Barbedwire Jaguar (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} acierocolotl) wrote,@ 2008-03-09 08:51:00 |
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The Exciting PONYSTARS conclusion
This is a bit longer. It is likely to cause you pain. Generous and thoughtful that I am, I shield you with this cut.
Early on, for reasons which defy me, the dingdang ole faeries decided to give me another pony, so I have a stable of two now. Behold the glorious stable:
Escherichia Coli is the offspring from those puke-a-riffic things made earlier. Bacillis Subtilis was the one they gave me, and oh-so-very special with the goddamn unicorn horn and zebra stripes and such. Boooo. But it is also old enough to breed, and it's possible to whore out your stallions for profit. (I checked, nobody's done it yet.)
Anyway, a good portion of the game is daily upkeep, as detailed below:
This entails clicking on the three links (feeding, brushing, hoof-cleaning) and ensuring that there's enough stock of same. It's quite exciting, boy howdy. Training has the potential to hurt a pony, as does insufficient feed or care, though the things can never die. Results of your feeding, etc., get relayed in that little box. We're really at door game levels of technology, as you can see.
The other central part of the game is this Grasslands Adventure dealie. Check it out!
As I hadn't assigned a pony yet, no moves are showing. You normally get only three moves a day, so it takes a couple days to move across the pitch. Here's after a few moves later:
In short, I've hit every major thing in that area during my short stint at beta, and I can't do anything with any of them. My pony is insufficiently leet to interact with the little pony quests (by the way, I'm the white square on that map, those other little ponies are just quest givers). Also, note that the map doesn't scroll or do anything awesome, there's no animation of any sort either. That's it.
Frustrated at your lack of moves? That's okay! Check out the marketplace:
You can buy moves! 100 moves for a mere ten dollars! What a steal! (As opposed to the three daily?) And apart from basic food and care, everything else in the game costs real money. What sorts of things? Here's a sample:
Little dainty hearts for the hooves, lazor-shades, stripeties, you name it. Little graphic gewgaws to make your ponies all the more pretty. Hoo.
That's much of the game there. There are a few small things with investing in farmlands to grow foodcrops for your beasts on the cheap instead of buying the feed straight up, and so forth, but there's relatively little else you haven't seen. Truly you should be feeling blown away by the technical intricacies of this game. If not that, then the various, splendid bugs; bugs I'd be reporting if they told me how or where.
I hope your experience was almost as trippy as mine.
This is a bit longer. It is likely to cause you pain. Generous and thoughtful that I am, I shield you with this cut.
Early on, for reasons which defy me, the dingdang ole faeries decided to give me another pony, so I have a stable of two now. Behold the glorious stable:
Escherichia Coli is the offspring from those puke-a-riffic things made earlier. Bacillis Subtilis was the one they gave me, and oh-so-very special with the goddamn unicorn horn and zebra stripes and such. Boooo. But it is also old enough to breed, and it's possible to whore out your stallions for profit. (I checked, nobody's done it yet.)
Anyway, a good portion of the game is daily upkeep, as detailed below:
This entails clicking on the three links (feeding, brushing, hoof-cleaning) and ensuring that there's enough stock of same. It's quite exciting, boy howdy. Training has the potential to hurt a pony, as does insufficient feed or care, though the things can never die. Results of your feeding, etc., get relayed in that little box. We're really at door game levels of technology, as you can see.
The other central part of the game is this Grasslands Adventure dealie. Check it out!
As I hadn't assigned a pony yet, no moves are showing. You normally get only three moves a day, so it takes a couple days to move across the pitch. Here's after a few moves later:
In short, I've hit every major thing in that area during my short stint at beta, and I can't do anything with any of them. My pony is insufficiently leet to interact with the little pony quests (by the way, I'm the white square on that map, those other little ponies are just quest givers). Also, note that the map doesn't scroll or do anything awesome, there's no animation of any sort either. That's it.
Frustrated at your lack of moves? That's okay! Check out the marketplace:
You can buy moves! 100 moves for a mere ten dollars! What a steal! (As opposed to the three daily?) And apart from basic food and care, everything else in the game costs real money. What sorts of things? Here's a sample:
Little dainty hearts for the hooves, lazor-shades, stripeties, you name it. Little graphic gewgaws to make your ponies all the more pretty. Hoo.
That's much of the game there. There are a few small things with investing in farmlands to grow foodcrops for your beasts on the cheap instead of buying the feed straight up, and so forth, but there's relatively little else you haven't seen. Truly you should be feeling blown away by the technical intricacies of this game. If not that, then the various, splendid bugs; bugs I'd be reporting if they told me how or where.
I hope your experience was almost as trippy as mine.
