SIM 8.0

[Xander Zone]

The one thing that I discovered and it really messed me up was I used the unspecified or any dirt for my mares let’s say so now all them horses I had separate for what ever reason are mixed in as DS DM Dr. Set me back sim years on how I worked out what mares would go to what studs

[Rebecca Rose Hepburn]

Mass leases are a beautiful thing, bless you for adding them.

[Rochelle Bos]

Can we no longer see if a private message was received? Is this a bug or intentional?

You are correct and it was intentional. There were problems with the "read" indication before, and those issue were compounded by allowing multiple recipients.

The issue before was that it wasn't truly accurate. That is because many people have their private messages forwarded to email or text message. So they read the message outside of the SIM so the SIM didn't know if the message had been read or not. It wasn't until a person read the message on the SIM, that the "read" indication happened. So, for some people, they never read the message on the SIM so it appeared that the message was never read when it had been.

Now, with multiple recipients, we would either have to wait until all recipient had read the message before marking it "read", or else we'd need a way to track and display the "read" status for each recipient.

Between the fact that it wasn't truly accurate, and cumbersome to display with multiple recipients, and that email applications don't reliably tell you when they've been read, we decided to drop it.

Really unhappy to hear this. I used that feature often, and although it may not have worked for an e-mail or text notification, I'd rather have something useful 90% of the time than not having it at all.

I agree I used it all the time

[Jurgen Ver]

It's great that the game stil develop. Thanks for the great job.

I am just curious what the gallop comments will do in the races. I do trotters, when i see the gallop comments now, wow what a huge difference. What wil this mean in the races? Stakes are horses that can win stakesraces and allowance horse can win condition races? Before the update allowance galops were horses that raced in claimings, also a lot of stakes were racing in claimings.
Does it also mean that freaks are the best of the best? Before the update there were much freaks that never win there maiden or never win a condition race.

[Tammy Stawicki]

Were the gallop changes only with non-TBs? Because my TB's all look unchanged as best as I can tell, while both my two remaining steeplechasers changed. One to Chase Freak, which didn't help him in the GWC, and my incoming three year old to Chase Claimer, which might mean the 5k is getting paid for her to go bye bye.

According to the guide to Sim 8.0 gallop adjustments were only made to "Steeplechasers, Mixers, and Harness horses."

[Dylan Christensen]

It's great that the game stil develop. Thanks for the great job.

I am just curious what the gallop comments will do in the races. I do trotters, when i see the gallop comments now, wow what a huge difference. What wil this mean in the races? Stakes are horses that can win stakesraces and allowance horse can win condition races? Before the update allowance galops were horses that raced in claimings, also a lot of stakes were racing in claimings.
Does it also mean that freaks are the best of the best? Before the update there were much freaks that never win there maiden or never win a condition race.

I don’t do trotters but at least with other mixer divisions the stakes are basically freaks and allowances are horses that have won stakes.

[Glenn Escobar]

It's great that the game stil develop. Thanks for the great job.

I am just curious what the gallop comments will do in the races. I do trotters, when i see the gallop comments now, wow what a huge difference. What wil this mean in the races? Stakes are horses that can win stakesraces and allowance horse can win condition races? Before the update allowance galops were horses that raced in claimings, also a lot of stakes were racing in claimings.
Does it also mean that freaks are the best of the best? Before the update there were much freaks that never win there maiden or never win a condition race.

Ok, so in real life a horse doesn’t have a gallop comment that places it into a pre-determined conditional range. This dial-back on Mixer gallops brings them closer into line with TBs, when it comes to the SIM. And then it mirrors real life in that you’ll have to start gauging where to place the horse, rather than just “He’s an A so he does B”.

[Laura Smith]

We should always be gauging where to place our horses by other criteria than just gallop comments. Expecting something specific from them because of a gallop comment is oversimplifying, but I see it happening all the time.

If every stakes galloper could be guaranteed to be a stakes winner, this would be about as boring as if every blue hen A hypo was a freak. Which is to say... super * boring.

Anyway, carry on.

[Andrew James]

We should always be gauging where to place our horses by other criteria than just gallop comments. Expecting something specific from them because of a gallop comment is oversimplifying, but I see it happening all the time.

If every stakes galloper could be guaranteed to be a stakes winner, this would be about as boring as if every blue hen A hypo was a freak. Which is to say... super * boring.

Anyway, carry on.

This!

[George Knatz]

We should always be gauging where to place our horses by other criteria than just gallop comments. Expecting something specific from them because of a gallop comment is oversimplifying, but I see it happening all the time.

If every stakes galloper could be guaranteed to be a stakes winner, this would be about as boring as if every blue hen A hypo was a freak. Which is to say... super * boring.

Anyway, carry on.

Can you post this on every whiny "I got a claimer from my Hen/A hypo" thread that gets posted Saturday?

[Tom Lin]

It's great that the game stil develop. Thanks for the great job.

I am just curious what the gallop comments will do in the races. I do trotters, when i see the gallop comments now, wow what a huge difference. What wil this mean in the races? Stakes are horses that can win stakesraces and allowance horse can win condition races? Before the update allowance galops were horses that raced in claimings, also a lot of stakes were racing in claimings.
Does it also mean that freaks are the best of the best? Before the update there were much freaks that never win there maiden or never win a condition race.

Gallop comments are just a starting point. The race results should ultimately determine at what level your horse is going to race. In Y53, due to competitive reasons, freaks and stakes were often found in stakes. This may change or it may not. A lot of it depends on what caliber of horses other players choose to race.

[Laura Smith]

We should always be gauging where to place our horses by other criteria than just gallop comments. Expecting something specific from them because of a gallop comment is oversimplifying, but I see it happening all the time.

If every stakes galloper could be guaranteed to be a stakes winner, this would be about as boring as if every blue hen A hypo was a freak. Which is to say... super * boring.

Anyway, carry on.

Can you post this on every whiny "I got a claimer from my Hen/A hypo" thread that gets posted Saturday?

I literally do every single year, and yet...

[Mr. Lord Rich]

If this helps at all, this thing is currently showing as an Allowance https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1039592

Before the changes he was considered a stakes.

[George Knatz]

Here’s my big 8.0 question. So I gallop my yearlings and one says he’s an allowance but may improve. I race him and he’s a really low allowance, he improves to a mid allowance. Now if I gallop him again will it still say he might improve or will it go back to a regular comment now that he has improved?

[The Steward]

Here’s my big 8.0 question. So I gallop my yearlings and one says he’s an allowance but may improve. I race him and he’s a really low allowance, he improves to a mid allowance. Now if I gallop him again will it still say he might improve or will it go back to a regular comment now that he has improved?

If he improves, it won't tell you he will still improve in the future, because it would be lying.

That said, there's always an element of randomness in horses going up and down at various points in their careers. We still don't spell out the whole world for you.