Rainbow Meadows said:

Too bad there aren't any Apricot bravery-ratings studs

Hi guys. I had an idea that I want to run by you. Someone revived the forum suggestion to add the ability to set bravery breeding reqs. Someone in that topic suggested a workaround using a club. So here is my suggestion. Please feel free to comment your thoughts or send me a PM. If the majority of members are against it, I won't implement it. If the members are for it and a mod says it's okay, I will.

The basic idea is that there could be a club rule requiring members to respect the minimum bravery requirements posted in horse notes. To protect players who make honest mistakes, members who ignore the reqs will get warnings on the first and second times it happens. The third time will result in removal from the club. This will not be counted by foal, buy rather by day. Breeding three sub mares to a restricted stud on one day would only count as one strike, for example, but if you did it again the next day that would be strike two.

Now I do not want to be in a situation where an owner does not have a req posted, sees that their horse has been bred, adds the note after the fact, and then reports the player who used the stud. Therefore, if you want your reqs enforced by the club, you must "register" the horse with me by sending me a PM with the horse's name and minimum req. Alternatively, you could "register" your whole stable with one minimum req. I would create a list of registered horses and members, which would be posted on the club page and pinned to the top of this forum topic. You would also be required to still post the req in the stud's notes.

Any "registered" stud would have to have LCs available to the club only, not the public. I do not want a situation where people leave the club so that they can ignore the reqs and use LCs with impunity. To be clear, if you do not want me to enforce your bravery reqs, then you are more than welcome to have your studs up for public. I just don't enforce reqs on those horses. Also, I will never ever enforce reqs on straws.

In summary: if you want me to enforce your bravery minimum breeding reqs on your stallion, you must:

1. PM me the name of your horse (or your stable for a blanket req) and the minimum req so that I can post it and have a record.

2. Have his LCs set to club only. No LCs available to the public.

Again, I will not enforce reqs on straws under any circumstance, and I will not enforce reqs on LCs if the horse is up for non-members, is not registered with me, or does not have the req listed in his notes.

What do you all think? Good rule or not?