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Star Stable (Video Game)

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Star Stable is an MMO horse game and the sequel to the Starshine Legacy games. First released in 2005 by Star Stable Entertainment and playable here, the player creates a starter horse and rider to begin with, though many other horses are available in-game.The player character is introduced as having come to the fictitious island of Jorvik, famous for its love of and close connection with horses and the equestrian arts, for a summer. However, what is supposed to be a summer of fun and horses quickly goes awry when a greedy construction company, GED, threatens to tear down the local stable. After stepping up to help drive off the developers, the player is drawn into a series of horse-related adventures, from riding in races and mucking out stables to stopping corporate greed from destroying the island's wonders.The Soul Riders series of novels, written by Helena Dahlgren, is set in the Star Stable universe.
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Run, Don't Walk
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Run, Don't Walk: Controlling the player character when dismounted is far more awkward than one would expect. While you can switch between a walk and a run, you'll have to run to get anywhere in a timely manner. Averted with your horse, however. When you ask your horse to move forward, you'll first go at a walk, then a trot, then a canter, then a collected gallop, then a full-out run with each successive press of W. If you don't continually encourage your horse, it will slow down until it completely stops after a few minutes.
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Abandoned Area
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Abandoned Area: There's an abandoned farm not far from the starting stables. It's not creepy or anything; it's just...kinda dull. There are several GED construction sites that become this once you succeed in putting a stop to their illegal activities as well. Knowing that your actions helped stop those machines and forced the workers to clear out is very satisfying.
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Automaton Horses
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Automaton Horses: Your horse will continue going at whatever speed you ask until you manually slow them down (or run into something).
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Regenerating Health
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Regenerating Health: If you or your horse take damage, you need only wait a few seconds for your health meter to return to full. Really, the only way you're going to need a doctor/vet is if you intentionally smash yourself into walls repeatedly, and even then, you've got to try really hard to both get up to speed and find that next wall before your health is full again.
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Alpha Bitch
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One of the first people you meet is Loretta, the leader of the local riding club and resident Alpha Bitch—though she turns out to have her good qualities once you get to know her.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The head of the local construction company is hardly concerned with things like who really owns the local stables; he'll find one way or another to get his hands on it and bulldoze it to the ground. He tries to pull this again after you make it clear the stables are off-limits—this time, by drilling for oil with stolen equipment. No points for guessing how that turns out for him.
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Ascended Glitch
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Ascended Glitch: Some players found a bug that would make it appear as though they were playing in a non-existent first-person mode. The glitch become so popular that the developers added the ability to shift the game's POV field.
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Endless Winter
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Endless Winter: The Valley of the Dinosaur is perpetually freezing and snowed over, with a rather thick mist to boot.
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Horse Jump
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Horse Jump: Naturally.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Apparently, you don't want to know the fate that awaits construction grunts if they disappoint the head of the company...
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Rearing Horse
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Rearing Horse: If you press X to stop your horse really fast, it will rear. This is never treated as a training problem as it would be in real life. Your horse may also rear if you run into things, but this is slightly more understandable.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: The local construction company are complete jerks, dishonest to the core about everything except for the fact that they enjoy exploiting nature. Yes, you're supposed to hate them. The quest named "An Unpleasant Task" is really just you tying demolition marking tape around trees in exchange for a bulldozer to clear out a path blocked by rubble.
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Bribing Your Way to Victory
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Bribing Your Way to Victory: If you don't want to earn the shillings for the fancy bridle that makes your horse turn faster, you can just cough up some real-world dough and buy it with no work at all.
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All Girls Like Ponies: Kinda runs on the assumption, as you don't have a gender option (you have to play as a female).
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Stealth-Based Mission
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Stealth-Based Mission: One of your first objectives is to sneak around and disrupt the GPS surveying equipment so you'll have more time to prove that the stable should not be razed. You can sneak on your horse; the guards are idiots. Some later missions are less forgiving, but you still have to mess up pretty badly to get caught.
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Anti Poop-Socking
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Anti Poop-Socking: Certain missions require you to wait until the next real-life day. If you wish, you can sleep in-game to progress to the next day (using real-money currency, of course), making it an unenforced version of the trope.
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Luke Nounverber
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Luke Noun Verber: Enforced. Players must select a name from a set of predetermined (albeit quite extensive) lists. And choose carefully—once you decide on a name, you can't change it.
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Pony Tale
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Pony Tale: Obvious simply from the game's name. Almost everything on Jorvik involves or revolves around horses, and local legends say that the horses who live there have an unusually strong bond with the human residents. One of the first people you meet is Loretta, the leader of the local riding club and resident Alpha Bitch—though she turns out to have her good qualities once you get to know her. Justin Moorland plays the role of the loyal best friend, at least until he's kidnapped by the forces of darkness. He gets rescued later on.
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Most Gamers Are Male
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Most Gamers Are Male: Inverted. The game is targeted towards girls, and female is the only gender option for your avatar. (Though more recent updates have had NPCs refer to the player character with they/them pronouns.)
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Character Customization
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Character Customization: You can select the look of both your horse and rider. There's also a great deal of freedom to change your look up later—just head to the right shop in-game and you can buy a new makeup palette and hairstyle. Or use the corkboard in your stable to change the appearance of your character and your horse. The first makeover is free, but you have to pay with real-money currency for future attempts.
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Art Shift: Starting in late 2018, the developers implemented a massive overhaul of the game's graphics, updating old areas and adding many new touches that wouldn't have been feasible when the game was first released.
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Headless Horseman: Galloper Thompson, an NPC who appears at the Halloween event every year.
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Allegedly Free Game: You can putter around in the starting region for free, but to actually finish the plot, create a club, or explore the entire map, you'll have to pony up some real money.
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White Stallion
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White Stallion: Loretta has one. You can have one, too, if you like.
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In-Universe Game Clock
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In-Universe Game Clock: The game has a day-night cycle that runs on the server's internal clock. Playing when the server thinks it's night can get annoying. A later update allows the player to change the in-game time via a slider in the settings menu, allowing you to change the game time irrespective of the real-life time.
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Cool Horse
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Cool Horse: Of course.
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Revenue-Enhancing Devices
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Revenue-Enhancing Devices: In addition to needing to pay to complete the plot, there are certain costumes, saddles, etc. which can only be bought with real-money currency. These may do something fancy, or they may just be a Cosmetic Award. Additionally, all horses can only be purchased with real-money currency, though paying subscribers get a weekly allowance of 100 Star Coins every Saturday.
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Forest of Perpetual Autumn
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Forest of Perpetual Autumn: The Goldenhills Valley area.
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Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying: Zig-zagged. While Automaton Horses is played completely straight, players need to feed and groom their horses daily—or pay to have it done for them—or suffer consequences in the form of sad-faces and debuffs. Horses start with low stats and must be trained and leveled up by participating in races and competitions. Many elements of proper horse care, such as shoeing and cleaning out stables, are referenced. In addition, the developers have gone out of their way to make the horses look and move realistically, even going so far as to give different breeds bonuses to different stats based on the real-life breed's strengths.
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Horseback Heroism
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Horseback Heroism: A couple of quests have you rescuing people.
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Fictional Currency
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Additionally, all horses can only be purchased with real-money currency, though paying subscribers get a weekly allowance of 100 Star Coins every Saturday.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Mr. Kembell, head of the local construction company. Ms. Drake also counts, as she takes genuine delight in ruining the lives of everyone around her, including her employees.
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Death by Childbirth
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Death by Childbirth: Justin's mother died giving birth to him. His grandfather hates him and his father both for killing his daughter, despite the fact that it was entirely out of their hands and they both miss her, too. The tutorial questline has you attempt to reconcile the family in order to save their beloved stable from greedy developers.
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Who Forgot The Lights?
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Who Forgot The Lights?: Playing at night is not advised simply because you can't see anything and you're likely to run head-first into a fence. Possibly intentional, since the target audience is teen and preteen girls who probably have to wake up early for school and so shouldn't play late at night anyway.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet The Horse is on full display here; even characters who don't like the player character personally will still care about horses. If they hate horses, they're probably a villain.
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