Re: Ideas for Improvement
npdoughty88 wrote:
Middle distance horses all starting out as sprinters. 2yo campaigns have become somewhat irrelevant due to this. It is quite often the case that a horse gets further as it matures in the real world, but this is drastically overdone in-game, to the point it borders on being idiotic. This is perhaps the biggest tweak required.
This is the biggest one for me. I really wish there was a way for the AI to hold more horses back until their 3yo season, and for 2yo to run less frequently.
This is very much a generalisation, but something along these lines could work well in the game, for horses that are ultimately bred to get certain distances:
Sprinters - start during 2yo season
Milers - 90% start in 2yo season; 10% (late developers) start in 3yo season
Middle Distance - 70% start in 2yo season (7f+ races), 30% (late developers) start in 3yo season
Stayers - 20% start in 2yo season (1m+ races), 80% start in 3yo season
This would obviously mean fewer horses running during their 2yo season, and ideally those horses should be running less frequently, so the number of 2yo maiden and novice races could be reduced accordingly.