I'm a late starter to the league but I was putting in around 40 hours a week for 6 months into breeding my team and I went back to see the times of the course records and I was surprised how quick the times of the course records were from, really early on when SO 5 came out and how the same people dominated a game. I don't believe a few people could dominate a game, I love my cycling but I know if it looks to good to be true then it probably is.

Before this grows to anotherslanging match about cheating this is what I remember.

Checks were put in the master build to detect hex-edited horses. All horses had to be sent to me and they were scanned. The last time this was done was some time ago (I'm not sure which season) but nothing came up. I can scan the latest seasons horses if required.

I'm posting this because it illustrates that if there is any way to cheat someone will find it as long as league horse files are stored on the local machine. The idea with the hex edit check was that if they did try and a cheat was then found during a check they would be banned for good.

As I already mentioned after the game is out I plan to sit down and think about a possible complete redesign. Ultimately the only way you can stop people trying to cheat is if you remove the temptation (and the horse file(s)) from their PC completely. That means being stored on a game server and having a different game structure.

Before this grows to anotherslanging match about cheating this is what I remember.

Checks were put in the master build to detect hex-edited horses. All horses had to be sent to me and they were scanned. The last time this was done was some time ago (I'm not sure which season) but nothing came up. I can scan the latest seasons horses if required.

I'm posting this because it illustrates that if there is any way to cheat someone will find it as long as league horse files are stored on the local machine. The idea with the hex edit check was that if they did try and a cheat was then found during a check they would be banned for good.

As I already mentioned after the game is out I plan to sit down and think about a possible complete redesign. Ultimately the only way you can stop people trying to cheat is if you remove the temptation (and the horse file(s)) from their PC completely. That means being stored on a game server and having a different game structure.

Yes please, I'd like u to check them otherwise the league is dead. If there's no trust then u cant have a league.

S05

i wrote this before i found this thread but it seems to fit in here for newbs q.s and to ask the experts trainer/breeders

breeding

is there a faster way of breeding?

by the time i have scouted and found some ai horses worthy of breeding, put them together then realise i need a mare of my own or stallion of my own, found one of similar quality and raced or

trained the rest of my race team of 23 years! too much time has passed in real time!

i study analyse alot to make sure i have proper breed lines similar distance class/potential qualities etc

do pj and rest breed any other way? faster way?

does it always take so many hours of game time? and waiting seasons for each and every foal? which id count as many hours!

then only to find out the foal born is wrong sex you wanted! or crap potential /less/below than expected / desired



at same time i find ive found more enjoyment from the horse you thought was only a group3 horse but seems to grow and improve each season and unexpectedly wins group 1s that feeling cant be

beat! and what makes SO5 so enjoyable!

more satisfaction when a horse with only 3/4 potential bar grows improves to 5/6 potential bar! lol


Q. can we breed a full potential bar horse from say a group 3 + handicapper? breeding does seem so random? so far i havent breed much due to lack time.

Q. is it true that 2 full bar group 1 horses dont always breed full bar foals or group 1 quality foals? i suspect this..

at end of each season i have spent millions on horse expecting them to be the next Shergar or SeaTheStars only to open their bars and see they are donkey Eeor jackasses! lol

i have downloaded some of exp players like pj's monsters and have had fun for a season or 2 but that enjoyment is less compared to

say to the surprise donkeys in game who i dont expect nothing from lol and wins races i just cant believe!



is there any more obvious way to spot monsters before they race at sales?

weight? colour? form notes mentions?

or during their careers even when you do notice one? can we buy them?

i ask because yes ive found some ingame ai horses who obviously are winning prolifically alot races or group prizes but even if i spot them early how can acquire / buy monsters? i havent seen any on Fridays Sales!



i also noticed so far any of the few really good foals ive breed start of say 90% as 2yold and fill their speed/stamina bars only at 3 yolds after racing few times is this regular or?

can people breed foals with full speed from day 1 possibly?



does mixing sprinters say 5f 6f with 1m2 1m4 etc give good or balanced mix foal? is there any point in mi

or should we only breed 5f with 5f 1m4 with 1m4f?

if sire A has full speed and broadmare B has full stamina will this pass on exactly to the foal? = full speed stamina? i doubt it!


im breeding for fun and own games offline only.

breeding advice?

how many stallions broadmare recommended in a breeding save/game?

can we breed en masse in 1 game and swap to others?

in my main game save play through season im on season 25 i think


in my breeding year 2 only! all my super potential foals are unborn, born 1yolds! , 2yolds unraced etc so far! by the time their hatched and ready i will be well past bedtime in real!

is there a better speedier more efficient way of breeding with the Race Builder /Horse Files?

or does it take months years of play to get those wonder monsters?


(i write alot on notepad before posting on sites for handiness but notepad seems to mess order and sentences up alot as im writing the cursor jumps moves alot messing sentence structures copying

pasteing etc.)

none of the experts or experienced players care to share / answer to some of the questions above here for us moderate amateurs players and newbs?

none of the experts or experienced players care to share / answer to some of the questions above here for us moderate amateurs players and newbs?

none of the experts or experienced players care to share / answer to some of the questions above here for us moderate amateurs players and newbs?

is there a faster way of breeding?

do pj and rest breed any other way? faster way?

does it always take so many hours of game time? and waiting seasons for each and every foal? which id count as many hours!

Q. can we breed a full potential bar horse from say a group 3 + handicapper? breeding does seem so random? so far i havent breed much due to lack time.

Q. is it true that 2 full bar group 1 horses dont always breed full bar foals or group 1 quality foals? i suspect this..

at end of each season i have spent millions on horse expecting them to be the next Shergar or SeaTheStars only to open their bars and see they are donkey Eeor jackasses! lol

is there any more obvious way to spot monsters before they race at sales?

or during their careers even when you do notice one? can we buy them?

i also noticed so far any of the few really good foals ive breed start of say 90% as 2yold and fill their speed/stamina bars only at 3 yolds
after racing few times is this regular or? can people breed foals with full speed from day 1 possibly?

how many stallions broadmare recommended in a breeding save/game?

is there a better speedier more efficient way of breeding with the Race Builder /Horse Files?

or does it take months years of play to get those wonder monsters?

I will be surprised if anyone that is in the league has cheated if it has been found that trainers have cheated I will no longer take part any in League from here on in I put in a lot of hours in my league team yea I know still run like donkeys hours of Schedule Building,Running League Races,Handicapping and more and to think someone clever enough is altering horse files leave a bitter taste in my mouth I am honest has the day is long and I think all the league Team over the last 3 seasons are too just like to know why this has come to attention now the final few weeks of SO5 is coming to the end.


Gray

I know mark said he got software to check but lets say if someone had bought the game when it first came out and for the first three months worked at one distance "lets say 6F" then just hexed a couple of his/her best colts/mares then they would have a pretty good horses over every distance, then from there bred about 20 generations to get them to the top would the software be able to pick them up on it, or would the hexing disappear. It's like in cycling where they will take something to cover up the illegal drugs.

I think the league has hit a brick wall that I'm not sure it can get up from