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The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Fireflies* and we received some glowing submissions!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Genus Changing Amulet*!
Any medium is acceptable.
As a starred (*) theme, you can also enter if you've won recently or plan on entering upcoming contests.
Official Aywas stock is permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
Some new themes have also been announced!
September 27th - October 3rd: Energy Fountain Visits
October 4th - October 10th: Item Hoarder
October 11th - October 17th: Accidents Happen
October 18th - October 24th: Fauxes*
October 25th - October 31st: Halloween*
If you ever want to submit an Art Gallery theme idea, we're always taking suggestions here.
Thank you!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:40pm
Mystery Box!
Site Update
The Mystery Box has popped open as we've started gearing up to commission hundreds of custom pets for Black Friday!
If you're not familiar with the Mystery Box, you place a ticket inside to get a random prize. You get one free ticket for every purchase of $5 in GP or USD Items.
The question is, what custom pets should we offer for the Black Friday bonuses this year? Do you want Teos like last year, or would you rather see a slew of Fauxes? Leave your vote!
Mystery Box Tickets leave on 11:59 PM on the 20th.
In case you didn't see the message on the Purchase GP Page, if you purchase USD items, be sure to send a message to #15 with the total amount to redeem tickets!
Interested in making customs for Black Friday? Black Friday customs are usually about 75% edited. They pay $50 upfront for a set of 5 colorations on the base, and come with a $100 bonus if the set sells out during Black Friday (or a lesser bonus if they sell out after Black Friday).
Want to apply to make Black Friday customs? Send #15 a message with an example of your custom designs (GCC preferred). If you've worked on customs for previous sales, mention that too! :)
Note: Customs will not be obtained through bonus credit due to it not working out in the previous time. They will obtained as a reward for spending during the sale, specifically.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Sep 19, 2015 1:33am
Trivia & Weekly Raffle
Site Update
This week's raffle winner is:
Tornis (#3438)
Who had 19 crystals out of 13,157 total and won a Forever Upgrade Pendant!
Congratulations!
Next week's winner will receive...
A Leaf Harmonica!
Set a reminder to snag those crystals!
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers revealed!
What is the Essence of September 2015 based on?
Rice
This item will tell your breeding artist to make one offspring of your Breeding Coin result a random rare genus.
Unstable Genetics Kit
A box with __ foxes does not exist.
Two
If your pet eats two Caramel Apple Pies, how much energy will they gain?
30 pts
Pets you do not already own are attracted to the sound of this whistle.
Leaf Whistle
The Falling Petals Sack contains how many individual HA items?
6
Where do you go to trace your pets' lineages?
Phoenix Tree
These blend in well with the trees, but not quite so much when it starts snowing.
Autumn Trees Vyne
What is the custom game theme for October?
Robots
What is the Autumn Wardrobe shaped like?
An acorn
How many questions will you get correct this week?
Good luck!
(Please also see Slash's post below. :3)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:57pm
Foxy Upgrades
Site Update
The foxes have gotten a foxy upgrade! When submitting to the Faux Box feature, you are now permitted to select one of your designs as an "auto-claim" in exchange for your submission.
This means that players can freely commission Faux sets and have one designed for themselves and claim that design when submitting it to the box. It also means that artists no longer have to stalk the upload times to make sure they get the one they want from their own set. Just submit, select your design to claim, and send it off!
Note that if you select a design to claim, you will not receive a Fox in the Box. The auto-claim is considered the reward for the submission.
In addition, submissions can now be rejected with a rejection reason. This means that if your Faux submission is rejected you'll know what to fix.
To celebrate the auto-claim feature, we are opening the Faux species up for artist commissions without a Commissions panel fee for one week.
In other words, if you are an artist, you can freely take Faux set commissions through PayPal without having to pay a fee to Aywas through the Commissions feature. Just open a thread and take commissions to your heart's content. Make sure that you stop taking these commissions by 11:59 PM on September 23rd, and that you complete the commissions you take within a one month period, though!
Enjoy!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:30pm
Halloween Pet Submissions
Site Update
Who's ready to make some spooky submissions for this Halloween? Come check out the Halloween 2015 Pet Submissions thread!
May the pumpkins be with you!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:57am
HA Contest Continues!
Contests
We had a lot of lovely sets this month, but only one can reign victorious:
To enter the next part of the contest and colour in the Shaolin base, head over here to learn more!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:55am
Free Custom Winners!
Contests
'· .¸¸.·´'· .¸¸.·´ [[ The w i n n e r s' edition! ]] '· .¸¸.·´'· .¸¸.·´
1................................................2................................................3
Bird (#61930) | 93 votes .......... CarmillaTheCreampuff (#69311) | 42 votes .......... Harthwing (#64712) | 128 votes
4................................................5................................................6
pashalynnae (#22059) | 23 votes .......... The Hatter (#1380) | 66 votes .......... MidnightSnow (#26522) | 34 votes
7................................................8................................................9
bethy2317 (#60039) | 21 votes .......... bora (#34935) | 159 votes .......... Nrogara (#52512) | 35 votes
Congratulations to all of our winners!
I will be sending out your customs momentarily.
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:00pm
Art Gallery
Contests
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Wild, Wild 'Was and we received some clever "Western" entries!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Fireflies*!
(This theme has been extended through September 19th. If you've already submitted a piece for this theme, not to worry! It's safe and sound in the gallery.)
Any medium is acceptable, just keep it Aywas-inspired as usual. n_n
As a starred (*) theme, you can also enter if you've won recently or plan on entering upcoming contests.
Official Aywas stock is not permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
P.S., new themes will be announced next week.
Have an idea? Share it with us here!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:13pm
T4T: Once in a Blue Rose
Items
After everyone enjoyed the red version of this background, Minerva (#23204) thought that people would appreciate this cooler toned alternative!
These flowers, however, bloom only today - so you had better run to Trash for Treasure to collect your posy before midnight!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sun Sep 13, 2015 3:36am
The Giant Wall Of Breeding!
Site Update
Hello everyone! n__n You might know us and you may not! We used to only handle mostly background things around the site so we didn't poke our heads out very often. We are Kyu and Mauri and we're now your breeding admins. Our other responsibilities didn't change, so continue coming to us for all the non-breeding fun things we handle too!
We handle the following teams, their user predictions, their breeding mistakes, and everything else that involves these coins, and any respective pendants:
If you have any questions regarding breeding or any of the above coins and/or their teams/artists that we handle, please feel free to PM us. If you have any general questions in regards to how breeding works, please look at the knowledge base first prior to messaging us to see if any of those articles can answer your question(s). :D
Painted coins are handled exclusively by JAK (#15), and Platinum Breeding coins are handled exclusively by Vampi (#12221). The other various assortment of coins such as TFEs or Rusted Breeding coins are handled by a team that JAK (#15) runs, but questions regarding those can be sent to us (#1010) too.
We'll be working on fixing a lot of the knowledge base articles as we go, but for the meantime we have a pretty large news post for you!
First off, I wanted to let you know that the way breeding mistakes is handled will be changing. The old thread has been locked and our wonderful Iridien (#448) is going to be going through it, making rulings on what should and should not be fixed (she has been trained for quite some time, so you're in very good hands!), and will be working to get those fixes done and uploaded for you!
From here on out, please refer to this list for which thread you to post in for breeding mistakes.
- If you have a PMBC, or PLBC baby that has a problem, you'd post here.
- If you have a PBC baby that has a problem, you need to contact Vampi (#12221) via private message.
- If you have a baby from any other coin, please post in this new thread.
Do not repost babies that you had already posted in the old thread.
This new format (including how the fixes are done) will hopefully keep things running nice and smooth! Please be sure to read the rules in each thread before posting!
A quick note that color add-ons are not compatible with each other. So you can have one add-on per breeding that dictates the color theme or otherwise specifies colors on the babies.
In addition the Monochrome Rock has had a name change to the Neutral Nuggets! The use is still the same.
The Artist's Palette has been expanded to include BC, and HBC breedings.
As a note, this add-on tells the site artist to choose the colors for your breeding; please do not attach prompts or suggestions regarding colors or color palettes/themes to your breeding when using this add-on.
User predictions are no longer compatible with this add-on. If you submitted user predictions for a MBC or LBC breeding with an Artist's Palette, prior to this news post, your predictions will still be processed.
The Painted Vial, however, has been changed to allow user predictions and as such its price has been updated to 5 GP in the GP shop.
The KB article for the Artist Ticket and Crystal Egg Ticket has been updated!
From now on, please attach these add-ons to your breeding. If you're using the add-on for any of the combination of breeding coin / add-on that we handle (please refer to the article), you'll then need to PM us with the breeding ID and parent IDs of the breeding for the list of artists that are available to list.
If you sent an artist ticket previously to Frey (#90) for an active breeding please PM us with the following information:
- Breeding ID and parent IDs for the breeding it was to be used on.
- PM ID for the PM you sent Frey regarding the ticket you sent.
We will look into it and return your ticket so that you can attach it to your breeding.
In addition, the pay structure for the predict side of using an Artist Ticket or Crystal Egg Ticket has changed slightly. The old pay structure was actually a miscalculation. If you have not invoiced any breedings completed prior to this news post, you have 24 hours to do so to be paid under the old prices (which were 5 USD higher for the predict side). Please refer to this KB article to see how.
Three quick notes regarding Breeding Coins!
The first regards genus base edits on hybrid babies. A genus base edit would be something like taking the default Melo ears and adding them to a quetzal. BC breedings that result in hybrid babies will not involve any genus base edits unless a SCC parent was used (in which case the SCC can contribute "base" edits), or an edit potion or other edit % increase related add-on is used and the parents don't have enough other edits to satisfy the add-on edit % amount. Breedings that don't result in hybrids will work as normal.
The second note regards the hybrid embryo and the hybrid genetics kit.
The hybrid genetics kit lets you pick a single hybrid genus for all of the babies in the breeding to be. The babies in a single breeding cannot result in multiple different hybrid genera.
The hybrid embryo is a chance roll item and does not allow you to pick the genera. In the case of site artists, the site artist can pick the hybrid genera for the breeding and it can result in more than one genera resulting from a single breeding, but it doesn't have to. In the case of user predictions, you must PM us (#1010) to find out what genera your breeding has rolled, and only a single genera will result.
Finally for BC related news, the Breeding Coin and Breeding Coin Package have been removed from the GP shop! They were sitting there for longer than they should've been, but they'll be back during the next hybrid season!
Due to the change in administration for the MBC coin, the MBC Compatibility Thread has been closed and instead any breeding with over 5% edit difference between the parents will be refunded, not deleted. This, however, applies to all breedings currently in queue, regardless of whether or not the pairing was approved in the old thread. We apologize for this inconvenience but due to certain circumstances we had to make this decision.
Kyu and I will be going through the queue, as our time permits, to refund breedings that have over 5% edit difference between the parents. If you do not wish to wait that long, or would rather not risk it, you can post in the breeding refund thread and Eve will refund those as soon as possible so you can resubmit a safer pairing.
Currently the breedings that break the 5% rule being refunded is a temporary change, and is not permanent. I will make another news post in the future as to whether we will change the policy permanently or not, but as for now you can assume that until then your breeding will be refunded if it breaks the rule.
This next note is an unfortunate but necessary change. I promise you that we changed as much as we possibly could in the background and even introduced a new add-on (the vial) to limit how much we had to effect the user base, but even with those changes, we will have to increase the price of the metal breeding coin.
As of now, the metal breeding coin is restocking in the BP shop for 9,000,000 BP. This is far less than it would have had to be priced at had we not made those other changes, and we hope that we compromised reasonably with all parties involved to have a fair outcome.
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:10pm