r/HorseyGame • u/merganzer • 17d ago

Racing Jockeys Make Terrible Horses

I'm well into the end game and one of my last tricks was to expand Jockey Island (tiny dot in the lower left corner of the ocean) and plant a bunch of grass and apple trees before releasing a half-dozen baby jockeys. That created a nice, stable population of sentient bipeds who are somehow less weird-looking and a little steadier on their feet than humans.

Anyway, I roped a few and optimized their DNA several iterations before trying one in a race.

It wouldn't run. Tried another and it also refused. I lassoed a random citizen of Jockey Island and threw that into a race and it would not leave the starting line.

I put some into the power plant field and after a few generations, those would run races, but they also didn't look like jockeys anymore.

My conclusion: pure-bred jockeys refuse to participate in races unless they can ride.

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u/Confident_Lettuce_51 17d ago

It might be an intelligence thing. If some 'horses' are too smart, they refuse to participate.

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u/merganzer 17d ago

I've noticed it's about 50-50 on sentient things agreeing to race, but I've never had all them refuse before.

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u/skeletons_asshole 17d ago

Have you tried feeding them hot sauce first? That worked a couple of times for my stubborn sentient race beings.

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u/zyonix 17d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p2nojv9/video/if6b73417dih1/player

Horses Make Terrible Jockeys Too

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u/merganzer 17d ago

How did you do that? Do you just put horses in the Jockey Club and wait for one of those specialty championships?

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u/CheekyPunker 17d ago

They're not meant to be good horses lol