Horse-related Stuff

[Kiyaani]

Would it be possible to make it so if you're standing by a water source you can clean/wash your horse as well as yourself?

Additionally, I was thinking it might be fun to implement some kind of horse training program at the stables. People get attached to their horses (especially custom ones), but they don't usually want to have more than one mount.

As it is now, multiple mounts are necessary if you want one for work and one for combat. It would be interesting to see an option to stable your horse for a training session (no more than a month duration, possibly 20-30k riln fee). These sessions could act as desensitization for upgrading a regular horse to warhorse status while maintaining the perks of both (can still pull wagons, can be used in battle). And if people wanted to still have two separate horses for the lower cost of buying them separately they could.

[Solaje]

This would be awesome. There isn't any reason a horse can't be trained in multiple disciplines.

[SkyFeather]

I like that idea too, and had a similar one, which I had not gotten around to posting. It would also be neat to be able to name them, and feed them and the like, or maybe have them do things occasionally, like whinny, or swish their tales, or nuzzle you like real horses do.

[ydia]

And please take out the part that they sit. Horses don't sit.

[merin]

I think they do that so they gain energy as fast as mechanicly possible and for the player to know so. Anyway, I do agree it could be changed.

[Kiyaani]

Yes, sitting has been brought up before haha. It's rather ridiculous, but I get why it's done code-wise.

[Jirato]

So what DOES an exhausted horse do? Just refuse to move?

[Kiyaani]

Pretty much. Maybe you could make it so they regain energy while standing as if they were sitting or lying down?

Horses rest standing up for the most part - usually for only about 3 hours/day in very short intervals. They lie down only for short periods of rest because of how they're built. It's hard on them to be down on the ground due to their weight distribution, hard for them to get up because of their stiff spines, it makes them vulnerable, and their legs are built in such a way that they can stand to rest without falling over.

[Dorn]

I suppose if you did that, would have to just put a tag of (resting) or something for the horse, so people know that it will refuse to budge just yet with some sort of line of "bla and bla no longer looks as tired" that perhaps echos to just the owner when they're in the same room?

[preiman]

this might be helpful to this conversation. http://www.thehorse.com/articles/34460/ ... e-lie-down

[Jirato]

Not a huge fan of sites that require you to register before you can read an article. Care to offer a brief summary?

[preiman]

Oh that's interesting, I didn't have to register to read it the first time, but seem to have to now, I'll see if i can't find that information some place else for folks. but basically it was talking about horses needing to lie down to get REM sleep, and typically they do it for about an hour and a half a day, if they can't lie they will often lean up against their stable walls. A horse that's being worked regularly might not lie down, a horse that feels unsafe might not, and some ailments will keep it from doing so.

[preiman]

OK found a lot of the same information here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_behavior isn't the modern world wonderful?
the section of note is the sleeping patterns section, but a lot of the other sections inform information found there.