Githyanki wrote:
The nub of this is it should not matter what game variant you play, you should be able to enjoy league success if you put in the effort, it is not the fault of either those playing combined or playing flat only. The game variants themselves are the issue and all the talking in the world will not change it, only Mark can but I’ll not be holding my breath.
Starting again is actually quite enjoyable for me, and I cannot see why a combined variant means you have to play the jumps, just ignore that side completely from a races and trials perspective. Yes you may have a gold cup winner you never knew about but if you don’t care for the jumps just overlook it, the rest of the game is the same. Playing both a flat and combined game is probably the best all round strategy for flat league success but I understand why that will not work for everyone.
Hope you stick with it Steve.
Josh
Unfortunately if you play a combined game you have to at least enter your horses into jumps races for the potential to improve. If you play it like a flat game you will see the potential drop like a flat game and unless you enter the horse into jump races it will continue to depreciate. If you enter your flat horse into a jump race then the game will adjust the potential for a jumps horse and this seems to convert to flat form in the ck meaning you are improving a horse on the flat. Not sure if any of my ex-flat horses are still any good in game on the flat because once they go hurdling I have never gone back to the flat once they are jumping. So if you don't care about the jumps side of the game I say stick to flat games, you will have to take on the 7yo for now, hopefully Mark will sort this issue out eventually.
It's a bug or coding issue that needs sorting properly (sooner the better). It was a bug with flat horses in one update where the potential was slow to progress but would stay high for longer and was sorted back in 2019. Can`t remember the exact date of the patch but I remember Mark saying it was an easy fix and it did fix the flat game.