Amaretto Breedables Customer Connection

Today I wanted to talk to everyone about setting the range on your horses.  I cannot stress how important your horses range is when it comes to pretty much everything.  The range is set in meters and is the radius of a circle with the home point as the center. (The radius of a circle is measured from the center to its edge). When a horse is first birthed its default range is set to 5 meters.  This means that you must also have food within 5 meters of the horses in order for them to eat.  When they are old enough to breed the horse you want them to breed with must also be within 5 meters of them.  So you see the range you set is important for a few reasons.  If you have a lot of horses or even just a few I suggest using the Global Pony System or the GPS on your sim.  With this wonderful device you can set the stats on all of your horses at once, range, animation, movement, and sounds, all of it! It’s really handy and saves tons of time.  Plus I find it’s nice to know that all of my horses are set to the same range so I don’t have to keep checking them. Just remember if you have special projects going and need ranges set to a different amount on certain horses you will have to manually do this as the GPS will change the range on the whole sim.

One of the main topics of the tickets we receive is about horses not eating. If you are having issues with your horse not eating please try the following tricks before filing a ticket.

• 1. Re-rez fixes 99% of the issues.
• 2. If the land is set to a group, are the horses and food set to that group?
• 3. If the land isn’t set to a group, are the horse and food set to the same group as each other?
• 4. Check to see if the horse is set to the type of food out (more stats)
• 5. Re-set home position.
• 6. Sometimes giving them a Horsey Snack will help them start to eat so you may also want to try this. Remember your horses only eat once every 43 minutes so you may not notice a change immediately, be patient it takes 3 days for a horse to reach 100% hunger.

Until next time, Happy Breeding everyone!