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Searching the marketplace
Buying and selling
Private Bids
Searching the Marketplace
There are many different filters that can be used to search for horses. To get to the marketplace horse search page, click on the marketplace button in the main menu. The window that will appear has several options.
At the top of the search page, you may specify that you only want to search your horses, and you may specify a particular name you're looking for. You may also specify whether or not you want to do an exact name search, which is faster, or a regular search.
Then, you can narrow down the breeds and breed types that you want to search, so if you want a specific search you can pick a specific breed, or just a type for a more general search.
The next option you have is to search only for a specific grade and above. You may also search by the sex of the horse, and by the training type of the horse.
The next filters relate to the color of the horse. In VHR, you may set the color string description of the horse by paying tokens, and you may also paint the horse by viewing its information screen, then clicking the paint button. You may search by the color string of the horse, again using an exact match if you wish to speed up the search, but you may also search by the color of the horse. The way this works is that the horses have different default skins that are different colors, but they can be altered by painting them. This search is used to find horses that have had their colors altered from the natural color, and these searches are ignored unless you click the checkboxes to the left. The reason the painted flag exists is that many players don't want artificially colored horses. Thus, you may exclude painted horses from your search if you wish, and altough the painted flag can be removed from a horse, it's expensive to do so. Also, remember that the foal of a painted horse will be painted.
Finally, the sale type of the horses can be set, and the type of sorting can also be set. Note that if you wish to search for the "best" horses of a certain type, sort by stats descending which will sort by the sum of the horse's stats and put the best results at the top.
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Buying and selling
If you have a horse you wish to sell or put up for stud, bring up the horse's information window and click on the Sell button on the right. That will bring up a window where you may set the minimum bid on the horse, the buyout price on the horse, and the length of the auction in days. If the horse is a stallion and can be put up for stud, you may also select that instead, and you may select the number of breedings you want to sell. Note that if you put a horse up for stud, there is no bidding. You only set the buyout price and everyone who pays that amount will get a breeding from your horse at the buyout price until all of the breedings you've specified are used up. The fee to put a horse on the market is 5 percent of the buyout price and this is never refundable.
There are some restrictions on when a horse can be put up for sale or stud. You cannot put a horse up for sale if it's been entered into an event and the event hasn't triggered. You may also not put a horse up for sale or stud if there's a lease taken out on it. If people have offered bids on the horse, then the bids will be cancelled when the horse is put on the market. Conversely, you cannot event a horse, or take out a lease on it if it's on the market.
You may also not paint the horse if it's on the market, and in fact whenever a stallion is bred, it cannot be painted for on real day to give the person who bred the stallion either through the marketplace or a lease a chance to have the foal before the stallion is painted. The reason for this is that the painted status of the foal's parents is checked both at breeding time and birth. So, if people could paint stallions that have just been bred, the owner of the stallion could get the breeding money for having an unpainted horse, then paint the horse and cause the foals to become painted which will lessen their value. This also means that if you do breed a stallion that you don't own, either through a lease or on the market or if you sell it, you need to have the foal quickly so that the foal can't be marked as painted if the stallion's owner chooses to paint it.
To bid on or buy a horse, first search for it in the marketplace, then when you find it, you may enter a bid in the box provided. To prevent people from bidding up the price of a horse by 1 repeatedly, your bid must be a certain amount over the previous bid. Generally speaking, this amount is from 2-10 percent of the current bid. You may also bid up to or more than the buyout price, and if your bid ever exceeds the buyout price, you win the auction. For stud sales there is no bidding, you either pay the price or not. Be sure that if you buy a horse to use for stud that you use it up right away. One stud horse is saved in your player data, but if you don't use the stud immediately and then you buy another stud service, the previous one will disappear. Also, if you wait too long after buying the service, the owner of the stallion might do something bad to it that will gimp your foal. It's also recommended that after you breed a stud horse, you quickly turn the mare until she gives birth so that the owner of the stallion can't paint the horse or do something bad to it.
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Private Bids
If you want to bypass the marketplace and sell or buy a horse directly from another player, you may do this by placing bids on horses. You can place a private bid on a horse by viewing it in another player's ranch, or by clicking on the view button in the marketplace list. Then, place the bid in the entry box at the bottom, and it will be sent to the player.
You may look bids you've made on other players' horses and look at bids other players have placed on your horses by clicking the "My Bids" and "Other Bids"buttons in your ranch overview. You may also view any bids on horses you own by clicking on the "Bids" button in the horse overview screen.
If you've created a bid, you may withdraw the bid if you wish at any time by viewing the bid in the "My Bids" list. If you have received a bid, you have several options. You may accept the bid, in which case the money and horse get transferred, you may decline the bid in which case it just disappears, and you may decline and ignore the person who sent you the bid. Because bids are like private messages, and private messages can be ignored, bids can also be ignored. The ignore list is the same one that's used for ignoring messages.
Note that bids cannot be taken out on horses that are on the market, so you can only bid on something if it's not for sale. If it is for sale, then just pay the buyout price if you want the horse. Bids will also be cancelled if the owner takes out a lease on the horse or puts it on the market.
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