#star stable breeding

[nowincognito]

Hi! My name is Lotta, I'm working as the Lead Character/Creature artist at SSE.

A little while ago our game director Stacy Place made the announcement that we will start looking into breeding for SSO. In an interview she also mentioned a shader which will make it all possible.

I am the creator of this shader and currently I am one of the persons driving the development of  bringing breeding into SSO and trying to make it a reality.

Up till now I thought this was one of the highest requested features, hence my surprise when I saw the large number of negative comments and concerns you, the players, rose.

One of the biggest concerns I've seen is the gambling aspect. When I told Stacy, our game director, I had an idea of how to solve the coats for a breeding system the first thing she told me was "If we do this, we need to do it in a way so there's no gambling". We are still very early in development and have only started to look at the technical possibilities. Whatever this project turns into I can assure you, we will never make you to pay for any unwanted random generated horses. 

Another concern I've seen is that this would be an act of greed on our behalf. I just want to assure you I’m not driven by greed but passion for horse breeding. Right now, we are limited to 7 coats for each breed, and I would like to change that. I would like everyone to be able to ride their favorite breed with their favorite coat. I also want to develop a fun, engaging and educational breeding system (I think the science behind genes is quite fascinating), and I want to make our horses much more diverse and unique from each other just like horses are in real life.

I would like to understand your concerns properly so I can bring it with me into the development, I have been looking into all conversations about the topic I've found and I’m trying to understand, Now I would like to hear it straight from you.

Please share your opinions and feedback with me <3

-What would you like SSO breeding to be?

-Based on your experiences from other games including breeding, what would you like us to avoid?

 (Please bear in mind that these images are a work in progress and not the final product, they do not have the same level of polish as our regular coats yet.)

Kind regards

Lotta

[mmhberry]

me trying to convince people on that official horse breed google form by SSE to vote for mules and the black forest horse

[jorvik-fashion]

Dead Serious Dressage Outfit

This entire outfit + Pumpkin pet could be obtained by feeding the couldron in Galloper's Keep 2024.

Important note: there is a bug that made it impossible to get the legwraps if the player had 'Designer Horseshoes' in thier inventory or wardrobe. To fix this the player can put the horseshoes on horses they don't currently used or sell the horseshoes. And then relogging and retry feeding the cauldron again.

[katjadarkrider]

A wild Savaasi

[katjaluvr]

why are they removing gen2 breeds???????????????? what is the point??,?,,???

[horsegamergirl]

I'm actually seriously starting to like the Selle Français

Like I didn't care about the horse but something about the face just.... It looks really cute

[tearlessrain]

brain is slippery today so I decided to actually type it out to see exactly how many letters I could think of a horse breed for off the top of my head (as per the poll from this morning) and turns out the answer is all but four which I'm proud of

arabian barb camargue dolehest exmoor pony falabella g listen I can technically think of one but I'm not saying it. halflinger icelandic horse j kladruber lusitano morgan north swedish horse oldenburg percheron quarter horse rocky mountain horse saddlebred tennessee walking horse u ……nicorn? (I've got nothing) v welsh cob x yakutian horse zorse (poll said hybrids are allowed I know there are actual breeds that start with z but I can't remember them)

[lukas-crowsong]

she is eating you

you are eaten

[foggyfjord]

you know what. when are we getting mules

[adelaideoldburg]

American Paint Horse

Built for versatility, the American Paint Horse is generally short-coupled, strong-boned and well balanced. The Paint Horse's colorful coat pattern defines the breed.

Alien aka Blue Blood (alt)

Mare - Youngster - Dapple Grey Tobiano

Bijou aka Gemstone

Mare - Adult - Flaxen Chestnut Tobiano

Clarice aka Lively

Mare - Adult - Bay Tobiano

Ego aka MaskedDancer

Stallion - Youngster - Grullo Tobiano

Firefly

Mare - Adult - Chestnut Overo

Froyo aka ChocolateVanilla

Mare - Youngster - Dark Bay Tobiano

Funfetti aka VanillaCake

Mare - Adult - Palomino Tobiano

Lavender aka Lavenderly

Mare - Youngster - Black Tobiano

Marmalade aka SoulSister

Mare - Adult - Buckskin Tobiano

Muse aka LoveLive

Mare - Adult - Chestnut Medicine Hat

The difficult thing with stock breeds is that they tend to look really beefed up and weird irl, and that can sometimes be an issue for my own personal taste. However, this breed is gorgeous and is very versatile. Every coat option is gorgeous and the gaits are very smooth feeling, I particularly love the trot and slow canter.

8.5/10

[thecedarchronicle]

i've been curious about this for awhile, so..

the nonsense words one i dont really know how to explain. i did it a lot when they first expanded the name list (i have a percheron named Diverow and my birthday jwh is named Teao. like yes you can tell they're prefixes and suffixes but it's good enough for me) because if SSE isn't going to let me spell my cool names i WILL cut-out poetry my way into a unique name like i'm a white mom in utah desperate for those facebook post name reveal interactions

"more than one" would be if you do them all equally. if you find yourself leaning more towards another option, even just by a little bit, choose that one! or even if you do more than one but you have a specific favorite

obligatory reblog, and add in your favorite horse name/a name you're proud of or really happy with i wanna hearr :D

[heretic-altias]

The two brands of modern star stable horse: Regal show horse and scruffy little guy.

Add in a big draft boy and you have pretty much all three brands of horse SSO makes as a whole lol.

Might as well ask while I'm here:

[jorvik-fashion]

[katjadarkrider]

Elf, an ekki Faernhal stallion

[blacksheep28]

Sabine's Decorations

Lovely evil Sabine, Dark Rider of the horse Khaan, let loose pigs on the Equine Festival.

The Sunfield pigs are in fact lovely creatures, and not great beasts, which means they are in fact terrified of being lost, and are creating a racket, instead of being methodical beasts of destruction set on eating their way through everything.

I round them up, and Sabine has the gall to ask if I would meet with her.

I am not without sin, I am too curious for my own good. I have to admit I am intrigued by how confidently she comes up to me to ask for a talk right after the little mess she caused. No sign of guilt on her at all!

She tells me that she's angry because she's been banned from competing in any of the Equine Festival events. She honestly seems to have no clue why she would be banned from competing, claiming she's the best. As if she hasn't just proven that she can't resist causing possible harm to others at the festival. As if she actually thinks people believe she wouldn't sabotage someone if she saw them as a threat.

She tells me her "great scheme" to get them to change their mind: put up some decorations so people see her participating and take it as enough of a change of mind to allow her in.

This seems harmless enough, so I'm willing to go along with it. I am definitely curious what Sabine thinks would be suitable decorations, considering how very clear she's made her disdain for the very festival she's so desperate to compete in clear.

Of course it's not that simple. Sabine got fireworks. Drakonium fueled fireworks.

Now I love fireworks as much as the next person. I would love to set them off.

But drakonium is notoriously unstable and highly reactive. Sabine isn't exactly an expert on fireworks either. She could very easily kill someone, or burn down the entire festival with theseSabine of course doesn't see a problem with this, claiming that it's just a matter of training to keep horses under control.

Everyone knows that horses are spook beasts, they spook at their own shadows. Horses brought to the Equine Festival are a lot better trained than most, but that doesn't mean that having a stray firework go off in the middle of the festival would result in calm. I wouldn't trust people to be calm if an explosion went off beside them, let alone a horse!

And she honestly seems to believe the fact that Khaan only responds to her commands is a result of her training, and not because the horse has been blinded and deafened to the world outside of her existence. I don't know who's more blind, horse or rider, for Sabine to believe such a thing.

Either way I'm off with the fireworks. I'm not letting her get horses possibly killed because she's being petty about people acknowledging her as a danger to the festival.

Sabine of course has a whole speech up her sleeve, about how I'm "dancing on the edge of the dark" and "keeping what I do secret from my friends". How I'm being a hypocrite.

She doesn't seem to recognize that part of being good is giving others, even ones you suspect of being bad, a chance. I mean, admittedly this had more to do with my curiosity than honestly trusting Sabine to not be stupid about the decorations, but it certainly wasn't "dancing with the dark" or "keeping shameful secrets".

Does she think that I cannot enjoy a race beside her and also dislike the danger she brings? Does she think she is the only one allowed complexities?

We are caught in a stalemate where neither side can gain over the other, and it is better to have peace between our sides than to continually push until we find something more effective. I don't want to be the one to cause the card castle to fall because I pushed too much.

And perhaps if Sabine has moments of fun where she isn't being an active threat to everything around her, Sabine will be less willing to cause damage.

A pipe dream, I know, but one can hope.

I would love to see Khaan when he has clear eyes one day.

[roguemonsterfucker]

a horse game appropriating and misusing Native American culture for The Aesthetic? It's more likely than you think.