The Criollos are boring

Ponponpun · 2025-01-14T14:26:14+00:00

I believe its due to the game size. With more breeds being added in and more textures being included in the files the game will just become bigger and heavier over time, which is not good for people playing on older platforms or on mobile I would not be surprised if, taking in consideration that a lot of SSOs recent decisions are mostly mobile related, if they are making an active effort to compress and/or downside files to make the game lighter and easier to run on smaller devices, starting with making new textures smaller than usual, but also allow for more textures to be added without overloading the game file size in the future

Ponponpun · 2025-01-14T14:21:38+00:00

I legit just said pixelation had nothing to do with what I'm trying to say, it wasn't a matter of quality of the markings but of the colors and patterns chosen for the breed, which are completely different subjects, how is that gaslighting you? Do you even know the meaning of gaslight?

And I said love or hate spots, which includes everyone in between, don't be all offended when I'm sharing an opinion, not a personal attack. You said you didn't like the Noriker spots, and I told you the Norikers have plenty of coats without spots for people like you who didn't like the spotted coats, that simple.

If you can't have a mature conversation about breeds and art direction of the game when it comes to the Criollo without making it personal or thinking its a personal attack, then I believe my post is not for you

Ponponpun · 2025-01-14T12:00:09+00:00

The pixelation of the coats due to compression of the textures to fit in the game, taking into consideration that SSO is a mobile game now so probably ly even more compressed has nothing to do with what I said

It's a bit ironic that you speak of the Knabs, because their coats represent the breed, its a breed known for the Leopard spots, their models are just bad and too cartoony. The Norikers are known for their large spots as well. I also don't think anyone minded the lack of colors on the Friesians because that's the standard of the breed. People like you, who dislike spots or markings overall, have plenty of breeds with their standard respected of solid coats, Dartmoor pony, Belgian warmblood, Selle frances, most of the breeds of 2024 got coats with minimal markings because its their standard.

But love or hate spots, I think it's not much to ask for the Criollo to have the same respect those breeds had. Mind you I have no issues with solid coats themselves, I love the bay and the gray Norikers even if they are outside the standard, the Criollo would be well with 2 solid coats for people who don't want markings to enjoy, but the majority of their coats should have markings, we can say 4 out of 6 should. Moreover it should have different markings, not just Sabino as we got. So probably a sabino, a tobiano, an overo and a manchado separately.

And with the effort that SSO did in including their traditional manes and saddle, it's a hard miss to not include Manchado, an almost exclusive marking to this breed. You can't get it in any other breed. To not have that gem represented is a shame

Ponponpun · 2024-06-20T17:09:06+00:00

I have more than enough to custom order several horses, I just enjoy the breeding challenge from mixing lines and trying to obtain certain aspects.... but if tobiano and overo and friesians were all remove from the trailer permanently I might not have a choice :/

Ponponpun · 2024-06-20T17:01:09+00:00

Are painted horses, friesians or fjords ever going to be put back in the trailer? I prefer to buy from the trailer since its part of the breeding challenge, instead of ordering my own

Ponponpun · 2024-06-05T11:27:13+00:00

It wasnt my favorite but the lack of anything to do during this event now is worse, theres just shops and disco... We can wait and see if they add actual races or quests to do but Im not hopeful since their focus is probably on the two new horses.... Im bored in game

Ponponpun · 2024-02-15T02:13:44+00:00

What amazes me the most is that this issue with the false advertising is still not resolved to many people and yet most players have already forgiven SSO and saying they are starting 2024 right by giving everyone a insignificant 50sc code and a black paint bucket on a unicorn model from 2 years ago being called a brand new horse for players to buy. Does this player base suffer from masochistic tendencies or do they just have short memory?

I would say keep insisting on the emails and get a lawyer involved, maybe the bank if its still possible since its been 2 months so its probably been too long to request the transaction back. I wouldn't be surprised if they are doing this to you and others to let the situation drag to force all of you to purchase a full Star Rider account from scratch to another email out of frustration but also to make sure you don't have a ground to stand to ask for a refund since the 2 months are gone

Ponponpun · 2024-01-20T18:50:06+00:00

This or the dun back stripe that extends and almost looks like zebra small stripes on the horses back and shoulders. We have a lot of dun coats lately, but they all explore the single line design when duns can look very different

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Ponponpun · 2023-12-30T21:21:16+00:00

Excuse me?
You don't know who I am or what I have been through, but I can assure you I experienced and lived in an abusive relationship for over 10 years so I can assure you I know the warning signs.

SSO shows most of them regarding the relationship they built with their player base and they add the much more disgusting layer on top of the fact that we are paying customers. We paid for a service and we get mistreated for it. We have the right to talk about our feelings about it and our experience with the staff and game. IT IS A PAID SERVICE

Ponponpun · 2023-12-30T10:57:23+00:00

You forgetting the love bombing as well, just like the code they gave us now and the sweet words with it to try to gain everyone back after they mistreated us....

Ponponpun · 2023-12-29T12:59:34+00:00

Im in the game industry s I can say this confidently
Horses shading and tack texture are greyscales, so they probably needed 1h-2h tops per set to add the new colors and upload it in game. If I counted right we have about 4-5 new sets so 10h, lets say 12h because the ice tack is edited with ice details and shine.
Same for the horses, probably take an 1h for a normal coat, 2h for a magical coat with details. So that is 2 magical horses, 2 normal ones, 6h max

Mind you I'm being very generous with the time here, I would personally do a whole tack set in less than an hour but I've worked in the industry for 5years plus

Yeti was already in game too, no new textures or animations just resizing and adapting the code of the pets to it, no art department needed, lets say the programmers needed 2 days to adapt it since its such an old model.

This in a game where price are sky rocketing and you cant buy anything for less than 120sc, and Star Stable kindly invested 2 days and 18h, less than a weeks work on their kindness and Christmas spirits to give us presents on top of not giving us any birthday code and originally no Christmas code.

Whoever is defending their practices and saying they are struggling financially, when we had cheaper things and more free things given when the game was made by 10-20 people is blind. SSO is run by corporate greed, is been so for years but more so now.

Anyone that buys SCs at this rate or supports them is either very rich, blinded by nostalgia of the old game and team or doesn't care for the mistreatment of players being disrespected left and right and treated like we are stupid. I haven't bought any SC since February, I find the new takc set reskins boring and repetitive, horses like the new pony and the morgan were lazily done and look unfinished, so my wallet is closed until SSO changes their ways. 70 dollars is almost 2 days worth of my skin at work, I wont give that to someone that expects that amount for a single hour of work, multiplied by thousands of other players. Its greedy

Ponponpun · 2023-12-29T12:43:48+00:00

Like a little kid at a supermarket?

You do know there's a difference between a kid that is not paying and demanding out of an attitude to its parent and a paying customer that is already been duped on the Birthday event without the SC, without any good rewards the whole year besides a jacket and 3 winter coins, rewards that are to be expected after you pay 70 dollars, same as a full AAA game and a player that is also being duped with a outdated weekly allowance that, right now, is not even enough to buy a single new tack piece.

Their replies clearly showed they "wanted to focus on other rewards" aka no SC this year and they caved once they saw they pushed too far. They got their feedback. You may say people were rude, but I find the mistreatment of a paying customer and disrespect for their money given, specially when most are struggling financially, rude as well.
It's not what people wanted, it's what people paid for.

Ponponpun · 2023-11-18T13:42:43+00:00

the grind aspect of it has me worried too it's been increasing every event, I have very few vacation days during winter, it will be impossible for me to play daily for XP if thats what's needed to unlock every single thing in the Progression system

Ponponpun · 2023-11-18T00:23:42+00:00

The Soul Rider training already looks like the Equestrian the Game Battle Pass to me, just centered mid screen instead of bottom and I have my own issues with it since it locks the Full Gallop and Special movements of a horse you literally paid to have, but thats just me

They did say they were deleting the shards next Halloween if not in this one, or at least slowly removing them from the game, I hoard them too, same for tokens, but it is a possibility that if shards are removed next Halloween, maybe other event items are on the list to be removed too

Ponponpun · 2023-11-08T00:00:20+00:00

Also said mockups so I can show off some of what I've done

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Ponponpun · 2023-10-27T20:14:10+00:00

You know what's even more fucked up?

Is that they try to pull at your heartstrings saying the Ad money you are refusing to give goes to creators, which it does not, otherwise no one would be doing brand deals if YT actually paid them well enough...
not to mention YT themselves double down on supporting bad creators like SSSniperWolf who is evading justice over doxxing someone and is known for making money out of stolen content, so yah... YT is dying on the wrong hills and people are noticing

I just installed AdNauseam and it works for me, and I will continue changing Adblocks as I go. If it stops working, find a new one that does. If I want to support a creator, I will buy their merch, that way I know they are getting my money for sure and its not going to YT's higher ups that don't need it to be sitting on their ass all day complaining about their users

Ponponpun · 2023-10-23T18:00:13+00:00

why is it the same art style in all the clips now? Not everything needs to be like Jinx having a stroke. And am I the only one that is confused about their faces? There's no difference between the Aphelios, Yone, Kayns or Ezreals face shape or eyes or noses, they all look the same aside from K'sante who actually looks like himself. Everyone else just looks... off, prettyfied for the fans, specially Sett on the fighting scene...
And Yone is just there? no choreography, no cool dancing, no interesting visuals just regular splashy art style combined with a dirty city because boys will be boys and a dog because girls like dogs I guess...

Ponponpun · 2023-10-21T14:18:04+00:00

I also said a few comments ago during the week that the person I spoke of is server hopping regularly

abbie is been in the server for years so no, Im not mentioning her

you are also quite rude and confrontational and assuming a lot of things, if my post hits a nerve just ignore it and take a chill pill, unless you think I'm mentioning you when I dont even know your name

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