By Zane — General Manager of Bukidnon Farms ⛰

Feb 2, 2025. Season 24. $CROWN Price = $0.1258

Intention

This document details a proposal to better distribute the purse (from entry fees) and $CROWN stimulus within a race. Balancing the earnings of Track Owners (“Rake”) vs. the risk of racing and the placement of Racers will also be discussed

The intention of this economic proposal is to reduce the risk of racing and therefore greatly increase racing participation, leading to a healthier, growing racing ecosystem

The Problem

The key problem within horse racing games is one “monster” horse winning every single race and taking everyone’s money. Winning horses have just multiplied their money and can safely enter similar races and expect a positive outcome. Its easy, fun, rewarding, and glorious to have a good or great horse

Losing horses on the other hand have a few options, and none are super desirable:

• Enter similar race again, and hope for a positive outcome. (Maybe the loss was bad luck)
• Find new race to enter to see if they will be more successful there (e.g. Change distances)
• Add more time between races to see if aging will help the horse improve
• Stop racing. Can’t win money, but also can’t lose money. Taking risk on the horse is over

The “bad” horses in racing games are the first to no longer be raced. This causes problems for the “above-bad” horses, because they no longer have horses that they can be successful against. If “bad” and “above-bad” horses are no longer racing, then even “average” horses will soon start to struggle. If “average” horse stop racing then that leaves only “good” and “excellent” horses left… and soon it’s only “excellent” horses (5-10% of the population) left on the racetrack

It is scary to race against Calamansi Juice. He wins or comes in second most of the time. He is an “excellent” horse. If everyone just races their “excellent” horses, we get a game where only 5–10% of horses are racing and it’s difficult to even get a 4-horse race to fire off. How do we encourage the less-than-excellent horses to race and continue racing?

Stimulus

Imagine a world where you were given 100% of your entry fee back, and if you Won the race, or did relatively well (2nd, 3rd, etc.), you could profit nicely. Everyone would be entering in all of their horses as often as possible because there is no longer risk. They would want to have as many horses as they could manage and to race them all of the time

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It is the risk of losing money that causes players to abstain from racing

Reduce this risk → More Breeding/Buying → More Racing → More Entry Fees → More Yield to Track Owners → CROWN price increases → More Stimulus available to reduce risk of racing

Cycle feeds into itself nicely and the economy is able to grow itself

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It is not sustainable to give all horses 100% of their entry fees back, but the higher the % we give back, the more losing is forgiven, and the more likely the owner is to race that horse again