Enough, already. At least Mom's stuck at home due to Michigan's stay-at-home order and isn't driving anyway.
We haven't been going on HI3 as much lately, since our wifi can't handle HI3 when other people in the house are doing serious internet-ing at the same time. One night, we were just trying to groom our herd, and it would take about 30 seconds for each new horse to be placed. A generic ghostly horse shape would appear first, then abruptly change to the solid size and shape of each horse. That was mildly cool, actually, but waiting for the horse menu to appear, waiting for the mood and grooming bars to update, etc. was not so cool. We made it up to Mariette before being booted off.
When the wifi is not in high demand, we have had a few solid stretches of non-laggy playing. Of course, this means more cool horses to talk about!
Two more gaited horses made appearances since Julie's post. Both of them are again pacers. We're still waiting in eager anticipation for an ambler.
Gaited Horse #1 was hanging out in a Mediterranean herd of 4. She is the one straight ahead of Pepsi and Topi in this shot.
Here she is. How perfect is her name for a gaited horse? XD
Gaited Horse #2 was waiting all by herself in Wonderland.
I think she's gorgeous! Her genetic stat total is a sad 584, but she still manages to be fairly fast and have a fairly powerful jump.
Her personality is quite nice too!
Neither of these mares wowed us enough for us to seriously consider keeping them, though, so Teatime is still our only pacer.
We tried riding another too-small pony and got some action shots of Pepsi jumping and crouching while inside. Enjoy!
And now on to the 3 stars of this post!
On Easter afternoon, during a mail delivery mission, we caught this impressive little pony:
She surpasses our two lucky finds with her genetic stat total: a whopping 1051!
I love her markings, especially that gigantic blaze! Her stat distribution is fairly evenly distributed, with the most in agility but no dramatic stand outs.
Her metrics aren't anywhere near as amazing, probably because there's only so much you can do when you're only 12.1 hands tall and being compared to equines of all heights.
Her personality is mostly mid range, and I don't think her leaderish tendency affects much of anything under saddle. Speaking of under saddle...
Yeah, Pepsi looks awkwardly big. Not quite as bad as on Okey Dokie, but close.
Bummer. We're considering keeping her anyway, since she has the highest genetic stats of any of our wilds to date, is easy on the eyes, and is pleasant to ride. Too bad there's not a way to shrink Pepsi a little.
In honor of Pizza and our other fun size equines, we did finally buy the pony cart. I don't know that we'll use it all that much because it seems to be slower than riding, but it is pretty fun.
Here is star #2, our first curly-coated horse with over-900 genetic stats!
Isn't he cool?
He seems huge after Pizza! He's not above average in any stat but intelligence, but his performance metrics are still pretty good.
While he's ornery, he's not ornery enough to buck Pepsi off. And look, energetic! That's a change of pace.
We found star #3 while trying out the cart with Ginkgo. Mesa had just given way to taiga.
Talk about... sturdy. He definitely was from the taiga (like Teatime), not mesa.
I can only assume his high agility score is due to his powerful hindquarters, not his short little legs.
Slow and lazy - shocker. His stride length is shorter than Pizza's. XD He's brave, playful, and has pretty good pull power and turning speed, though. And let's not gloss over the fact that he's roan! Roan is awesome!
Great. Three very tempting horses already, and we're only about half way through the month! Sorry, Peach Blossom. Pretty sure Lily's going to insist you move on...
Let's end on a more fun note. Once in a while, HI3 gives you the option of shapeshifting your avatar into a random animal for 5 minutes. We've done it three times now. The first time, Pepsi was grooming Blitzen on our ranch and became a raccoon:
Ha ha, horses must be so confused when this happens.
The second time was during a mail delivery mission. Pepsi shape-shifted into a tiny fennec fox!
Bummer. We're considering keeping her anyway, since she has the highest genetic stats of any of our wilds to date, is easy on the eyes, and is pleasant to ride. Too bad there's not a way to shrink Pepsi a little.
In honor of Pizza and our other fun size equines, we did finally buy the pony cart. I don't know that we'll use it all that much because it seems to be slower than riding, but it is pretty fun.
Isn't he cool?
We found star #3 while trying out the cart with Ginkgo. Mesa had just given way to taiga.
Another bay silver, but this time with roan on top.
Talk about... sturdy. He definitely was from the taiga (like Teatime), not mesa.
Great. Three very tempting horses already, and we're only about half way through the month! Sorry, Peach Blossom. Pretty sure Lily's going to insist you move on...
Let's end on a more fun note. Once in a while, HI3 gives you the option of shapeshifting your avatar into a random animal for 5 minutes. We've done it three times now. The first time, Pepsi was grooming Blitzen on our ranch and became a raccoon:
She could move around as a raccoon...
and swim...
...but she couldn't climb trees. Oh well.
The second time was during a mail delivery mission. Pepsi shape-shifted into a tiny fennec fox!
You've never looked cuter, Pepsi. XD
The fox had no trouble climbing a big rock,
strangely levitated on logs,
and could also swim. :^)
The third time, Pepsi was in Sequoia Village and turned into a dark fox! Somebody else was prowling around as a cougar at the same time, but unfortunately we accidentally re-humanized early and didn't get a screenshot of that. XD
Dark foxes swim too, and this one looked unnaturally buoyant!
No comments:
Post a Comment