Facebook game derived from Quinsta - suggestions?

[Silvanon]

You caught me working on the Share Pic option, Kadana. XD  It's up and running correctly now.

I'll check into the other errors you mentioned, now.   Edit:  I think I have both of them fixed Kadana.  Could you check & let me know?

[Kadana Sorano]

hehe yes, I saw Cami's shared horses right after I posted here lol

Breeding request page still lists no one under the "Dad's Owner" space.

There is no longer a Birth Foal button on Dameer's page.  But it also does not list a due date, or say she is pregnant.

Share option appeared to work, but when I went to my Home page and Profile page on facebook, I could not find where the image was shared at.  (Usually when I share things they show up on my profile page, but not always, I dunno where else it goes though).

[YourLoveOnly]

I thought we had to manually approve breeding requests? So I think Silv fixing the bug meant I actually get to approve it, because it shows up with my breeding requests now -goes to check for inbreeding and then approve requests-

[Kadana Sorano]

Haha!  that makes sence I guess lol  Wait.. check for inbreeding?  seriously? lol  bit early for that I think hehe

And yes, Dameer's page now lists a due date   Foal Due: Jul. 22, 2012 2:15

But the game froze again, and i had to refresh it to check the Breedings page.  The "Dad's Owner" slot has now disappeared entirely.

[Silvanon]

Once the breeding has been approved I don't bother showing the Dad Owner slot anymore, so that's not a bug.  I'll have to go check it out later why it wasn't showing a name for the Dad Owner still, before the breeding got approved.  Right now, though, going to head to bed.  Night all!

[YourLoveOnly]

Well my boy is 2nd gen (because boys cannot be bought in stores yet XD) so I do check, because I know some people bred mares to Ethendil's smexy boys and thus they could be related and it would be very very heavy inbreeding to cross lines already. But everyone submitted first gen mare requests, so yay, all approved.

And huh, that is a weird bug XD It seems we are good at finding those

[SGA]

Night Silv!  Sweet dreams

Ahaha I hadn't even thought about that YLO, and I did breed with one of Ethendil's studs, but I have 2 first gen mares so it never occurred to me, guess I'm still a bit sleepy lol

[Silvanon]

Share option appeared to work, but when I went to my Home page and Profile page on facebook, I could not find where the image was shared at.  (Usually when I share things they show up on my profile page, but not always, I dunno where else it goes though).

Just saw this - if you haven't granted the app the permissions to automatically publish then shared photos have to be approved by you first before they appear in your profile (should be waiting in your albums area).  I just made a change that I think will cause the app to ask for the permission needed to automatically publish.

Edit:  I decided to up the blessing rewards from 2 gold per blessing to 5 gold per blessing.

[PonyMama]

I bred one of my girls to one of the boys

breeding was successful, no glitching.  healthy baby boy
up for breeds now

[springacres]

I just tried to share a pic and didn't get the request for permissions - still had to approve the photos individually.

[Silvanon]

Search is up and working now.    You can only find horses that belong to you and your friends.

[YourLoveOnly]

Silv I'm confused, I thought all colors were templated and only leg/face markings were different? But Camille's Latent says grey for the coat, but she's a totally different color from the other grey girls, is her coat color a mistake?

[red_uni387]

Wow you have really good eyes, YLO o__o I didn't even notice she was lighter

[Silvanon]

Everything is completely templated, but each color has 4 different variations.  Base coat colors can range from light to dark, and white markings can range from small to big.  Those factors are inheritable, too.  Just to help things be a bit more interesting.

[YourLoveOnly]

Oooh that is neat! I had no idea!

[SGA]

YLO you said you were checking for inbreeding before accepting breed requests.  Where did you check that at?

[YourLoveOnly]

When you are on a horse's page and click their name you can see the pedigree ^^

[Ravvana]

I found a potential search bug. I searched in "Color" for "Grey," and all the sold grey horses popped up correctly -- but no fleabitten greys. When I searched for "Fleabitten grey," there were 0 results. I know there are some fleabitten greys because I own one... Is the search confused by there being two separate words?

[Silvanon]

Oh!  You know, I think the search doesn't pull up your own horses actually, because it's based on your friends list (and you don't get listed in your own friends list).   I just searched Grey and your fleabitten gal showed up Rav.

So, question - should I modify the search so your own horses are included, or leave it just searching other people's?

[red_uni387]

It might be useful if you're looking to see how many of a certain color exist, but I would think you wouldn't need to search up your own horses....

[SGA]

Ahh thanks YLO!  And now that you tell me, it sounds like somethign I should have known already heh I think I have not been getting enough sleep lately lol

Silv, as for the search, I'm fine with it not showing my own horses.  Unless I manage to get like, a million horses or something , then I don;t see a problem with manually searching through my own.

[springacres]

Yeah, I don't have a problem with it not showing my own horses either.  For one thing I don't yet have enough for it to be an issue xD

[Silvanon]

There's now a "Help" link up top with some getting started tutorials.  Also if you're level 1 a link to it will appear on the "Your Place" page. 

[SGA]

Looks good Silv!

[Willow]

Does anyone else use Google Chrome?
I've never seen the 'Leave a Blessing' button until looking on the tutorial.
I can't see them when I visit friends :L
Is that just me or should I try changing browsers?

Otherwise I love it so far
<3

[SGA]

Willow, if your friends already visited you and left a blessing, and you accept it when you log in before visiting them, then there won;t be a button to leave them some, because when you accept theirs it sends some back to them and you can only send to each person once a day.  I was confused by that a bit as well at first

Of course, if you have no blessings left for you when you log in for you to accept and return, then I dunno.  I don't use chrome sorry, I use FireFox primarily with IE as a back up.

[YourLoveOnly]

Silv I dunno if you just didn't get around to coding it yet, but the Invite Friends button sadly isn't working. I have some Secundi friends on facebook who have not yet discovered this topic I think, so I wanted to invite them XD

[YourLoveOnly]

Woops, clicked the wrong button for my foal.. XD Hadn't meant to grow her. I put her up for 500 gold sale if anyone wants her, she's a lovely dark shade of bay! If no one comes for her she can always stay =)

[Willow]

Willow, if your friends already visited you and left a blessing, and you accept it when you log in before visiting them, then there won;t be a button to leave them some, because when you accept theirs it sends some back to them and you can only send to each person once a day.  I was confused by that a bit as well at first

Of course, if you have no blessings left for you when you log in for you to accept and return, then I dunno.  I don't use chrome sorry, I use FireFox primarily with IE as a back up.

Aah I see! It worked! ^w^
*leaves YLO a blessing*

Thank you for explaining it C:

[SGA]

Np Willow

SIlv, I was just trying to take care of my horses and the game stopped working.  It didn't freeze exactly, it just won't load.  It went to a white page in between changing horses, and just sits there with the "loading" symbol going in my browser.  Every other page/game I have tried is loading fine.

[YourLoveOnly]

Silv do you think it will be possible someday to see a horse's offspring as well? I'd be helpful to see what a horse might carry, like if a chestnut also carries a black base or if a brown horse is AtAt or Ata.

[springacres]

^This, especially since we can't leave genetics notes on their individual pages like we can on Secundi.

[Ravvana]

Has anyone tried selling a horse yet? I'm wondering if the only option is to sell to a friend, or if you can sell back into the system for a set amount of money. I'm concerned that given the limited number of stalls we have, eventual "reject" horses will be hard to sell to friends, and then we won't be able to buy new ones given lack of space... Hoping that if sell to system isn't a current option for adults now, it will be soon. I'm afraid to test it now because I love my mares too much XD;

Also, I don't mind if we can't search for our own horses I was just confused.

[springacres]

Fixed the issue with app permissions - I had to remove and reinstall the app.  (Note that removing a Facebook app isn't like uninstalling a computer game - every time I've done it before and then gone back to using the app, it's saved all my data except the permissions.  Little Horses was no different.)

[Silvanon]

You can't sell to anyone yet, that part of the script is only partially done (see the to-do list near the end of page 3) but once it's all done you'll have a choice to sell either to friends or to the system.

And yes, Little Horses will save all your in-game data, because that's on my servers, not on Facebook's.  New users will be prompted to give the right permissions from the get-go, but for those of us who signed up before then, you'll have to do like springacres if you want to publish photos.  I thought it would automatically asked you all for them once I added them in, but turns out not.  Thanks spring for verifying that remove/reinstall works!

[springacres]

No problem, Silv

[Silvanon]

Silv I dunno if you just didn't get around to coding it yet, but the Invite Friends button sadly isn't working. I have some Secundi friends on facebook who have not yet discovered this topic I think, so I wanted to invite them XD

Hi YLO - do you mean the "invite friends" link that appears in empty friend boxes? If so, what is it doing when you click on the link?  Also, what browser are you using?  (I'm using Chrome, just tried the link and it appeared to be functioning...)

[red_uni387]

I'm using Chrome as well, but when I clicked the link, it led me right back to my home page

[Aralie]

I use IE and the invite friends seems to be working fine for me...

[red_uni387]

I think the problem is that it opens as a pop-up, and IE asked me for permission to open it while Chrome didn't cause I got pop-ups blocked >__>

[Silvanon]

Ah, I think you're onto something there red.  Hum, I'll have to think over what I can do about that.

[YourLoveOnly]

All my other games do give pop-ups, but this one doesn't.. It leads me right back to my home like some of the others have reported and does nothing else.

[SGA]

Silv, there is a discrepancy in the price of stalls for FBC.  I was just poking around in the store and in the stalls tab I saw this

Stall #5

Available
Level 10
Coming soon: Buy now for 2 FBC

But on the strip where it shows my Horses, the 5th place says it costs 12 FBC.

I do seem to remember that the FBC cost on the little strip and in the shop matched up for the 4th box, but I purchased that with gold and can't remember 100% positively now.

[Silvanon]

Ah, thanks Kadana!  I had to make a change to how the price is stored in preparation for implementing FBC purchases.  I remembered to update the Your Horses strip, but I forgot about the one in the store.  It should be fixed now.

[TheLeet]

I had a couple of instances today where I got a notification saying that someone had sent me a request in little horses, but when I clicked the notifications to go to the game, it was just as normal and didn't say anything about requests or blessings or anything like that.
Not sure what that's all about

[red_uni387]

That might just be facebook being silly. A few days ago my brother had a notification that just wouldn't go away, and I've have instances where it'll go away and come back when I go back to the site. ^^

[TheLeet]

Hopefully it is. I don't want people thinking that I'm ignoring them XD

[Silvanon]

You should have had a notification that you'd received blessings.  The requests were generated by that, and when you collect your blessing rewards the blessings are automatically returned, with the option to send a FB request along with them.

Personally I rather dislike in games having to "approve" each individual request in order to get rid of it (honestly I've given up ever going back to some games because I have literal hours worth of requests to deal with), which is why I implemented this en-mass automatic handling of blessing requests.  But what do you guys think, is this too confusing?

[red_uni387]

I'm not sure what that means, but I'm fine with how it is right now with the occasional "ghost" requests since fb does that all the time.

[Wildfilly94]

I like it. Its very quick and non-cluttering.