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Not anymore. Ice (all of them) and Nexus are off of the public breeding and sales lists

You can still sell them, just has to be through the auction or between players privately. Ammit posted details in an announcement thread.

Didn't Ammit also say that we may not even be able to use the auctions to sell the fantasy color horses? Like, how are we supposed to do anything with 'em if we can't breed to improve or sell...?

Those are the ones restricted to people who paid for them that can only go through buddy sales. She's threatening to do that to the public auction house if it's abused

No, you're good. Those are great questions, and part of a larger discussion that was going on in the facebook group earlier this week.

It's not so much intentional abuse as a function of the way hunt and jumps economy works. The issue with poor quality horses (or one of them at least) is that horses here have a metric other than color preference to determine their value. This game is complex enough that it takes time and practice to learn all of the different dynamics at play. New playersweithout the knowledge to judge horses objectively or excess funds to afford making mistakes with tend to gravitate toward the flashy stuff (nexus, I'm looking at you) without understanding the rest of what goes into breeding.

Many of the horses listed for public sale (and I've seen them!) were extremely high - like well over 10k - and definitely not worth that much. It's rare that anything other than a rank special sell for that much, at least on public sales. Horses of high enough quality to be worth five digits are typically sold privately, because their owner likey paid real cash for that line and wants control over where it ends up. If a horse is only priced a certain way because of its color (just like real life), it's an inflated value. On this game (unlike real life) the horses are pixelated so there's no moral code behind the decision of whether or no to auction them. It's only behind whether to let new players spend their (limited) cash on horses that aren't going to make them money, aren't worth what they paid, and that likely won't resell for the same price.

Abusing the auction, I assume, would involve trying to run a horse's sale price way up past their actual value for profit. You can still buy and sell all of them through the auction if you don't have an upgrade.

There were some really serious cases of abuse over on HJ1 with Nexus and some of the Ices. One where someone "spammed" low quality Nexus creates to hurt a stallion, or more specifically the stallion owner. Another Ammit cited just before this newest rule was an Ice mare "Showing Prospect" (meaning she failed Showing Aptitude Test but with Auto Spay turned off, but it means she's a bad breeding prospect) up for public sale for some ridiculous price like 60 or 80k (prices are way higher over there). The discussion of most of these issues does seem to happen on the Facebook Discussion Page. I would encourage any serious player to get onto that page both to keep yourself informed and so that you can have a say on things that might affect you.

Yes on Hj1 they where selling for often selling for 250K and junker ones would sell for 50k even with people trying to keep then voted down. There was pages of them over there. No the ones selling for 3k and under where not a problem at all. And Hj2 was not even in the same league as abusive but I was having to help newbies out who where scammed by junker stallions for 15 and 20k even over here.

Buddy sales have always one of the benefits of an upgrade. Depending on how the upgraded member sets the controls, members without upgrades can sell horses in a budy chat room. I would think it would only be polite to ask the room owner before you did it, though. (Or did that change? I remember there being some problems)