its not numbers that help the earth ponies its their skill in trade and producing goods as seen in "Parent appreciation day episode" they show applejacks great grand parents as traders and also the founders of ponyvile( the first to build on the land) to soon to industrialize when settlers came to the land like diamond tiara 's father. also to bring a point to the table in "over the barrel" it was a earth pony town and main export was apples and even when threatened they fought and it one of the few time we see fortification and other defensive structure being built, so I don t see earth ponies being better or worst they are more of a balanced type they can prosper in many field but do have disabilities when it come to matching speed of the pegasi and wielding as much power was a unicorn.
Well... the issue isn't really anything more than "What could be a cool power that earth ponies could have?" increasing stats seems like the easy solution, but that wouldn't make anyone say "oh that's cool!" compared to powers like telekinesis or flight. Farming powers are a little more interesting than increased stats, but they'd only be interesting for a moment. Something that can be used in combat no doubt would be best. I figure an earth pony would use stomping or ramming or something.
Hey now, could a 'call for back-up/reinforcements/family' ability work? An ability that summons an NPC that helps you fight, much like a captured creature does? Earth-Ponies do have both large families and close bonds with one another in canon. Don't know if it would be doable or not, but hey, it would be kinda cool to have and (with the npc not being uber-tier) would only be a big help in the beginning (yet you might still do it from time to time anyways).
NO NEED TO WORRY 'BOUT THE UPDATE, GUYS. Nevermind that, the change in file types screwed things up, can't update that easily.
Yeah I got really excited when I changed the version and saw ponies in my character creator... but then I realized cutie marks don't show up anymore. Sad day. Hope this gets updated soon!
Open pony.modinfo in notepad and change "Angry Koala" to "Furious Koala"... but like I said, no cutie marks, so I didn't even go past the char. creation screen since I knew just changing the version wasn't gonna make it fully compatible.
Hmm idk, I'm also using Kawa's xbawks-mode character creator, so that might be the reason it works for me
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/new-updates-and-how-it-affects-you.66554/ This post should help you, go down to #8, and read the top post
Fun mod, but I was disappointed when I went up the tech tree it was human spawners and not pony. So I couldn't create a pony world/base or a pony filled ship.
I would be interested to know when there is going to be an update, too. I wanted to try this, because a friend showed it to me, and now I can't - since it crashes my game each time now.
I too get insta-crash when I try to launch the game. Just bought the game and wanted to try out the ponies... but it seems they are not functional currently. Here is to waiting for updates.
It just isn't set up for the latest version of starbound. the game had an update come out and the mod wasn't updated for the game update too fast. It'll get fixed in a bit though.
till the upgrade in the species for the new game version theres another race called the ponex that has been updated.. its a bipedal mlp earth pony race
I updated it to work with Furious Koala. I couldn't wait. Not sure if it works 100% or not. It seems to work perfect for me though. http://www.filedropper.com/pony Again, i make no guarantees that it will work for all of you. I think it will though. ALL credit goes to Heliostorm for making such an amazing mod. I am very grateful for it. All I did was update the coding to fit with the way Furious Koala works. I hope this was ok to do Heliostorm. Please don't hate me. *hides*
it's been a little while. Maybe Helio plans to totally finish the next update before making it playable again? Armor and all that.