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 New style to play 
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Post New style to play
Hey mates!

After a long break from Starters Orders 6 I decided to start again but to play it in another way.
Like most players I love it to breed and to get better and better horses but at a certain point the game becomes boring when I win every group race in the world.

So to get a more real life experience I decided to play without the usual way with breeding. I only buy some 2 yo from the auctions at the beginning (3x50k 3x around 250k) and sell those which have under 50% potential. Then I try to have as much success as possible with these horses. Should I get a G1 winner I will put him in the breeding barn but I will only breed based on race results not based on max potential etc, so I don't get those super horses and the comp stays competitve.
Since I'm from Germany it is realistic that I don't have always the world record horses, but when there comes this jewel this will be more exciting!

Money to start with comes from betting (Black Caviar/Frankel).

Maybe an idea to get back the race excitement and not only to wait when your horse runs away from the field!?

Moliets Surfer


Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:24 am
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Post Re: New style to play
Have you raced your horses in the League at all?


Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:39 am
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I played online league in SO5, did last so long this time that I lost interest. Have only horses which are from a SO6 version which shouldn't work after all these updates.


Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:35 pm
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Post Re: New style to play
Moliets_Surfer wrote:
I played online league in SO5, did last so long this time that I lost interest. Have only horses which are from a SO6 version which shouldn't work after all these updates.


There will be a new league starting up in the Autumn - this weekend is the last week of the current league - so if you're interested you will have time to get a new stable together :)


Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:10 pm
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Post Re: New style to play
OK, started to play like I wrote and reached to get 3-4 G1/G2/G3 winner but after some seasons I have to say it's just to addicting to start the breeding to get these super nice horses, so I play the usual way and have to say it's still this super nice addicting game.
Think I will enter the next online league in autumn, still put some horses into the game pool to start a jump game soon. Starters Orders got me again.


Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:51 am
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Post Re: New style to play
It never did let you go, just allowed you to wander off for while :)


Tue Jun 21, 2016 6:22 pm
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