Stormy the only think I changed about the current rule is that the horses who are player bred and have not raced can be released without bothering Em I also changed the wording on the second point but it’s the exact same meaning. (Horse’s have to have earned LESS than $150k, the current rule says they must NOT have earned more that $150k, same point, less words )Stormy Peak wrote: ↑5 years ago Rochelle, I would rather see the rules remain in place and protect the names of horses who have won that much money...especially for the mixers where a stakes win, might only get the winner $25,000 and it's very hard for even stake quality horses to bump over the mark that keeps their names protected.
Also, just because a horse dies in AJ, it doesn't mean at some point it wasn't a great horse and it should have it's name protected.
I have, and have had in my stable a good number of pensioned million dollar earners that were rescued from AJ. Various people here had rescued them from there, or they owned the horse and gave them to me as they knew I had a big pensioners band and would enjoy the headshots on these old former famous runners. I've also found a few in AJ on my own and took them in, just because I loved the headshots. : )
These were horses that did great things on the track and their names should be protected in my opinion. Those listed below were owned by me upon their deaths, but I don't think that should make it right for just me to be able to reuse their names. I didn't breed nor race any of them...just owned them upon their deaths.
Just to name a few... older simsters will remember a few of these, I'm sure. : )
Hemi Cuda
Desert Force
Startled Awake
[url=https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.php?HorseID=52521]Profile in Courage
And two I can't link for some reason: Astonishing and Caterwaul.
There are plenty of names out there that we don't need to be reusing names of stake winning horses. I also don't want to have to go through my own list of high end horses that I bred, who are now dead and have to figure out a way to keep their names off of other people's horses.
For me, the idea of the name Foremost on any horse other than my little allowance winner bothered me so much that the Steward renamed her to Foremost II while she was still alive (but very old)...just so I could reserve the name and make sure no one could grab it if she passed away and I didn't get onto the game site in time to save that name.
Foremost did not win enough money, nor win any stakes, so her name would not have been protected. But it would still cost a fortune to have to go in and try to protect names of other big runners who's names I could lose control of if anyone could just reuse the name of a dead horse.
Stormy
EDIT: I CANNOT make the links for Astonishing and Caterwault show up properly. Caterwault shows up as Astonishing...even though I have the correct horse ID number in place. ??? And my last link is showing up the way you see it...as a link rather than a name bracketed by the link codes. I've double checked everything... so ???
Also I have rescued some pensioned horses who had great racing lives from AJ myself This suggested change is only to make it easier to release names from horses who haven’t raced.