#valentine's letters sso

[markets]

omfgggg so tthe other day i brought enough money to school to buy valentines grams for 8 of my friends But i was 50 cents short for one friend so i was lke "oh idr if he got me one sso ill just get some for all these other friends and then borrow money for his later" but i didnt have time to borrow the money bc i wass one of the people selling the grams and by the time i remembered my shift was over and iit was the last shift ever so i couldnt buy it. AND THEN I GOT MY GRAMS AND HE WROTE ME THE SWEETEST LETTER EVERR TALKING ABOUT HOW HE LOVES AND APPRECIATES ME HE EVEN DREW A BREAKING BAD DRAWNG ON IT😭 and then he was like "oh i didnt get your gram" bc i guess i had told him i was getting one or ssomething so i lied and was like "omg whattt thats crazy they must have lost it😅" and today i went up to him and was like "here to make it up to you" and gave him a hersheys kisss bc thats what they put in the grams and he was like "no its ok you dont have to make it up to me!! its not your fault it got lost, you wrote it and thats what counts :)" BITCH NO I DID NOTTTT THAT IS THE PROBLEM😭He is so nice we need to bring back the war and the draft so he can be lesss nice. i feell rllly bad but his birtthday is coming up and like last week i decided id write him a rlly nice letter so that iis what ill do and we will be even

[flamephoenix94]

Valentine Letters 2019 - SSO

Hey everyone! :D

After last years event, in this year there were some new letters with new locations and characters. There are 12 letters all in all and down I show where I found them (with its addresse) If you’re interested last years letter you can find it HERE! :3

1. 

Baroness

2. 

Tan

3. 

Polly(Pony Race)

4. 

Captian Brus

5. 

Pi witch

6.

Ancient Tree

7.

 Ms. Drake

8. 

Thalia

9. 

Alonso

10. 

Sigry

11. 

Iris

12. 

Rin(Purple Pony)

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Valentine Tack 2019:

I hope it helped you a bit! ^^

[socksonvideo]

alright so ??? apparently my posts aren’t showing up on my sso sideblog so i guess im gonna have to do it from here until then ??

anyway. horse care update doesn’t affect me since i already just.....have stable care. but im sure its nice ??? for people who do it manually.

also I honestly could Care Less about the valentines update because 1. i never have anyone to race with anyway 2. i have social anxiety and 3. the outfits are always pretty ugly

i only.....ever liked the event because of those letters you had to find and deliver.....i liked the messages

also pandoria. poggers. i will never be going in there because i have 0 reason to but cool !! if you ever wanted to take photos there with any other horse

[ginnyzero]

Completely Harmless Appendix 7

Appendix: Rainbow Week

1.     Rainbow Week/Luck Day/Valentine’s/JoJo Siwa/Red String Trail Ride

Holidays, in my opinions, should be events. My favorite thing the first time I played in Star Stable was around Christmas and we had all these Christmas Quests to decorate the county. Then they took that out and it was blah. So, I wanted to bring that Christmas style feeling back where you’re going around and decorating the county or your area of the county and then you have stuff to do during the actual festival.

You can do holidays one of three ways, you do it like Christmas where there’s a set thing every year. Or you can it so that the holiday has progressive story, so each time it comes around (say Fashion Week) a little more of the story is unlocked and you can only do new story if you’ve progressed through the old. That way you don’t have NPCs talking about current story lines when the new players haven’t gotten that far in the story.

Or, you work your plot into the holidays. And then as the plot progresses, you’ll have more holidays as the years of your plot move forward. However, this requires that you have all of your story and map completed before launching the game. I chose number three for the story because it was convenient writing wise. (For Mystic Riders we go with option one.)

To Rainbow Week in particular, Rainbow Week was something they introduced in 2019 to “replace” the Fortuna Festival, which they only did one or two years. It was supposed to be celebrating friendship? Basically, what happened, was the rainbows crashed and that’s about it. (I am not touching Mica. Nope. Nope.) They might have had the parade with the Bobcats. But there weren’t any quests anymore. The quests were all about setting up the parade route, decorating, and helping Tan make the outfits. Which were cool in a way except the Bobcats were foisting their duties on you because of nails. Maybe they took them out because they’re trying to change the Bobcats story image? I dunno. We older players know the truth.

And then there is Valentine’s Day which also celebrates friendship and love where they have the group race. There used to be quests about making teddy bears and a chocolate and berry cake. Then you had the letters with Derek. They removed those and that was sad. So I put them back in. 

Then there is the Red String Trail Ride which you do in the “spring” and celebrates Friendship. Which was a trail ride with some random events programmed into it. It appropriates (yes, appropriates) the Chinese story about the red string that connects people’s hearts. I’m not really a fan of appropriation. It’s in the game. I can’t really do anything about it.

Lastly, they had Jojo Siwa in the game as a licensing gimmick. She likes rainbows and sings about friendship. They had you find bows in Moorland in order to trade them in for items. I expanded this across the entire county and then also had the player hand out bows in order to spread the news of friendship and love and Jojo Siwa to people in the district so they’d come watch Jojo. (Something that SSO didn’t do.)

I mashed all of these together because they share the same theme to make Rainbow Week more exciting. This meant adding in more musicians and having fun treats, and being able to make crafts for the housing we don’t have yet. (I guess it’s going to come sometime in the next decade.) Fortuna Festival gave clues that these holidays are Club led so that’s why I ran with the clubs doing the festivities. And having things like special crafts, charms for a friendship bracelet and the selfie walls would encourage everyone to travel all over the county to collect things. Plus having things like the treasure hunt and of course, Chaun and his rainbow spices things up.

Instead of having Chaun give random items, I instead gave him a shop so that everyone can get the items they want. The other idea could be to use the same mechanic as the big pumpkins and the goats, and have a lottery system. But I really do prefer shops more.

Brogan is my own invention. (As is Fill-E, the all girl j-pop band.) His game mechanics would be similar to having Spirit in the game. He shows up somewhere in the area after the rainbow crashes and you catch him and he’ll give you a task. That task rewards you with rainbow gold and reputation points until you reach admired with Brogan. Once you reach admired, you can take him to a Chaun and he’ll open a shop for you to exchange your rainbow gold for items with Brogan. His items will be different than Chauns.

And of course, once the decorations go up, they have to come down.

I also included an Art Show for Fort Pinta and a Flea Market for Firgrove. (The Farmer’s Market would continue as usual except it’d be decorated. Same for the Horse Market.) These two areas could have arts and crafts that are rainbow themed and available for the player to purchase again for home decoration or jewelry or clothes, etc and so forth. There could also be special rainbow themed makeup going on at the salons. There could be shops featuring rainbow themed clothes, but they aren’t paying me that much to do that for free.

FOR THE ACCOMPANYING IMAGES PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE MY WATERMARK AND CONTACT INFORMATION. THANK YOU. I get it. Some of you might get excited and want to see this stuff in the game, especially the clothes, tack, and pets. However, the only way I want to see this in the game is if I get paid for it. If I see it in the game and I’m not paid for it, there will be hell to pay. You think I’m salty. I’d be angry. Personally, I’m not going to send this info to SSO. If you do, leave my contact information there! Don’t give them any excuses to steal.

Now, I’ll know you haven’t read this note if you leave me comments about how ‘salty’ I am about the game and if I hate it so much I should do something else. I am doing something else. It’s called Mystic Riders MMORPG Project. Mystic Riders however is a very baby phase game. You can check out our plans on the game dev blog. (Skills, Factions, Professions, Crafting, Mini-Games, 25+ horse breeds!) If you know anyone who would be interested and has money or contacts about game making, direct them to the blog.