This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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Andrew Chillin
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This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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This is a petition to adjust gallops of harness racer horses. To include, trotters and pacers. We must band together to fix a broken part of our sim. Please sign below:
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Care to elaborate. That's pretty vague. Adjust gallops how?
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99% of my claiming horses being stakes and freaks and so many 'stakes+' foals amounting to nothing led to me almost eliminating my involvement in these divisions when I had to choose something to part with. I always knew I had to make the adjustment in my head when looking at them, but it would be nice to know when you get a 'freak', that it's the real deal - much preferred to five fake freaks.
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Andrew Davidson wrote: 2 years ago This is a petition to adjust gallops of harness racer horses. To include, trotters and pacers. We must band together to fix a broken part of our sim. Please sign below:
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Andrew Chillin
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Re: This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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Brad Fabman wrote: 2 years ago Care to elaborate. That's pretty vague. Adjust gallops how?
Similar to the recent adjustment to thoroughbreds. Slide the scale, to see the comment more accurately reflect the horses ability. It’s a simple concept on our side of the curtain that doesn’t effect the horses performance at all but would greatly effect all of the trainers attitude towards their horses and the game.
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Badly needed.
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Re: This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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I don’t run mixers but the harness comment problem is well known and documented, I can’t imagine how frustrating that has to be. So I’m with you guys on this, time to adjust the comments.
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Yes these need to change
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badly needed I agree and sign
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Re: This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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There will never be any satisfaction when comes to this matter. There have been previous adjustments and then 2-3 seasons later the complaints reoccur. When you breed better mares to better stallions as the game evolves the results "ratings" tend to improve or rate higher.
The gallop comments are just that. They are comments. They don't guarantee anything. Racing your horses is the true indicator of ability.
Will players actually prefer a barn full of productive/claimer rated horses and the chance for a rare elusive freak if the ratings are adjusted in the manner that some think they should be changed? I some how don't think so.
Eliminate gallop comments altogether. It would be good for the game. Players would have to retain, train and race each horse to determine their worth. Of course there is no instant gratification come festivus time.
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I am MORE than happy to do this but IF and ONLY IF everyone guarantees they won't send me an email saying they quit, nor may they actually quit, because I don't have the energy for it and it happens every time.
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It's just a line in the sand and I truly mean sand...lol! I am good either way. That meaning raising the gallop bar. I am not for doing away with Gallops,

PS...I won't threaten to quit :)
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I respect toms opinion as a top trainer in this realm of the game. While I agree with Tom as well and cannot argue with anything he’s said; as a guy trying to run 4 different breeds of horses across 13 divisions or distances, I like having that base evaluation on these nonTB horses. Easy sort and stack to enter where they need to go and I can run 50 pacers a week knowing they should be competitive somewhere then further evaluate them individually as they over or under perform. I feel like this is how anyone else in this thread feels. Apologies if I am mistaken.

I have even started playing without gallops in TBs starting with my year 59 yearlings and continuing forth, just for fun. There are a ton of other add ons to this game(gp features or otherwise) that make it too easy and less challenging, beyond simply gallop comments. And I don’t even want to touch the atrociousness of broodmare comments or hypomating in this thread, not even just harness mares let alone the rest of breeds. One day at a time.
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Remove gallops. Yes I sign off.
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Re: This is a petition to adjust gallops.

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Change gallops to only have two types:
1. Fast
2. Slow
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