Help / Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

In the guestbook people keep asking me the same questions. Therefore I compiled this list of the most frequently asked questions. Click on a question to see the corresponding answer.
So please check this list here before contacting me. Thanks!

About me and this website

• Who is Abbie Starwatcher ?

  I'm a regular SSO player as everyone else and I have no business or personal relationship with SSO. So this is a strictly private website that I created because I liked to play SSO and that I maintain as a hobby.

• On which server do you play ? Since when ? In which club are you ?

  I'm playing SSO since february 2013 on the second German server, also known as "Autumn Star". I'm member of the club "Silversong Eagles".

• May I become your friend in SSO ?

  I'm sorry but my friend list is already full. And on principle I only accept friendship requests after having had a real contact in the game.

• How did you create this website ?

  At the beginning, most data and pictures were taken from Renee Goldpaw's website "The Help Page for Starstable". Since then, most of the information and pictures have been gathered by myself.
  Following tools were used for the implementation of this database:

  • JavaScript library "jQuery"
  • jQuery Plugin "Datatables"
  • Template Engine "Smarty"
  • OpenSource Guestbook "MGB"
  • ... and some self-developed tools (Vue.js, PHP, Python) to manage the database and apply updates.

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• How regularly do you update your database ?

  Normally this is done within 2-3 days, i.e. after the Wednesday update the new items/horses usually appear in the database no later than Saturday. If there is stress in RL it can also take a little longer ;-)

Something is missing / where do I find ?

• Where can I find a list of names for me and my horses ?

  The easiest way to get this information:

  • visit the offical Starstable site and click on "PLAY NOW" (or simply click here)
  • on the right, inside the window called "Create your Star Stable account" you will find a section titled "Select your horse's name"
  • There you will see all horse names available at the moment

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• There's a table with a missing item/entry

  If this item was introduced to SSO in a recent update, please be patient (see related FAQ entry above).
  Otherwise, please send me (using E-Mail or Facebook) as much informationen as you have to identify the missing item (in particular title, description, shop name, price, etc.). A screenshot would be helpful of course !

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• Something else is missing (not mentioned yet)

  Please send me a note by E-Mail or via Facebook.

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Something is not working !?

• The table is empty, no data is loaded, or the page is displaying wrong

  First of all try to force reloading of the page, usually using the shortcut Ctrl-F5 (or Ctrl-Shift-R). If this doesn't help I recommend to delete the browser cache/history (shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Del) and then to try reloading the page again.
  Finally, if the problem persists, please contact me by E-Mail or via Facebook and please provide some information about the browser (Firefox, Chrome, ...) and the operating system (Windows 10, Mac OS X, ...) you're using.

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• The security code (CAPTCHA) prevents me from making a guestbook entry

  

  If you can't recognize the letters/numbers on the picture then click on the symbol to get a new picture (maybe easier to read). You may repeat this until you are able to read the letters/numbers on the picture. Be sure to enter letters in upper case only.
  If the problem persists nonetheless, pleae contact me by E-Mail or via Facebook.
   

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• Something else does not work or is displayed incorrectly

  Send me a note by E-Mail or via Facebook and try to describe as precisely as possible what you were trying to do or what did not work, respectively. Don't forget to provide some information about the browser (Firefox, Chrome, ...) and the operating system (e.g. Windows 8.1) you're using.

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Something is wrong !

• An entry/item in a table contains incorrect information

  Of course, there may be mistakes in texts/entries. Moreover, there are quite a lot errors in the game itself! For the database, I always use the original texts.
  Nevertheless, if you find an error, please send me a note by E-Mail or via Facebook and tell me as precisely as possible what item you are talking about and which information exactly is wrong.

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Something I don't understand / how does it work ?

• How can I filter a table ?

  

  You can filter the tables in three ways: using selection lists (1), using the color boxes (2), and/or using the text search field (3).

  1. The selection lists let you filter the table by site, shop name and/or item type (e.g. "legware"), after this only items corresponding to these filter settings will be displayed.
  2. After selection of a color box only items having this selected color will be displayed. If you selected multiple colors, they will be combined by "OR" (non-exclusive), e.g. all displayed items will have at least one of the selected colors (e.g. blue or green). But if you switch to "AND", displayed items must have all of the selected colors (e.g. blue and green).
  3. Any text entered in the text search field will be searched in all columns of the items, thus only items containing the search text will be displayed (e.g. because of a matching title or description).

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• How can I sort a table ?

  

  You can sort tables using the column titles, sortable columns have sorting arrows on the right of their column titles. By clicking on these arrows you will activate sorting, first in descending order (alphabetically Z→A or with decreasing value), after a next click in ascending order (alphabetically A→Z or with increasing value).
  Note: you can sort multiple columns at the same time by holding the Ctrl key pressed while clicking on the column title.

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• Why do you use CAPTCHAs for your guestbook ?

  So that I am not covered with masses of SPAM, I have to protect the guestbook from automatic entries. This is the purpose of the CAPTCHAs. For machines these images are difficult to read and therefore they can not correctly answer. This way I can be reasonably sure that a human has made the guestbook entry.

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• There's something else I don't understand (not mentioned yet)

  Ask your question by E-Mail or via Facebook, but please don't do this in the guestbook.

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I have a suggestion for you

• Could you keep a list of quests?

  There used to be the website "SSO Ride Through" by Maggie Oldcamp, where she documented the quests of the first 144 days, but unfortunately it is no longer available. I don't have such a list and it would be a huge amount of work to create it. In addition, SSO often changes the order and content of quests. For these reasons, I do not intend to keep such a list.

• Could you make a kind of showroom where you can put on the clothes of a character?

  That would indeed be a great thing, but unfortunately I can't realise that technically, I'm not SSO.

• Could you make a kind of shopping cart where people can remember the items they are interested in?

  There is no shopping cart for all tables (yet), but you can mark items in each table and remember them that way.