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Themes From the Survey
  Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!July 22nd, 2013 1:19:47pm 4,333 Posts |
As we were going through the survey, we noticed several common themes in the responses. So rather than trying to address everyone who left a name individually about the same thing, I wanted to post an update to talk about a few of them: 1. People want an easier way to enter private shows. We have been aware of this for awhile, but we haven't really been able to come up with a good way to improve it. Although, we do have now another idea floating around that could work. But a common suggestion is to enter the horse as soon as it's excepted, but at the same time people might request for the wrong horse and we can't remove them from the show once they're in. So doing it that way won't work. But we are working on a solution for this! 2. People also wanted a better way to click through their horses, and we think this is a good idea and we have a plan! So you can look forward to seeing something like this in our next major update :). 3. Always a common suggestion, two breed specialties per account. However, it's not something that we can add in to the game. The money that supports HP comes exclusively from upgrades (since we don't have a cash shop or advertisements) so we need as many of them as we can get to stay open (HP by itself is expensive to run and keep up, but it's also my full time job so the money I make here keeps me from getting another job giving me FAR more time for HP while I'm in school, if I had to get another job I don't know that I'd have time for HP at all since I'd have to work full time or more somewhere else instead of spending that time here improving the game and working with players). Breed specialties and the things that come with them are a major perk, if we offered more than one per account it could SERIOUSLY cut into our upgrade income which would be bad. Especially since you are still able to train other breeds without one, I really don't see it getting added. I'm sorry. 4. People also, which was surprising to me, suggested that we add mini-games to pass the time on the game. While I'm not 100% opposed to this idea (I think there are many benefits to having them on a game), many players in the past did not like when it was suggested before because they thought it would be too childish, so we tossed the idea. If enough players are interested, we could maybe re-visit it at some point. With that in mind, if you have any non-mini game ideas for things to do after you're done training on the game, please let us know, as we would love to hear them :). 5. A concern of many player was that they were having trouble with being able to train horses and dogs as high as some other players. The average "goal" on HP is to get your horses and dogs to 1,000,000 points by the time they retire. But there is no set amount of points that you're required to get your animals to, some players train them as high as they can, others stop at 1,000,000, and some have huge projects where they pour all of their resources into getting an animal with multiple millions of points. But keeping with the idea that the average goal is 1,000,000 this can easily be accomplished through public shows with no upgrade breed specialty, as we have tested several times. 6. Genetics have been mentioned several times. For a few years now, I have been planning another game, which is basically a more complex version of HP. This game will feature genetics. But I fear that putting them on HP will take away from the simplicity of the game. If it is something that lots of players want to see, then we can visit the idea and poll about it and such. But again, the idea behind HP has always been simplicity and more of an old-school style. 7. Finally people mentioned not really feeling like the "know" the staff on the game. I know that we all try pretty hard to be in the forums and also in chat, but is there something else we could be doing? Maybe an About The Staff page, as was suggested by one player? Or something else? Maybe each week we could spotlight something about us, like our pets, or something? Or both? I definitely need player suggestions here! I THINK that's it for frequent/common themes. Of course, if there's something else you would like to discuss you can always message me or make another forum topic :). But I'd love it if everyone weighed in on these specific issues here! |
 Blitz -- Stellar Gypsy Vanners July 29th, 2013 3:11:08pm 1,308 Posts |
It's not like you NEED dividers, they're just handy to use. For that reason, I support them costing money. Every little bit you spend in the store gets taken out of the economy and can only help bring down the inflation that everyone else hates. |
 uni July 29th, 2013 3:25:58pm 1,338 Posts |
I do think it would be nice if we had the option to hide a divider... so if we bought one that we aren't using, we can just hide it until we need it again, rather than deleting it and buying a new one..? |
 thanatos ; hard at work July 29th, 2013 4:32:29pm 3 Posts |
Ah true you don't need them, but a lot of people like them, and if they're free for upgrades.... more people will prefer to upgrade and receive all the perks, than to pay $1,000,000 per divider...just think how much you would save as an upgrade or even spend as a basic if you bought 5-10 dividers.edit; you don't really NEED an enter all, but it's a good free perk to have on an upgrade (: |
BARRACUDA ♣ [main] ♣ Guess who`s baaack?! August 2nd, 2013 3:04:13pm 1 Posts |
Well, I must say a firm NO to the mini-games. I just hate those and I know a lot of other people do! (Basically that`s why I abandoned HL back in 2009...)As for the genetics part, I don`t exactly know how "real" things are intended to be... For example if all horses will have breed-realistic coats/markings and foals will inherit them from their parents/lines... |
Lynelle's Spare 10 August 2nd, 2013 4:17:35pm 1 Posts |
I like the idea of weekly quizes, or polls. maybe with a small cash bonus? another idea, what if you could buy your second specialty? |
Mehozonek [A Song of Ice and Fire Wolves] August 5th, 2013 7:56:14pm 1 Posts |
for the private shows:maybe have an auto-enter option. such as a box you would check if you do want them auto-entered into the show and uncheck if you didnt want them auto-entered into the show? |
BANNED August 12th, 2013 11:05:32pm 4 Posts |
RE: # 4I would like to see mini games stay off hp..to me it seems like when they were added to hl, that was the start of it becoming a kids game |
Addilyn ↬ Unbroken November 8th, 2015 1:08:25am 157 Posts |
I think we should have mini-games on HP. We could Play the games to past time and earn some extra HPD? |
 Kuwait | [insert witty quote here] | November 8th, 2015 1:44:21am 2,917 Posts |
Please no mini games. There's a whole wide web for passing time if people are bored. HP must NEVER become like HL. And as for earning extra HPD, that's what club contests and player contests and things are for.  |
