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Site Update
The new (almost complete) PBC Panel is seeking existing and new artists to join the PBC team. The payment for PBC artists is a flat $20 for one offspring and $30 for two offspring (Life Seed).
If you are a PBC artist that had a higher rate negotiated with Vampi, don't worry, as we still have previous payment records intact. If you had a lower rate than the new flat rate, congratulations as you just got a raise. We will also be introducing new breeding add-ons that allow an artist a bonus, and the usual GCC/MDT tipping feature is available through PBC Panel.
Everyone is welcome to join the PBC team, so if you would like to apply then go ahead and do so. The new deadlines that we will be enforcing with the PBC panel is one breeding completed per two months minimum and when you claim a job, it must be completed within one month. We feel that these deadlines are fair as it allows an artist to take a month break in between breedings if desired.
We are in the process of integrating the panel with the queue. It will allow artists to claim the oldest job that they are listed as a preferred artist for. This upgrade will permit the users to select artists (and change them) whenever they want from their Standing Stones view of the breeding.
Here is the integration schedule:
1. Starting April 12 - Artists may start joining the team.
2. Starting April 16 - Players will be able to go to their PBC breedings in the Standing Stones and select their desired artists. Update your breedings as new artists are accepted throughout the week (or, you know, whenever).
2. Starting April 20 - Artists will be permitted to claim the oldest breeding that has them listed as a preferred artist. This means that no one loses their spot in the queue.
Re-working this queue over to the new PBC Panel will take a while and we expect there will be some bumps along the way, but ideally this will improve the PBC experience.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:09pm
The Easter/Spring adventure continues!
Site Update
Some new pets have sprung up in Adventure!
You'll find 10 Easter/Spring-themed pets in the nine main Ay areas of Adventure, along with a colorful batch of dyes, all of which will be available through the rest of the month.
We're giving you a head start on your dye collecting before opening up the Easter Painter. :3
Once open, the feature will allow you to create pets with your dyes, each requiring a slightly different recipe of colors.
Stay tuned for some Fresh and Autumn Leaves raffles as well!
We hope you are continuing to enjoy the Egg Field (and the handy countdown timer Yasu added so that you can see when you can next snatch up an egg)! n_n
I also wanted to quickly remind everyone that while eggs appear anonymous in the field, we do have the ability to track them as always. If you are sending blatantly hurtful/ToS-violating messages or images through the field, staff will not hesitate to ban your account. The vast majority of eggs are filled with nice, generic messages or are blank, but if you do come across an egg that contains something inappropriate, please PM me.
Thank you! *hops off*
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Apr 12, 2015 1:41pm
Free Custom Winners!
Contests
'· .¸¸.·´'· .¸¸.·´ [[ The w i n n e r s' edition! ]] '· .¸¸.·´'· .¸¸.·´
1................................................2................................................3
Nonymouse (#33912) | 60 votes .......... Fumiko (#43036) | 76 votes .......... Kitsune (#17645) | 384 votes
4................................................5................................................6
Tsuiri (#24068) | 49 votes .......... andrea (#59060) | 189 votes .......... VeeJay Hedgehog (#17061) | 87 votes
7................................................8................................................9
Sandstormeclipse (#51602) | 71 votes .......... LadyPhedre (#54532) | 43 votes .......... misterkoala (#58940) | 43 votes
Congratulations to all of our winners!
I will be sending out your customs momentarily.
See you next month for another round!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:27am
Art Gallery
Contests
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Lunaris* and we received so many stunning entries that were out of this world!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Spring and/or Autumn!
Any medium is acceptable, just be sure that it is obviously Aywas-related in some way. You can do landscapes, show us the Phoenix Tree in autumn, pets facing spring allergies, etc.! Have fun with it. :3
Official Aywas stock is permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:53am
Do you want to help one of our previous charities?
Site Update
One of our previous charities, the Carolina Raptor Center, is in the running to get $25,000! Wow! Problem is, only the top five of their contest get a prize, and they're number six.
So let's see what we can do about it?
Go to this link and click "CLICK HERE TO VOTE"
The official rules say you can vote as many times as you want. Just don't cheat (no holding F5 or using scripts to vote, you have to do it as a human, manually) because that would affect the charity's good standing in the contest. But if 500 Aywas members vote 10 times each, legitimately, that'll put them easily in the running and let this wonderful charity win their prize.
It'll only take you a couple seconds to vote, so do as many times as you can! If you helped this charity by voting, post in the news comments how many times you voted and I'll send you something random.
If you like birb, then help birb! Go vote!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:54pm
Bigger BP Challenge!
Items
Did you know that the Bigger BP Challenge has sunk 1,700,000,000 BP so far? That's fantastic! Keep trucking on and unlocking those bases!
If you weren't aware, the Knowledge Base article has a link to the PSD for all of the unlocked bases, so you can fetch them from there.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:52pm
HA Contest Continues!
Contests
After a race to the finish, one base came out on top!
To enter the next part of the contest and colour in the Desert Fenrir base, head over here to learn more!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:36pm
To Like or not to Like?
Site Update
Pet Profiles now have the option to "Like" them. This puts the pet in your personal "Like" folder, which you can access from Account Settings - Liked Pets.
Once you "Like" a pet, it's placed into the unsorted folder. On the Liked Pets page, you can make new folders and drag and drop pets into the folders depending on how you want to label them. Maybe you want a folder full of pets you like looking at, and a folder full of pets you've bred with that you want to keep tabs on. It's up to you!
On the Account Settings page you can choose to disable Like notifications if you don't particularly care if another user likes your pets.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:38pm
Artist Tickets and more
Site Update
A Greater Painted Pen is now available for $10.00. It allows you to select one PLBC or PMBC artist for your breeding and rewards the artist with a $5.00 bonus.
Based on user suggestion, the Artist Ticket has been added to the USD Shop at $25.00. It has also been updated to yield a Painted Pen-esque bonus of $10.00 to the selected artist.
Another artist ticket item has sprung up too, the new Crystal Egg Ticket. In case your favorite artist isn't swayed by an extra $10, this item not only yields a $40 bonus to your selected artist, but also allows you to skip the queue and be assigned to their next list (so it's essentially an Artist Ticket and a Speedy Breeding Ticket combined).
Both of these items are compatible with predicts, so you can solicit a non-site breeding artist with these extra premiums. Read the linked Knowledge Base article for more information about these items, their payments, and predicts when using them.
A forum board has opened up to provide people a place to solicit predicts for USD bonus items, or for artists to set up shop and indicate that they are available for these items. Click here.
Programming Update
Here's what our April coder has finished since our last update:
- SQL Error Breeding Eggs should never happen again
- Admins can fix existing SQL Error Breeding Eggs easily
- Breeding panel improvements requested by admins
- Admins can add/fix adventure skills for pets
- Breeding Coin origin logs now
- Admins can edit the origin field to correct them
- Admins can fix incorrect entries in Edit Repository now
- Admins can edit the Knowledge Base easier now
- Users can disable ratings on oekaki pieces
- Bug when sending items with charges fixed
- Trading Post previous owner bug fixed
- HA entries cached so they don't change during the contest
- Ghost items/users removed from Shop Search
- Crystal Archive bug fixed
- Auto-Resize of large forum images to prevent edit link disappearing
- Shop item removal bug potentially fixed (implemented tweaks)
- Account bound items in Easter Egg field bug fixed
As you can see a big chunk of this update was improving things from the back end for the admin team - but that means we can help all of you easier too.
Keep making suggestions, bumping suggestions, bumping bug threads that need fixing - we'll keep working on them!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:01am
Vote for the official Horuset!
Pets
I wanted to steal all of them, but for some reason I decided to behave. :C
Remember, the coloration with the most votes will become an official site pet and reside in the BP Shop for approximately two months.
The rest will be given away as customs through various methods!
You have until Sunday, April 12th at 11:59 p.m. to cast your vote!
(Be sure to vote for the official Mephis below as well. c:)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Thu Apr 9, 2015 7:57pm