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Welcome to the first part of March! Are you excited to see what we have underway for you? You already got a taste of some of the fantastic new stuff we've brought out for this month, but we're going to make it even better! Put your seat belts on, and we'll begin our ride!
New Jeweled Pets
As with every month, the new Jeweled Pets have arrived. This month's artist is Hikaru (LLs) (#15577)!
If you would like to become an artist for the Jeweled Pets, check out the application thread. There's a new incentive to encourage artists to apply!
New FauxBox Theme
A new month always means a new Faux Box theme! So let's see what theme we'll have for March... how about Easter? Adorable rabbits, candies, eggs, chicks... let your imagination go wild with this month's edits!
Premium Item
Wow! You really cleared out the FauxBox! We're really proud of all of you, and happy to see that all those designs now have loving homes in your lairs. So to celebrate those 2,000+ fauxes finding homes, the premium item for this month is the Fox Pen!
If you don't remember what this item does, it allows you to add 10% edits onto your faux to make it more unique. Have fun!
New USD Bonus
There's a new item available as a bonus for purchasing GP or USD Items! That would be the Metal Trinket Box. You can get one Metal Trinket Box for every $5 spent in GP or the USD Shop. Keep scrolling to see why this is going to be extra fun!
This bonus will last until March 19, at 11:59 PM Aywas Time.
Goodbye, Paintbrushes!
After checking out the usage and popularity of the Commissions feature, we have decided that we will be retiring Paintbrushes from the USD Shop. The Commissions feature is easier for the Aywas Team to manage over Paintbrushes, and it also allows artists to collect more cash for less of a fee.
The Paintbrushes will officially be leaving the USD Shop on March 13, 11:59 PM. If you have any lingering Paintbrush transactions to complete, be sure to grab your necessary item before that date.
Despite leaving the USD Shop, existing Paintbrushes will be available to redeem indefinitely. The supply of them will simply cease as we encourage artists to move toward the Commissions feature.
Free Silver Art
We announced a few weeks ago that we were in the process of revamping the "Free Silver Species Artwork" part of Silver Custom Crystals. We will be revamping it to be similar to the GCC and MDT features, where artists can apply for the team and players can submit an item and select artists they want to take their commission.
While this feature is not ready to release yet (consider this an informational update), this is the plan for it and you can start to decide whether you want to join the future team! We hope this will streamline the feature and allow you the ease and accessibility of the existing ones.
Some Voting is A'Comin'!
We teased you earlier in this post that those Metal Trinket Boxes would come in handy near the end of this post... well, here's what's going to happen! We have a number of different pet genus lines that we have hoarded. YOU are going to be voting for your two favorite from the big batch!!
The First Place winner, with the most votes collected, will become the newest FAUX BOX pet! Though, it won't be called a Faux Box. It'll have its own separate box from the existing one.
The Second Place winner, with the second most votes collected, will become a brand new TRINKET species! So if you really, really love that second place winner, you can color it and upload with those trinket boxes to your heart's content.
When's this vote taking place, you ask? You want to see all the pets stockpiled? How's tomorrow sound? Yes, we'll hold our vote tomorrow and allow it to go for forty-eight hours.
And even the losing linearts will show up later as Raw Crystal pets, or for some other project. How's that for excitement?
Let us know which part you're most excited for in a comment below!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:36am
- Lil Boosie
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:44am
so cute!!
- bd84
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:44am
I love that the commissions feature is staying! :D
- Prof JaMEW
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:44am
"Let us know which part you're most excited for in a comment below!"
How about basically everything! XD
- Imajn
(#91)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:48am
I want to see the new genuses so badly @.@
- Ancient Mew(Sylver)
(#31969)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:53am
I am very disappointed in the loss of Paintbrushes. It was a way for those of us without paypal accounts to commission people. I was able to buy a paintbrush when i had the money, and stockpile them for use. Now I basically have zero way of doing those type of transactions. :(
- Kozmotis
(#48993)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:55am
So I submitted a Valentine's themed Faux submission before the theme was changed to Easter, and the submission was accepted. I got a Fox in a Box, shouldnt I have also gotten a Fox Net?
- Kozmotis
(#48993)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:00am
Well at least I thought it was Valentine enough lol, maybe it wasnt.
Aaaaanyway, I'm very excited for another trinket and box species. Would the new box species be classified as a 'rare' or as a 'trinket'?
- shiya
(#32813)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:03am
I second Ancient Mew(Sylver) (#31969). Some people on here don't have paypal or cannot use it for various reasons. Those could always save up enough GP to afford a paintbrush and pay with that. Now they are basically left out of commissions, unless they find an artist they can pay with GP.
Justarius (#48993): I thiink your set was probably not seen as a Valentine's themed set, that's why you didn't get a net? I also submitted a set, that in colors and edits looked valentine-ish, and I got a net...
- Kozmotis
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:08am
shiya (#32813) - yeah I thought that would be the problem. I did hearts on two, the tiger had hearts built in to the stripes and the pink had hearts all over it. The other three I tried making look dessert-like, just didnt do a good enough job there. And they all had a heart shaped pupil. But hey, I guess I just tried making all them too different. And Valentine's was a tough theme for me since I dont do edits, I had to use a PSD I thought would work enough.
But oh well. At least the set got in <3
Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:38am
Ah boy, I can't wait to vote on some new pet genuses, I love new genuses!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!!