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If you bought more horses than your primary could hold it would "overflow".

There are plenty of people who bid right up until the end of the auction. It really sounds to me like you just got beat by the clock, and the confirmation page was just a teensy bit too slow? I'm not the expert, though. Ammit would have to say for sure.

Just as a side note: ALL newly created, bred or purchased horses go into your Primary barn first. Like Jumping Bean said, you can over fill your barns. You won't be able to show any horses until you rearrange, but even if you bid more cash than what you had, it would still send you the horse and move you into a negative balance.

I'm not sure about buying auction horses. I know that if you try to breed or create more horses than you have empty stalls in your primary barn, the game will not let you do it. There's a message something like "Sorry, SandyCreekAcres, you do not have enough room in your primary barn for this horse."

So far as I know, the only time you can get an overflow in the primary barn is when you're emptying foals out of pastures. Then, as long as there are more horses than stalls, the primary barn cannot be shown.

The primary barn is the Default destination for new horses--bought, created, bred. You have to move horses out of that barn into another in order to add new horses if there aren't enough stalls.

There is no "automatic switch to a secondary barn" in the programming. That would be extremely difficult to program. Many of us who have been playing a long time have scores of barns, or even more than 100 of them for the extremely large stables. I'm not sure the server would be able to search all the barns looking for empty stalls. That would be a massive amount of memory devoted to just one player.

If you didn't have stalls enough for an auctioned horse you'd made the highest bid on, the price you bid wasn't taken out of your bank account.

You could make a polite request that the information that new horses will be sent only to the Primary Barn be included somewhere in the FAQ. You're right. New players would not automatically know about it. After playing a while, most of us have probably tried to insert too many horses and have run up against the message, but you probably haven't been playing long enough for that to have happened before.

Did you have enough money for all of the horses? Or did you overbid? I think I vaguely remember someone else complaining about this, and Ammit coming in to say that they did not hold enough money to pay for the horse.

@Ammit - Thanks for the response! I don't think money was the factor in this case since I had more than enough money for the horses I was bidding on (only picked to bid on a handful of them) and had done the math prior to the auction ending so I knew how much I could/should spend per horse. (Yes, yes I really am *that* person). lol

I have tried to bid on another horse after having bid on too many others and not had enough money and the game wouldn't let me bid and told me I didn't have enough funds, unlike this time around when all bids went through. Not to mention this time around I had a lot more funds to work with.

Ah well, it's good to know that it doesn't care if the barn is full, that makes me feel much better about things as that was my main concern/question.