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This Week in Carriage Trade: Events and More!

Posted on March 20, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Events in Carriage Trade:

March 1-21 Critter Hunt

You know you need more critter stuff, and here’s your chance! A new candy coat, bunnies, parrots, farm animals, and more.  Critters are the theme and the hunt object is a cat!

March 3-31st, Mean Green Hunt starts. 

Visit Debutante and find the lucky clover for this grid-wide hunt!

March 10-April 10 The Bunny Hunt 

Visit Debutante for your Bunneriffic outfit!

Monday March 19 11 am and 7 pm SLT

Meet Monday, Flat Racing at Carriage Trade Downs.  We’ve added morning sessions to the events, moderated by Lava Ruby for the am sessions.

Wednesday March 21 Hump Day is Jump day, 11 am and 7 pm SLT,

Cross Country on our full region course

Thursday March 22, 11 am and 7 pm SLT Hurdle Thursday.

Take your life into your own hands and jump for the gold.  3 laps around with towering fences, perfect for the big striding horse out there.  Who will be the Princess’ Champion this week?  Meet at the saddling ring at Carriage Trade Downs.

Friday March 23 11 am and 5 pm Willow’s Workouts.

Join our Monster of the Cross Country course as she shares her tips and tricks for successfully pwning our cross country course at Carriage Trade.  She’ll show you how and when to jump so you can gain accuracy and shave precious seconds off your time.  Meet at the Cross Country course in Northampton.

Friday March 23, 1 pm SLT

Fashion Fridays showcases Debutante’s newest releases with 8 unique styles on the catwalk. Remember, there are always show specials so make sure you drop in from 1-1:30 pm SLT on Fridays!

Saturday, March 24, 12 noon SLT  Fox Hunt!

A special Edition of the Royal Tibetan will be released with this fox hunt. Make sure you get here to collect one or more of the TEN sets that will be released!

Sunday, March 25, 7 pm SLT, Sunday Showjumping

Showjumping on Carriage Trade’s Grand Prix show jumping course. Remember, practice DOES make perfect!

New in the Tack Room:


Punked Manes & Tails for Light Horses and Drafters too!

Plus a long-awaited release of English Tack Sets for Drafters – but these are even MORE special, because these are the long-awaited Carriage Trade’s Interactive Tack™ Sets. Suffice it to say this is one of our biggest developments in the creation of interactive tack ever. With a texture, color,shine, and resizing HUD; built-in roleplay gestures; full interactivity to allow a rider to tack and untack their horse; plus chat commands to extend the use of the set, including two bridle options, and a scripted halter. This is an exceptional set that includes 12 colors, 4 metal options and 8 wool options, all in a single, beautifully developed set.

The set is available in Carriage Trade, the Water Horse sim, and will be on Marketplace this week. LH set to follow very soon!

Also, check out our sale on all of our halters and on the breeder’s choice arabian sets.  We will be discontinuing these products after Friday, so get them before they go away!

Carriage Trade Videos:

1. This is Carriage Trade

2. This is Carriage Trade: Exercising the Princess’ Mare

3. This is Carriage Trade: The Flowing Mane

4. This is Carriage Trade: The Ale Wagon

5. This is Carriage Trade:  Fashion Friday February 24

6. Halloween @ Carriage Trade

7. This is Carriage Trade: Fashion Friday March 2

8. This is Carriage Trade: Prepping for Pony Tales

 

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2012 Carriage Trade Equestrian Hunt January 1-21

Posted on January 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

2012 Carriage Trade Equestrian Hunt January 1-21

Thank you for your interest in the Carriage Trade Equestrian Hunt, presented by the owner of Carriage Trade, an Equestrian Lifestyle Estate.

The Equestrian Hunt begins on December 1st and runs through midnight on December 21st. Hunters are seeking 20 Horseshoe objects, each containing one or more Equestrian-themed items. The Horseshoes are hidden throughout our estate, which includes Carriage Trade and Carriage Trade North. They may be hidden in shops, public areas or parks, which may include the public areas of the livery and the Welcome Area. They will NOT be hidden in residents’ homes or stalls, so please do not enter residents’ homes or stalls. Repeat: no Horseshoes are hidden in any private homes, stables or stalls.

To hunt successfully, select the Horseshoe and ‘buy’ it for 0L. You will receive a folder cleverly named ‘Object’ in your Inventory.

While you are hunting, please behave with decorum and respect to all visitors and residents. Please do not harass the staff of Carriage Trade during your hunt. We have created lovely prize items, we know you want them, but it takes our joy out of doing the hunt if we are harassed or if you complain about the prizes. If they are not to your taste, you may always leave and discontinue the hunt.

Please do not harass the residents or visitors to Carriage Trade. We seek to keep everyone comfortable whether visiting or living here. Carriage Trade is a roleplay estate, and we ask that you comply with our dress code while visiting with us. We have several appropriate outfits available free of charge in our free roleplay mall the Welcome Area.

While you are in our estate, please observe the following rules: NO nudity. NO profanity. NO sexual roleplay of any kind. NO begging for sex, money, or anything else. NO age play. NO wearable horses. NO children, fantasy or anthro avatars (this means no furries, dragons, etc.). NO weapons or violence of any sort. While in general, we warn visitors once if they are transgressing and send them home, we do eject and ban if our requests are not met. Thank you, and have a happy and fun hunt!

Here are the hunt hints:

1. No, really, I’m welcoming!
2. I’m weighting down the Travelers
3. I always wanted to study anatomy!!
4. This is a unique view for me to watch the horses perform.
5. I’m penciling in some great gifts for Designers!
6. I’m so red hot, I’m smoking!
7. If you skulk here to long looking for me, you’ll make the Royal Guards nervous.
8. I’m part of the clean-up crew…
9. I’m not sure which is worse: the constant wet or the thundering horse hooves?
10. I’m not sure how wise this is.
11.  I’ve got a front row seat to all the fashion!
12. Some horses go crazeeee for this.
13.  Horses love Vitamin B in this form!
14. Watch out, clumsy! I’m starting to think these roses are actually to mark my grave!
15. How did you KNOW it was my birthday?
16. I’m a paperweight!
17. Rub-a-Dub-Dub!
18.  Some people think this is a natural place for me; I’m not sure how a horse could kick me up here though.
19. The Owl, the Pussycat and ME, we all set to sea…
20.  I find this a pleasant view of the rural scene.

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MeetMondays Head on @ Carriage Trade’s Meet Mondays

Posted on November 28, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Carriage Trade is pleased to announce Meet Mondays!

Every Monday we will hold two race meets for all comers. To participate, simply show up at the Carriage Trade Livery and load into a starting gate when instructed.

Race meets are held at 12 noon SLT and at 7 pm SLT.  Top three winners receive ribbons and first place winner receives a trophy. Meet Mondays start on November 28, with the Princess Lillie moderating. See you there!

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New in the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: Candy Coats for the Water Horse Avatar

Posted on November 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Carriage Trade’s Candy Coats for the Water Horse avatar are a new hand painted series of coat textures for the Water Horse avatars.   Handpainted shadows and highlights give new definition to the avatar.

The coats are delivered via script, each carefully labeled for ease of use.  Scripts are no mod, copy, no transfer.  Each script will retexture the appropriate body part and set the various parameters – all you need to do is drop them in, following our simple instructions. No more fussing with manual changes to your avatar parts, just drop, touch, and go!

For Candy Coats to give you best results, you MUST know how to edit prims. No customer support is available for this. If you need to know how to edit prims, please see the Second Life Wiki or visit Builder’s Brewery, where basic editing classes are taught.

Candy Coats are  available in:
Pleasing Peppermint, Twisted Licorice Heaven, Orange Dreamsicle, Dark Chocolate Mocha Swirl, Butterscotch Brownie, Marshmallow Splendor, and, Luscious Lemon Lollipop, in addition to Quest and Hunt coats.



**Using your Carriage Trade Candy Coat Scripts**

The Carriage Trade Candy Coats are a new, hand painted series of coat textures for the Water Horse avatars.

The textures are delivered via scripts, which will both retexture as well as change the orientation/angle/repeat/offset of the texture on the selected body part.  The scripts are designed to self-delete as soon as they have done this, so you do not have additional laggy scripts running.  If you do not like a face or leg marking, just keep dropping scripts into the part till you find something you like.

What is in your package:
Notecard, boxed backup scripts, and scripts for each of the parts of your Water Horse avatar.

********Using your scripts to color your avatar*************

1. Rez out all of your parts of your avatar.

2.  Open an Edit window (Control-3) and click the “Edit Linked Parts” box.

4. Select ONLY the prim you want to retexture and carefully drag the matching script into the folder in the Content tab of the prim. This is particularly important with the Ears, Jaw, and Head/Neck/Eyes.

5.  Touch the prim. The script will instantly retexture the prim and change the offsets and repeats and delete itself. Don’t worry if you don’t see it in the prim, it did what it was supposed to do!

6. Rename your prim parts to the color, and take back into inventory.

7. Wear your new coat!

*****Mistakes will happen********
But don’t worry. The scripts are copiable, so you can make mistakes and just go back and fix it.

Watch out that you don’t just ‘drop’ the script onto a link set. It will retexture the root prim (whatever that is) but it may or may not retexture the prim you wanted to have retextured.

Also, work on ‘ground’ not on another prim.

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SLEIGH (Second Life’s Equestrian Inclusive Grid Hunt) Sponsored by Carriage Trade

Posted on November 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We are pleased to announce the launch of SLEIGH. Listed below are the participants with hints and in some cases, images of the hunt gift.

1. Carriage Trade

  • HINT: I’m on the hunt!
  • No Decoys

2. Secret Garden in the Clouds (Blog)

  • HINT: Take my Heart, It’s Yours

3. Carlos, Inc.

  • HINT: A little gun power always warmed a girl up!
  • No Decoys

4. BelDimi Gestures

  • HINT: Yahoo!
  • No Decoys

5.  United InshCon

  • HINT: Search the house with the red roof!

6. Tree House Treasures

  • HINT: Wheeeeeee down this slope
  • No Decoys

7. Dramaz one

  • HINT: Jack is Crazy????
  • No Decoys

8. {NS} Nadeau Shoppe

  • HINT: A warm fire is what you need after a cold horse ride!
  • No Decoys

9. Pipper’s Place

  • HINT: Winter Sock Monkeys Have Fun Riding Me……

10. Sporting Equipment International

  • HINT: Where Should I file This?
  • No Decoys

11. Finistair [SKIP, but pick up new LM @ Carriage Trade SLEIGH Poster or use this SLurl]

12. Exquisite Eye Decorations@Loch Avie

  • HINT: Did I see a PINK elephant ? YES I DID SEE A PINK ELEPHANT !
  • No Decoys

13. Stone’s Works

  • HINT: Roses are Red Violets are Blue lots of Daisys in here too!
  • No Decoys

14. Cosmic Steam Designs

  • HINT: What are all these manhole covers doing in a clothes shop?
  • TWO Decoys

15.  (In)Discretions

  • HINT: Where do YOU think you’d store a sleigh?
  • No Decoys

16. artMEfashion

  • HINT: It will keep you warm
  • ONE decoy

17:  Bundle Store/Seasonal Creations by MamaP

  • HINT: I still love my Walkers!
  • No Decoys

18: MamaP’s Barn and Western Decor

  • HINT: Rolling in the barn in the hay!

19: !! Never Ever!

  • HINT: If you are into my store, look arround and around and then you can find the sleigh on the ground
  • No Decoys

20: ~Kennedy’s~

  • HINT: I’m just sliding my way into the mens department!
  • No Decoys

21: Flood

  • HINT: I’ll sit here and wait for the horsies to be born!
  • No Decoys

22:  Off The Wall

  • HINT: I’m taking a ride around the yard
  • No Decoys

23: Retro

  • You still have to finish emptying the boxes
  • No Decoys

24:  DemotiK

  • HINT: Fly high and free!!
  • No Decoys

25: Shabby Chic [#26 SLURL]

  • HINT: I’m hanging out with the bovine
  • No Decoys

26: [AhMuSeD XpresNz

  • HINT: Maybe the funny looking bunny wants to go on a ride with me?
  • No Decoys

27:  JULES~~Creations

  • HINT: In a sweater may be a surprise gift
  • No Decoys

28: Tack Room

  • HINT: You have to buy ALL the things. ALL of them!
  • No Decoys

Sleigh Version 1, for Water Horse avatars. Horse not included.

Sleigh Version 2, Wearable horse included

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Tour of New Equestrian Lifestyle Game in Carriage Trade

Posted on September 16, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Please join us as we tour the new equestrian RP game in Carriage Trade. The game uses a flexible, easy to install game engine, the Honor Engine. The Honor Engine recently received a ScienceSim land grant to port the system to OpenSim. We’ve installed the system in SL to showcase its ease of use.

The Honor Engine can easily be used to develop simple-to-complex educational games.

Oopen beta of the new equestrian lifestyle horse game at Carriage Trade begins this weekend. The game is free to play and full of great prizes, free form roleplay and best of all, horses!

We will be touring the different roleplay facilities and explaining some of the activities you can experience in Carriage Trade.

Please make sure you observe our Roleplay Dress Code (available at the entrance) and put a visitor titler on.

Be a horse, be a vet, be a farrier, be a rider, be an herbalist, be a fox, dog or owl…just be there!

We will have open to the public tours Saturday @ 10 am SLT Sunday @ 1 pm SLT

Meet at the welcome area and don’t be late! Carriages depart promptly!

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Livery Training Times Announced

Posted on September 10, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Tyr Fluffy, Carriage Trade Livery Lead, has announced new training times for those horses who wish to provide Livery service. All Livery horses must complete training before they will receive an active livery board, whether they are serving as Livery horses in Game or for visitors.

The posted training times are as follows:

  • Sundays from 2-3 pm SLT
  • Thursdays from 7-8 pm SLT

Please meet at the Carriage Trade Livery for these training classes.

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Round Two of Carriage Trade RP Game Beta Testing

Posted on September 6, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Round Two has started, and our thanks to everyone who participated in Round #1!

Round One helped us iron out a few wrinkles in the existing Carriage Trade RP Game.

For Round #2, we have added more new features, including Owl, and Dog chores; a full line of Herbalist activities; a farmstand; and changes to the bakery and the Apothecary.  We have also retired some of the trade goods so please trot by the Registrar’s office and trade in your retired trade goods for active trade goods.

Retired trade goods include: Corn Cob, Corn Meal, Vial of Lavender Oil, Vial of Tea Tree Oil, Devil’s Claw, Vial of Eucalyptus Oil,  Cake of Beeswax, Vial of Pennyroyal Oil, Jar of Leather Balm. If you have any of these items in your RP Game inventory, please exchange them in the red box marked Temporary Banker.

In your previous quest for round one, you were asked to complete a series of chores and task and then to create trade goods which you then traded to a Prize Winner vendor to obtain a cart.  While this quest will remain active until we conclude the testing, we now have a newer, better quest for you…

Introducing, Quest #2:

Mr. Wheeler, the Carriage Showroom Associate, has a well-known sweet tooth. Unfortunately, his sweet tooth has caught up with him, and now he has a toothache.  He has told you that if you bring him something for both his sweet tooth, and his toothache, he’ll cut you a GREAT deal on a brand new Calache carriage for a draft horse.  He’s even made it easy for you, and can give you a list of what he’s willing to accept in the way of Trade Goods.

Your mission is to obtain the list of Trade Goods + Coin that Mr. Wheeler will accept, and to obtain the Trade Goods + Coin (by honest labor, gathering, trade, or theft) and bring those to back to the special Quest Vendor marked Prize Winner located int he Carriage Showroom, and trade them to obtain your new Caleche.

OMG, you say but how do I FIND all this stuff? Ask your friends and other residents and get clicky.  Click, click, click. There’s a great deal of interactivity in Carriage Trade and more coming. We won’t tell you how to find everything you need; just use your common sense and think it through – where would you find an apple pie; how would you obtain special spices; where might you find metal work or bees wax?  and above all, have fun with it.

What’s that? you like Quests and you want MOAR?  OK, no problem. If you visit the Tack Room, near the Midnight Mania boards, you will find four vendors that are set up to accept Coin or Coin + Trade Good combinations.  Figure out the best option for you and then go get what you need to trade Coin and Trade Goods to these special vendors for your OWN Second Life copies of the carriages to use anywhere in Second Life that you wish.

Currently the Sub Quest prizes include a LH Singleton Chariot, a LG Singleton Buggy, a Pair Covered Wagon, and a Victoria Cart for the Pony.

Did you miss out on the meter release on Monday, September 5th? No problem. We will be metering the next round of beta testers on Tuesday, September 6th, at 5:30 pm SLT at the Registrar’s in Fox Hill.

See you there, and have fun!

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Carriage Trade Roleplay Ecosystem: Human Subclasses

Posted on September 2, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Every class & subclass of player in the Carriage Trade Roleplay System is interrelated to a greater or lesser degree.  All classes must eat and can take damage.

Veterinarian

  1. Provides preventative care to horses, dogs, and cats, i.e., Vaccinations, disease testing, Coggins, wormer, poultices, etc.
  2. Provides curative care for wounds or damage to all horse & critter subclasses
  3. Has particular affinity to horses & dogs
  4. Has affinity with all animals & birds
  5. Less affinity with herbalist and farrier

Farrier

  1. Provides hoof care & shoes to all classes of horses
  2. Provides supplies to vet & stablehand (eg, syringes to vet, pitchforks/rakes to stablehand)
  3. Has particular affinity to horses & owls
  4. Has affinity to herbalist & dog
  5. Has no affinity with fox

Herbalist

  1. Provides performance enhancers & treats  to all classes of horses
  2. Provides curative care to all humans, critters & birds subclasses
  3. Has particular affinity to owls, foxes
  4. Has no affinity with dogs
  5. Less affinity with vets

Apothecary

  1. Provides distillations & exotic herbs/spices/oils to herbalist
  2. Provides compounded drugs and vaccines to veterinarian
  3. Provides analgesics & curatives to all human subclasses
  4. Has particular affinity to other human subclasses
  5. Affinity with dogs
  6. Less affinity with horses
  7. No affinity with foxes & owls

Equestrian

  1. Provides training & grooming care to all subclasses of horse
  2. Provides grooming care & training to dogs
  3. Has particular affinity to horses, dogs
  4. Has affinity with all human subclasses
  5. Less  affinity for owls
  6. No affinity with foxes

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The Carriage Trade Roleplay Ecosystem: Horses

Posted on August 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Carriage Trade enables roleplay for standard horse classes. The Carriage Trade community does allow two specific fantasy horse classes, but within the roleplay system no allowance or subclass is made for these sorts of horses.

Horses are not broken down by breed, but rather by training & weight, so that a player may create a character of whatever age, breed, or color they wish.

Status within the game is determined by Levels, Accomplishments, and Wins. Levels are achieved through passage of time, accrual of experience, accrual of wealth, specific Accomplishments and Wins.

Game status is unrelated to region authority.

Appearance & tack are determined by the subclass (Training Style) to which the player belongs, and the activity in which the player is engaged.  Horses are expected to be correctly turned out when working with their Riders, particularly in Competitive situations; likewise, Horses are expected to wear Tack appropriate to their chosen role, particularly when present in a roleplay facility.

Horses are the fastest class in the Carriage Trade system. They are the top-level weight class, being heavier than all other classes.   Horses have natural defensive weaponry (hind hooves, front hooves, teeth) with which they may inflict damage to other classes up to unconsciousness and temporary death. Horses may receive damage from other classes and subclasses and Horses which show themselves to be overly vicious may be sent away.

Horses may feed themselves through Chores or they may rely on their Human partners to feed them. Horses must seek medical treatment and care from the Veterinarian and performance enhancers from the Herbalist; shoes and hoof care from the Farrier; grooming from the Stablehand; and training from the Rider.

Horses provide livery saddle and carriage service to Humans and may serve in the Livery stable and receive both game token and in-world payment form riders.

Competition requires a willing Human partner or partners.

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