Added
- New race announcer system with a real life announcer (Sketchy The Horse Guy), replacing the AI voice system
- Horses can now get dirty in races & training and just being horses
- You can now groom your horses in their profiles, horses with caretakers assigned will automatically groom. You can also auto groom yourself if you do not enjoy it, by turning on this in your personal automation settings (found in settings)
- You can now do three new interactions with your horse
- Caretaker skill now effects how clean they can get the horse
- If you have unclean horses, you can get an inspection by the Horse Welfare Authorities, continued neglegence will land you in jail with seized horses
- Some people are making sites and supporting software for their stables/world, to aid with this you can now bulk export images of either your stables horses or your whole world, with or without background in the horse import/export tool
- Ancestor view in horse details under pedigree that is text only, you can also use it in breeding pedigree view. Supports deep lineages (e.g. real world data Romantic Warrior 12 generations deep) and you can also copy it to clipboard as list or then copy in spreadsheet format
- In races page, there is now an all races tab that some people were requesting as a registering method
Improved
- Manager budget instead of a % of the pool, now works like a hardlimit, if you go over it once you get warning from owner the second time you are fired
- Look of the pages unified a bit more, padding is more unified, main content is now also on panels with a slight shadow to make them pop
- Person training page is now on work tab, since it did not really have enough to be own tab
- Race preview and auction preview pages top bar made simpler
- In concepts you can now have only 1 race
- Family now asks for gifts a bit less frequently, and kids should not ask for whiskey
- Added social event options to telemetry so that we can better balance them
- Sorting on breeding ability now works smoother in big worlds in finder and breeding page
- Some queries regarding concepts made faster, was making some pages slow to load in massive worlds
- Day sim should be faster now
- Concepts now have an encyclopedia entry
- Permanent riding injury no longer blocks breeding
- Own races (from any controlled stable) don't move money or count to horse earnings now by default, since it was quite exploitable
- In race register now say instead of "your stable" column "your controlled" this shows horses registered accross your stables not only the current stable
- Race filter now has coutry and city as options
- Fame even for top 20 decays now, and persons don't get streak fame boosts anymore so fame increase for persons should be much slower
- In developer tools, you can now enable setting "edit any stables silks" this opens the silk editor for all stables
- Removed some limits to sire selection by CPU (like age) but they still heavily prefer proven and high earners
- Jockeys skin color in races now match their avatar
- Minors don't inherit debt now, and glue men don't come after them before age 16
Fixed
- Races from custom schedule CSVs were all scheduled on the 1st of the month instead of their real day whenever the sheet gave a weekday without a pattern, existing saves are repaired on load
- Live trials with one horse crashed the game
- Concept awards showing twice, migration to fix old saves
- If one of the autosave slot fails rotates to the next one
- If saving fails due to low disk space, inform the player about this
- Some valuation exploits
- Sponsors were rarely sending out emails
- Auctionhouses and racecourses did not get sponsor offers, they could also be sent by dead people
- You can now zoom in and out with trackpad in live race