Common Question - How do I make money...

 

 

For my breeding farm?

• The first thing to do is get a job in an Equestrian Center.  As long as you work one horse a day your job will pay.  Always look for an EC that is paying the top rate.  There are so many job openings there is no reason to take a lower rate.
• Doing lessons with your horses when they are old enough will help with money making. 
• Putting your horses in competitions will help make money.  The more skilled your horse the better the competition, the more money they can make in winnings.
• Offering coverings from stallions can make money but with breeding costing more these days people are breeding less and coverings have dropped.  Make sure you are putting market value on your covering, otherwise it won't be used and will be a waste in energy and potential for your stallion.  Also, a stallion is much more valuable with 100 BLUP.
• Selling horses is a good way to make money if you can breed for very little money or if you can breed high skilled or special horses like unicorns.  If you are just starting out, however, I have found breeding cost more than you actually make in selling the low skilled foals.
• Horse trading is an art and a full time job but it is possible to make money doing it.  Basically this means watching the auction and regular sales in order to purchase horses for low equus that you know will sell for higher.  It requires a knowledge of basic sales prices, what is a good deal and time to watch the sales.  It also requires the money to pay for the horse first and the ability to risk it not selling for profit.
• Selling items in the store.  The store will buy the manure produced by your horses when you work them as well as pay half price for any items you sell back.  Be careful not to sell items that you may have a need for later as you will have to buy them at full price.
• In the item trading area you can trade items for money.  Make sure to research the items you have to trade to see what market value is on them at that time.  Otherwise, if you price too high your trade offer will just expire and you will make nothing.
• As a last resort you can credit your equus by using a pass.  However, as valuable as your passes are (especially if you don't use real money to buy them) I wouldn't waste one to get more equus.

 

 

For my Equestrian Center?

• The best and fastest way is to buy droppings, change them into manure and resell them.  This is a tedious process as you must buy the droppings 50 at a time and you can only buy up to 1,000 a day.  You also must wait 30 seconds between purchases. 
• Plant cash crops.  There is much debate as to whether it is better to plant turnips, wheat or all of the other crops and create mashes.  I have found personally that I do not want to take the time and attention to plant for creating mashes so I plant turnips and resell them.  Of course the larger and more fertile the meadow the more crops it will produce.  Don't waste time and money buying the lower fertile meadows, wait until you have enough money and then buy the 100% fertile meadows.
• In the spring I plant flax seed.  I keep my EC stocked with 1000 units of flax bedding and sell the rest of the bedding and flax. 
• In the summer I plant turnips. (Cost of 25 units is 12,500, yields approximately 200,000 on 15 acre fertile meadows with manure fertilizer.)  For a month ending in 31 days I can usually get three plantings in per summer.
• In the fall and winter I plant flax or turnips in my greenhouse.
• Don't expect to make any money boarding horses, especially in the beginning before your EC is established.  As your EC grows in prestige you can up your skill level requirement and boarding fees.
• Your biggest expense is going to be employees.  In the beginning don't do a lot of hiring.  If you are going to keep your own horses in the EC keep ones you do not use often or that have their own tack. 
• Groom - you don't need a groom until you have over 20 boxes. 
• Riding Instructor - will increase the price of your lessons but is not necessary.
• Farrier & Saddler - You don't need a saddler or farrier if your horses already have tack.