Horse Racing Manager News

Added
- Asahi Gold Awards, gives yearly awards to the fastest horse in each SMILE distance category
- Three maturity styles: early bloomer, average, late bloomer that can be seen in horse details. Determines how quickly the horse can reach it's potential and how quickly it will start deteriorating. We want feedback on the balance of this also, since we are unsure how noticeable it should be.
- Dynamic staff capacity, that is based on your leadership (and other social skills), alongside your assistant managers and head trainers leadership skill. This makes it so staff capacity is between 1-10 horses per staff for trainers, caretakers, jockeys and scouts depending on your management teams leadership skill.
- Ability to quick load when in-game, press CTRL + L or use the command bar
- Give up for adoption interaction for your children

Improved
- Increased finish time precision in the race scene result panel
- Auto-remove staff with automatic training if they have filled their role potential

Fixed
- Fixed a crash at the start of harness races
- Fixed too many instances of hoofstep sounds being played when harness racing
- Fixed horses slowing down too much when catching up to the car at the start of a harness race
- Fixed horses not being ordered correctly on the Z-axis at the start of a harness race
- Fixed car continuously opening and closing the gate after the race has started. No flying cars allowed!

Added
- In mare description how say if the foal will transfer or not with the mare

Fixed
- If user bred with an outside mare, and it was sold, then the player lost the foal
- Issue where juvenile races were not shown if you had natural birthdays and aging, this is now fixed, but for old saves it might take a in-game year before it starts taking effect
- Fixed a bug where age could in rare cases be negative with natural birthdays and aging at start of game
- Staff training migration now works for old saves
- Removed stuf fee cap
- You can now start game with 0 cash
- In horse detail training dropdowns, only show care and nutrition that has been activated
- In stable training table, the food and care dropdowns now work
- In races -> betting table the dates were not sorting correctly
- Don't create lethal white overos at startup

Added
- Button during race to see your bets
- First version of time trials in the training page, this will be improved once we have the new engine working correctly
- Sprint training now slowly changes the prefered distance to shorter while pacing to longer
- Possibility to train staff
- Ability to get monthly, quarterly or yearly summary of staff training results
- Ability to get monthly, quarterly or yearly summary of horse training results

Improved
- Number inputs now add spacing when you type numbers so instead of 100000 you will see 100 000
- In betting change the quick buttons to 25, 50, 75 and 100% of the max bet amount
- Race results table shows the odds
- In race front view table, column name is Est. odds until the bets have been generated
- Made automatic living options assignment more efficient
- Added 1 more 4K splash, improved one

Fixed
- In race preview, swap the Show and Place labels so that they are in logical order
- Standings bet labels work again
- Betting currencies update when you change settings
- Race front view currencies update with setting change
- Stops gallop sounds after race
- A bug where basic hay was charged daily instead of monthly
- Easter egg emails made a bit more rare

Removed
- Person certifications

[p]Fixed[/p][p]- Fixed a crash caused by an invalid save folder name.[/p][p]- Fixed saves getting "corrupted" on Windows systems when starting a game with stable name that ends in a period. The save system now strips the trailing periods from the name when creating a folder.[/p][p]NOTE: If you've experienced this issue before and would like to remove the "ghost" folders, here are a couple of ways to do it:[/p][p] 1) Download 7-Zip → run it → navigate to the saves folder → select the "ghost" folder → press Shift + Delete to remove the folder[/p][p] OR[/p][p] 2) Run cmd.exe and type the following command:[/p][p] [c]rd "\\\\?\\FOLDER_PATH"[/c][/p][p] where FOLDER_PATH is the complete path to the folder, for example:[/p][p] [c]C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Roaming\\Godot\\app_userdata\\Horse Racing Manager\\Saves\\1 - Save name.[/c][/p]

Added
- Quick save the game with CTRL + S or then open the command menu with S and select the quick save item
- Column width is now persistant, so if you change the width the next time you come back they should be the same
- You can reset column width to default by right clicking the table header and selecting reset width

Fixed
- CPU training should now happen monthly in a more consistent way, instead of sudden spikes in skills
- Lowered CPU training skill gain a little bit
- UI size issues in training if you had too many training programs
- When you lost control of stable, you could not buy it back if you were unemployed
- When saving yearly schedule, don't reset the pre-training and after training programs to rest
- If you made a schedule and went to stable training table, the dropdowns for bulk changes would not update before you went to next day