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Ponystars is an online virtual pets game, launched by Acclaim Games in blargdate? 2008. It is a US-hosted version of the French game Pony Valley, and is operated in partnership with Pony Valley's creator, Feerik.

Basic Gameplay
Ponystars focuses on caring for and breeding magical ponies that inhabit the fictional land of Fairy Valley. Ponies come in six basic breeds and every color in the spectrum. They can be acquired as foals and raised to maturity or purchased as adults. Players earn in-game currency called fairy gold and can use it to buy care items and decorative traits, pay breeding fees, heal ponies and buy new ponies either from the Fairy breeders or from other players. Players can compete against each other on the Breeder Platforms. New players are helped learn game mechanics via a simple tutorial presented as a series of small quests.

While the ultimate goal of Ponystars is the completion of the Grassland Adventure Quest and acquiring an Aurora Ponystar, many players choose, instead, to focus on breeding ponies of special colors and combinations, or on building themed herds, utilizing coloring, names and special traits to emphasize the theme. Some younger players may choose to simply name and provide daily care for the ponies in their small herds while older players may have several accounts with large herds on each, and participate in large-scale breeding, adventure quests and platform competitions.

Ponies require daily care to stay healthy. Each pony must be brushed, fed and have their hooves mucked out every day that a player logs on, or they will lose one point of health for each neglected duty. Each breed of Ponystar requires a different kind of feed, and each of the three brush-varieties work only on a select number of breeds. Food, brushes and mucking picks are purchased in the Marketplace. Each item is one use only, and must be replenished before care can be performed again. Ponies can be healed and trained daily. To defray the costs of care items and healing, players can purchase farm plots for each of the feed types and can tap a magical aqueduct for a healing fountain.

Ponies
Ponystars come in six basic breeds, plus the special Aurora Ponystar. The breeds include Air, Earth, Feline, Love, Fire and Water.

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Players can add to their herds in several ways. Every day, the Fairies of Fairy Valley provide ten foals of random breed and coloring. These foals are available for purchase that day only. Players may also sell ponies to the Black Market, where other players can purchase them. Foals mature after 10 login days, and can be bred with other ponies after reaching adulthood. Mares will lose heath during the breeding process and must be healed before they are considered pregnant. In most cases, a foal is born after 7 login days, at which time it can be find in the nursery.

The breed, color and traits of a foal is detirmined by those of its parents. Pony colors are determined by an RGB color value, and a foal’s colors will fall randomly between the color values of its parents. Once a special decorative trait is added to a pony, that pony can pass the trait on to any of its offspring, but inherited traits are a rare occurrence.