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what are our animals worth?
 м e м o я i a. April 1st, 2013 4:16:39am 314 Posts |
What's the typical HPD to point ratio? How much are my pups worth? I spit out 100k pointed am staff pups and they hardly go for 5mil, yet I see foals going for wayyyy more. Does that have to do with the breed/species or? I feel out of the loop. Any comments/suggestions? |
  Moorfine {Empire of Unruly Unicorns} - Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'allApril 3rd, 2013 7:26:12pm 1,917 Posts |
I think it's just personal preference towards a breed or against a breed that causes players to breed what they do. I myself, will never do any small breed of dogs(poms, chihuahua, etc) because I cannot stand the breeds in rl. I know how hard it is to sell foals/pups an that's why until just recently I kept my lines private.  |
Freespin - Retirement April 3rd, 2013 10:48:34pm 138 Posts |
Haha Morf i agree very much, no way would i bother starting a breed i dont like in RL. I am dedicated to my Heading dogs because my own dog is half and they are NZ breed =D |
м e м o я i a. April 4th, 2013 2:43:07pm 314 Posts |
Denim- yes it needs to grow. But I've been playing for a while now..Snip snap & farewell - want to trade some pups? Or we can work something else out :) |
 Farewell's Paint Horses {I'm getting there} April 4th, 2013 4:08:50pm 1,034 Posts |
Yes we'd trade some back ups (: our 5th gen disney lines are 7 so they wont be too long til a back up and the dr. Suess lines are 2. |
м e м o я i a. April 4th, 2013 5:58:50pm 314 Posts |
Ok, I have 4 lines- line - gen.A - 3rdB - 3rdC - 2ndD - 1stI was out of it for a little bit but they all have 100k pts per year and are the highest ptd under 15 :D |
Midnight Velvet Friesians April 11th, 2013 9:12:59pm 123 Posts |
I just started not long ago. I went looking for horses for sale to start my own lines with. Unfortunately I couldn't find any. So I had to buy stores. |
.s.chizophreni.c. .::. {{Main}} .:.That moment when you realize what day it is... and you fall apart once more.::... April 17th, 2013 5:08:44am 143 Posts |
What if the amount of store horses you could buy was limited? In one game I play you can only buy a store animal once a week. That would mean bred animals would be the best way to go... |
Midnight Velvet Friesians April 17th, 2013 8:36:35pm 123 Posts |
That is definitely difficult when it comes to rare breeds. It would take forever to start up a farm. |
Midnight Velvet Friesians April 19th, 2013 12:37:03am 123 Posts |
My idea for worth to me is $100K/10,000 points. Thats my max really. |
Midnight Velvet Friesians April 19th, 2013 12:38:41am 123 Posts |
Ideally in order to bring the economy down it should be $1000-$2000/1000 points. |
Duckie || Songbird Shelties || -college-ing- April 19th, 2013 12:23:17pm 815 Posts |
Remove any breeds that don't have an active breeder(s), it might reduce the number of store bought animals. I do like that buying one store animal per week, though if you're lines are still new like mine and you get too many males you need females to go with them, which I usually buy from the store because there aren't many sheltie breeders. That being said, I'm open to any new players showing interest in my shelties, they can just message me and ill help them out. |
 misa・brandenburgers April 19th, 2013 4:27:20pm 186 Posts |
[Dogs gain points more quickly in my opinion (since there are less dogs on the game), so the following calculations don't really work for them. Sorry!]$2000 is about the cost of 1000 points gained through public shows only, if you figure that most players set their shows' entry fee to $2000. (I just did a spot check through tonight's public shows, and this is indeed the case.) Essentially, one night of training in 20 public shows will cost you $40k, and your horse will gain around 20k including the default entry points (hopefully more!). Sooo, the cost of training one horse in all publics for 18 weeks is $2.88 million. The horse should retire with ~1.4 million points, +/- a bit depending on how intense you get about training. $2.88m is only the base HPD cost - not factoring in the "cost" of the time you spent training, or the cost of paying someone else to train for you.So! In reference to the above HPD/points ratio.. I think with the current cost of tickets and private shows/spots plus the figures I just mentioned, they are a bit unrealistic. Using those, the highest pointed horse on HP would be worth $160m at most ($16m using the lower ratio) - the cost for two weeks of private show spots. Obviously, a horse that is trained in 100% publics is a different story, but I think a lot of people use at least some private shows.In the end, "worth" is super subjective, as Lolly and others have pointed out already.. I was just trying to throw out a more objective view on the value of points. ^^ Also, I like stores. Not as much as lined animals, sure, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having them, especially when you're first starting out? |
Midnight Velvet Friesians April 21st, 2013 2:30:08am 123 Posts |
Ok well in order to reduce the dollars to points ratio we would also have to reduce the maximum amount for entry fees on shows. It all must go in balance. But it life you never really get the amount of money from a horse sale that you put into the animal looking after it. |
