Summer Roadmap Revealed! Horses!! 🐴

"SelinaKyles;c-18279409" wrote:
I’m hoping horse riding is a separate skill from fitness, so that more abilities with the horse are unlocked as it levels. Such as jumping over the beams with more skill. Feels like it would be laziness if it falls under fitness, the horse would be doing more work than the sim

I definitely know plenty of folks who’d argue against that. ? it ain’t as easy as just sitting there (well maybe in a nose-to-tail dude string)

That being said I do agree that riding should be a skill and if possible, fitness of the sim ought to count. Both the horse and the sim ought to be gaining the skill to progress (say for jumping in starting trot poles and then on to cavalleti and low cross rails before you get to verticals and oxers).

I do think that a sim could gain fitness from riding separately from riding skill. There’s a lot to be said for how many calories you burn when riding (properly riding, I mean, as more experienced riders that develop an independent seat can become pretty fit — gotta cross train some, but for a lot of folks, riding is recreational exercise).

I’m not sure if the game mechanics can handle all that though. ?