Building a Career on Howrse
Earning Money
What are the various ways of earning money?
- Lessons: Your horse earns a certain amount depending on your equestrian center
- Having a job: You get paid a salary every day as soon as you log in and as long as you took care of at least one horse the day before
- The competitions in which your horses run
- Covering offers from stallions you own
- Selling a horse from your stables
- Selling the manure produced by your horses
- Selling back items from your inventory to the store
- Trading items from the Black Market
- Using a pass to credit your reserve
Your Job
On Howrse, every player can have a paid job. You can combine this job with the job of managing your equestrian center. Equestrian centers hire employees.
Access to jobs is now unlocked by seniority.
To change your job, you have to wait for your current contract to end. Once your contract is over, you'll be able to change jobs as long as you have the required number of seniority days.
The director of an equestrian center may make you a reserved job offer. The director may also offer to extend your contract. It is then up to you to decide to accept or refuse this extension.
Access to jobs is now unlocked by seniority.
To change your job, you have to wait for your current contract to end. Once your contract is over, you'll be able to change jobs as long as you have the required number of seniority days.
The director of an equestrian center may make you a reserved job offer. The director may also offer to extend your contract. It is then up to you to decide to accept or refuse this extension.
Your Breeding Farm
Directory and breeding farms
You can have one breeding farm for every 60 days of seniority, with a maximum of 5 breeding farms.
A breeding farm that is officially registered in the directory groups horses belonging to the same player regardless of who produced them.
The directory makes it possible to track and showcase the work of the breeders. It also enables players to find the horse they want to purchase or hire as a stud, even if the horse in question is not currently for sale or offering coverings.
Affixes
Any breeding farm can make a name for itself and build its reputation based on the horses it produces. You can register an affix and add it to the name of the horses that you have produced. This affix may not be removed by future owners of horses produced in your breeding farm. You cannot add it to the name of horses that were not born in your breeding farm.
To reserve an affix, you need at least 30 days of seniority. After that, you can create another one every 30 days of seniority. You can also unlock affixes by signing up for the Pegasus Account. Clicking an affix will show you a list of all the horses and ponies that have it.
A breeder may have several affixes and give them to the breeds he or she raises or to distinguish various lineages of a given breed within a breeding farm.
Breeders and their production
In the details of the horse or pony, you will find the name of its original breeder. To see all of a player's products in the player's details, click the link "View production".
The breeds and the blue star
On Howrse, there are several horse and pony breeds. You may differentiate pure bred horses or ponies from horses produced by cross-breeding thanks to the blue origin stars, which indicate the proportion of each breed present in the ancestors of the horse or pony. Pure bred horses are assigned 1 star.
You can have one breeding farm for every 60 days of seniority, with a maximum of 5 breeding farms.
A breeding farm that is officially registered in the directory groups horses belonging to the same player regardless of who produced them.
The directory makes it possible to track and showcase the work of the breeders. It also enables players to find the horse they want to purchase or hire as a stud, even if the horse in question is not currently for sale or offering coverings.
Affixes
Any breeding farm can make a name for itself and build its reputation based on the horses it produces. You can register an affix and add it to the name of the horses that you have produced. This affix may not be removed by future owners of horses produced in your breeding farm. You cannot add it to the name of horses that were not born in your breeding farm.
To reserve an affix, you need at least 30 days of seniority. After that, you can create another one every 30 days of seniority. You can also unlock affixes by signing up for the Pegasus Account. Clicking an affix will show you a list of all the horses and ponies that have it.
A breeder may have several affixes and give them to the breeds he or she raises or to distinguish various lineages of a given breed within a breeding farm.
Breeders and their production
In the details of the horse or pony, you will find the name of its original breeder. To see all of a player's products in the player's details, click the link "View production".
The breeds and the blue star
On Howrse, there are several horse and pony breeds. You may differentiate pure bred horses or ponies from horses produced by cross-breeding thanks to the blue origin stars, which indicate the proportion of each breed present in the ancestors of the horse or pony. Pure bred horses are assigned 1 star.
Horse Trading
Regardless of the method used, the minimum sale price for a horse or pony is 500 equus. You cannot buy back a horse that you sold for 10 days after the sale. There is another type of sale, but this is not done between players: the Safe Haven.
The moment you put your horse up for sale, you can no longer take care of it. It is automatically paused and stops aging. It will start aging as usual again once it has been bought. Note that the horse will stop aging once it's been put up for sale, even if the seller just took care of it that same day.
The auctions
You can sell one of your horses in an auction if you have at least 10 days' seniority and more than 4 karma points.
When you want to auction a horse, you can choose the start price. Buyers will bid on your price, and the horse will be transferred to the player who has made the highest bid at the end of the scheduled sale (3 days).
During an auction, the money is directly debited from the highest bidder. All players who made earlier bids are then repaid their money. If after 3 days no one has bid on a sale, then the seller keeps their horse.
Auctions can be canceled if no one has bid on them yet.
Players with the Pegasus Account can start auctions for passes.
Direct sales
Only players with at least 30 days' seniority, 2 living horses and karma higher than 4 can use the direct sales.
Direct sales are a way to sell your horses faster than auctioning. You choose your horse's sale price. If a breeder is interested, they can buy it and the money from the sale is instantly transferred to you.
You may cancel a direct sale before it has ended if no one has bought your horse. The horse in question will automatically return to your breeding farm 30 days after the start of the sale.
The Reserved Sales
It is also possible to reserve a sale to a certain breeder. If you select this option, only the player that you will have chosen will be able to buy your horse.
Safe Haven
The Safe Haven is a refuge for horses. Horses and ponies staying there get to live it up far from the hubbub of the competitive world.
There you can sell:
Selling a horse to this sanctuary is not like selling a horse to a player. Once the sale is completed, you cannot buy your horse back, and the sale price is fixed.
The moment you put your horse up for sale, you can no longer take care of it. It is automatically paused and stops aging. It will start aging as usual again once it has been bought. Note that the horse will stop aging once it's been put up for sale, even if the seller just took care of it that same day.
The auctions
You can sell one of your horses in an auction if you have at least 10 days' seniority and more than 4 karma points.
When you want to auction a horse, you can choose the start price. Buyers will bid on your price, and the horse will be transferred to the player who has made the highest bid at the end of the scheduled sale (3 days).
During an auction, the money is directly debited from the highest bidder. All players who made earlier bids are then repaid their money. If after 3 days no one has bid on a sale, then the seller keeps their horse.
Auctions can be canceled if no one has bid on them yet.
Players with the Pegasus Account can start auctions for passes.
Direct sales
Only players with at least 30 days' seniority, 2 living horses and karma higher than 4 can use the direct sales.
Direct sales are a way to sell your horses faster than auctioning. You choose your horse's sale price. If a breeder is interested, they can buy it and the money from the sale is instantly transferred to you.
You may cancel a direct sale before it has ended if no one has bought your horse. The horse in question will automatically return to your breeding farm 30 days after the start of the sale.
The Reserved Sales
It is also possible to reserve a sale to a certain breeder. If you select this option, only the player that you will have chosen will be able to buy your horse.
Safe Haven
The Safe Haven is a refuge for horses. Horses and ponies staying there get to live it up far from the hubbub of the competitive world.
There you can sell:
- your horses for 400 Equus
- your unicorns and non-unicorn horses born to unicorn parents for 2 000 Equus
Selling a horse to this sanctuary is not like selling a horse to a player. Once the sale is completed, you cannot buy your horse back, and the sale price is fixed.