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May is looking like an intense month for Star Stable.

Previously, Star Stable have stated in various places that the next main quest, in addition to the Pintabian and some new Morgan coats, will be released in May. Now, we know that the Horse Progression (and new UI) will as well, and the Player Character update is slated for release before the Rainbow Festival... but when, exactly, can we expect these things?

The Equestrian Festival will end in two Wednesdays' time, on the 3rd of May. The road maps of this year have so far not stretched further than 4 weeks, but for the Rainbow Festival to begin on the 7th of June the roadmap will need to be five weeks long. For the past 2 years*, the Rainbow Festival has begun on the second Wednesday of June (while the 7th will be the first Wednesday of June), but as a six-week roadmap would be unprecedented (and as the Rainbow Festival has not in the past two years released later than the 9th of June), I find it most likely that the next roadmap will run from the 3rd of May to the 31st of May, with the Rainbow Festival commencing on the 7th of June.

*Before 2021, the Rainbow Festival was not officially acknowledged as a Pride celebration and could begin as late in the summer as July or August. Now that it is officially Jorvik Pride, though, I expect SSE to keep the June date.

In those five weeks, the following updates are either confirmed or very likely to be included:

Pintabian and new Morgan coats

Horse Progression and new UI

new Main Story Quest

player character update

...and let's be honest a HoJ because they probably want to return to the monthly Guillermo rotation after the festival.

Per the blog post today, the player character update - if everything goes smoothly - is slated for release "just before we enter into the Rainbow Festival" - meaning we can pin it down for the 31st. The week after a festival is usually something pretty light, so we'd be looking at either the new horses or HoJ for the 3rd; I'd bet on HoJ, because a 3rd of May Pintabian release would make the gap between two horse breed releases (Pintabian and the Lippizaner, in this case) a record-breakingly short three weeks. Lastly, if I were SSE, I would not want to release the Horse Progression and the new player character in immediate succession as both of those are pretty likely to bring bugs both of the "urgent fix" and the "oh god, that's complex" nature.

With all that accounted for (as well as some additional details from my spreadsheet detailing every road map ever), here is my semi-informed, semi-Moon Circled guess of SSO's May updates:

May 3rd: Horses of Jorvik May 10th: Pintabians and Morgans May 17th: Horse Progression May 24th: Main Story Quest May 31st: Player Character Update

Oh, and MC 2.0 beta test from the 15th of May to the 22nd of May.

#help I'm scared #I wasn't in the 'anxious about MC 2.0 update' team before today but now I am #crusty Zelda is all I know!!#z talks #sso #ssoblr #sso theory #sso discussion #me: I'm going to write jorvikpov so I can post tonight.#me instead: writes a moon circle post twice the normal length of a jorvikpov #in like 10% of the time

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