How To Save Equus
A lot of players complain that they "can't save their Equus" and need Howrse to add a bank on to the game. All it takes is some planing ahead and some self control to make sure you don't spend all your Equus to fast.
My dad is what we all refer to as a tightwad. He buys nothing he can possibly live without and he holds out on the cheapest prices possible..... he doesn't play Howrse, I'm talking in real life.
Thus, I have been raised in a household where I heard him say, all the time, "When you see something you want, you always gotta ask yourself one question: Do you need it, or can you live without it? Because 99.9% of the time, you can live without it and you just walk away."
Before I buy something, ever, in any game or in real life, I ask myself, "Do I need it or can I live without it?"
Obviously, you need to use that with a grain of salt because if you wanna get technical, you don't need any equus or passes or Howrse to live at all, but that's not quite what I mean.... I think you probably get it.
Now, I was raised that way, and I can't help it. I'll probably always be kind of frugal, and I'll probably always hear that voice in my head, asking me if I need or can live without it. But what if you weren't raised that way and don't hear that in your head, maybe some of these ideas will help you out.
In school, I am required to take a basic accounting course even though I suck at math. In the process of this, I have had to fill out all these fake forms and stuff, and monthly budgets are one of them. Here's my advice based on what I've learned (holy crap, I actually learned something in a math class, I can't believe it lol)
Take this basic form:
Essentially, as long as you really think long and hard about whether you should be buying that or not, why you would buy that, and whether that thing is worth your hard-earned money, and don't spend more than you take in- you shouldn't have too many money problems at all.
Thus, I have been raised in a household where I heard him say, all the time, "When you see something you want, you always gotta ask yourself one question: Do you need it, or can you live without it? Because 99.9% of the time, you can live without it and you just walk away."
Before I buy something, ever, in any game or in real life, I ask myself, "Do I need it or can I live without it?"
Obviously, you need to use that with a grain of salt because if you wanna get technical, you don't need any equus or passes or Howrse to live at all, but that's not quite what I mean.... I think you probably get it.
Now, I was raised that way, and I can't help it. I'll probably always be kind of frugal, and I'll probably always hear that voice in my head, asking me if I need or can live without it. But what if you weren't raised that way and don't hear that in your head, maybe some of these ideas will help you out.
In school, I am required to take a basic accounting course even though I suck at math. In the process of this, I have had to fill out all these fake forms and stuff, and monthly budgets are one of them. Here's my advice based on what I've learned (holy crap, I actually learned something in a math class, I can't believe it lol)
Take this basic form:
- Approximately how much equus do you make in a week? (What do you do for your income? Mostly.... sell horses? offer coverings? exchanges? AP farm? train horses? think of the things you do to earn the most money and take some time to write down what you make every day, and add it up at the end of each week- after about three to four weeks, find the average (the total of the income over all the weeks, divided by the number of weeks) and say that's what you make every week. Okay. Now, you know that you usually want to make sure you spend less than that. Just like in real life. Sometimes you might see a big thing you really want and know you'll have to make up for later but you just have to have it- a 2-use-RC for 50,000e or something like that- and if you have the money ,and know how to make that money back, buy it. But don't be doing that every week. Just like in real life- someday, IRL, you buy a house or a car or something, which is far more than your paycheck but you can afford it (okay, assuming you pay cash for said house or car lol) and you don't do it every day. So... yeah. Do not repeatedly spend more than you make in a week.)
- How do you play your game? (Are you a flipper? A breeder? A trainer? GPer? BMI trader/seller? What are your preferred ways to play?)
- What things do you have to buy in your game style? (Make a list. Top breeders might need to buy certain BMIs and such; or maybe you're the type that does comp horses and buys skillers, or maybe you need to purchase horses out the wazoo to flip.)
- If you buy your passes, then before you spend them on something non-essential, think how much money the passes you bought cost. Think what real life things you could have bought for that much money. Consider being frugal with the passes since buying passes is technically a little silly (no offense, I just mean from a financial standpoint- they don't really exist and we don't even know what they look like, lol.)
- If you work for your [free] passes, before you buy something non-essential, think just how much frazzling work it is to get those passes, and how you can't get more than 11 in a whole month. They're precious, rare, and to be used with extreme caution.
- Before you spend your equus on something non-essential, think how much work it is to get it. Think how hard you work to make sure you aren't cheated out of equus, think how much thought you put into how to make equus- and then think whether the thing you're about to spend it on does all that effort proud, or not.
Essentially, as long as you really think long and hard about whether you should be buying that or not, why you would buy that, and whether that thing is worth your hard-earned money, and don't spend more than you take in- you shouldn't have too many money problems at all.
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