Howrse Tips

How to save Equus

A/n: this is my first work so please no hate :)

How To Save Equus

A lot of players complain that they "can't save their Equus" and need Howrse to add a bank on to the game. All it takes is some planning ahead and some self control to make sure you don't spend all your Equus to fast.

All About Equus

Equus is the game's currency. (And no, I don't understand exactly how to pronounce it but I think it's like "eh-ques")

Equus is written like this:

The dollar sign goes directly after the sum without a space. The sign for Equus is "e". Commas are replaced with spaces. So two hundred thousand US dollars would be written like this:

$200, 000

While the same amount in Equus:

200 000e

Here I will list all the ways to get Equus:

•Completing things.... Objectives inside of promotions, quests- sometimes the rewards are Equus.

•UFOs- the most I've ever seen was 600e, the least 200e, but I'm sure this will vary sometimes.

•Selling a horse- in the direct, reserved, or auction sales- auction can be good because people will bid you up higher and directs are good if you also want a pass or two with the sale. You have the option to set the sale so that other players can negotiate the price, or not. The fact that it is not set as negotiable will not keep some players from PMing you with ridiculous offers though....

•Competitions- No matter where you place in a competition you win something, although in the last place it is only 1e so you can't really tell. But still, it's money....

•Winning contests- player's contests, Howrse promotions, etc. etc.....

•Lessons- Depending on how the center your horses are at sets their mission/lesson ratio, you can do lessons or missions and earn money. I'm not sure about the missions, but I do know lesson can earn between 30e and 60e, depending on the quality of the boarders in the EC.

•Selling Items back to the store- the store will buy things back at half their original price. Tip: manure is best, it builds up quick! Once a week sell off all your droppings to get about 500e.

Tip: Equus has a pass equivalent. You can't buy BMIs with Equus, but players will accept Equus instead of passes. Example: some players buy BMIs for Equus from other players. The way this works, since there is no option to "sell" BM items on the game, is the selling player reserves a horse for the buying player for the price, the other player buys it, then gifts the BMI to the other player. The pass equivalent changes daily, but it's usually between 10 000e and 50 000e. Check the top player's pages, where they list how much they pay for BMIs to see the current price- for instance, if a player says that they are buying P. Stones (Phillosipher's Stones, they give a horse immortality) for 60 000e, and P. Stones cost 3 passes, you can arrive at the conclusion that the going price for passes at the time is 20 000e.

How To Save Equus

A lot of players complain that they "can't save their Equus" and need Howrse to add a bank on to the game. All it takes is some planing ahead and some self control to make sure you don't spend all your Equus to fast.

My dad is what we all refer to as a tightwad. He buys nothing he can possibly live without and he holds out on the cheapest prices possible..... he doesn't play Howrse, I'm talking in real life.

Thus, I have been raised in a household where I heard him say, all the time, "When you see something you want, you always gotta ask yourself one question: Do you need it, or can you live without it? Because 99.9% of the time, you can live without it and you just walk away."

Before I buy something, ever, in any game or in real life, I ask myself, "Do I need it or can I live without it?"

Obviously, you need to use that with a grain of salt because if you wanna get technical, you don't need any equus or passes or Howrse to live at all, but that's not quite what I mean.... I think you probably get it.

Now, I was raised that way, and I can't help it. I'll probably always be kind of frugal, and I'll probably always hear that voice in my head, asking me if I need or can live without it. But what if you weren't raised that way and don't hear that in your head, maybe some of these ideas will help you out.

In school, I am required to take a basic accounting course even though I suck at math. In the process of this, I have had to fill out all these fake forms and stuff, and monthly budgets are one of them. Here's my advice based on what I've learned (holy crap, I actually learned something in a math class, I can't believe it lol)

Take this basic form:

1.Approximately how much equus do you make in a week? (What do you do for your income? Mostly.... sell horses? offer coverings? exchanges? AP farm? train horses? think of the things you do to earn the most money and take some time to write down what you make every day, and add it up at the end of each week- after about three to four weeks, find the average (the total of the income over all the weeks, divided by the number of weeks) and say that's what you make every week. Okay. Now, you know that you usually want to make sure you spend less than that. Just like in real life. Sometimes you might see a big thing you really want and know you'll have to make up for later but you just have to have it- a 2-use-RC for 50,000e or something like that- and if you have the money ,and know how to make that money back, buy it. But don't be doing that every week. Just like in real life- someday, IRL, you buy a house or a car or something, which is far more than your paycheck but you can afford it (okay, assuming you pay cash for said house or car lol) and you don't do it every day. So... yeah. Do not repeatedly spend more than you make in a week.)

2.How do you play your game? (Are you a flipper? A breeder? A trainer? GPer? BMI trader/seller? What are your preferred ways to play?)

3.What things do you have to buy in your game style? (Make a list. Top breeders might need to buy certain BMIs and such; or maybe you're the type that does comp horses and buys skillers, or maybe you need to purchase horses out the wazoo to flip.)

4.If you buy your passes, then before you spend them on something non-essential, think how much money the passes you bought cost. Think what real life things you could have bought for that much money. Consider being frugal with the passes since buying passes is technically a little silly (no offense, I just mean from a financial standpoint- they don't really exist and we don't even know what they look like, lol.)

5.If you work for your [free] passes, before you buy something non-essential, think just how much frazzling work it is to get those passes, and how you can't get more than 11 in a whole month. They're precious, rare, and to be used with extreme caution.

6.Before you spend your equus on something non-essential, think how much work it is to get it. Think how hard you work to make sure you aren't cheated out of equus, think how much thought you put into how to make equus- and then think whether the thing you're about to spend it on does all that effort proud, or not.

Essentially, as long as you really think long and hard about whether you should be buying that or not, why you would buy that, and whether that thing is worth your hard-earned money, and don't spend more than you take in- you shouldn't have too many money problems at all.