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A short but important Magic Quest update!
The option to Quit Quest is now active! The way the quit quest feature works is that it will still cost you the same amount of magic to quit as it would have to activate the location you're skipping. This is due to discourage skipping quests, but to still provide a way to allow users to skip a location that would otherwise be impossible for them.
In addition, you will only be able to quit a quest twice a day. However, because it's daily, you will find that your quit-quest limit will reset at the daily rollover.
These are not the only changes we are making to Magic Quest, but this one took top priority. More features and changes are being worked on, and will be implemented once we get them ironed out. These include looking at magic regeneration rates (especially for higher levels), quest availability at certain levels, and expanding the hours of availability for many locations. This is in addition to bugs/glitches already reported.
We hope this change helps many of you who expressed concerns about the impossible times! And as always, if you encounter a glitch, please post here so that we can look into the issue.
Be sure to also check out the new stock of pets for the Exotic Pet Emporium below!
Posted by Hiiro
(#755) on Sun Jul 10, 2016 1:18pm
Pet Shop Pets & Call for Submissions!
Pets
As some of you may have noticed, my Exotic Pet Emporium has received a new stock of pets! They're eager and awaiting new loving owners!
In case you weren't aware, the Pet Shop is on a stock rotation schedule with the stock changing every 3 months. After the 3 months, the pets currently in stock will be permanently retired and a new stock will replace them. So get them while you can!
If you want to have the chance of getting a design of yours into the pet shop, go ahead and submit them to the Pet Coloration Submissions forum. Most of the submitted designs will be put into Adventure, but some random designs will be kept to go into the pet shop!
If your design is now in the pet shop please contact Kyu (#1010) for your free copy. That's right, if your design is accepted and put in the shop you get a free copy. That could save you a good amount of BP!
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:58pm
Monthly HA Contest
Items
The winning HA sets for the month of July were placed into their respective shops earlier this week, and will remain in stock until August 1st.
Last month earned the following:
GP Set: 192 GP per artist
BP Set: 72,500,000 BP per artist
Premium Set: 2,270 PP per artist
I apologise wholeheartedly for this news post being far later than it ever should have been.
Due to personal shifts in circumstance I've decided to give this contest a short hiatus.
There will be a news post on August 1st to announce the earnings of the current set,
but a new contest will not be posted until September 1st.
I hope that I, and everyone who loves this contest, will come back to it nicely refreshed at that point,
and I hope we'll see some new faces submitting their sets and colours too!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:55am
Welcome to July!
Site Update
Welcome to the wonderful month of July!
Grab some much-deserved rest and relaxation this month with a GP Shop pet companion!
Or go on an adventure with a BP Shop sidekick!
If you colored one of these fun pets, please contact Kyu (#1010) for your payment!
Make sure to include your PayPal address if you are opting for the USD option.
We will also be collecting pet PSDs directly from the thread, so you no longer have to send them in. However, please make sure you keep the links active for two weeks (at least until mid-July) so we have time to snag 'em for science!
The Essence of July 2016 is stocking in the GP shop for your gambling desires!
Using this item will turn your active pet into a random coloration from the assortment of pet "flavors" above.
The Pride Candle is the monthly item of July, to remind us that Pride doesn't begin and end in June, but lasts all year long. You can select a Teo from here with the candle, but you may want to wait until the 15th as we will be stocking the page with some new designs by then.
The Woodpecker Lunaris has touched down to visit those whose birthdays are in July! Isn't that lovely?
Don't forget to check out the birthday link to claim your gift from Aywas on your big day! Need to change your birthday? Click here!
The new monthly contests have been announced!
August Monthly Pets - BP Shop: Enter
August Monthly Pets - GP Shop: Enter
August Monthly Customs
Theme: Scenery
Good luck with your entries!
Coding Corner
A monthly update from behind the scenes!
This month is going to focus on re-writing the template engines, as you might have guessed from Yasu's post a couple days ago. The template engines are definitely causing lag, and it's a high priority for us to improve the game experience for you!
Breeding Season is here! That means that we have some new hybrid offerings for you!
Ferox (Teo x Faux) ...... Catalpa (Orimi x Kernal) ..... Lyuba (Woolith x Yena)
We're so excited to show you the finalized artwork for our real Teo hybrid! The creator of this design was God #4 so be sure to give him plenty of praise for his excellent design. The Ferox can be obtained through a Breeding Coin, which means that when you breed a Teo and Faux, you are welcome to indicate if you want a Ferox or a Fetail as your offspring.
With Breeding Season always comes bonus items to spend your bonus credit! Hop on over to the Bonus page and use up that extra bonus credit that you've been let sit around =)
These items will leave at 11:59 PM on the 14th.
Nova items have rotated into the Premium Outlet! If you want them, be sure to snag them.
This month's Jeweled Bases are created by Soulwings! Bet you're excited to have Soulwings as the artist of the month, aren't you? Hope you enjoy the bases and be sure to thank Soul for all the hard work! :)
And we have a brand new Rock Custom Crystal base that's crashed its way in too!
Kirara has kindly given you a blast from the past with that Rock Beast that never seemed to make it into lining and shading... those of you who pulled for the rock beast back then should be pleased with this!
REMINDER! The USD SCC Items are going to be rotating out in September. It might seem like that's a long ways away, but you can certainly start thinking about making a USD SCC Submission in the meantime! Two months isn't all that long, after all...
Anyway, that's all we have for this post! Have a great weekend everyone!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Jul 9, 2016 12:08am
Monthly Customs - July
Site Update
It's time to give away nine free customs designed during June under the theme of Rainbow!
To play the free custom game, please include the phrase "CUSTOM #__" in your news comment. For example, if you want Custom 1, please comment "CUSTOM #1."
Don't lose out on a chance to win one of these customs by voting incorrectly!
Custom One = bad.
Custom1 = bad.
Custom#1 = bad.
Custom #1 = good!
I love custom #1! = good!
Here we go!
1................................................2................................................3
4................................................5................................................6
7................................................8................................................9
Please contact Kyu (#1010) for your prize if you designed one of these customs!
You have until July 12th at 11:59 p.m. to get your vote in!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Jul 8, 2016 4:04am
A New Raffle has Started!
Items
A new raffle has begun
Silver Potion
Ticket Price: 1
Max Tickets: Unlimited
Click here to join the raffle!
All Raffle Crystals have now been wiped, this will happen again in 3 months! Around October 1st
For those curious there was over 20k raffle crystals spent for the last raffle!
There is a new Raffle started for Raffle Crystals!
Trivia has Updated
Unfortunately, you do not get the correct answers for this week because I accidentally deleted them before writing them down and I only have half of them saved ^_^;
In other news, if there is any old event HA items that you would like to see be brought into Trivia, let me know. I have been trying to add some of the older ones back to recirculate them. (This excludes Custom HA Items)
You can also feel free to suggest any other type of items you would like to see, however please do not list Custom Makers or Breeding Items, as those will Never appear within Trivia.
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Tue Jul 5, 2016 11:39pm
Raffle #127 has ended
Items
Congratulations
Ultimate Sketch Package
Plague (#58965) is the winner of the raffle and won the item Ultimate Sketch Package!
Plague (#58965) brought 15 tickets, spending 15 Raffle Crystal!
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Tue Jul 5, 2016 11:38pm
Magic Returns!
Comics
"Time to conjure up a little magic!"
Magic Quest is a feature that once debuted early in Aywas history. However, the feature was disabled for a period of years as the Adventure system was changed and overhauled. This is a particular site feature which also acts as a game of sorts, sending users out around the world of Ay to activate the magic of ancient places. As a reward, the top magicians every month would receive SP.
It is with great enthusiasm we announce that Magic Quest is finally back!
Some older users may remember Magic Quest while a great many have not seen it at all. Whether you're new or old, you should first acquaint yourself with the Knowledge Base Article that covers the feature in detail.
In order to activate Magic Quest, a user must master the Desert. Once a user has reached this requirement, they must visit the Parthenon, where they will be prompted as to whether they'd like to activate the feature.
After that, you're ready for questing!
When you accept a quest at the Parthenon, you will be shown a greyed-out image with a name. The objective is to find the location and activate it. Magic Locations are hidden within the "cities" of the Adventure regions. In order to access these cities, you must master the region it belongs to.
Once at the city, you must find the location needed for your quest by 'clicking' on it. When prompted, it will ask you if you which to activate the location's magic which will cost you some of your "Magic". Magic is a resource which regenerates over time. Select 'yes' and return to the Parthenon for your reward and a new quest!
The more magic locations you activate in your quests, the higher your score for the month will be. In addition, your magic level will increase and it will also increase the amount of Magic you have.
As a small note, Magic may still receive a few tweaks based on feedback and issues that may pop up. So if you encounter an issue, please post your findings on this thread.
But before you go running off, apprentices, we still have some other small announcements!
As you may have noticed, our city locations are now making their glorious return as well to Aywas. You can view the available cities at the City Hub. In the past, the cities only worked to benefit the Magic Quest feature. Going forward, the cities will play a much larger (albeit not-yet-fully-coded) role.
You will find that the cities will also host Gardening and Fishing. While these are not yet activated, you will find that new and returning-old features may be making their appearance in the city hubs. This also include new cities for our currently city-less Ara regions (and with them, new Magic Locations)!
In order to access a region's city (and thus gain access to its features like Magic Quest), you will need to master the region in Adventure. So get out there and adventure!
Finally, we have the infamous Book of Completion. Users read this book to automatically complete a region of explore, but it would also ban them from Adventuring for a week. Due to a rollback error years ago, the consequence of this book was removed in order to grant a grace period for users to re-master regions they had once already mastered but had loss due to the rollback.
As that issue is now long-since gone, the book is being put back into it's original coding. However, due to the fact that many users were not aware of this original punishment and use, there will be a continuing grace period to use this book without incurring the adventure-ban. After 11:59 PM on July 12th, this book will now once again ban users from Adventure for one week upon using it.
So whether you plan to use the book or master adventure the old fashioned way, get out there and master those regions!
ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!
Posted by Hiiro
(#755) on Tue Jul 5, 2016 6:44pm
Concerning Recent Bugs
Site Update
I am quite sure now many of you have encounter this dreaded bug by now that prevents you from accessing a page:
"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in some file on line some line in file"
After the software upgrade on the server, the template system coded back during the site's inception has suddenly decided it wants to be lazy. Errors, such as this, is being caused by the templating system which, at times, just stop generating complied files which are used by the site to output the HTML (the stuff you see). When we first started encountering this issue, we figured it was due the file transfer we did before upgrading the server. At clearing such files, the affected pages did work again, but now new files are not being complied correctly.
I have no idea why the template system is doing this and after trying to resolve the issue, I decided it is best to replace this system with something different; something more reliable. We have already started rolling out this new system with our admin backend, but it is still buggy due to how some of our template files were coded. The template files are being converted to work with the new system (around 900 files) and I need to make sure they all will work once we make the live switch.
I want to apologize for all of this. This upgrades, while necessary, has had many adverse effects with the site that hasn't been fun for anyone. I am going to get this templating system live sometime this week, but in the mean time if you encountering any pages doing this, keep reporting it (or if it happens to be the message page again, drop a comment here).
Around midnight (July 6th), we plan on disabling the site for about five minutes as preform some quick work on the database. When the time comes for it, I will make another announcement indicating the exact time.
Posted by *Yasu
(#3410) on Tue Jul 5, 2016 7:39am
The Story DOES continue!
Site Update
This week's winner is desiher (#73136)! They won a Jar of Sparkles + 2SP!
Don't forget to read their entry before submitting yours!
The prize for next week's winning entry will be a Nova Custom Orb!
Entries for next week must be in by July 10th at 6pm AST.
This story will run three more weeks, so let's try to bring it to an end by then!
-Rudy (#4485)
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Sun Jul 3, 2016 8:21pm