racing (for example) so i'm basically always stuck with my program and this new system makes it x10 times as hard to even be able to test new horses.

Anyways thanks for replying and thinking with us about updates! I respect that =D

[Tom]

I understand that there needed to come a new system, but even with a lot of upgrades i can only run 5-6 comps myself: these comps run after 3-4 days, so every time i need to wait for days to be able to progress with my line - making it hard to play. In Hand Jumping is not pupulair like racing (for example) so i'm basically always stuck with my program and this new system makes it x10 times as hard to even be able to test new horses.

Anyways thanks for replying and thinking with us about updates! I respect that =D

Larissa just checked and there were some in hand jumping competitions with four entrants. She entered a horse in each and they all ran after five minutes. Is that what you were hoping for?

[BlackOak2]

I understand that there needed to come a new system, but even with a lot of upgrades i can only run 5-6 comps myself: these comps run after 3-4 days, so every time i need to wait for days to be able to progress with my line - making it hard to play. In Hand Jumping is not pupulair like racing (for example) so i'm basically always stuck with my program and this new system makes it x10 times as hard to even be able to test new horses.

Anyways thanks for replying and thinking with us about updates! I respect that =D

Comps will run daily with five entries (reoccuring at one a day). Our limits have been lifted on our entries and if you need entries to run, you can ask in the forums. We all need to face these same issues together, the good thing is that asking for help is a forum topic away.

Here's some other hints:
20 entries will force-run single-made competitions (not reoccuring). You can still enter all of your horses into a single-run competition and just focus on the horses you want or need to and ignore all the others.
Technically speaking, you can have your primary horses (let's say 4) then keep 16 others just to fill your competition slots. Make your 6 competitions all at once (single-run), then enter all your 20 horses in every competition. Within 5 minutes (give or take) the competition will force-run in the next batch of competitions and you'll have your competition scores.
OR...
You can keep only 5 horses around, make your 6 daily-run reoccuring competitions and enter all 5 horses into them. They'll run on-schedule and you'll have daily reports you can look at.
You don't NEED to have other competition to see how good your own horses are getting. Use the current records as your guide.

... we can't help when we don't know there's an issue...

Does that help streamline your problem at all? Maybe enough to muddle through until the comp update comes to us?

[Cypress Creek Test]

It's kinda annoying that things have changed, and now are being changed back again; yet we are stuck with this broken system for months. Would love to have comps run directly when there are x horses in there (for now) so we don't need to wait for months untill after the new art is added.

They run if they have 5 or more horses in, as long as it's after the competition's initial scheduled runtime, as has always been the case. Some people hold sponsored comps and don't WANT them running constantly because they drain resources. The competition system is not "broken". You can always make comps for yourself, and I think it's possible to force them to run if you put 20 or more horses in them.

Local comps are better for testing anyway.