Thinking of becoming a trainer?

[Caramelapple3]

So, I have been thinking of becoming a trainer lately. I started taking the courses and stuff, but I do have a few questions.

1: How many courses do you have to take until you can start training for the puplic?
2: Are some horses harder to train then others?
3: What would be a good price once I'm ready to start training for the public?
4: Does anyone with more experience have and helpful tips they can share?

And I think that's it.

[BlackOak2]

So, I have been thinking of becoming a trainer lately. I started taking the courses and stuff, but I do have a few questions.

1: How many courses do you have to take until you can start training for the puplic?
2: Are some horses harder to train then others?
3: What would be a good price once I'm ready to start training for the public?
4: Does anyone with more experience have and helpful tips they can share?

And I think that's it.

So I generally suggest you get about halfway through your skills training before you open to the public. This is the greatest advantage when applied to the time it takes to training. About halfway will drop years used from about 7 to about 3 to 4.

People will tell you different things when you skill up, the basic is to get the first primary ones complete. They learn quick, so it shouldn't take long at all to finish these two:
10.00%Basic Training Bonus
-40.00%Training Intensity Reduction

After that, work on the stamina training. Get it up to the point at least until it takes a week to finish (3-4 days should be the last one you do, then you can pause on that one). Then I'd suggest getting the rest upwards to about 20% apeice (that's halfway and each one should be a day to complete, 18 hours or so, depending on what player stats you've applied your points to). Then continue back on stamina. This way you can open your public training eariler and still provide what much of HWO expects of a public trainer.

That should answer your first question.
Onto the second.

There is some minimal differences when training horses. Some will train up a little faster in one stat than another might. But there isn't too much difficulty differences between any of them. You likely won't really notice much beyond a couple turns difference from one horse to the next.
The difficulty comes down to managing energy levels, weight gain and loss and newborn to yearling growth, alongside temperament management.
I would suggest in this instance, you don't offer maintaining weight or temperament management until you get a handle on growing newborn energy levels. Practice on those foals first, then when you figure it out, that sometimes very difficult and delicate balancing act, then offer that service.

Third question, concerning price.
I don't recommend offering the training service for much of any fee until you understand what you're doing. By following the training guide, practice on a 'throwaway horse' (one purchased for nothing from the market that you can totally screw up and not feel bad about).
After you understand the concept of training and can train a horse in about 4 years (halfway skilled should do that timespan for you), then the basic is anywhere from 15k to 20k. The more you offer, the more fee you can charge. Training closer to 3 year turnarounds are generally 25 to 30k and fully skilled trainers may charge more than that.

Fully skilled, if you don't know already, can generally train in about 2 years 4 months.

I'd also suggest as you start out you take your clients on a yearly turnaround. Such as once the first horse has a year training behind them, then start training on the next horse. This way you can optimize your training within the time each day allows while not running out of (too much) time during any one turn without finishing each horse's daily training regime. You may have a little overlap as you get close to finishing one horse and continuing on the others. If you do, push the time from 1 year to 1 year and a half.
If you have a freeze account (I'd suggest a freeze account for pick-ups and deliveries), I'd suggest taking no more than five at a time total. This way you don't feel pressured by HWO. We've had considerably high public trainer turnaround recently and it's because of too much load.
I'd also suggest NOT having a waiting list. Do it first come, first served and offer a cap of horses from any one client at a time (two or three).
So you can look at how others run their training to get ideas from them. My suggestion would be that when you have spots available to fill, your training forum is granted an 'Open' or 'Open for Clients' caption. ONLY keep it open when you're online, so you can immediately close it when your spots are filled. Then if everything is going well, your skills climb and you start shooting those trained horses through at a much better and faster rate, change your forum the way you see fit.
It's all suggestions though. I only make them to help you protect you.

Now for the last question. Helpful tips.
I think I pretty much offered my helpful tips already.
You can start your throwaway horse at any time. Though your skills will take time to run through, the manner of how you train really won't change much from the program offered. You will likely at some point develop your own personal training regime. You may also figure out and offer competition specific training regimes. But your throwaway horse (or horses) will help you learn what does what and when. Plus, even an older horse you practiced on and completely screwed up the aging on, can still sell in the market for a little bit as a grinder-style. Not too much, but they can still make a little bit of money.
Also, if you find managing a newborn is too difficult to train and maintain energy levels, then only accept horses for training that are 8 months and older, or even a year and older, until you figure out the newborn maintenance.

Weight Gain and Corn will be your primary lifesavers.

[Caramelapple3]

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Thanks!