Final Furlong (FF) is a horse racing SIM unlike any other. Campaign your stable of horses, either created yourself or hailing from established lines. Found your own breeding empire by tapping into established lines or beginning your own. Done breeding? FF's unique post-career showing system will keep your favorites active for even longer! The sky is the limit here on FF and we look forward to you joining us. Welcome! :) Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/4GV5V6Z
Kenren
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Cruisey
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Sunfrost
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Lolly
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Races close on Mondays at 9PM EST! Our Next Sale Begins: January Y22.
02/05/23 We're almost ready to kick off the New Year here at Final Furlong! The New Years Sale is still OPEN for bids - lots of ponies needing homes! As well, we're hoping to close January Week One races by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. However, if we need to extend closing date so more people can get entered, just let us know in the Discord. In addition to getting your pages ready, don't forget to use your bonus points if you'd like!
01/29/23 Congratulations to KENREN for winning the Y21 Breeders' Cup Betting Contest! You've won a breeding reserve to FIFTY DREAMS (Firestone Stud) and 2x 2 furlong extensions + 5 bonus horse points! Lolly finished 2nd, and Cruisey finished 3rd.
12/08/22 The Breeder's Cup Betting Contest will make a return for Y21!!! It'll be a little bit different because of the new points system, but get ready for some end of year fun 😄
11/21/22 Entries for the New Year Sale are now open! We know it seems a bit early, but with life things we're going to need time to make sure things are right lol. Please follow the link here: https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2304/y22-new-year-sale
08/20/22 Judging has been the basis for issues for a long time - taking too long, drama regarding results, bias, etc. Kenren has attempted to put a points system together that keeps the spirit of our system while streamlining and standardizing the process. It's a lot to take in, but once you get in the swing of it, preparing pages with these points takes way less time than doing a layout change lol! If you have any questions, please post them in the judging-help channel on Discord for now. If anyone needs help with anything, please let an admin know! We would like to give everyone one week to get things settled, and then we would like to run July Wk 2 using this system closing 8/27/22 (or earlier if everyone is ready). If it works out, we would like to run two game weeks per RL week to get things moving! Thank you all so much for being her!e
07/27/22 To start July off fresh, we've been playing around with a new theme for Final Furlong! Make sure to check out 'Sonorous' under your profile ❤️ Feel free to use whatever theme works best for yourself. We can't wait to get back to racing!
07/21/22 it's official! We're back! It looks like June Wk 4 was almost fully judged, so make sure you get that updated if you hadn't! We will plan to close the next week (July Wk 1) on Thursday, August 4th. This close day may change, but it's not a bad place to start! For now we'll be doing one game week per RL week to get back into things. Please remember that starting the second half of the year, 3yos can compete against older horses without automatic lower placements.
As an aside, because this is fairly sudden after a whole year, we will not be allowing reclaims on horses for members not currently active for a few months. We will readdress this going forward if needed. Thank you all for understanding!
07/08/22 GO answer the poll ❤️ https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2232/ff-restart-poll
Post by S u N f r O s T ~ on Aug 17, 2019 21:49:27 GMT -5
Hey all! You have probably noticed that in our Stable Owner's Handbook, there are now a LOT of threads. I present to you the Guide, a rewrite of our rules that includes many new changes and updates. There are still two guides to come - the Racing & HoTY Guide and the In-Depth Breeding & Bloodlines Guide (if you're interested in helping with either, please PM me!).
Firstly, I'd recommend that everybody read through or at least skim the new Guides. There is some new content that is described in the Guides which you should know. I'll break down a few of the major changes here.
1. No more monetary system. Our economy is fairly broken; nobody is ever poor and we've kind of all reverted to just giving each other things anyway rather than charging money and actually simulating an economy. We'll get around to removing Money from our accounts eventually. You can still keep track of horses' earnings if you want, but they're ultimately unimportant now.
2. Item Usage: Please check out Guide #3 for full details on this. Essentially, we decided that members with at least 100 posts on the forum and six months of activity can use Items at will (provided they stay reasonable). Members who don't meet those requirements have their ability to earn items limited by a Member Incentive Program (please check out the thread for full details on this).
3. Naming Rules will now be more strictly enforced; check out The Basics, Part 3 for a bit more information on that. Clarification on when a horse must retire and the Older Horse Appeal process for racing as a seven-year-old have also been clarified in Part 3.
4. Clarifications on Scratching & DQ Rules have been provided in The Basics, Part 4. The Age Rules and a brief comment on Overracing have also been included.
5. The Basics, Part 5 includes some clarifications on mid-season retirements and backbreeding that I think will clear things up for a lot of people!
6. The Judging Guide was updated to include a brief comment on determining the class of a horse, whether gender may affect the results and other goodies.
7. More Guides to Come: Racing Guide (which will include some info on how to campaign a horse as well as a list of major HoTY races) and a Breeding Guide (which will include info on making good pairings and some basic details of influential foundation lines in the game - if you think your lines should feature or if you want to help with this last part, PLEASE pm me either on FF or on Discord. This will help me a lot in ensuring no significant lines are forgotten!
8. If there is anything that has been left out of the new guides or that you think is unclear, PLEASE pm me. I want to make sure the guides are as good and cover as much of everything as possible. Let me know what you think!
