Howrse Helper

Raising the prestige in your center can take some time and equus. Just be patient and it should be fine. Basically, you just need to use everything Howrse has to offer for your EC. Grow crops, make mashes, have clean, fertile meadows, and big boxes for your boarders.

Greenhouse and Carrots:

When you grow crops, it’s best to have a greenhouse so you can grow crops year-round. This way, you can have more equus for your EC and/or provide carrots for the boarding horses.

Growing Crops and Mashes:

You will need a lot of crops to create health mashes. It’s best to ‘close’ your EC to boarders, by reserving all boxes for yourself, and use that time to grow all the supplies you will need. When you grow crops, always use horse dung to make manure. It helps them grow faster and saves you money by not buying other fertilizer. Once you have a pretty big number of mashes,you can stop for a bit until you get down to a few hundred, depending on how many boarding horses you have and how often they will use mashes. Any type of mash will improve prestige, but health mashes are best. Players only have access to health mashes through ECs.As for money-making crops, it’s best to grow just wheat and flax.

Just like mashes, carrots attract players to your EC and raise the prestige. To get full prestige for boxes, there must be ten carrots and ten mashes per box. Carrots can be grown in the green house year round. Keep at least 5,000 on hand at all times. Players could BLUP their horse and would use lots of carrots.

Meadows:

Don’t buy non fertile meadows – it will lower your prestige. You need to have 100% fertility and cleanliness for your meadows. Because the non fertile meadows only go to 50%, it will lower the prestige. Always have extra pastures (any size) for your boarding horses so the fertility and cleanliness will stay up and you will always have space. Keep the extra pastures fallow. After storms, if cleanliness goes down, rotate the meadows so the extra ones are now part of the pasture and the ones that were in the pasture, are now placed fallow.

Boxes:

Wait to purchase boxes if you don’t have enough for 18 meter boxes. Since they cost 100,000e, it’s not always worth it to buy them with your EC’s equus. Instead, save up some passes if you can to get the DH boxes. If no passes are available, continue to grow crops and save up that money. If it is possible to purchase a DH box, go for it. They only wear if a horse is boarding in that stall. Always use flax bedding since it’s the best quality. Instead of buying it, you can grow it in your meadow, keep the bedding, and sell the remaining items. Every stall must have a pet. I prefer rabbits, as well most boarders do. They help give that extra burst of energy since they give an extra carrot, which can be very helpful with training. If you would like, you can have a mixture of pets, but if you ever have to change something with a box that has a different pet, it could be difficult. Even though falabellas and zebras are nice, they are very expensive and don’t have a different affect on prestige than the much cheaper hens or rabbits.

In order to have full box prestige, you must have ten mashes and carrots per box, flax bedding, a pet, and DH boxes.

Competitions:

Competitions play a big role with the overall prestige. At the moment, that’s the only thing holding me back from the top 500 ranking. To read on getting competitions to run, view this post here.

Lessons:

Boarders are always looking for high paying lessons. The lesson price is determined by the prestige and the health and dressage skills of the boarding horses. In order to get 23e lessons, the average Dressage skills must be around 270 to 280 or more. For 24e lessons, the average must be as high as 315. With the new “20 horses boarding” update, make sure you actually select your horses – don’t let people just come in and board. This way you will get the highest possible prestige you can get. It also depends on the right amount of Riding Instructors needed and by offering top pay, including raises.

Health Care and Employees:

To have 100% health care, you need a vet, blacksmith and saddler at top pay. Always hire temporary employees for every job except Groom and Saddler. Many players are Saddlers on Howrse, so it won’t be too hard to find a player. Also, if you have less than twenty boxes, a Groom is already provided. Once temporary employees are hired, create job offers for the rest of the jobs. They must be top pay and get raises when needed.

Stabling:

Stabling is improved by having high skilled horses at your EC. Try having a set skill level at around 900, if it’s open to the public. Otherwise, board only one horse your EC that you own with the highest skills – overall and in Dressage. I’m currently boarding my horse with 940 overall skills of which 250 of them are Dressage.

Popularity:

Although having a forum won’t improve prestige, it will help spread your popularity. Open the forum to all breeders and try putting topics in there that others don’t have. Go onto the Game Play forums and see if anyone is asking about what you have posted. Suggest to them to check out the forum and they will see your EC on the way there.

Good luck!

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