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New Feature Coming Soon!

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Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
January 26th, 2014 3:52:17am
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Hey everyone!


 


Sometime this coming week we should be getting a major new feature into the game! So I’m going to give you a little preview of what it will be now (and I’ll post a more detailed post of exactly how it works once it comes out so everyone knows how to use it).


 


I talked about it in one of my previous posts, but basically we are going to automate Binny’s sales and add those items (plus a few new ones) into the store! Basically this way, we can easily make things available in the store, and then things like retirement breedings will happen instantly once they’ve been paid for instead of waiting for an admin to do it.


 


Plus, since it’ll be programmed in, we can add some cool, new things that we wouldn’t have been able to do manually! This is the list of what will be in the store to start:


  • One & Two Year De-Ages


  • One Year Age Forward


  • Gender Change


  • Retirement Breeding


  • Extra Show Pass (lets you make double public shows for a week)


  • Extra Private Show Pass (lets you make double private shows for a week)


  • Foal Gender Picker (allows you to always pick the gender of your foals/pups of your breed specialty)


  • Twin Potion (guarantees twins)


  • Double Extra Shows (allows you to add an extra extra 10 energy to a horse or dog for the week, so if you’ve already bought the 10 extra shows in the store that we have now, you can also purchase this to now have 100 energy)


  • Permanent Extra Energy (would give your horse/dog the 10 energy boost that you can get in the store now, but wouldn’t expire each week)


  • Double Tickets (allows you to get double tickets for the month)


  • Prime Advertising (allows you to post in a bold alias in the chats)


  • More Limited Edition Animals (allows you to buy more stores of limited edition breeds, like the liberty lab and patriot paint when they’re not in the regular store)


     


    Some of these things will be more rare than others and only available sometimes, while others will be available all the time (like the double tickets and limited edition animals). There will also be some other limits on them. Like you can only de-age an animal once in it’s lifetime and other similar restrictions to make things fair!


     


    In this version of Binny’s Sales you will have more than one option to pay for these things:


  • You will be able to pay in HPD, like usual, which will help with the economy (for reasons why we want to help the economy on HP, please read THIS TOPIC).


  • You will also be able to pay with USD - we will have a special currency (Horse Bucks!) which you can buy through PayPal, and then use for these things. You will also be able to sell them to other players in auctions (similar to the graphics auctions), and transfer them to other players for services, if you so choose to. (This option will also help to support HP!)


  • Finally, you will be able to trade your referral and achievement points for them! Referral points will be counted the same as they are now for trading to HPD and upgrade time, and everyone will get one achievement point per achievement that they have. If you trade in an achievement point, you will not lose the achievement badge on your page! We’re hoping that this will encourage people to collect achievements and also refer people!


     


    This way they will be accessible to all players, with different abilities to pay for things! Some may not have HPD, but have USD, and some may not have USD but have HPD, and some may only have points to spend! So this way there’s a way for everyone.


     


     


    I’m opening up a topic in the forums for people to comment or ask questions :). You can also message me!


     


    Soon we will also have some other new feature and revamp annoucements coming your way! But one thing at a time, right?




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    Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
    February 4th, 2014 4:49:31pm
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    Possibly! :). It should be easy enough for us to add them in.




     

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    LUMOS. 🌙 spare upgrade
    February 4th, 2014 10:37:31pm
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    Excited to see how everything goes. I'll for sure be saving either HPD or USD to retirement breed some of my old lines :D




     

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    LUMOS. 🌙 spare upgrade
    February 8th, 2014 11:16:45pm
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    Any idea when this will be added? Not being pushy :P Just excited to see what the prices may be so I have an idea of how much I need to save. :3




     

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    Concourse [but as she was leaving, it felt like breathing]
    February 11th, 2014 6:23:14pm
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    *waits patiently* I have so many gender changes to do in order to fix my lines lol




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    tronic ϟ love me back to life ♥
    February 11th, 2014 6:32:17pm
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    Changes will be made soon!  I know it's exciting and how hard it is to wait!  ☺




     

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    LUMOS. 🌙 spare upgrade
    February 11th, 2014 10:14:18pm
    915 Posts

    Eeekkk

    -trys not to think about it-

    :P




     

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    Concourse [but as she was leaving, it felt like breathing]
    February 11th, 2014 10:56:44pm
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    Guess.it is a good thing my net is down lol




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    mirage † siberian huskies
    February 14th, 2014 2:20:57am
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    Mm..Has this question has been raised by any of my fellow Canadian players about the 'real money' pricing of these perks? My question is; would it be possible to convert the Horse Bucks from Canadian currency to USD through Paypal?

    I'm not sure if that made a lot of sense...xD




     

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    shaenne •
    February 14th, 2014 2:49:27am
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    Paypal automatically does the currency conversion for you when you pay :) I'm in Australia and I never have to worry about coverting AUD to USD cause Paypal does it for me!




     

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    Duckie || Songbird Shelties || -college-ing-
    February 14th, 2014 3:08:52am
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    -grabby hands- ;___;




     

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    Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
    February 14th, 2014 4:11:15am
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    PayPal will handle that for you just like they do for upgrades :).




     

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    Absinthe .:.Main.:.
    February 14th, 2014 4:34:52pm
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    Paypal = universal money hahahahahha




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    mirage † siberian huskies
    February 15th, 2014 3:20:35am
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    Okay, whew. I panicked for a minute there, fearing I wouldn't be able to do so. You see, I'm completely unfamiliar with how Paypal works as I don't have a credit/debit card or have enough self-confidence to be able to own one. But thank you for reassuring me.

    I think I'll just stick with HPD. xD




     

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    Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
    February 16th, 2014 2:27:59pm
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    You'll also have the option of purchasing the special curreny from other players!




     

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    Concourse [but as she was leaving, it felt like breathing]
    February 16th, 2014 3:19:02pm
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    I'm so excited about this... Samantha...you just keep making it better!!!




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    bolldog
    February 16th, 2014 10:54:09pm
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    Would it be possible to eventually purchase an extra breed specialty from the store? I realize encouraging more upgrades makes HP more money - but I don't think allowing people to have one dog AND one horse specialty is ridiculous, especially if they pay for the second.




     

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    BANNED
    February 17th, 2014 6:24:46pm
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    0.0 *jumps up and down with tons of excitement* XD I cant wait !




     

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    Master Administrator Samantha - see page to know who to contact directly!
    February 17th, 2014 6:57:19pm
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    Belle - the extra breed specialty won't be an option at this time. It could severely cut our income, unless the extra specialty costs what an upgrade costs and then you may as well buy another upgrade to get the rest of the perks.

    Many people have multiple accounts for multile breeds. Even if we only allowed one extra breed specialty it could cut our upgrades in half. And we need to have upgrades, otherwise HP wouldn't be able to support itself or me (and HP is my full time job, I support myself and the game off of the imcome, if we made less and I had to get an extra job, I wouldnt have as much time for HP and things wouldn't happen as efficiently).




     

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    aphrodite
    February 21st, 2014 9:49:57am
    102 Posts

    This is really awesome!!! I can't find it on the site though. When will it be up and running? 




     

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    Absinthe .:.Main.:.
    February 21st, 2014 12:51:36pm
    552 Posts

    We're still working on getting it set up :)




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