Talk:Buildings/@comment-37526510-20181201030707/@comment-38439752-20190210005259

Yeah, the free roam doesn’t give your horse much exp for the price, but luckily horses don’t want to free roam as often as they want to eat something. Free roam, mucking out and brushing are the least cost effective methods of gaining experience, that’s for certain as you might pay 1000 coins for 20xp. Not everything can be perfect I guess.

But this is why I prefer to put horses in the grand stables and train them via stablehands. It usually takes me about 4 days to get a rare t1 horse to max level, so that’s an easy 50 diamonds earned without needing to constantly grow and make something for them to eat, then wait some minutes and feed them again. And I can do it for multiple horses at the same time. I once counted that I managed to earn 270 diamonds in a week purely by doing this (I was trying to breed every single t1 horse in the game, so I got loads of horses that I just wanted to get rid off once they were listed in the horsepedia, but instead of selling them away as foals, I trained them to max level before selling). It would take me a lot longer to do if my paddocks weren’t on the highest level. It took some diamonds to get them there, but my personal opinion is that they have paid themselves back. And now I can focus on keeping the good horses (so the ones I want to do steeplechases with) in the stables and easily earn enough money to keep training the others with stablehands. Each to their own, but I’ve found them worth the cost :)

And you are absolutely right, it would be lovely to get more space by leaving some of them to the paddocks but unfortunately I don’t think that’s gonna be the direction the developers will take.