#starter horse

[treeoxide]

for @/d3stroia <3

[ponysprouts]

my sso starter!

[kit-catrock]

Horse and local stableboy who are best friends and tell each other stories in the barn

(Moorland 2023 colorized)

[o3-sso]

say goodbye to the old characters

[apples-stables]

Something I would change about SSO if i could...

So I'm not a huge fan of the whole "starter horse is your soulmate horse" the way it currently stands.

I was talking about it with my friend and I realized why I currently dislike it so much. It doesn't feel like fate at the moment

Right now, it feels like I was just, given a random horse to try and learn to do horse things with and then I had to buy it. We weren't like "fated" to meet, there was no bonding time first or anything, I didn't have any choice in the matter nor did it feel like the universe did either.

If I could, I would *love* to change up the start of SSO to be more something like this:

-you arrive in Moorland for summer camp (kinda like what Sindra talks about within your first like, levels on SSO). Justin greets you and has you start learning how to take care of the horses, how to ride one, etc, but its not the horse you customized at the start of it all

-as you go around doing your tasks, talking to the horses, Justin (or Maya) is like "Hey take a break and explore the town a bit" and as you do, when, say, you check out the beach, you find a horse that's maybe caught its hoof in a large tree root, or has a cut on it or is limping or something

-THIS horse is the horse you designed on the website

-No one knows who this horse belongs to. You help nurse it back to health. You bond with it and you end up getting to keep this horse (maybe you pay Thomas to write up paperwork for you or something)

But like THIS feels far more like fate to me. It'd be way more interesting, I would have felt SO much more bonded with my starter horse if something like this happened. As it stands, I'm level 18 and I only recently started feeling any sort of affection for my starter horse. I kinda hated them at first because there were so many other horses to chose from, this one was random and why would I want it.

Just my thought on things, I think theres so much magic and fate in this game they could've made it more interesting while still having a good tutorial. I would've been so sucked in and inclined to buy Star Rider much more to continue seeing what I could do with this horse I saved and now fell in love with.

[sso-ironfire]

Liv found the space between worlds oddly peaceful. It was a shame she had such limited time to visit. Dragonfly was happy to leave the floating rocks in exchange for solid ground.

[charlierainfordsso]

Everyone hush , Stargazer is busy being aesthetic .

[hajen14]

I’ve been working on a project to draw every ownable horse in Starstable since february this year, and though I’m not near done, I’ll post some of them anyway!

These are the starter horses 1/2