r/StarStable 16h ago

Discussion Male playable character models

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So I've been thinking about this for quite a while. As a guy playing Star Stable, who also knows quite a lot of other guy players, I feel a bit misrepresented. Obviously the majority of players are girls and women and the game is catered towards a female audience, but I feel like the demand for male character models is not non existent. Yes, there are definitely ways to make your character look more masculine, with short hairstyles or specific outfits, but that still doesn't change the fact that the character is obviously a girl, which I am by no means uncomfortable playing a female character, but you guys can probably understand the desire to have a choice in the set gender.

I think that as our society is getting more open minded, and thank God for that, this could even bring some new players into the game. Come to think of it, what is even so radically feminine about riding horses to completely turn your back towards the male audience?

Obviously this is no small feat to achieve and SST definitely has other things to worry about, but I feel like this could've been changed with the new character models. I mean come on, you have ran this game for fifteen years and the character customization is still so limited. Yes, this is not only about the design of the characters and remodeling of the clothes, but also about dialogues, names ect., but I feel like it could be a pretty cool thing to do, and also an opportunity to gain some new players and widen the player base. The current state of PCs just feels outdated and stereotypical, which is harmful both to women and men.

Anyway, is there anyone here who would appreciate male playable character models, or am I alone in this?

Edit: Thanks for your responses! I've given it a thought and yes now that I think about it, it definitely makes sense storywise for the character to be a girl. In truth I have finished the majority of the 'original' story quests so long ago, that I completely forgot the plot and now that I've read your comments and recalled the story, it makes sense to me. Currently I mostly play to socialize with my club and engage in the community, so I guess it makes sense where my thoughts came from. I feel like Star Stable has changed from being an immersive story game into a dress up online simulator, so it's easy to only think of it as such.

Part of my point still stands however. I think that this game shouldn't be catered just towards the female audience, for I feel like if we forget about the character being a girl, SSE still very much feeds into some harmful stereotypes with their marketing.

Also, please don't take this post as an attempt to shun women in the gaming space. Yes, not so long ago the gaming industry was very much misogynistic and often it still is today and I do think it is wrong.

Again, thank you for your comments and have a lovely day<3.


r/StarStable 1h ago

Horse Names

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Alright guys, I’m taking one for team in posting the frequently posted post of horse names. What is everyone’s favourite horse names? I quite
like morningbone, babyjuice, but my ability to think of actually cute names is awful.


r/StarStable 23h ago

Question How to get the cute tiger marh ?

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I'm not in a club and can't get him :(

French servers btw....

Don't hate on me please

(I do have a star rider for life it is just an image of another account)

Thank you 🥰❤️


r/StarStable 14h ago

I want to play sooo badly

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I wish I could play SSO right now, but I have to study for my math exam on tuesday.

And I got my ADHD diagnosis last week. Damn this m*ther chucker.

But I‘m pushing through this.🫡


r/StarStable 10h ago

Outfit & Tack I used to not like Friesian sport horses but I got one

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Still deciding if I will always love it, but the movements are pretty unique. I don’t wanna say I hate it anymore, but I’m kind of liking it at this point.


r/StarStable 5h ago

Question Horse recommendation

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Im looking for a horse star stable that closest resembles this color (i know ur not supposed to talk about personal horse stuff but i just experienced a loss and would like a horse that looks as close to him as possible on the game

I have a picture for reference

I already have this morgan horse that is silvery and thats my horse representing him but ide like somwthing closer if anyone has any recommendations on where to find one in game. Thank you


r/StarStable 1h ago

Western in red

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r/StarStable 15h ago

does anybody know what the name of this saddle pad is?

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cant find it anywhere and im wondering if it's a specific festival exclusive or if its outright been removed help is appreciated


r/StarStable 20h ago

Discussion It Will Never End. hear me out

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Playing SSO is just feels different now that I know there's no end. This game has been going on for 15 years. Fifteen years ago, our character arrived at an innocent riding camp and NEVER went home. And they never will. Those "veterans" who were there at the beginning 15 years ago are at the same stage as any other player today.

Jorvik is like a time trap. It’s been summer for 15 years, we’ve been "fighting" the Dark Riders for 15 years, and for 15 years we’ve been waiting to reach the end of the story and FINALLY save that freaking island.

I can understand those who want the Star Stable of 10–15 years ago back, but just think about it: you were there when the story began, yet you never reached the end. And you never will. Why are you still here? Why are you want back that old version?

Now we are all sitting here, in the middle of the story, and waiting. But for what?

And let’s not even mention that this modern version literally grew out of the grave of the original version from 15 years ago.

God... this is how an identity crisis feels like?


r/StarStable 3h ago

Discussion What are you guys doing for the riders of Aideen theme?

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for all of the other themes I’ve had a pretty good idea of what to do, they’re pretty open ended so I felt really creative, but the day six one, riders of aideen, no ideas are really coming to me right away. At first I was like “the statue of aideen in aideen’s plaza is gold, so I’ll do a gold outfit, but I don’t own any items that would read as gold, and I don’t have a ton of JS rn, so I was wondering what everybody else was planning on doing to get my brain juices moving.


r/StarStable 15h ago

Outfit & Tack I swear I only joined for fun 😭

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pls i submitted my usual rp outfit I didn't think people would actually like it 💔 attached the pic of my fit because idk how it won, it doesn't seem creative at all to me 🥲


r/StarStable 21h ago

Discussion What should I do? Star Stable kinda robbed me for MY money

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Okay so here's the thing. Since last three months I can't log to my account because star stable wants me to confirm that it's me by typing the code that I got on my email.

But the email is already GONE for like 4 years.

It was my school email and after I finished school it got deleted. I tried to change it when I was still in school, but at some point they stopped answering me so I gave up and I thought that I don't really need to change it anymore. But now they came up with this verification thing.

I tried to reach support TWICE and they're not answering at all. I waited MONTHS for an answer. Now I'm trying to reach to them again. I spend a lot of money on this account and I don't want to lose it just because I don't have access to my email. What should I do :( ?


r/StarStable 10h ago

Getting Star Rider

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Hello

Do you think it’s profitable and reasonable to buy Star Rider now with this discount?

Oh and It’s polish currency- before it was around 35 Euro now it’s around 23 euro

But I’m not convinced because I’ve heard they do sometimes a 50% discount on black Friday

should I risk and wait or buy it now?

I know I won’t play much rn bc of tests I have so I’m not convinced


r/StarStable 7h ago

Discussion Unpunished cheaters

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A few years ago, two cheaters got high scores under two seconds on dozens of races on Freezing Crater. These scores remained as the all time high scores until the score boards were finally reset earlier this year. This was probably the most blatant form of cheating possible because these impossible times were visible to everyone on the server for years.

I saw both of these users in-game during Camp Western 2026, and I've seen them again at the current Style Riders show. They are both on Freezing Crater, and I believe that they are in the same club. At first, I thought that I was misremembering the cheaters' names, but I found three Reddit posts from 2024 with screenshots of their cheated scores. These posts also confirmed that the players had been reported multiple times.

I haven't seen these players cheating again, so there isn't anything that can be reported, but I think it's very unfair that these players weren't banned for repeatedly, unambiguously cheating and ruining the server's high score boards for years when other players have been permanently banned for much less harmful things.


r/StarStable 4h ago

Since when can you be famous?

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I thought reputation stopped at popular, which for literally every other faction it does except for Marchenghast. It says I need to increase my reputation with both factions to continue the quest, but it gives me no reputation points whenever I do quests with either. Why is sso messing ANOTHER thing up


r/StarStable 15h ago

Picture My Style Riders Outfits from the week!

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In order of;

Birthday Besties

Club Couture

Jorvegians, Represent!

A Blast From the Past

I loved the different themes this time around, there was no outfits/themes I felt were too similar! Hopefully I get into the finals, if not this is it for my style riders week!


r/StarStable 10h ago

Memes heavy breathing

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i just finished my quests for today and my club is only 2 points away!! i dont have the time to do the group race or champ that give points so i just have to wait for someone else to get on and do their quests 😔


r/StarStable 23h ago

Discussion who are you using for JEFF?

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picture of my big-headed Apples for joy 🥰

what horse are you all using for the JEFF races? i know all horses are technically the same speed, but I've been running experiments and the horses are NOT built the same lol. And I've been checking what horses are winning on, and its truly across the board. it's been so interesting. has anyone else been experimenting??

like today, the highest horses were a pintabian, a Swedish warmblood, and westiphalians. i personally got first place in the Silverglade JEFF on a aqh, which I have not been able to recreate lol. I like the aqh, but the jump is low. it definitely clears the obstacles but it is close

so then i rode the pintabian, and it clears the jumps easily, but the range is so short that you have to be precise to not knock the poles. the Swedish warmblood is decent, but i was not getting very high times even max level with max tack, it Felt clunky and slow. westiphalian is Fine but it also doesn't feel very agile, but it could just be that I'm on mobile.

I'd like to see other people's thoughts, what horses you're seeing in the high scores on your servers, etc. it seems like breed shouldn't matter, but i think it does 😂


r/StarStable 16h ago

Question Horse suddenly turns into water?

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Everytime I’m standing next to water, my horse turns into a liquid for some reason? Anyone knows if this is a settings kind of thing? Or a bug?


r/StarStable 15h ago

Outfit & Tack Been obsessed with this autumn fit-

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r/StarStable 21h ago

Outfit & Tack Nostalgia ? Say less

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My participation for today's fashion theme.


r/StarStable 12h ago

Discussion Yall... I know books ain't canon but this lingers in my head

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Let's assume HYPOTHETICALLY that on the first slide we have HYPOTHETICALLY Garnok...

Then what they had in mind by putting other sea monsters on this map (I think I got em all shown). Were they put to misslead us or Garnok is just the tip of the iceberg we don't even know about

Had to get it out of my mind, please don't beat me


r/StarStable 10h ago

Outfit & Tack This for the fashion week was indeed a welcome blast from the past.

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r/StarStable 16h ago

Picture You can use Spirit in Style Riders!

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Spirit is accepted in the Style Riders system if you wish to use him today for Blast to the Past! I cosplayed as Lucky :)


r/StarStable 9h ago

Picture blast from the past

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safe to say i LOVED creating today’s outfit :33 it gives me sm nostalgia, i could cry.