#sso upgrade

[starshinedragon]

SSO Upgrade Idea: WEATHER AND SEASONS

To improve the realism of the game and help a lot with immersion.

I. WEATHER -> New weather types: 1. Sunny (sunlight, basically what we have now) 2. Cloudy (shadows of the clouds moving on the ground) 3. Rainy (downpour and muddy roads, hoofprints) 4. Stormy (rain, wind, lightning and thunder) 5. Windy (tree canopies and horse's mane and tail moving) 6. Foggy (shorter distance you can see) 7. Snowfall (heavily snowing and cold) 8. Heatwave (mirages, rippling hot air, strong sunlight) ->Weather types by season:

-> The weather is written for each day separately, according to season. When you log in, you get a newspaper in your mailbox for the day, where you can see the forecast. -> The weather always applies to the season you turned on in each area. If you change it, the forecast in your newspaper will change. -> Dino valley basically gets back the cold effect: it will not be permanent, but only apply when the weather is snowing, which will basically be 80% of the time in Dino.

Effect on your horse: -> The Jorvik Warmblood starter is both Hot and Cold tolerant. -> All of the magic horses are immune to slowing effects. -> Neither the Starter or the Magic horses are immune to additional effects.

Slowing effects -> The two main slowing effects are "Hot" and "Freezing", if you don't use the appropriate horse, they won't do the fastest gallop. -> Winterdale and Summerplains basically don't have the weather effects, only if there is that specific weather happening (snowfall or heatwave). -> Heat tolerant horses are the southern breeds (like the Arabian). -> Cold tolerant horses are the northern breeds (like the Fjord).

2. Additional Effects: -> Heatwave: any horse you ride in heatwave weather for at least an hour will want to drink (loses the watered buff you get at daily care) -> Snowfall: if you ride a horse in snowfall it will become hungry (need to feed it, since it lost the fed buff. -> Rain: spend and hour in rain and you will need to brush your horse again. -> Storm: spend an hour in a storm and you need to pick your horse's hooves again.

II. SEASONS

-> Basic state: --Harvestlands basically looks like early autumn (except Goldenhills) --Winterdale and Dino valley like winter --Spring Valley and Jorcrater as spring --Summerplains as summer. -> The season will not have an effect on your horse (unlike the weather. -> Toggle on Seasons: --In the autumn you can turn on/off autumn environment in Spring Valley and Summervale. --In the winter you can turn on/off winter environment in Harvestlands, Spring Valley and Summervale. --In the spring you can turn on/off spring environment in Harvestlands and Summervale. --In the summer you can turn on/off summer environment in Spring Valley and Harvestlands. -> Winterdale and Dino valley can only be winter environment because magic reasons. -> Jorcrater can only be eternal spring because magic reasons. -> The Lone Star area is always a desert, but spring and winter can be applied. -> You can’t turn the darkness off above Pi’s swamp, Morrinweald and the Old Morass (magic). -> Ashland and Drakon Valley are always just dry with little to no plants.

[aryamistwood]

After all these years, home stable customization is coming soon™

[hikarry]

When and how was your first kiss?

Oof, it was a long time ago. 2016?

It was… well, let's just say it wasn't exactly the fairy-tale moment I had hoped for. It was shy, awkward, but it wasn't unpleasent. Not at all.

I've always watched my friends complain about how miserable their first kiss was and I've always been, ya know, pretty content with my end of the stick

[sso-maev]

Queer Dungeoneers may have ended three years ago and I may be alone in a dead fandom, but that will not stop episode 20 from rotating in my brain for years.

2022 and 2023 ver:

And progress pics:

[shiroselia]

Absolutely Everything about the Mustang release is fucking baffling to me

Why did it release After Camp Western finished, why is it releasing a week After a HoJ where it's The New Breed Trademark, like.

SSE weren't you in economical recession why the fuck are you doing everything in your power to fuck this horse release up

[corinne-eaglebridge-sso]

Kinda scared for next year now because I'm pretty sure my laptop doesn't have the necessary specs

[yoshimura110]

Pitaya cookie

First meeting

"Ssso...what we have here? A tiny cookie as I sssee, sso weakly tiny easily can turn into crumbsss, I wonder why Hollyberry cookie wants to keep you"

Your first meeting with him, the Pitaya cookie...i mean Pitaya dragon cookie,

Pitaya decided to make a visit to Hollyberry (or pick a fight) in her kingdom, where you, Y/n, was keep under protection of Hollyberry and Wildberry Cookie.

As lucky you are Pitaya saw you, as they got a look very close, they lost his interest at first...as everybody knows Pitaya is a strong dragon that likes a good fight, they doesn't likes weak cookies that they can turn them into pieces easily

They just decided to be playful or use you to make Hollyberry fight them

Friendship Level up

"Ssso boring here, thiss iss how you raise your children, Hollyberry cookie? Ssshall I train thisss one by myself then"

Pick you up and fly away "Don't worry I will bring them in one piece (with some crumbsss maybe)"

"PITAYA COOKIE!!!"

Pitaya cookie as I said earlier, hates weak cookies. But for some reason they start taking like and interest of you.

They sees some potential in you despite you are not from the world. They will bring you with them to raise you as their own cub and also will continue uses you as a threat to fish Hollyberry cookie.

Friendship level up!

"What'sss the matter little cookie, scared? Don't worry just remember what I taught you. It's time for you gave a step forward hehe" They said that to you while gave a death glare at the enemy front you

Well look likes the things got a little too far...Pitaya cookie continues as a playful dragon but at the same time they got more protective towards you...

They are like Wildberry, train you only for your survive in that world... and also they wants to see how far you can go... They will force you to fight monsters to upgrade your fights skills, but they will be there if is necessary to tear some monsters necks

They doesn't think to keep you locked down since they are a carefree dragon, but threat as their treasures sometimes

Try to ran away from them? You can try they will just count to 30 just to see how far you can go

Extra

Don't worry you will have some comfort and company (;

(Be Careful with this one)

[windforestsso]

What area do people want to be updated the most?

I think area wise there is all of the harvest contries (minus greendale) and south hoof peninsula. I dont think south hoof havent even gotten a texture upgrade like the rest of the map.

And as settlements that havent been upgraded yet there is Cape West, Silverglade Vineyard, Jarlaheim, Jorvik Stables, Cresent Moon Village, New Hillcrest Firgrove.

In my opinon I would love to see the acient tree + stone circle in south hoof to be updated. And the swamp north of hillcrest to be updated. Also Jarlaheim. But for now I think it works. Same for Firgrove village and new hillcrest are new enough to not needing an upgrade for awhile.

While Cape West Im worried for. I love it for what it is and with the look of it, it looks like SSO will completly reimagine areas when updating them. I dont want Cape west to change that much, just to have a texture upgrade.

[jorwik]

today is 10 years of my SSO account! this game has changed my whole life and i am completely serious. i used the computer and internet before, but joining star stable online was an upgrade, an introduction to playing and interacting with other people, an introduction to actually watching youtube (which shaped my humor and personality sooo much), an introduction to the social parts of the internet. a new world has opened to me in november of 2014 and i am so glad about it. can't imagine it any other way 🦄

[rowan-ravenlake]

not sure if I've posted about this before but I'm GONNA DO IT AGAIN

I wish sso would change the way you upgrade your stable. like maybe you CAN still pay it with star coins if you want (but for the love of god lower the pride 249 for two stalls is SO BAD) but maybe you can do like a week long questline with the carpenter guy instead if you want like how we used to upgrade the bridge to the harvest counties

[starshinedragon]

SSO Upgrade: Pandoria

New Pandorian maps and areas: 1. Temple Ruins (from SSL 3) 2. Rune Island (from SSL 4) 3. Crystal Peaks (where Anne was imprisoned) 4. Botanical Gardens (where the random portal leads)

-> You unlock maps of Pandoria, new characters and quests

Story: (SSO Rewritten)

-> At the end of the Winterdale Storyline, the Soul Riders managed to win back Pandoria and banish Garnok from there. A new reputation opens: Pandoria. We can access all of it again, but it is in ruins. Ydris kind of forgives the druids, since his world was saved, and begrudgingly agrees to help and direct the restoration of Pandoria. Ydris becomes the faction leader and sends MC and the Soul Riders to all kinds of quests.  

-> MC is summoned to the Secret Stone Circle. The Soul Riders, Ydris and some druids are waiting for you there and tell you that you are going to restore Pandoria and cleanse it from Garnok’s corruption. MC, Fripp, Ydris and Anne open and stabilize the Path of the Winds, the portal at the edge of the Circle, that now leads to the central part of Pandoria. The team rides through and you set up base in the main structure of Temple Ruins, a building similar to the ruins you saw in Starshine Legacy 3’s Pandoria.

-> For your first quests you are to secure that island. They ask you to help set up the base, cleanse Garnok’s (dark blue) corruption from the land and creatures. You explore the island and find three portal sites you have to activate. With Anne’s help MC opens the way to the other three islands. You report back to the druids and unlock the map of Pandoria.  

-> You are sent exploring a new Pandoria. In the Harvestlands storyline (live SSO) we can only access two areas: the crystal cave island where Anne was imprisoned and the island with the winding paths and many plants under it. The crystal cave is also not accessible anymore if you have already completed those main story quests. In the Winterdale storyline (SSO Rewritten) we banish Garnok from Devil’s Gap to Pandoria, thinking it is a good plan, but we soon realize it was a mistake. During the quests when we banish Garnok from Pandoria (back to his spaceship prison at the bottom of the Jorvik Sea) we access the two areas from live SSO again: the crystal cave and the winding paths. Here, in the beginning of the Springvalley storyline, new areas of Pandoria become accessible. Ydris sends you to explore all of the areas: you unlock all 4 map parts of Pandoria after completing the quests. The now accessible areas are:

1. The Botanical Gardens: this is the winding paths currently accessible in live SSO. The Pandoria botany dailies send you here, to find the plant they want (see the names of Pandorian plants below!). The area now has pathways to make it easier to find your way, some lamps with wisps in them and some decorative fences and benches, as well as Pandorian critters and creatures hanging out there.

2. Crystal Peaks: the second zone from live SSO, the island where Anne was imprisoned in the crystal. This area now has some plains and various wild Pandorian horses running around. Zee watches over this island and sends you on quests to help the wildlife there.

3. Temple Ruins: a reskinned and upgraded version of the area you walk with Anne, when you find Concorde in Starshine Legacy 3. This is the main base of Pandoria now. Ydris, some druids, and those who help restore Pandoria hang out here. From here, three portals lead to the other three accessible Pandorian areas.

4. Rune Island: where the Soul Riders went so seal their power runes in the last map of Starshine Legacy 4. Reskinned and upgraded, the stone circles of the seals are now the training arenas for each power. These are where you will get and practice your new soul rider powers.

Entrances to Pandoria: -> Secret Stone Circle: the Path of the Winds portal leads to Temple Ruins (central part). -> Random daily portal to Pandoria: still leads to the Botanical Gardens. -> Five Horse Valley: leads to Crystal Peaks, like during the saving Anne storyline.

-> Races: each island has multiple races. There are simple cross country runs around landmarks. There are butterfly and wisp collection races, a catch Pandorian rays race (like the catch rabbits one), a garden race, etc.

-> Pandorian Quests: after exploring Pandoria to unlock the maps you can access all quests and dailies on every island and Jorvik. The daily quest that can appear on each island is when you are sent to cleanse sites of umbrasyan (Garnok’s) corruption. Quests by zones:

1. Jorvik: pink cracks and lost beasts. All kinds of pandorian creatures had appeared on Jorvik as the veil between worlds got torn in the confrontation with Garnok. MC and the Soul Riders are sent all over Jorvik to clear the Pandorian cracks, and capture and return beasts to Pandoria.

2. Temple Ruins: You help set up the magical defenses of the base in dailies like rune carving and rune ciphers. You investigate and locate sites of gathering corruption and dispel them. Ydris figures out a way to stop the Pandorian scars’ spread on Evergray and he joins the camp too.

3. Crystal Peaks: Zee oversees this island. Many Pandorian wild horses (magic horses, unicorns, etc) roam the plains and valleys here. The caves are where the druids and Ydris collect the most powerful magic crystals from. MC is sent to cleanse corrupted crystals and horses, to befriend the magic horses and also on fetch quests.

4. Rune Island: Rhiannon hangs out there with some druids who are interested in the magic of the circles. Here you meet Amryn, a Pandorian humanoid like Ydris. She had survived the destruction of Pandoria by living a nomad life (much like Evergray during his wanderings in the pink world). She came back because she felt a dark presence gather in these parts. Mc befriends her and she and Rhiannon teach MC some new magic. MC is taught how to use their star powers to heal sick horses, how to use visions to spy on the enemy, you use sun powers to dispel darkness and corruption and fight with lightning to destroy shadow seekers.

5. Botanical Gardens: there are both some druids and capran-like Pandorian creatures here. You unlock the Pandorian botany dailies: they send you to ride around in the gardens and find them 3 different types of plants each day.

-> At the end of the storyline with the Pandoria faction, Ydris discovers a Remnant of Garnok (a dark tentacle) that threatens to attack, corrupt and destroy what we had achieved so far. With the help of Ydris, Zee, Evergray, Rhiannon and Amryn, a plan is formed: to complete a ritual that dispels the Remnant forever. MC and the Soul Riders are sent to gather four rare materials across the islands on four consecutive days.

-> With Lisa, MC goes to the Botanical Gardens to find the Cyclamen Starflower. With Linda you explore Temple Ruins to find a special, ancient runestone, the Eclipse Cypher. With Anne, you go to Crystal Peaks to find the strongest Pandorian Crystal yet, the Aphelion Gemstone that glows light blue. With Alex, you go to Rune Island, carve a magic wand out of a nettletree branch and infuse it with lightning magic, creating the Fulminus Wand (Alex just calls it the Boomstick).

-> MC brings these four ingredients to the Temple Ruins, where you set up the ritual to dispel the Remnant. Ydris draws a complex magic circle combining star, moon, sun and lightning magics and stands in the middle conducting the ritual. The Soul Riders stand on the circle’s four point, paired with each of the other characters: Zee, Evergray, Rhiannon and Amryn. You start the ritual and the Remnant of Garnok attacks.

-> You have to use the powers you learned recently to stop the Remnant from stopping the ritual. The Remnant summons shadow seekers which you have to shoot with lightning to dispel. If it hits one of the characters with its shadow attacks, you use the star circle to heal them. You dispel spots of corruption from the ground using sun magic. For the moon ability check, the Remnant curses MC using a rune sealing all your other abilities until you dispel it. You get rid of the curse by finding the same rune around you, like the rune ciphers in Hollow Woods. You have to hold out for some minutes and once the progress bar completes, Ydris directs the power of the ritual to you and MC destroys the Remnant. The shadowy tentacle bursts into sparks of light and you are rid of it for good. You have fully restored Pandoria.

[sakuramisthaven]

imagine the evil timeline with sso battle pass. It's called the SoulRider pass. with upgradable horses and it costs 850 star coins. u have to pay for *more* pass specific quest lines for your upgradable horses. and there's a bunch of cosmetics (horse and player) that will never see the light of day after the season ends.

and no, star rider does not make it free :(

[govindhtech]

What is Argo CD? And When Was Argo CD Established?

What Is Argo CD?

Argo CD is declarative Kubernetes GitOps continuous delivery.

In DevOps, ArgoCD is a Continuous Delivery (CD) technology that has become well-liked for delivering applications to Kubernetes. It is based on the GitOps deployment methodology.

When was Argo CD Established?

Argo CD was created at Intuit and made publicly available following Applatix’s 2018 acquisition by Intuit. The founding developers of Applatix, Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev, made the Argo project open-source in 2017.

Why Argo CD?

Declarative and version-controlled application definitions, configurations, and environments are ideal. Automated, auditable, and easily comprehensible application deployment and lifecycle management are essential.

Getting Started

Quick Start

kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml

For some features, more user-friendly documentation is offered. Refer to the upgrade guide if you want to upgrade your Argo CD. Those interested in creating third-party connectors can access developer-oriented resources.

How it works

Argo CD defines the intended application state by employing Git repositories as the source of truth, in accordance with the GitOps pattern. There are various approaches to specify Kubernetes manifests:

Applications for Customization

Helm charts

JSONNET files

Simple YAML/JSON manifest directory

Any custom configuration management tool that is set up as a plugin

The deployment of the intended application states in the designated target settings is automated by Argo CD. Deployments of applications can monitor changes to branches, tags, or pinned to a particular manifest version at a Git commit.

Architecture

The implementation of Argo CD is a Kubernetes controller that continually observes active apps and contrasts their present, live state with the target state (as defined in the Git repository). Out Of Sync is the term used to describe a deployed application whose live state differs from the target state. In addition to reporting and visualizing the differences, Argo CD offers the ability to manually or automatically sync the current state back to the intended goal state. The designated target environments can automatically apply and reflect any changes made to the intended target state in the Git repository.

Components

API Server

The Web UI, CLI, and CI/CD systems use the API, which is exposed by the gRPC/REST server. Its duties include the following:

Status reporting and application management

Launching application functions (such as rollback, sync, and user-defined actions)

Cluster credential management and repository (k8s secrets)

RBAC enforcement

Authentication, and auth delegation to outside identity providers

Git webhook event listener/forwarder

Repository Server

An internal service called the repository server keeps a local cache of the Git repository containing the application manifests. When given the following inputs, it is in charge of creating and returning the Kubernetes manifests:

URL of the repository

Revision (tag, branch, commit)

Path of the application

Template-specific configurations: helm values.yaml, parameters

A Kubernetes controller known as the application controller keeps an eye on all active apps and contrasts their actual, live state with the intended target state as defined in the repository. When it identifies an Out Of Sync application state, it may take remedial action. It is in charge of calling any user-specified hooks for lifecycle events (Sync, PostSync, and PreSync).

Features

Applications are automatically deployed to designated target environments.

Multiple configuration management/templating tools (Kustomize, Helm, Jsonnet, and plain-YAML) are supported.

Capacity to oversee and implement across several clusters

Integration of SSO (OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML 2.0, Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub, GitLab)

RBAC and multi-tenancy authorization policies

Rollback/Roll-anywhere to any Git repository-committed application configuration

Analysis of the application resources’ health state

Automated visualization and detection of configuration drift

Applications can be synced manually or automatically to their desired state.

Web user interface that shows program activity in real time

CLI for CI integration and automation

Integration of webhooks (GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab)

Tokens of access for automation

Hooks for PreSync, Sync, and PostSync to facilitate intricate application rollouts (such as canary and blue/green upgrades)

Application event and API call audit trails

Prometheus measurements

To override helm parameters in Git, use parameter overrides.

Read more on Govindhtech.com

[ijichi-nijika]

im getting so fucking pissed right now, me and @koisher​​ have been discussing animal crossing and we have both fondly been rememberingthe new leaf days and we remembered main street and the upgrading system and the badges and the literal everything that made that game amazing and we are remembering how fucking back new ogrizions is and it sso sad because they got rid of over 1,000 furniture items, removed so many clothing options, dumbed down villagers into having like only 16 things they can say, and ruinged everything that made animal crossing animal crossing and im sofuc kinf iwujfweigfujewifujweijewigrhwgibverh

[sadie-wolfdawn]

oh i didnt share w the class. i ordered my motherboard- the final computer part I need to build my pc. it should be done in time for the hollow woods update :)

i will be using a 15 year old monitor / keyboard with it for a bit- I'll have to test the monitor but its specs are actually pretty good!! the keyboard.... is less pretty good ngl, but I'm hoping black friday comes through for me and gets me a really good deal on one. (why are good keyboards $100+? can we talk about how insane that is?)

once I get my upgrade I should also be connected to the internet with an ethernet, so I'm hoping sso runs like, perfect for me lol (and maybe lets me install gshade? 👀)