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The winning HA sets have been placed into their respective shops!
Last month earned the following:
GP Set: 237 GP per artist
BP Set: 69,200,000 BP per artist
Premium Set: 3,154 PP per artist
Want in on the action? Well, phase one - the basing contest - is open and waiting for entries! Head here to submit your design. Fingers crossed you can all squeeze this month in between all the spooky going ons!
This Month's Schedule:
Basing Thread: February 1st
Basing Vote: February 8th
Colouring Thread: February 10th
Colouring Vote: February 26th
Release: March 1st
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sun Feb 1, 2015 6:45am
Skills and Scarls
Site Update
Skills and Scarls
Starting February off, we have a number of new things for you to enjoy, including a new species obtained in a unique way through Adventure.
The Scarl is a pet you've seen before - there was a call for PSD files for it during the last weeks of January. It is a rare pet that is made with an item called a Mermaid's Purse.
This custom item allows you to make a 50% edited Scarl. But, it's different from other custom makers. Mermaid's Purse is account bound, which means it cannot be sold, traded, or given away (though the pet made from it can be).
You can also only have one on your account at a time, which means you need to make a Scarl before you obtain another Mermaid's Purse.
Mermaid's Purse are obtained through the "Hidden Item" hook of Adventure - you've probably seen it before, it goes like this:
If you come across a hidden item and obtain it, there's a small chance you'll get the custom making item along with it. But remember, if you already have one, you can't get another one until you use it!
Each pet is naturally born with a skill depending on its genus, and all pets have at least one natural skill. However, now you can obtain items to give your pets additional hidden item skills!
You can either buy the skill items at the Explore Shop for 6,500,000 BP each, or you can pick up a pack of four skills in the USD Shop for $15.00, depending on your preference.
Pets with all four hidden item skills will be able to pick up any hidden item they see, and will have a much higher chance of obtaining a Mermaid's Purse because you must successfully pick up the hidden item to have a chance at the custom maker.
The Edit Repository is what we are rolling out along with the Scarl release. This is a feature where artists can upload their FREE USE PSDs for custom pets (the only rule is that the PSD needs to be free. Any other rules can be indicated by the artist in the comments of the submission). Other users can download the PSDs, color them, and submit them to the custom queue.
Folks who were hired to create Scarl PSDs: please upload the designs you made to this new feature now. Other users will be able to enjoy them and start on submitting their Scarls right away. All designs paid for during that period will be automatically ruled Blue if not further edited by the player.
The repository will have a queue that is managed by multiple edit check trainees. They will mark whether a PSD is bronze, blue, gold, or silver for reference. When you turn in a repository custom pet that has not been edited further, indicate on your custom notes if the pet was ruled in the repository as that crystal to speed your service. (Please note that the customs department reserves the right to adjust the "color" of a repository PSD if a mistake is made, as these are our trainees.)
The repository is a neat feature that allows you to tag your PSDs with themes, and search by the themes, crystal color, and by pet genus.
Last (and admittedly forgotten), the experience gained per monster battle has been bumped up to about double what it was before. This month staff is going to be looking into the EXP curve of leveling and battling to make it more reasonable and fun to play.
We regret to inform you that the adventure recoders have dropped their project, so we will be working with adventure as it is.
We hope you enjoy the updates and look forward to the big February posts coming up later today and tomorrow!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Feb 1, 2015 4:40am
Quick Search Fix
Site Update
This cheerful Kaba is super excited that now when you do a quick search for a pet, the Location Details are displaying the correct information!
If you're not sure what I mean, take the Sea Wave Chromo for example. Though the "Locations Found" and "Location Details" in the normal Aywapedia view have always matched up, when you viewed the pet from the quick search, the details would say "Desert." Basically, the quick view would add a +1 to all of the linked locations, resulting in some confusion, which has now been remedied. :3
Woohoo!
Tip: Don't use the quick search often? Try it out! It's really useful for finding pets if you're a collector of a certain type, since you can search for words like "rainbow," "dragon," or--in my case this afternoon--"happy"!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:06pm
Monthly Contest Reminders
Contests
Just a quick note that our monthly contests will be closing up soon!
February Monthly Pets - BP Shop: Enter
February Monthly Pets - GP Shop: Enter
February Monthly Customs
Theme: Kites
These contests are open through 11:59 p.m.
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:55am
T4T: Hair Today...
Items
... But this lovely unisex hair won't be gone tomorrow!
In fact it will be available in Trash For Treasure until 11:59pm February 26th!
Make sure to pick up yours ^^
--
As a quick aside, I'll be tagging all custom item posts as "T4T:" from now on to make it easier
for everyone to search them out should they want to =)
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:25am
Trivia & Weekly Raffle!
Site Update
This week's raffle winner is:
PedestrianWolf (#58002)
Who had 42 crystals out of 16,473 total and won a set of January 2015 GP Shop pets!
Congratulations!
Next week's winner will receive...
A Bottomless Trunk!
Set a reminder to snag those crystals!
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers revealed!
What is the current birthday Lunaris?
Rowan
The two custom Xaocs being raffled are based on...
fauna
What is the name of Aywas' newest genus?
Scarl
Which of the following is NOT a pet that Miksa just added to her shop?
Aurora Leopard Maki
Beep Beep Boop?
Cybernetic Bumble
Which of the following currencies cannot be used at the Metalsmithing shop?
crystal crystalis
Cosmos (#25837) recently created 3 owl items, all except...
Barn
This NPC is known as a "community helper."
Rowan
The poll posted on January 18th asked about...
the news
If you're "Dreaming in Color," you used the...
Aurora Borealis
How many questions will you get correct this week?
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:45pm
Raffle #80 has ended
Items
Congratulations
Hybrid Package
Raptorgrrl (#50500) is the winner of the raffle and won the item Hybrid Package & Hybrid Pairing Pick!
Raptorgrrl (#50500) brought 1 tickets, spending 1 Radioactive Breeding Coin!
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:43pm
Raffle #81 has ended
Items
Congratulations
Hybrid Package
NyctiCorax (#1965) is the winner of the raffle and won the item Hybrid Package & Hybrid Pairing Pick!
NyctiCorax (#1965) brought 5 tickets, spending 5 Radioactive Breeding Coin!
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:43pm
HA Colouring - Vote!
Contests
Please select your vote.
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:00pm
New SCC artist!
Site Update
InvertSilhouette (#51851) has been added to our Official SCC artist listing (by way of the PBC team)!
Click here for more information on official SCC commissions!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:46pm