Western Fever on howrse!

At 8th of february, howrse came with a big new change!

Seems like howrse is having western fever as well as some amazing new feautres! We are happy to introduce some brand new an exciting features on Howrse today!

We are happy to introduce some brand new an exciting features on Howrse today!

You will be able to discover the Western competitions as well as the New Karma system and plenty of other new features!

If you'd like to know more about the other features that are also joining the game you can check them out in the Change log.

To go to the Change log you can follow the link below.

We hope you'll enjoy all these novelties!

The Howrse Team

Here is from the change log :) 

Western Riding

New competitions to enroll your horses in

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Western competitions have been introduced in the game Your horses must now have a specialty before they can take part in competitions. The competitions your horses can join depend on what their specialty is. Find out more Your equestrian center has to be specialized before you can organize competitions. The types of competition you can organize depend on what your equestrian center's specialty is. Find out more Please also note that barrel racing now requires stamina, instead of dressage

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Changes on the Grand Prix

Better winnings and a new Grand Prix

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The winnings given to the 5 best participants in each Grand Prix competition have changed: : 40 x Diamond : 20 x Diamond : 10 x Diamond  4.  : 5   x Diamond  5.  : 2   x Diamond If you have access to the Grand Prix, you can now join both Western Riding and Classical Riding competitions at the Grand Prix

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A completely revamped karma system

A new system that gives your karma more weight

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• All players start with a maximum of 10 karma points that they can lose if they don't follow the rules.
• By losing karma, you can be refused access to certain features like the forum or sales. Find out more
• You can win back 1 karma point every 30 days you log in, as long as you have less than 10.
• Your old karma points have been converted into gifts

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Discover hidden bids

Boost your chances of winning auctions.

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Pegasus Account members can now create hidden bids in auctions. Every hidden bid costs 1 diamond and lets you bid on a sale without other players seeing your bid. Find out more

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More advantages with diamonds and passes

Better management of diamonds and passes

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A new pack is being offered at the black market: the Bonus Pack You can now buy certain bonus items with diamonds: Golden Spurs Daphne's Laurels Seahorse Boreas' Lunge Eolus' Wind Griffin and Phoenix companions are now sold for diamonds instead of passes, and at a lower cost It's now more profitable when you credit your breeder's reserve or your equestrian center reserve, and when you credit aging points with diamonds and passes You can now use passes to buy diamonds Note that diamonds can no longer be traded with other players

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Unicorns more valuable

More advantages for unicorns

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Unicorn bonuses have gone from +6 to +15 in dressage Unicorns now earn you 1000 Equus every time you send them to the Safe Haven

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And also...

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• You can now rename horses, give them affixes and move them to a different breeding farm, all at the same time using the link: Edit Profile
• The your horses' results in competitions page has been completely redone
• The riding school page has been removed. You'll find info on lessons in your equestrian center office
• The My Account and Edit My Account pages have been merged
• Red excellence stars now count for 10 green excellence stars on horse pages
• There's no longer any limit to the number of items you can have in your inventory
• Bonus items now appear in the Bonus tab on horse pages, and not in the items box as before. You can now give your horses bonus items by clicking on the Give a Bonus Item link in the menu on their page.
• The Sapphire divine horse now offers one diamond or 1000 Equus based on its age in even/odd months, rather than even/odd days as before
• Greyfell divine horses' health can now increase when they are immortal

And then to the Competitions!

During the next 3 weeks, hone your Western competitior skill by completing the Special Western objectives!

From today and until the 4th of March at 23:00 Game time, we will be introducing a series of Western riding objectives to complete!

There are 2 types of Western objectives and they each have their own specificities. 

The First type of Western objectives will be available during the entire 3 week period.

They come in 3 different difficulty levels and you will have to complete the first objective of each level to get to the second objective of each level and so on to get to the third level.

To get to the Western objective page, simply go to the home page and click on the Western objective insert.

The second type of Western objectives are competition objectives you have a week to complete them. 

Every Monday at 00:00 game time a little set of Western Competition objective will be available for you to try out your skills.

You have to complete the set within the week because when a new set is introduced, the previous set can't be completed any more.

Of course there are gifts and surprises at the end of these Special Western Objectives!

We hope you'll enjoy the challenge!

The Howrse Team

The lottery is here yet again!

Howrse Lottery Time! - 18th January 2012

Today on Howrse, the Lottery is back to give you plenty of fun goodies until the 6th of February at 12:00 game time!

Today on Howrse, the Lottery is back to give you plenty of fun goodies until the 6th of February at 12:00 game time!

We have made some changes on the way to get tickets for the Lottery draws!

Here are the various ways of gathering tickets :

- Buying tickets with equus. You can now buy as many tickets as you like against equus for each draw.

Each time you buy a ticket the price in equus of the next ticket triples. The first ticket costs 100 equus, the second 300, the third 900 and so on.

- Tickets from winning competitions. You can get two tickets per draw from winning competitions.

- Tickets from your friends. You can now receive 5 tickets from your friends per draw.

- Tickets for using passes. Using a pass on the game now earns you 3 tickets for the following draw. (However this isn't available for horse sales/purchases.)

If you are very lucky you could even get Jade as top prize!

Please note that you can only win the 3 top gifts once during the whole Lottery, you can't get Jade twice for instance.

The times for the Lottery draws have changed slightly, to know when the next draw is coming up, check the Lottery page.

The Lottery is also hiding a surprise from Central Europe for some of the lucky winners!

And plenty of other nice gifts !

We wish you luck!

The Howrse Team

The Lottery Page !

The snowball fight is officially here!

Snowball fight!

Snowball Fight Time ! - 3rd January 2012

It's cool and chilly but that's not an excuse to miss out on fun ! It's time to get those Snowballs Flying fast on Howrse!

It's cold and chilly but that's not an excuse to miss out on some fun !
To spice up and warm this month of January, we are happy to welcome back the Snow Ball Fight until the 16th of January at 12:00 game time!

Catch the Snowballs that fly across your screen, collect the gift inside and send one back to a friend, he'll get the same gift as you !

If you decide not to send the Snowball to a friend, the second gift will be lost.

A contest of the best Snowball thrower will reward those who will have sent the most Snowballs:

- 10 First get a Nyx Pack

- 40 next get 100 000 Equus

- 50 next get an Achilles' Heel

It is possible to receive 15 Snowballs maximum per week.

Best Regards
The Howrse Team

The Snowball Fight

Up until 16th January 2012 13:00, join the Great Snowball Fight on Howrse!

Principle

The regular UFO have been replaced by snowballs containing gifts.

These gifts come in twos which allows you to offer the second one to your friends. For that simply throw them the snowball!

Rewards

At the end of the contest, the players who have thrown the most gifts will receive:

• 1. to 10.:   Nyx Pack
• 11. to 50.: 100 000  
• 51. to 100.:   Achilles' Heel

Happy Snowball Fight to all!

Good luck guys!

-sweetagility  

Treasure Chests in HoPs!

Treasure Chests in the Horns of Plenty! - 1st January 2012

Starting now, you are also able to try your luck at getting a Treasure Chest in the Horns of Plenty!

Starting now, you are also able to try your luck at getting a Treasure Chest in the Horns of Plenty.

To be sure the offer is on-line, just check the home page at www.howrse.com, if the offer is working then an insert about the Horns of Plenty will appear on the page in the usual display box.

You'll have until the 4th of January at 23:59 game time to roll the dice and see if your luck rewards you!

Best Wishes for 2012

The Howrse Team

Happy new year greeting from Howrse!

Happy New Year ! - 1st January 2012

Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2012 to you and yours from the Howrse Team!

Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2012 to you and yours from the Howrse Team!
We hope this year will be full of joy, health, adventure and love for all of you!
Best Regards
The Howrse Team

Howrse new years suprise - promotion

Guess whats back?!

New Year Surprises Galore! - 31st December 2011

Once again, until 23:59 game time on the 31st of December, benefit from our special surprises for the purchase of pass packs, you've got 24h!

To Celebrate the New Year and for fun, until 23:59 game time on the 31st of December, for the purchase of pass packs get Treasure Chests or Divine Horses!
For the purchase of a pack of 30 passes, get a Treasure Chest full of loot!
And even better, for the purchase of a pack of 100 passes, you can choose the Divine you want amongst the ones available.
Check out the ones you can get by putting the cursor of your mouse over the offer conditions on the pass page.
Please note that both offers don't combine. If you buy a pack of 100 passes it will not give you 3 Treasure Chests.
Also starting tomorrow, 1st of January at  00:10 game time, you will also be able to try your luck at getting a Treasure Chest in the Horns of Plenty.
To be sure the offer is on-line, just check the home page at www.howrse.com, if the offer is working then an insert about the Horns of Plenty will appear on the page in the usual display box.
You'll have until the 4th of January at 23:59 game time to roll the dice and see if your luck rewards you!
Best Wishes and a Happy New Year 2012!
The Howrse Team

Go to the Pass page
Get some Horns of Plenty!	GOOD LUCK EVERYONE !!

The Owlien Powrtal

Yet again I decided to make a new post.

Yet again here I am with a new post, this is about The Owlient Powrtal.

Owlien powrtal tells you about how it was named Owlient, you see it's first name was Olient.

 

Howrse is one of the most popular game plays.

Owlient Powrtal's banner for Howrse

Now, I will tell about Ow, this story is from the Owlient Powrtal:

Who is OW?

We finally found him! But what a to-do!

The office Monday morning was like a battlefield. The forums were in chaos. Strange objects had popped up in the competitions, Easter eggs. It was all his fault! We had finally caught him several weeks back, after he had crashed out on one of our huge fluffy cushions.

He carried on pulling faces and monkeying around, even though he was a bit shaken up. What were we going to do with him? We had to make our minds up. A long discussion ensued: A monkey in the office? No way!... Call a zoo? But he’s so cute... Ok, he’s caused chaos, but he looks friendly enough... He’s been around for ages though, just we haven’t noticed him. What are we going to do? What ARE we going to do?

While we were deciding his fate, Ow – whom you know already from games and forums - and the little white monkey started getting along famously.

Finally we decided to keep him but on two conditions: first, he was forbidden from hiding our computer mice every morning, and secondly, if he was going to stick around, he’d have to pull his weight.

Like his guardian Ow, we decided to give him the same name. Our little monkey Ow was pleased as punch to stay with us and started telling his tale.
He was born 5 years ago with the launch in France of equideow, or equideo as it was known then. He kept himself to himself to begin with. Fascinated, he watched players discover equideo and raise their horses. As the months passed, Ow came out of his shell. Always on the look out for fun and new discoveries, he came up with a few surprises.
The first was an invasion of spring insects, giving birth to the bucowlic competition. French players were invited to catch lowdybirds, cowterpillars and other bugs to tidy the place up.
Encouraged by this first success, Ow went one step further and organised a massive pill-ow fight. No one was safe – the only thing to do was don a bowlster and take paracetamowls to dull the pain. Naturally, Ow was nowhere to be seen amidst the chaos.

Then he started causing mayhem in the forums – changing logins, adding colours, giving everyone the same user name. We didn’t know what was going on! We knew someone was messing with the game, but it was impossible to get our hands on him.
As Ow continued spilling the beans on all the monkey business he’d been up to for 5 years, we realised he was very attached to Owlient and really loved having fun with you. He especially likes it when you pick up on his tomfoolery! In reply, some of you started adding Ws and Ows to your uowser and howrse names. He was delighted you’d followed suit and became cheekier and cheekier, also slipping in Ws everywhere. That’s how Olient became Owlient and Equideo became Equideow!
Next he started to learn English, German, Spanish and even Russian to make friends with lots more people and spread his shenanigans around more communities.
And then last winter he launched a free-for-all snowball fight in all games. He followed this up with a gigantic water fight in summer. All players whatever their nationalities became the targets

of our diminutive monkey for a succession of days.

And he still won’t stop adding Ow to the name of every game.
Ever curious, with his trademark cheeky style, he introduced himself to the world of childcare (what he likes most are the cuddly toys!), then to the world of fashion (he hasn’t got into make-up or hairdressing yet – let’s hope it stays that way!!... ;-))
He meanders from game to game and from language to language in search of fresh larks and most of all to enjoy your company.
We spent a magnificent evening finding our more about our little white wonder whose existence we had suspected even if we had never seen hide nor hair of him - even if his practical jokes had given us a very clear idea of his character.
Only too pleased to stay with us, he set about working, well, kind of.
The first job we gave him – seeing as he knew our games so well – was to help new players discover a game: How does it work? What are the actions? Why?
Now when you first connect to one of the Owlient games, you’ll find our little monkey Ow giving you step-by-step directions.

We intend to promote him to the role of “Community Entertainments Officer” and to give him a hand (a very big hand) answering your questions and feedback. We’ll see what he reckons.
Delighted with his first genuine and visible input, he has settled himself nicely into an office behind a desk, where he even sits still sometimes, and is busy cooking up new surprises for you… So get ready!
See you soon ...

The Owlient team and our little monkey, Ow! 

I think that Ow, is very cute :3

What do you guys think?

See ya all tomorrow for an update!

-sweetagility xx