SIM Santa

[Burgundy Hill Farms]

So, is our jolly pal visiting while we sleep, or will we find him in the chat room tonight?

Does everyone get a visit from SIM Santa? I may have been on the wrong list this year...

[Chris Everett]

Me thinks that the sim is gonna get a early-ish update if anything

[The Steward]

He sees you when you're sleeping, but he also knows when you're awake.

[Johanna Stk]

[Mr. Lord Rich]

Sim santa hasnt visited me..I must have been bad

[Kris Bobby]

I really wish Santa had taken the year off. Apparently the vast majority of my mares got worse

[The Steward]

NO horses were downgraded... our nicking system was downgraded to be more realistic.

[Mr. Lord Rich]

So only hypomating nicks were downgraded? The bs mare comment for our mares remains the same?

Like the formidables are still formidables, stars still stars..ect ect?

[The Steward]

So only hypomating nicks were downgraded? The bs mare comment for our mares remains the same?

Like the formidables are still formidables, stars still stars..ect ect?

Correctamundo.

[Mike Larson]

Are foals' gallops pretty much decided upon creation or when the season rolls over?

I just nicked one I already bred and saw a downgrade. I would not have made that same selection with this new nick.

Any special reason why we are introducing such a change now? 22,327 foals so far

[Tyler Anthony]

Thanks Santa Sim errr Em.

[Chris Everett]

Mike: It's both. There are points in the sim when gallops can change on horses, from birth, turn of the sim year, week 9... stuff like that, if that is what you are asking.

[Matt Feldman]

Are foals' gallops pretty much decided upon creation or when the season rolls over?

I just nicked one I already bred and saw a downgrade. I would not have made that same selection with this new nick.

Any special reason why we are introducing such a change now? 22,327 foals so far

Not sure that it really makes much difference in the end Mike. I've been playing with a few mares for the past few minutes, and for my mares, EVERYTHING seems to have dropped half a grade across the board. So if you bred based on an A- that is now a B+, chances are almost every other A- cross you were considering is now probably a B+ as well. If not, well, its just a hypo, and the random slide really controls anyway!

[Nena Olson]

The mare's quality stays the same. The hypos were just adjusted to be more realistic, to what I am assuming they were producing. Pretty sure the numbers of the foal are determined at the time it was bred and can change at the different points that Chris pointed out. Besides, hypos are just a rough idea of the mating. The random slide is what really determines the factor. Ive had htt/claimer A+ hypos in pacers and htt A flat hypos in Thoroughbreds so... yea.

[Laura Ferguson]

I'd assume that there was some sort of downward adjustment, because in the Appys, for example, I was starting to get several A+ nicks. You've got to leave some room for growth.