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"Who left all these Quetzal plushes here?"
This pile of Quetzal plushes would like to bring to your attention the following newspost, regarding a few changes to staff positions, along with information regarding features like Copyright and Adventure.
Hey guys, Hiiro here! I am sure you've seen me around site as I am just about everywhere, but I have recently been painted Blue as the newly appointed Admin in charge of Adventure!
As we all know it needs a bit of cleaning up and a little (read: a lot) TLC, so the staff thought it was best to create a new position specifically tailored to catering to the feature's needs, and to get it to be a more fun experience. I do have some ideas on the future of Adventure, and I hope it will please you guys as well!
It's no secret that Adventure has had several ups and downs over the years. Which is why I wanted to share with you some of the goals the coder and I are working towards!
Our first goal will be to have some clean up and adjustment. By this I mean that we are going to be focusing on adjusting EXP to be more reasonable and actually allow players to level up the pets they want. In addition, we will also be attempting to clean up some of the 'unnecessaries' out of Adventure. This includes getting collectibles and other non-equip items out of your Pet's Equip category (those pesky items).
But this isn't the end goal of Adventure. I know for a long time users have been wanting some of our older features that we removed or disabled (or not fully implemented) to be completed; such features like Gardening, Fishing, and Magic Quest. Note that this is not the entire list of features, but a sample (there will still be new features coming!). It is my hope that we will be able to implement these features back in Adventure for users to enjoy again! They may not be identical to their original iteration, but it is a part of excitement of all staff to have these features again, for all of us to enjoy!
But that isn't all...
I know many of you have enjoyed our Monster Capture feature. However, I know that our lack of psds were an issue. We opened up Monster Community Contributions asking users to help us make linearts or psds for users and artists to use. Thanks to the contributors of that thread, many members of staff, and our artists, I am pleased to announce that we have a nearly complete list of fully-based 200x200 PSDs which you can review here. This will also be added to the Monster KB article.
However, this is not a complete haul of our monsters. We are still missing two Ay-region monsters: Skeeto and Wyrm. If you would like to help us finish this list by contributing for these two monsters, please visit the Monster Community Contributions thread linked above!
But that's still not all!
Finally, I want to address Copyright check. In addition to Adventure, I am also tasked as the new Copyright Admin! Copyright check is a bit slow right now, but I ask that people be a bit more patient. I have assembled a team of new reviewers who are excited and ready to help get that queue back down to size! No rules or alterations are being made to the process, so you do not have to worry about learning any new rules.
I think that sums up this long and lengthy newspost. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to working on these projects with you!
Please be sure to check out the awesome News Post below this one! You don't wanna miss Snoodle Pre-sales, Castaway Canyon info, and all the other goodies down there!
Posted by Hiiro
(#755) on Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:46pm
Trashland Commences... into Castaway Canyon! And m
Site Update
We are happy to announce the winner to the Trashland Background Contest... Synthaphone (#15786), with their gorgeous rendition of Castaway Canyon!
Castaway Canyon is now in the process of being created into an adventure area. As soon as we have a new batch of items from our item artist, as well as our contest items, pets, and monsters all chosen, we'll be releasing the new world to you. What excitement!
We have a cute little melo sitting in the Cash Auctions! If you are interested in bidding on this melo the link to the auction is here.
This melo is a result of a bug where an incorrect/unselected GCC artist was able to claim a GCC ticket. If you were affected by this bug, please contact me (#15). The unwanted design will be auctioned in this fashion and you will be refunded your original ticket.
The Escrow Commission Panel Update has gone live!
The "Escrow" feature on the Commission Panel allows players to conduct three way trades, between an artist, USD buyer, and a GP buyer. Imagine a scenario where a GP buyer has GP or items and wants to commission an artist. They find a player with USD (the USD buyer) who is willing to pay for the artist's commission in return for the GP Buyer's items or GP. These two players can conduct a transaction with an artist through the Commission Panel.
You can read about the Escrow Feature here. To begin an escrow, you (the USD buyer) simply enter the ID of the player who will be paying you GP/items when submitting a commission request to an artist.
A new forum has opened for those seeking or offering escrows in the Trading Post section. Please be sure to use the [SEEKING USD] and [OFFERING USD] headers so your fellow players can quickly determine what your thread is about.
A new item, the Metal Takeout Box, has been added to the GP Shop for 25 GP. If you have ever wanted a metal (no edits) Faux or Snoodle, then this item is for you!
The SCC feature is completed, tested, and ready to go! Right now, we are ensuring that players who have been waiting in line for their SCC art are the first ones who submit to the new feature. After we have confirmed the waiting players have had their SCCs entered into the new feature for completion, we will open the feature up to artists to join. Finally, when we have a team of artists, we will open it up for submission.
A Silver Custom Crystal counts as a ticket to the feature. By submitting your SCC, you can select artists you'd like to create your pet and write its description. Like GCC and MDT, an artist from your selection can claim your ticket and work on it.
After the art is completed and approved by the customs team, the artist is paid and your pet is automatically uploaded into your account. No more waiting!
The statue items are artwork commission items that allow you to commission artwork only through the SCC panel without the use of an SCC. The "Magical Species Statue" has a small chance of uploading the completed artwork for you like an SCC does.
Speaking of Snoodles, the brand new box feature for it was completed this morning. After we do some brief testing this afternoon we will be sending out messages to the artists with approved snoodles to start loading the box up as early as this evening, provided there are no bugs!
We expect the box will release as soon as all the artists have loaded in their sets, so we're doing a little pre-sale for it. Cup of Snoodles will be $25 like the Fox in the Box when the box is ready to release, but while we're loading in sets you can buy a pre-sale Cup of Snoodles for $20. The other snoodle items are on sale as well.
If you want to get in on the action early, then pick up your pre-sale cup and start getting ready for the release! We'll let you know with twenty four hours in advance when the feature is going to launch so you can be ready with your pre-sale cups.
Some quick housekeeping notices -
PMBC List Deadlines have been increased to seven days.
PMBC has received a raise to $4.50.
PLBC has received a raise to $5.50.
PMBC Predicts have received a new cap of $4.00.
GCC Design and MDT Design payments have been set to Tuesday.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:06pm
An EGGcellent Celebration!
Site Update
What is that on the horizon?
It's the Easter Garu! come to spread his Holiday Ch-Wait, wrong holiday.. he seems to be dropping eggs behind him!
It's that time of year again! When the birds are chirping and the bunnies are hopping, the dye is staining all of our clothes and fingertips!
Interested in designing some Easter pets for adventure? Come on over to the Easter Pet Submissions Forum and check out those prizes and share your beautiful pets!
While our main festivities are still a few weeks off, our threads have multiplied like bunnies to give you a whole lot to do while you wait!
To begin the party please check out The Easter Chatter Thread! This is where all of your chatter should go, if you want to compliment someone's entry or just talk about the colorful season, please keep it to this thread! We will be handing out small prizes throughout the next few weeks to those who celebrate in this thread!
If you want to get your hands a little dirtier, check out our Dye an Aywas Egg contest!
This contest is about dying an *actual* egg, so get your kits ready and please try not to make too much of a mess!
If you'd prefer something a little bit cleaner how about Coloring a Virtual Egg or The Paper Edition?
These contests are just as they sound! For the Virtual Egg you color the provided template (please remain within the lines), for the Paper Edition you print off our lines and color it using any physical medium you want!
If coloring is not your forte then try your hand at writing in our Easter Storytime contest!
Tell us the origins of the Bunny Garu!
Curious what you could win? We will be selecting Several winners from all of the contests, and each contest has tiered Prizes! (These prizes are not for the pet submissions thread, only the contests)
•1st place: 3SP + Easter Teo Base + Metal Antiquity Stave + Painted Egg
•2nd place: 2SP + Metal Antiquity Stave + Painted Egg
•3rd place: 1SP + Painted Egg
Is that an Easter Teo base as the 1st place prize?!
Why yes it is!
That is right! If you win one of the many first tier prizes you will gain access to this limited Teo PSD, to be able to color it as you please and get your own Gen 1 Easter Teo!
Note: Several of the art contests are not going to be judged based on Quality, so even if you think you're not that great, please still try!!
That concludes this Easter Update! The Easter Field should be open within the week, as our coder is busy with some back-end things that unfortunately need attention. We also hope to have another Currency Gathering event to add to our Easter Festivities to make up for all the delays we have been facing lately.
Good Luck and Happy Easter!
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:56pm
Trivia Update and Official Ramrin
Site Update
Please welcome the Official Site Ramrin
The Celestial Ramrin
You will be able to find this shiny Ramrin in the BP Shop until we get a new raw! If your Ramrin did not win, you may do whatever you wish with the design, please contact Kaiyo (#489) if your design won, or if you were chosen for the previous voting so you can collect your prize!
We would like to apologize for the delay of certain site features, we are trying to pull ourselves back together so here are a few brief updates!
Raffle Crystal and Trivia have both fallen quite the ways behind, Trivia has been updated (see the bottom of this post), however Raffle Crystal is being a bit uncooperative and we hope to have this fixed up in the next few days.
Contributor thread is behind several months, this is because we are having some problems with promotions sticking, nobody wants to get their purple and then lose it, so we are trying to get this under control unfortunately our coder is busy with some important back end subjects.
We know that you were promised a St. Patrick's day event, however due to some technical difficulties this didn't happen. We are planning something small in the near future to try to make up for this :(
We are planning several specialties for Easter, these news posts should come later on or tonight, expect a lot of contests so get your colorin tools ready!
The new SCC Feature is almost complete, however we know a lot of you have been waiting for responses regarding your Site SCC Commission, so if you are one of these users or artists please contact Eveglori (#2775) or Kaiyo (#489) with the URL to your PMs you had with Eri (#17) and with your artists, whether you sent your Silver Crystal to Eri (#17) already, and we will work with you to finalize your commissions!
The Trivia has been updated!
Last Sets's questions and Answered Revealed!
What Welly is featured in the recent Pet Shop Pets newspost?
Fire Stripe
How many items do the Winter Traveller Trunks contain?
6
How many methods of obtaining a teo are currently active (according to the KB)?
4
What genus will your breeding produce if you use a Dragon Lotus?
Violinn
Which of these add-ons is a Holiday Breeding Coin is compatible with?
Genus in a Bottle
Which of the following is NOT one of Minerva's responsibilities?
Reaping souls of the dead
What genus is this month's Jeweled Rare Crystal base?
Scarl
How much does a Metallic Vion Seed cost in the SP Shop?
8 SP
Which item does NOT have the ability to change your pet?
Pile of Glittering Crap
What is the February Monthly Customs theme?
Flirty
How many questions will you get correct this week?
Good luck!
Please make sure you check out the Art Gallery Post below!
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:54pm
Art Gallery
Contests
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Valentine's Day* and we received some adorable entries that I could just squish!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Easter*!
Official Aywas stock is not permitted for this theme.
Showcase this holiday with any medium your heart desires, just keep it Aywas-related. <3
This is also a starred (*) theme, meaning you can enter it even if you've won recently or plan on entering upcoming contests.
Good luck!
Since things got a little wonky, we've decided (after this contest) to extend the Art Gallery entry time to two weeks!
And since we missed some themes, we've played with the dates for you!
March 28th - April 10th: Wibbit*
April 11th - April 24th: Cut Throat Cooking
April 25th - May 8th: Aywas Coffee Shop
If you ever want to submit an Art Gallery theme idea, we're always taking suggestions here.
Thank you!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:43pm
The Official Ramrin
Pets
Please choose which one you want to see for the Official Ramrin Coloration, if your coloration(s) was not chosen you are free to do with them as you please!
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:40pm
Jura and Kazoo
Site Update
You just saw the Snoodle released a few days ago, but now we have two more pets that are storming in! 2016 is promising to be a big year for new species, isn't it?
The first pet available is the Kazoo, which you voted as second favorite in the poll! It's now available in all the Trinket items.
But that's not all! Due to a fantastic push by Jamew, our next prehistoric pet has come to play also!
The Jura is the next "Prehistoric Portal" pet, which can be gained by playing the fossil collection game in the Museum. Interested in seeing the net Prehistoric Pet? Well, you'll have to submit fifty edited bases for the Jura to the Edit Repository! Please bear in mind that entries for the Jura must be a minimum of 15% edited.
Who's dreaming about the new SCC art feature? Excited to be able to use your SCC to commission a new pet from fantastic artists? It's coming very soon - we're putting the finishing touches on it and ironing out the last few bugs. Get excited!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:32pm
New Alt-Raffi, Restyle Brush, and Adventure Pets!
Pets
I am very excited about this news post. If you have a love for adventure pets, pet coloration submissions... or even Raffis... *winks*, you may want to be sure to read on!
The item known previously as the Foxtail Brush has been renamed and is now the Restyle Brush.
Why the name change? Well this brush isn't just for foxy genera anymore! There's a new spindly legged alternate lineart wobbling into the picture!
Introducing the alternate Raffi!
This lineart can now be made using the Restyle Brush, in addition to the original alt-Orimi lineart that was unique to this custom creating item:
How do you get this Restyle Brush? Well you submit pet coloration designs in the pet coloration submissions forum! For every 5 designs you submit that are accepted, you get a Restyle Brush. To read more about the other prizes associated with this forum, see this thread.
Over time we may add even more alt-linearts to this custom maker. If we do, it will be relatively infrequent, but keep this in mind!
In addition to welcoming the new alt-Raffi to the site, I wanted to give an update on the Adventure Pet releases that I'm sure some of you have noticed disappeared for a while. We had quite a slow down in submissions and could not sustain both the adventure pet releases and the pet shop pets with the forum. We hope that with the new alt-Raffi, submissions will increase to the point of sustaining both of those features once again. :3
We're aware that there are designs that have been accepted that are pending their payment and/or item rewards and we wanted to mention that all of those will be paid and caught up with tomorrow!
And with that, here are some new lovely adventure pets eagerly awaiting homes in your lair!
In addition, the pet coloration submissions forum raffles have been drawn! These raffles were from the months of January and February!
Congratulations to Drakhys (#1379) for winning a Bronze Custom Crystal!
Congratulations to Amber (#145) for winning a Blue Custom Orb!
If you want to design some Adventure pets, go and post them in their respective threads here! There's also a chance that the designs accepted from that forum will go into the Pet Shop! Remember, you can earn SP!
If your design is in the new adventure release please contact Kyu (#1010) for your free copy.
Please be sure to check out the news post below this!
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:23pm
I learnt nothing from Jurassic Park
Site Update
Those of you who recognise the egg at the top of this news post will probably have mixed feelings. A lot of what led up to my becoming customs admin happened when this limited time custom item was in effect - and due to some fumbling, a lot of people didn't get their customs.
I want to make that right.
That is why until March 27th 2016, the Super Speshul Egg is being brought out of retirement. Be warned - when it retires this time, it's forever.
If you are one of the people with a design in queue, please check that you still want this design - I will begin accepting from this queue tomorrow to enable those who want to possible re-do their design have the opportunity =)
A quick note I've been asked to mention on behalf of our resident Crystal Checker - removing the smoke and eyeglow is 9% of edits.
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:32pm
HA Contest Continues!
Contests
After a lot of fantastic entries fought it out, we have a victor:
To enter the next part of the contest and colour in the Foxxy base, head over here to learn more!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:02am