Big Time Mistake

[Garret Folsom]

I made a big mistake for the 2nd time in my SIM career. I went to gallop my 2YO TB routers yesterday to get them prepared for their upcoming debuts, unfortunately, I clicked the wrong button and didn't pay attention to the "warning" message and ended up equipment checking 245 horses, costing myself 122,500 game points that were acquired for renewing Portlandia Park. Luckily, I had enough money to use the exchange to get those game points back. Unfortunately, it cost my $2.75 million to do so. I did this a few years back on a smaller scale.

This is a friendly reminder to you all, don't rush through things when you're doing anything with a large number of horses. Make sure you're clicking the right buttons and reading the messages...

[Anthony Zappulla]

Is this a custom barn thing? I haven't seen this option

Sorry to hear this

[Nena Olson]

Is this a custom barn thing? I haven't seen this option

Sorry to hear this

No, if you group work a bunch of horses and click check equipment, you can mass check equipment as well.

Also, ouch That sounds painful, Garret

[Garret Folsom]

Yes, unfortunate thing to happen, but luckily I could cover the mistake. I’ll earn the money back, just will breed fewer foals this year. My lease auction may have some better mares for everyone though!!!

[Andrew Chillin]

Normally I might say “bet you won’t do that again”…

[Kelly Haggerty]

Ow! Did you at least take some pics of the results screen so you can apply all the equipment eventually without having to check each history one by one?

[Garret Folsom]

Normally I might say “bet you won’t do that again”…

Yeah, I figured that I wouldn't do it again the first time. Unfortunately, it was an unusually busy day and I tried to fit in the gallop quickly and it cost me.

[Garret Folsom]

I did not take a picture, but I always check the history page for equipment notes before sending a horse off for it's first race.

[Andrew Chillin]

Silver lining: when all those claimers eventually improve to freak they’ll be fully equipped already.

[Garret Folsom]

Thank god for that, Andrew. There are a lot of claimers in there!!!

[Carolyn Eaton]

OUCH!

My midweek gallops I schedule in advance when I do the weekend gallop (part of my Sunday morning chill time).

[Leigh Ann Anderson]

Oh, man. That hurts.

[Darcy McBride]

I hate it when that happens!

[Garret Folsom]

I want to say thank you to whoever sent the $600K donation!!! I really appreciate it!

The good news is that I'll be fine and my stable will survive. I can get back to the bank balance that I had, I just need to either breed fewer foals (which I should probably do anyway) or use my own studs more often (in some cases, I probably should do that anyway!)