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The comparison test is expensive because it is so very helpful, especially if a player is seriously intent on breeding only stallions that are demonstrably better than their sires with even greater precision than Charlie's Gelding Advice affords. GA neuters colts that are "considerably worse" for breeding than their sires. This means that colts that pass may be better than their sires, about as good as their sires, or even somewhat worse than their sires. At most papering levels, stallions that paper the same will fit into a relatively wide range of scores, and some B papered stallions will be better than other B papered stallions, for instance. A stallion may paper B by a narrow margin below the cut off for A papering. That stallion will comparison test better than a B stallion whose breeding ability score is just a hair above C papering. This continues to hold true for each level of papering above. When you get to *Star papered stallions of the highest breeding ability, it becomes progressively more difficult to get colts that comparison test superior to their sires.

Players who are able to purchase a Premium Upgrade are charged only 4000 for the comparison test, which is still a lot, but a decent saving. This is one of the many perks that come with the Premium Upgrade. Every test has taken a considerable amount of programming time and takes up server time to run. This is why the upgrade levels cost real-life money--it takes real-life money or programmer's time which is worth considerable money in real-life keep this game (or any online game for that matter) in existence. People who can afford to purchase the upgrades help keep this game running and continually improving, so it is only fair to reward them by features that are unavailable to those who are not helping to foot the bills.

One solution is to keep as many show horses as you can afford to house and show them regularly in order to build up your point total and increase your showing bonus. If you play long enough and keep enough horses to make the showing bonus profitable, you will reach the point where the showing bonus will become high enough that you can afford all the testing you want to do, new barns for game cash instead of real-life money. If you try to play the game with only breeding stock, much of which is housed in non-showing pastures, it is hard to get ahead in this game.

I am upgraded also. But I like to work on just breeding for show horses, not for more breeders. For me having a ton of show horses, altered or intact, Not in pastures, is making me bonus hbs. The only stallions that aren't related to each other, that I compare, are foundations.

I do comparison testing for sire's to sons, and brother's to brothers only. Then I leave them intact until I test breed them anyway, to see who is the better breeder for show horses. But I can afford to do that.

I have had several stallions that compared, 'worse' than their brothers, but they produce really nice show horses for me, that make me lots of hbs from points. I make a lot of hbs on my show bonus each week, I mostly geld and spay the offspring that Charlie doesn't geld or spay from these 'compared worse than' stallions.

My best example is my Spokane Smuggler, he compared 'worse than' his other foundation stallions created at the same time. I test bred him, and he produced better show horses than the other stallions bred that same day. Smuggler has a ton of show horses that are still making me points for the bonuses.

So I only compare the horses above, I couldn't do benchmarks at first, since I wasn't upgraded. That is why I have stallions that produce me show horses, rather than quality breeders, I am going to geld or spay anyway, it doesn't matter if they produce good breeders. My bonuses each month are one quarter to one half a million. And I put it right back into the game to make more show horses. So, it really works either way, if you cannot afford to compare your stallions at times, and can at other times.

Gotcha. I am upgraded bc i couldnt resist. lol So i will slowly test when my hbs go back up:-)