Recent News
Search Options ►Some more small tweaks
Site Update
Casually steals image off Eri's post
- For those of you who requested that the CDs stay on the site but in a non-interest form, your requests have been granted. CDs were re-enabled but they do not yield interest anymore, for those of you desiring to lock up your money to keep from spending it!
- The Aywapedia has gained a much needed "Show only pets I have not captured" checkbox. You can now perform searches and include that option to show only pets you have yet to capture.
- Speaking of the Aywapedia, some convenient boxes have shown up to Shop Search that species for either GP or BP so you don't have to go through the process of searching it yourself. One click and the pet is at your fingertips...
- As promised, the anonymous bank gifting was enabled, so you can now send people BP and GP anonymously. In additional, anonymous gifting from the inventory was enabled as well, giving you the ability to gift people items without them knowing it's you...
- Someone had requested the ability to delete items in your wardrobe if you don't want them there anymore. The Scroll of Transportation still facilitates moving items from the wardrobe to the inventory, but you can delete items permanently from your Wardrobe and your ownership if you so desire for free.
Small suggestions like these have been incredibly popular add-ons lately, so if you have any small tweaks to suggest, be sure to head on over to the Suggestions forum to voice your idea.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:14am
Artist Paintbrushes
Items
Due to the previous popularity of the Gold Paintbrush, a couple of its friends have come to play.
If you're not certain what an artist paintbrush is, it's an item you can trade to an artist for their services. The artist can then redeem the paintbrush for USD via PayPal for their work.
The Gold Paintbrush is still redeemable for $15 USD.
The Blue Paintbrush is redeemable for $10 USD.
The Metal Paintbrush is redeemable for $5 USD.
These items are now available on the Purchase GP page for USD. Originally we had the Gold Paintbrush in the GP Shop but it caused us a bit of problem, so we're going to test the paintbrushes here for direct USD as there will be 100% no issue in redeeming them in this method :)
If you recall when the Gold Paintbrush was in the GP Shop, it was at a price of 45 GP. Due to the nature of it being for USD now, the price was dropped to $30.00 USD. The other paintbrushes are $20 and $10 respectively.
If you haven't been able to find someone to make custom artwork for you, scoop up a few brushes (or trade someone for them, if you don't have PayPal) and commission away!
Now, some changes (good ones!):
Originally, the brushes were only acceptable to be redeemed for custom designs. However, reintroducing them, we have changed that. Before, you couldn't use them to commission predicts and custom bases (uncolored), but are now allowing that. Custom bases (uncolored) have no restrictions, but the following restrictions on commissioning predicts with paintbrush items is as follows:
- A single metal prediction cannot be redeemed for more than $2.00
- A single LBC prediction cannot be redeemed for more than $3.00 USD
- A single BC/HBC/etc prediction cannot be redeemed for more than 5.00 USD
Why are these restrictions implemented? This is to be fair to the current artists for the breeding team.
You can mix and match your purchases with paintbrushes as long as the value of a prediction isn't exceeded in the total. For example, you could commission a set of LBC predictions (two babies for a total of $6) and a set of MBC predictions (two babies for a total of $4) in exchange for a Blue Paintbrush, and this would be acceptable.
Also, to clarify, with anything without a restriction (like pet designs), you can pay more than one brush for a design. You can also use these to commission PSD color jobs, not only completely 100% unique designs. :)
Please keep in mind that sending brushes to accounts upon purchase is a manual effort, so please be patient when waiting for your brush~
Have fun!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu Aug 9, 2012 8:57pm
Wednesday Updates
Site Update
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers revealed:
How often has the Breeding Progress announcement thread been updated within the last year?
17x
Who is not someone you can ask to reject predicts for you?
Lucy (#664)
Which of these colorations is not found at the Fissures?
Phoenix Gael
What was not a theme for the monthly customs in 2011?
Fairytales
How many Gold Pieces would you need to get all respective items of the Owl Bot set?
23
In a March 2012 news post about a giveaway of 10 platinum breeding coins (PBCs), which of the following users were lucky enough to win one?
Pinkerton (#31808)
Which toray colouration became an official site colouration in March 2012?
Royal Toray
A user's submitted custom image can be rejected for reasons listed below except...
Using a layer blending mode when designing the custom image.
Complete this item description: "If you have a nut allergy..."
"...you might want the plainer version."
Which of these items was never sold in the GP shop?
Upgrade Talisman
Weekly Raffle
This week's raffle winner is:
Chibi Echo (#944)
Who had a very impressive 220 crystals out of 18,024 total and won a Miniature Phoenix Tree!
Congratulations!
Next week's winner will receive a Leaf Harmonica. :)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Aug 8, 2012 9:57pm
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Site Update
Actually I don't have any ugly to talk about. But we do have some good and some bad.
First, the bad:
- Creating new CDs has been disabled. After a lot of discussion, it seems that the income being yielded by CDs is causing a lot of detriment to the economy. You can still collect CDs that are maturing on the date that they mature as usual. It's a sad choice, but one we've had to make. We've been aware that the CDs are causing economy damage for a while, and while it will hurt to lose that income, the economy will be better as a result without GP and BP inflation.
Now, the good:
- You can now see when your breedings were assigned to a helper (breeding artist) by viewing them in the standing stones.
- You can now set your pet's breeding rules on the edit pet page, which will list them as searching for breeding mates
- You can now search for pets that are searching for breeding mates in the Search function (meaning, they have breeding rules). I think eventually we will expand this, but for now here's a simplified version of finding mates and viewing their rules.
- You can cancel your customs in your custom waiting queue if you see anything wrong with it/no longer want it, and resubmit as necessary.
- This isn't anything you can see, but two updates to the breeding panel make reviewing and handling predict submissions much less strenuous for the predicts team.
Coming up in the next hour or so:
- Being able to send people BP and GP anonymously from the Bank page. This is being worked on right now
That's all I got for you ~
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Aug 8, 2012 6:43pm
Shipping day
Contests
Yaaaay, today is a shipping day..
Be the first person to say "Starwielder" and I'll ship you a free melo plush.
Be the first person to say "Skelly" and I'll ship you a free quetzal plush.
Be the first person to say "Kaz" and I'll ship you a free Kaz plush.
Be the first person to say "Figurine" and I'll ship you a free melo figurine.
But choose wisely, you can only say one free keyword. Say more than one and you don't get anything!
Good luck...
I'd also like to mention that for those of you in the Indianapolis area, I'm going to be attending Gencon all four days. If you feel like finding me, I'll have plenty of melo figurines with me as promotional giveaways.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Aug 8, 2012 12:09pm
Release the babies!
Rules
Two things that should please you all were discussed tonight with Slash among a few other things that as soon as we iron them out will prove to be hopefully very happy things for you all.
First is that we are now giving out Hybrid PSDs.* This means any hybrid breeding, from EBC, BC, or HBC coins (and normal RBC hybrids too!). Just be nice to your artists if you ask them for the PSD files, don't swamp them too much! Use the Offspring PSD Search to look for your babby artists and ask, unless you know who did your offspring. You can always check the Breeding Blogs as well to see who has your pair.
* I want to add though that we are NOT allowing people to come to admins/mods directly and ask for them to give out PSDs. Artists only. Search for your artist. Artists are also not allowed to give out any files that are not their own, so don't ask them for PSD files that you know they don't have!
Second, we're going to be phasing out BC candies (and maybe make them have a new use someday) when you want to submit predicts for your BC/EBC/HBC breedings. Hopefully this will encourage people to submit them without having to pay an extra fee. For now, don't use your candies any longer, they aren't needed for breedings from hereon out (but we cannot refund anything prior to this newspost). Hang onto them so we can figure out a nice way to use them!
If anything else comes up I'll be sure to post it! Look below for the raffle though, it's really important and really cool (and I want some of those pairs ahhhhh).
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Tue Aug 7, 2012 8:14pm
A New Raffle has Started!
Items
A new raffle has begun
Ice Sleeves
Ticket Price: 1 GP
Max Tickets: Unlimited
Click here to join the raffle!
This raffle is a bit different, please review all the information below
Each SCC pet below will be won by one ticket holder. Not species of the SCCs, but the individual pet.
Ownership will be shared between the two owners, or you can buy the rights/pets off each other... your choice. Maybe you'll make a new friend as you meet who won the other half of your pet species... lol
So multiple people will win this raffle. One per pet.
Yes, clearing out old SCC stores here...
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue Aug 7, 2012 7:51pm
Adventure Pet Revamp
Pets
There have been a couple of significant changes to the weekly Adventure Pet system!
First of all, it's not weekly anymore. Adventure pets will be released every other week. In addition, only six pets will be released at a time. We've decided the site does not need 9 pets a week being added into Adventure. We have a lot of pets available on site, and while we want it to grow... we don't feel the need for it to grow that quickly.
Another rather large change is that the weekly bonus system is removed. There will be no more weekly "bonus" species. While the bonus species helped motivate users to submit designs of specific species, we were shelling out far too much GP overall. If we have a dire need for a specific species, we may offer a bonus for that species at that time. But it will not be a regular occurrence.
This does not effect the current Vyne, Rogr, and Lacer "bonus" incentive currently going on mentioned in this news post. If you submit a design for any of those 3 species, and have it accepted, you will get 10 GP per accepted design. On Friday August 10th at 11:59 PM AST , this bonus incentive will end, so submit your designs for these species before then!
The pet coloration submissions forum now has a sticky thread: Pet Colorations 101. This thread explains the Adventure Pet system along with answering some frequently asked questions. Please be sure to read it!
While the weekly bonus species incentive has been removed, don't forget that you can earn SP through the Pet Submissions Forum! You can also earn GP, and even earn Contributer Status. Hooray for purple posts!
- Mauri
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Mon Aug 6, 2012 6:39pm
Tearful and Gleeful Adventure Pets
Pets
I see some happy new Adventure pets!
But, oh no, one also seems quite upset.
Perhaps you should go catch it!
Next week's bonus Adventure pets are the Vyne, Rogr, and Lacer!
If you color one of the above species and have it accepted, you'll receive 10 GP per coloration accepted instead of the normal 3GP!
If you want to design some, go and post them in their respective threads here!
- Mauri
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Sun Aug 5, 2012 11:12pm
GSC & Suggestions!
Site Update
The Gold Star Charm is a usable item, meaning use it from the item menu on the Adventure screen.
If you have it equipped, please unequip it!
If you equipped yours and it broke prematurely, contact me via PM.
I will be changing the status on the GSC so that it isn't available in the equipment area, but I need the equipped charms removed first. I contacted *most* people that this applied to already, but here's an official announcement if you snuck by me. :)
In light of the recent scratchcard changes, you guys have really been coming up with some cool suggestions that Frey and I like!
If you're not much of a forum-goer or don't hang out in Suggestions much, please consider swinging by and give us your opinion on the ideas that cropped up.
Thanks!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Aug 5, 2012 7:11pm