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Concourse [I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid]
February 13th, 2019 4:31:26am
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I was talking to a few friends today and an idea came to mind. This is a huge suggestion, and while I am making it (because I feel it is a good idea) I am making it with the understanding that it may not be able to be implemented or that if it is implemented it may take a little bit of time.


 


I was thinking that it would be awesome to have a way to freeze your account if something came up in real life. It would cost HPB OR cost RLD to be paypaled directly to the Horse Phenomena paypal email address. I feel that it would be something that a lot of people would be interetsed in, but I could be wrong.


 


By freezing your account, i mean the dogs / horses don't age - they just stay frozen in time. I was thinking maybe offering it for 1 - 3 weeks, a different priced based on the amount of time you needed it frozen with the possibilty of freezing it longer if Sam wanted to do it that way. I do not have any sort of price range for this, I just know that after I gave birth to my second kid I would have def. paid to have my main frozen for at least 3 weeks.


 


I could probably elborate on how this would work (or ... how it would work if I was to make it and implement it on the game), but for now it's just a basic concept I wanted to throw out there and see what the admins thought of it.


 


 




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Kuwait | The Alsatian King | ᓚᘏᗢ |
February 13th, 2019 4:50:42am
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This was suggested once before.
https://horsephenomena.com/viewpost.php?id=780




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PHISM || Hiatus ||
February 13th, 2019 5:05:35am
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well considering that was over 4 years ago I think it should be brought back up! I fully support this! there are times where I am completely absent, and god forbid I take a 2 week vacation to the bahamas, which con will be taking me on next week (right...RIGHT?!?!?!) if its something that is doable I fully support, maybe not all aspects of the account, but just animals in general?




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Concourse [I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid]
February 13th, 2019 5:09:25am
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Reading over the orginal thread, I am still glad I brought it back up. I had never saw that orginal thread at all. XD That was posted in 2012 and not revisted since April 2013.  I don't really think it should apply to the whole account (example: I do not think tickets should keep adding up, or shows, or bank that cannot be collected, and I do not think upgrade time should be paused). I think it should apply to the animals and the animals only. It would be a feature to be used to preserve your lines and keep them going, even in the event of a natural diaster or real life emergency.

And Phism, I'll get right on booking that two week cruise! I'll try to make sure you share a cabin with Johnny Depp.

 



 




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PHISM || Hiatus ||
February 13th, 2019 5:10:02am
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mmmm captain jack *swoon*




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aveera 🥑 coding is open
February 13th, 2019 5:24:39am
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I love this! I'm already worried about how my lines will be affected when I get married and go on my honeymoon in October. There is going to be a solid 3 weeks were I'm probably not going to be on HP.




 

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↬ JADE
February 13th, 2019 5:32:04am
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I fully support this and I'm glad it was brought back up too! This would be wonderful in case of emergencies and you can't afford a trainer during it etc. I agree with it only affecting the animals though. The rest of it being lost is unfortunate, but it might be way too much otherwise.




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Ridgeway Ranch Trakehners
February 13th, 2019 5:56:02am
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I'll throw my support here as well. Real life has a way of throwing wrenches into things and it'd be awesome to not have to stress about being unable to train animals while away.




 

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tana ;; gone
February 13th, 2019 6:07:40am
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I absolutely support this. I don't think it would cut the account-sitting business, as you could still choose to have someone deal with everything, but for the people who are worried they won't find someone reliable in time (or in the case of an emergency, where there's no time or desire to sit and find someone), this would be a welcome addition to the game.

I know Furry Paws has something like this, but from my understanding, you have to lock every single animal individually. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.




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a z a l i e - 🌵 livin the dream-blitzy still watching-
February 14th, 2019 7:46:16pm
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I support this too!!!




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𝓐𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 :: (system child) :
February 14th, 2019 8:05:55pm
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Im all for it considering we all know I've disappeared for a bit before. 




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Gothika - SEA's 。・゚*.。 * Happy Holidays! ゚・。 * 。 ・ ゚
February 14th, 2019 8:57:24pm
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Supporting this, would be nice to freeze for some time if something comes up.




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Event Coordinator ephemira 🎵 gucci 🪽
February 15th, 2019 12:54:47pm
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I reallyyyy like this. I've only just sstarted to come back and I'll have to restart my line with some new store horses bc I missed sooo much training and final breedings on them when I was moving.
Sure I can do the retirement breeding, but points would still be lacking c,:




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tana ;; gone
May 22nd, 2019 10:51:23am
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Bumping this because we all need it and imo would be the best change to HP in forever!




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mero;: } bye felicia 👋
May 22nd, 2019 11:41:27am
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I support this! One of the other sites I've dabbled with over the years has a setting like this by default - your animals don't age, give birth, use food or lose happiness until you manually click the "roll over" button the first time you login within any 24-hour period. My account was literally sitting there ready to go exactly as it was a year ago when I recently went back to check it out - none of my food items spoiled and everything was exactly as I'd left it!




 

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Olympea
May 26th, 2019 4:48:19am
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Completely support this. Another game I play has something similar in place. If you do not progress your account each day then it just stays as it was the last time you logged in. This is hugely helpful! 




 

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shee ‡ the lavish lhasas
May 31st, 2019 1:29:40am
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I would love to have something like this! Perhaps make it an option to freeze for a certain period of time on the animal's page?

In my opinion I don't believe freezing entire accounts would necessarily be fair. Like your upgrade would still run out and you'd miss out on bank & shows, but, your animals could be "frozen".

I know this could potentially cause account sitting/training services to be less in demand. So these "freezes" could be purchased with HPB or HPD? Not sure how the logisitics of it could work though.




 

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☪ Starla ~ RHS
May 31st, 2019 4:09:24am
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I support this full force, but it would be nice for at least the bank to roll over so when you come back, you're getting the money from when you were absent as well. 




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shaenne •
May 31st, 2019 1:17:02pm
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I am also in full support of this. I don't hire account trainers (I don't even like hiring once-off trainers) because I hate the feeling of someone else doing all my work for me while I reap the benefits so this would help me a great deal when life gets busy and I can't get on and just need to not have HP on my plate for a while.




 

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Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
May 31st, 2019 3:30:03pm
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So, if we were going to do this, it would be a little bit complicated because HP is built on a tick-based system rather than a turn-based system. I am not entirely sure that a full freeze is actually practical with the way the game is designed. But maybe.

It would have to be something that had limits on the amount of times you could freeze and unfreeze it in a given time period (because we wouldn't want people freezing and unfreezing back to back to back because they could potentially put a project animal on an account, fill it with tickets, then freeze it again and continue to play on another account and save up money, unfreeze and feed it more tickets, etc. until the end of time). Also for similar reasons it couldn't be free (not that you suggested it should be or anything, but I'm just fully elaborating) - so either if you froze your account your upgrade time would need to continue to tick down, OR it could be something you paid for in the cash shop.

The reason I'm not sure it's practical to do a full freeze is because a lot of things are based on dates in the game, and it's not fiscally possible to re-program or re-design large chunks of the game. So one way it could potentially be abused without time limits is that your tickets are set to be reset on a specific date based on the last time you bought them. So someone could potentially upgrade an account, collect the bank, sell their tickets, then freeze it, but if the upgrade time wasn't ticking down their tickets would still reset at the month, so then they could unfreeze the next month, sell their tickets again, and then freeze again - having only used one day of upgrade time.

Probably the most practical option would be to implement freezes for animals, but not fully for an account. But again, this is something I would need to fully lay out and then discuss with a programmer.




 

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shaenne •
June 2nd, 2019 12:36:44am
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Yeah honestly the only thing I would really want is the ability to freeze my animals so I don't have to worry about paying trainers or buying de-ages or retirement breedings, it would just be nice to be able to freeze them as they are so I can go about my busy time without HP to stress about lol. I stress and I stress and I stress about it until it's too late to care anymore and then I lose the motivation to come back because i'll need retirement breedings.




 

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