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Branding For Trainers Thoughts
I know branding for breeding will eventually be coming for us.
What I'm wondering, is if we should discuss a type of branding for training the horses? Since many of us send our horses out to trainers, should we have a type of brand for a trainer? Not exactly sure how this might be coded though. Personally, I think it would be a nice thing to have the option of a brand-type for training. But different than that for breeding.
Breeding is something I see as an actual 'Brand'. No matter what the brand is, physically onto our horses for this game is debatable. So at this point, I'm assuming our brand will appear either before, after or somewhere within the horse's name and will not be removable by anybody but the breeder. What we get, however... still a bit of an unknown.
As far as a training brand, I'm wondering if it should appear in the More Details section of our horse's information. Simply a Trained By: XxxxX. But only have one person able to claim this spot. However, I can see this spot being the cause for a lot of problems. So, how to block it off from just anybody? Player skill that unlocks this block? Perhaps unlock it only through being upgraded and having Competitor playing mode chosen? Not being able to fill in this spot until a certain percentage of the training is complete? I think more than one option is appropriate. The training brand shouldn't be accessible until somewhere in the halfway area is finished. Halfway because not all stats need to be thoroughly trained to finish training for some disciplines (Racing - Speed, Stamina, Strength - I'm looking at you
).
But I'm kind of wanting the ability to brand for training. Especially because it's become such an integral part of our game now.
One more thought.
If our training update comes to us as what we've heard before... I wonder if there should be a basic training brand, for only the base stats and an advanced training brand, for discipline training? However, since we don't know what the training update will actually have for us, this secondary option is simply too little information for additional discussion... beyond the consideration of perhaps.
What I'm wondering, is if we should discuss a type of branding for training the horses? Since many of us send our horses out to trainers, should we have a type of brand for a trainer? Not exactly sure how this might be coded though. Personally, I think it would be a nice thing to have the option of a brand-type for training. But different than that for breeding.
Breeding is something I see as an actual 'Brand'. No matter what the brand is, physically onto our horses for this game is debatable. So at this point, I'm assuming our brand will appear either before, after or somewhere within the horse's name and will not be removable by anybody but the breeder. What we get, however... still a bit of an unknown.
As far as a training brand, I'm wondering if it should appear in the More Details section of our horse's information. Simply a Trained By: XxxxX. But only have one person able to claim this spot. However, I can see this spot being the cause for a lot of problems. So, how to block it off from just anybody? Player skill that unlocks this block? Perhaps unlock it only through being upgraded and having Competitor playing mode chosen? Not being able to fill in this spot until a certain percentage of the training is complete? I think more than one option is appropriate. The training brand shouldn't be accessible until somewhere in the halfway area is finished. Halfway because not all stats need to be thoroughly trained to finish training for some disciplines (Racing - Speed, Stamina, Strength - I'm looking at you

But I'm kind of wanting the ability to brand for training. Especially because it's become such an integral part of our game now.
One more thought.
If our training update comes to us as what we've heard before... I wonder if there should be a basic training brand, for only the base stats and an advanced training brand, for discipline training? However, since we don't know what the training update will actually have for us, this secondary option is simply too little information for additional discussion... beyond the consideration of perhaps.
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