Show entries? I think that can be hand done on a message board and know a lot of games that still do things that way and are successful. There needs to be a database to track the basics (bank/vet/farrier whatever all is required by the game) and preferably show records.

Especially if it actually becomes really popular, I imagine you could only support a few dozen users doing it that way.

In 2017 nobody is going to want to send info to the admin and wait a day for them to sit and edit a bunch of pages. While the nostalgia angle is nice, and you could make something that visually looks like the older games, I definitely think you’d need a modern, automatic database structure underneath to keep things running. Just trying to get some constructive feedback from others about what they would like to see/what they wouldn’t like to see in a new sim game.

This site would be semi-automatic but not fully like games like for example. Other features of the game would include: daily surprises and disasters, daily tasks (feeding, grooming, cleaning stalls, etc.), ability to ride/train horses, and much more. The village would include things like: vet and farrier offices, tack and feed shop, auction house, horse show ring, bank, barn hardware store, and more. Multiple disclipines of riding would be available! Members would be encouraged to create their own farm websites if they’d like, but the game would also create automated pages for them. (and a little bit of random-ness of course). The show system results would be highly detailed and would actually choose winners based on health, grooming, proper tack, training, etc. For example, breeding, selling, showing, training, running establishments, etc. The game would be as realistic as possible with multiple ways to be successful. With that being said, would anyone have interest joining an “old school” style horse sim game? I’m just trying to get a feel for how many people would be interested if I were to try and start a game.

I used to love creating my own virtual horse barn website and keeping track of all my records and horses. These new automatic games are fun, but not the same. Those ones you’d have to fill out forms and wait for the admins to update your pages and whatnot. Does anyone still play online horse sim games? Back in the 90s, I used to love playing the “old school” style games.

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