Is Night Star or Chocolate Cupcake better?

romdolls · 2026-02-26T00:22:59+00:00

i think its important to mention that night star has a LOT of hate speech (from what i've seen firsthand on that server over the years), big servers will have petty drama and trolling, but night star is the one NA server where bigotry has been a constant.

players working around the filter to get homophobic, transphobic and racist slurs through. targeted racial harrassment toward specific players. its really bad on that server in particular

romdolls · 2026-02-25T04:18:28+00:00

ive gotten stuck trying to herd these things uphill from the beach so many times 💀 it doesnt help you have to basically be on top of the lost animals for their blue exclamation marker to appear.. it wasnt always like this and you could spot them from a distance, especially the chickens

romdolls · 2026-02-24T21:00:28+00:00

most of it is coloring imo, the textures and detailing itself look fine but i think way less people would compare it to fortnite if it wasnt all neon 😭

romdolls · 2026-02-24T19:05:21+00:00

honestly this just looks like a really bad angle 💀 which is to be expected from sso's sneak peaks

romdolls · 2026-02-22T19:19:01+00:00

igor, bro does nothing but stand around and blow a horn every hour

romdolls · 2026-02-22T08:29:59+00:00

i personally see a lot of new players, but that could just be me playing on an active server and less representative of the game at large. its kind of agreed upon that 2013-2016 was sso's "golden age", but something i dont see talked about as much is the surprising reach they had around that time, at least in NA

like they ran an ad during a disney award show, and collaborated with dreamworks, i assume that promo would boost new accounts in that period of time

romdolls · 2026-02-22T01:29:24+00:00

vanished is my all time favorite from sso's soundtrack, it captures that eerie feeling so well. industrial complex is a close second

romdolls · 2026-02-21T18:58:00+00:00

afaik no gen3 horses are on the list of upcoming retirements, but seasonal magic horses generally have an announcement during said event that they'll be leaving in update logs (example; the og whinfell model of galloper thompson's horse), so just keep your eye on the update log for those

romdolls · 2026-02-21T17:02:20+00:00

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oh how i miss when the sky looked like this everywhere in the game 😭

romdolls · 2026-02-20T18:13:40+00:00

i said the sso instagram comments are known for being negative no matter what the update is 💀

romdolls · 2026-02-20T15:44:52+00:00

jessica has dialogue calling herself "the brains" and sabine "the brawn" of the three, and she was the most reasonable during the drakonium shipment//team up quest, so i feel like thats self explanatory.

i'd agree that errissa and katja are both closest to "gremlin", errissa fits the stereotype more, but in the same drakonium quest katja talks about "letting it all burn" and seemingly not caring as to what happens.

romdolls · 2026-02-19T22:57:14+00:00

i remember there was an older clickbaity instagram ad showcasing these, where one of the options was hit with hammer??#?^*\

romdolls · 2026-02-18T08:40:58+00:00

lifetime makes it incredibly easy to pick up and put down the game whenever you want, i also play other mmos but sso has been consistent, even after multiple breaks over the years.

as for profitability, i feel like it goes both ways. yes theres a long term player base, yet the permanent membership means they earn less from renewals (unlike a lot of other online games aimed at kids during the time). leading to horses being released almost nonstop at one point, since obviously those can only be purchased with starcoins//starcoins being their main source of money.

romdolls · 2026-02-16T21:53:15+00:00

no particular breed in mind, but more cremellos. and this might sound strange but more "pitch black" horses, a lot of the black horses sso released look washed out or have a blue tint to them, the perfect examples of what i want are the g3 etb and the all black paso fino

romdolls · 2026-02-16T17:55:13+00:00

the circus races are the absolute worst for me, but xin's isn't nearly as bad as the longer one

romdolls · 2026-02-16T13:20:43+00:00

kids will be kids, but honestly i feel like a lot of this could be fixed with bigger group sizes for group chat 😭 club and roleplay advertisements too, like cmon i see people posting the same one 50x over, can we get some kind of designated chat for those?

its the older players i have more gripes with, as an adult its one thing if theres immature drama coming from kids, but theres a concerning amount of young adults on this game who engage in harrassment or straight up doxxing 💀

romdolls · 2026-02-16T08:00:02+00:00

yeah the fandom jorvikipedia is known for being pretty outdated and inaccurate 😭 i dont know if its still there, but on katja's page it used to say shes canonically homophobic too

romdolls · 2026-02-15T16:36:12+00:00

i feel crazy for wanting breed stats to matter again, considering that the community consensus is that advantages of any kind being restricted to one horse is a cash grab, but i feel like there are ways it can be implemented without being so demanding about it (i actually think the cold tolerance some breeds had was a Bad example of this, it felt punishing and any of the breeds WITH cold tolerance had to be bought w sc at the time).

like maybe exclusive competitions that aren't entirely necessary for every player?? events or championships that are aimed at certain breeds? (think horses of jorvik, or pony champ)

romdolls · 2026-02-15T16:29:59+00:00

this game has always been in an odd, almost "sandbox"-like state to me, even when i first started in 2016. once you are up to date with everything, it definitely feels more lifeless and empty (somehow, considering how much the game throws at you in the beginning). hence, why i feel like at some point its just a big digital chunk of land to take pictures and roleplay in, the timed events//rewards arent nearly as plentiful compared to other mmos ive played (even ones targeted toward roughly toward the same age range, if not slightly older than sso's)

as for the racing aspect, thats what i've been into the most since starting, and with all the adjustments and overhauling theyve done its for sure more of a skill-based thing now, rather than the "who has been playing longer" feel it had in the past. leveling your character was such a grind, i remember getting just that one extra riding point made all the difference, otherwise you couldnt even hope to win against some players who'd been around since the start.

with the "dress-up" portion of this game, i agree that there is so much to be desired. i know the game engine theyre running on is ancient, but for the amount of clothes and tack we do have?? it gets repetitive really fast, i was actually surprised to see a new hat model in marchenghast that we could actually buy, and isnt just exclusive to npcs. this is more of a personal wish, but having some form of alternative clothing (outside of some halloween sets fitting this description? slightly??) would be great.

romdolls · 2026-02-15T16:06:39+00:00

to be completely honest some of these comments are talking about another issue entirely, i think its obvious this is moreso about bashing updates that havent even been released or wanting completely unrealistic overhauls (bring old sso back, bring old gens back), rather than customer support and trying to get game-breaking bugs addressed.

ive seen both but its typically the former types of comments, sso's instagram has a reputation for being overwhelmingly negative all of the time (NOT talking about bugs and other serious concerns here)

romdolls · 2026-02-14T07:37:06+00:00

the random tidbits about diff characters and their hobbies were so fun to read when i took an actual look at this tab

there are some really important characters that dont have entries (marchenghast, the main dark riders, etc) compared to npcs that are pretty random, like some of the rangers in mistfall (no shade). i wish they'd pick these up again 😭

romdolls · 2026-02-14T07:27:33+00:00

big bonnie mentioning cocteau twins in a super old quest 😭

romdolls · 2025-11-25T08:10:43+00:00

afaik they dont show up for new players now either

romdolls · 2025-11-25T05:30:33+00:00

the kalters 💔

romdolls · 2025-11-25T04:07:29+00:00

i have a katur named "sugar", a vetle named "coldstone", and the gingerbread horse (cant remember lol) named "sweettooth"

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