Paid riders (and thus their assigned horses) are unable to train if there are other unpaid riders in the rider's lounge, even though the unpaid riders have already trained that week and are not listed on the training page.

This error occurs because the condition is tripped for the whole group and aborts the action entirely, rather than check on an individual rider basis.

Example of when this occurs:

Paying all your riders Thursday, entering horses into shows until Wednesday the following week (where the maximum of 3 shows per week is now attained), then using the newly made ebs to buy more horses and hire new riders, but not being able to train them unless *all* riders are paid again. This is especially frustrating when you only have a couple new low level inexpensive riders, but you have to pay the other 50, including the expensive ones, to avoid missing out on a week's training on your new horses.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a bug. I think it's because from when it was changed to a requirement to have paid riders before being able to train. There was players who would hire riders and not pay them, not show, and just use the riders until they quit and hired new ones. So it was then made a requirement that all riders are paid before training.

Yes, to clarify, I'm not suggesting being able to train them while they aren't paid. What I mean is the newly hired riders I'm trying to train are indeed paid, but cannot train unless every other in the lounge is also paid, including riders who had trained earlier that week before their salary expired and no longer need to train.

I understood. But I'm trying to state that the way the coding behaves is all riders, trained or not, need to be paid before training can happen.

Yeah, sorry, I don't always express myself clearly. You are right in saying that's the way it is currently coded, which was to fix a previous issue/exploit. I'm referring it as a bug because it results in a paid rider essentially refusing to perform his duties, with no possible work arounds, except to fire the other riders, or throw away 200k ebs to get what would otherwise cost 2k if those other riders didn't exist.

Then wouldn't this be a better suggestion? To have the game allow for riders who are paid to train?

It could have equally been posted in the suggestion section, but I thought it would be more appropriate in the bug reporting, since it's an existing feature not performing as it should be, due to how the "check if rider is paid" condition is currently applied. Whereas the suggestions section, to my understanding, is more for new game features such as new horse colors, new buttons or changing a current feature's functionality, and then voted on by players.

Would you prefer the thread be moved to the suggestions section? I wouldn't mind either way