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Show us your best characters!
You create characters for your pets, don't you? Where you write about them on their profile - something more interesting than a simple form-based bio, hopefully with pictures and fun facts! Check out my pet Shadow for instance.
Let's have a contest. Create a fun profile for one of your pets (though you can enter as many times as you want)! Try to make it as interesting as possible - edit the profile CSS coding so it looks cooler, add some fun facts and details about the character, include some drawings, etc.
One winner will get a Metal Breeding Pendant for their efforts, along with a Silver Custom Crystal to make their pet as close to their vision as possible.
Three runner-ups will get a Gold Custom Item (I say item because it can be crystal, coin, or orb) and one year of Aywas Premium.
Ready to extend those creative muscles? Post your submissions on this thread!
Contest ends 4/18/2011.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:19am
Breeding Updates
Site Update
So, before I die of sleep exhaustion, I have a few breeding system changes to introduce you to.
If you click on the Standing Stones tab, you'll notice that it got a minor makeover. Most important is the Breeding Requests area.
Here, you can see all of your breedings from oldest to newest. More important, though, you can click on Review Breeding.
If you click on Review Breeding, you will be taken to a page where you can submit breeding predicts for the breeding admins to review and accept or reject. If it's a Breeding Coin, Breeding Pendant, Holiday Breeding Coin, or Egg Nog, you must pay the feature a BC Candy to upload a max of four predicts. If it's any other coin, you can upload a max of four predicts for free. A breeding admin will select an appropriate amount of offsprings from your predicts to send to you as eggs.
You can submit predicts for any breeding, including ones that have been sitting there for a while. And you know what makes submitting predictions the best?
If you are using a coin that does not require a BC Candy, and if you submit predicts and your predicts are accepted, you will receive a kick-back of 3 GP as a thank you from the breeding team for using predicts. If you are using a BP Shop coin, such as the MBC, MBP, Derp BC, or HLBC, you will receive a kick-back of 300,000 BP as a thank you from the breeding team for using predicts.
So, if you could use the new integrated method instead of the thread, that would be best. If your predictions are deemed unsatisfactory, they will be rejected by a breeding admin with a note on how to fix them. Feel free to submit until they are acceptable.
While you don't see this next part, the breeding panel was also issued a major overhaul making it much smoother to administrate breedings. Hopefully they will go faster now.
Blue Raw Crystal
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:21am
Saturday Slugs
Pets
It's Saturday...you know what that means!
Go find slugs!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Apr 9, 2011 4:38pm
New HA Items
Items
Here are some new HA items!
All of these items are restocking in the Custom Clothing shop!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri Apr 8, 2011 6:48pm
User Spotlight
Contests
Our newest user spotlight is...
Graymare (#14978)
Graymare is making a name for themselves for their pleasant personality, supplying constructive criticism when requested and contributing designs to the site pet submissions forum. Graymare is also one of the numerous users that often frequent the help forums, but in addition to being well informed and answering questions on site they are also helping to update the user-made Aywas Wiki.
As user spotlight winner, we bred together these pets for Graymare:
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Congrats!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri Apr 8, 2011 2:52am
BP Shop Items
Items
These two items, the Bronze Custom Crystal and Metal Hybrid Crystal have snuck into the BP Shop, if you need something to spend your BP on. :) Metal Hybrid CC will leave the shop in a week.
We have also decided to allow you to submit unedited Chiro designs via the Bronze CC, so that should help you with your hybrid breedings.
Don't forget that the Breeding Coins go out of the shop tomorrow at midnight (when the 9th starts) and won't come back for another three months -- July 2011! So grab whatever ones you need to last you :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Apr 7, 2011 2:07am
DELICIOUS SLUGS
Pets
We have a new Ay Explore genus! It's called the Chromo and it's delicious and a mollusk and yaaaaaayy !!!
Because it's an explore pet, we want your colorations 8D! Click here to go the pet suggestions thread for the Chromo!
We want to fill the Ay seas with nudibranches everywhere
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Apr 6, 2011 8:39pm
Custom Items
Items
A big batch of custom items were just uploaded...if you have ever wanted to have your own unique item on a pet site, why not grab a Custom Item Package from the Cash Shop?
It seems to be getting popular for users to trade their custom items with each other!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Wed Apr 6, 2011 6:27am
Brushes, Google Images, Copyright, and You
Site Update
Do you like making customs and custom designs? Make sure you're doing it legally.
Brushes/patterns from the internet CANNOT BE USED on an aywas image unless:
- it requires no credit
- it is allowed for commercial purposes
- you list EVERY BRUSH you use under the design in a "brushes/images used" section of your pet's profile, along with a link to the rules of the brush, and keep record of that on your pet forever
Google images or patterns you get off the internet CANNOT BE USED on an aywas image unless:
- it requires no credit
- it is allowed for commercial purposes
- you list EVERY IMAGE you use under the design in a "brushes/images used" section of your pet's profile, along with a link to the rules of the image, and keep record of that on your pet forever
Using images that do not belong to you and you do not have permission to use is THEFT and ILLEGAL. If you do it, we will ban you. So don't do it.
When in doubt, message a moderator with a link to your image/pattern/brush's rules and they will let you know if you can use it.
Suspicious that someone might be using an image without permission? Contact a moderator with a link to the thread.
If a moderator approaches you asking for information about your images, you are required to yield where you got the images from. If you made the image yourself, you are required to show progress layers that prove you are the original artist of the image. Be sure to keep them so you don't have any problems.
Aywas takes art theft very seriously, as we are an art community. We are cracking down on it, and there will be no hand-slapping for thieves.
ISS
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Apr 5, 2011 10:37pm
Bye-bye!
Site Update
Just a quick update to let you all know that Half a Lesser Breeding Coins have been removed from all site shops until further notice. This is in response to the fact that they are overrunning the queue, and we think it's best if they're 'retired' for now.
If you still own one, you are welcome to use it but they will no longer be stocking as an item on the main site. Metal Breeding Coins are going to function as the 'BP-coin of choice' for those that want to spend BP, not GP, on coins regularly. If you need to breed normally otherwise, simply continue to use LBCs.
We're sorry for the frustration this causes, but we hope that in the long-run it'll stop the queue from building up as massively as it has.
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Also want to edit to say that from now on, if you have inquiries/questions about breeding stuff, or questions for me in general, send them to [email protected] instead of PMing me.
My private messages can be used for general discussion, but pertinent questions should go to the above email. Be sure to include your on-site username and user ID when emailing. The reasoning for this is that an email address will have more capability for organization and I won't lose important messages as easily (I get like 1 page of messages every 3 days). I didn't want to make a whole new news post for this, so just keep it in mind!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Tue Apr 5, 2011 12:44pm