Leasing & Exp Contracts

Leasing may be done by trading a horse with the LEASE option and selecting a time frame for the lease, the shortest being ten minutes, the longest being one month.

What can I do with a leased horse?

You may train, ride, compete with, and show a leased horse. You'll also be responsible for taking care of the horse while it's under lease! Any vet care and keeping the horse fed, watered, and happy is totally on you!

What can I NOT do to a leased horse?

A leased horse may not be sold at a trader, gelded, bred, traded, have tack or amulets removed, be renamed, or have any part of the profile modified. You also can't put it in a show pen or list it for sale at your store. A leased horse also cannot be registered as a notable ancestor or have a certification applied to it. A leased horse also cannot have the Favorite Human award applied to it by the person leasing it.

Players may 'hire' others to Experience Train, or EXP train, their horses. This will often make things easier for someone who wants a fairly experienced horse but isn't able to be on to do it themselves, or perhaps might not feel they can earn a lot of experience due to other gameplay obligations (or something called 'real life' obligations...)

How to Set Up an EXP Training Contract:

This is done through trading. The horse owner may set the Experience they require of the trainer in this trade, and offer the gold dust or Mobia that the trainer will be paid. (You can only pick one type of payment, it can't be a mix.) You may set any EXP gain you wish along with the normal lease terms (the time you'd like it done in.)

Nothing else may be offered in a Training Contract trade. This keeps things nice and clear from the start.

Payment

The payment for the EXP training contract is held in escrow- or in one of our handy dandy magical Training Contract Vaults where nobody anywhere can touch it- until the lease is up. If the trainer only completes a percentage of the contract, they'll only get that percentage of payment. The rest will be refunded to the owner of the horse (this way nobody's getting paid more than they should be for work they didn't do!)

So if you set up a contract for 10,000exp and the trainer only completes 3,000exp, they'll get 30% of the payment for the effort they put in.

Reliability of Trainers

You can judge how reliable a trainer is by going to their player profile. Their 10 most recent EXP Contract details are shown there- how much the contract was for, how much they did, that sort of thing, which should help you pick your Perfect Trainer.