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Aywas has surpassed 40k members, wow!
We're going to be dusting off the referral page and adding new rewards soon. :3
What sort of prizes would you like to see? We have some of our own ideas, but we'd like to hear yours!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:46pm
The almighty breeding hierarchy...!
Rules
Hello folks! Since for awhile now there's been confusion as to who to contact for certain breeding-related issues (and the fact that not everyone knows there's other folks you can ask specific questions to) I wanted to post a reminder about the established breeding hierarchy and who you can go to for questions...
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Frey (#90): That's me! Basically I handle overseeing the entire system -- the manager, so to speak. I do a number of things that include, but are not limited to:
- Assigning breeding lists, specifically BC/LBC and any other inclusive coins to those. Meaning I don't explicitly handle RBC or MBC.
- Paying artists, both contract and GP, as well as handling incentives.
- Updating the Mistakes board with responses and sending out assignments to our Mistake Mod(s) for fixes.
- Responding to artist applications and hiring new team members.
- Cancelling/fixing breeding submission errors.
- Answering general questions about the breeding system. PLEASE NOTE this means if there's a designated person to go to, message them first! This also means I take any suggestions/concerns/constructive criticism in my inbox as well. I take PMs and emails at [email protected].
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Mauri (and Kyu) (#1010): Mauri is the lady in this account that is basically my assistant-manager. She oversees the Predicts queue as well as helps with other aspects of breeding. Some of her responsibilities are as follows:
- User Predictions. Any general questions about user predictions can go to her. She also oversees any BC-related predicts.
- Clarification for any rejection notices or prediction rules.
- User requested rejections.
- Concerns or praise regarding the user prediction helpers.
- Training regarding predict-helpers.
_ RBC assignments and invoicing for all RBC artists.
- Kyu specifically helps with breeding mistake uploads as they're sent to her/posted on the Mistakes board.
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Zephy (#215): Consider her one of my main supervisors. Zephy handles the MBC portion of the queue as well as MBC predicts, in specific. She can also answer any predict-questions. To detail more:
- Assigns and invoices MBC breedings and payments.
- MBC predict processing and training, as well as MBC related predict questions.
- Clarification for any rejection notices or prediction rules.
- User requested rejections.
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The rest of our predict helpers are as follows, and you can go to them for questions as well!
Darsh (#43): Wrangles LBC predicts, as well as any questions regarding LBC predicts, rejection notices, or user requested rejections.
JOHNNY (#1705): Another MBC predict acceptor, can answer MBC predict related questions.
Eveglori (#2775): In-training predict acceptor. Can be asked for MBC.
Daffu (#81): In-training predict acceptor. Can be asked for LBC.
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Last but not least...
Kazna (#233): Breeding mistake-fixer!
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Please note, some things you can do to make all of our jobs easier when it comes to breeding questions...
I. First and foremost, do not message any other admin about breeding-related questions! I have to stress this since all it will do is require that admin to forward you to my department, meaning time spent that could easily be saved if you message a proper person.
II. If you think your breeding has a mistake, don't PM, post! The Mistakes Thread is available for that reason, and even if you're unsure, read the rules there and still post if you think it needs to be reviewed.
III. If you want PSDs from your breedings, check for the artist of your breeding in the proper forums! You can look through the Breeding Artist Blogs thread, or even post in Breeding Chat itself searching for the artist.
IV. Message the appropriate person for predict questions! Not everyone works on the same coin so you can see above who works on what. It's easier to get an answer if proper persons are utilized.
V. Bump your messages after one week of no responses (not daily, not after three days -- seven, please!). Specifically, Mauri and I get a lot of messages that can be skipped over due to high volume, but the one week rule is pretty good for a reminder.
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If anything else comes up I'll be sure to address it publicly, but hopefully the above helps with some things. If there are any other questions too, please just remember the above!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:59pm
Weekly Wednesday Updates!
Site Update
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers:
Q: Which of the following is not a stiletto colour?
A: Blue and white
Q: If you had a Lesser Breeding Coin (LBC) you could breed any of the following pairs except...
A: Neura x neura
Q: What can users not do on the forums?
A: Bump their board every five minutes.
Q: Approximately how many pets are there on Aywas currently?
A: 3 million (wow!)
Q: The belsnickel collection contains all of the following bells except...
A: Green-ribbon red bell
Q: Which of these items didn't stock in the seasonal shop during the Valentine's event '12?
A: Golden Basket Charm
Q: Which breeding add-on is not compatible with a Breeding Coin (BC)?
A: Blood Filtering Kit
Q: Who has a guide in the User-Created Guides subforum?
A: Syleni (#1883)
Q: Which item was not released as one of Frey's birthday items in '11?
A: Egg Timer
Q: What is not a feature of the battledome?
A: Quests
Weekly Raffle!
This week's raffle winner is:
Death of Fantasy (#24092)
Who had 36 crystals out of 14,624 total and won a Glittering Rock!
Congratulations. :)
Wah-wah, no prize upgrade or second winner this time. :C
But! If you guys collect over 20k raffle crystals this week, the winner will receive a Item Cloner v1.0 and there could be a second winner for a smaller prize. Less than 20k and the prize will be a handful of Eye and Claw Cloners.
Get collecting!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:21pm
Blind Date Scribbles!
Contests
And here are the Blind Date winners!
Proud Parents:
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Owned by Leno & Neko (Cynder) (#12953) x Griffinsong (#1242)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
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Owned by Lysa Moving In (#2170) and Fenrir Harley (#2385)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by Pika (#270) and Steamy (#407)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by Nui� (#9965) and Rocket NyctiCorax (#1965)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by Stella (#28533) and Dedlea [Suunes] (#29552)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by Froggie (#22425) and YourFavorite (#7163)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by Morgue (#4353) and AutumnDragon & Fin (#3243)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
x 
Owned by To The Stage (#463) and Fluffy Horror (#998)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
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Owned by Silverstream94 (#24506) and Leovant (#35187)
Babbies!
Proud Parents:
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Owned by Cupcake (#39133) and LA's DarkFireWolf (#34528)
Babbies!
Though your pets may not remember their scribble-induced one night stand, we hope you enjoy the babies!
Congratulations!
I'll be sending out your new little hoodlums soon. :3
Huge thanks to Nyoko for the artwork, rad event, and all the time and effort she put into it!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:47pm
Scribble-a-Pet Results!
Contests
The Scribble Day results are in!
Nyoko did an awesome job judging these. :3
First up are the results from the Scribble-A-Pet-Above-You thread--which was a huge hit!
Scribble Winners!
To Allysun~Shine (#317)
To Toes! (#5638)
To Tryic (#6694)
To Kwillow (#28509)
To Dragongirl (#36910)
To Mars (#128)
To emmabunny&silverwolf (#14354)
To ChaosOrganizer (#15341)
To SleepyBri&Nikkidee (#268)
To Kestrel Dani Zander (#6580)
To Rainwolfeh (#7623)
To Ginny (#3661)
To Tayzer (#1203)
To Nepherim (#283)
To William+Zeph=Zaccy (#19039)
To Skitty (#543)
To Fairy-Bribey (#69)
To oce (#508)
To Ozfiz (#20773)
To Purple The Panda (#38780)
To Marceline-PB-LSP (#8523)
To Damion1060 (#11496)
To Fae (#821)
To Scara Zom (#76)
To ~Apple~ (#22249)
To Tabbykit (#16458)
To sin misses kite (#2826)
To LadyCrystal (#35700)
To Evvor (#21769)
To MusetteHasGoodFrands (#12172)
To Ashil (#1716)
Congratulations!
The artists of these lovely creations were put into an artist pool where five were randomly selected via generator to win these five rares!
Kwillow (#28509)
Chickenz (#38955)
Fluffy Horror (#998)
Manta (#184)
Nova (#2608)
Congratulations to all our winners! We hope you had fun. :3
Blind Date results will be announced later this evening. Sending out the prizes above momentarily!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:57pm
Weekend in Disguise - Explore Pets
Pets
My weekend was basically eaten by some IRL events. |:
So this counts as the weekend right?
So here are your weekend explore pets!
Next week's bonus explore pets are the Gael, Insi, and Melo!
If you color one of the above species and have it accepted, you'll receive 10 GP per coloration accepted instead of the normal 3GP!
If you want to design some, go and post them in their respective threads here!
HEAR YE, HEAR YE: The Little Pet Shop of Horrors pets will be leaving the shop come July. Get them while you can!
- Mauri
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:58pm
Background Updates
Site Update
The highscores for Cooking, Gourmet, Eating and Recipe Helper have finally been cleared! We're still working on getting the highscore scripts in tip-top shape, but Yasu has made a lot of progress on them this month.
On the topic of cooking, Egg Timers have been temporarily disabled since we were made aware of a couple problems with them. We'll let you know as soon as you can use them again!
For a little fix, Awesome Potions have been updated to include the correct genus list. :)
One of the major hangups we're still wrestling with are all of the crons associated with Aywas, which kind of got thrown out of whack after the move. These are connected to a lot of things on-site--dailies, auctions, pet hunger pangs, high scores, etc. Believe it or not, this also may be tied to why the Art Gallery isn't working properly. While we're working with the server company on a solution, Yasu has been running these manually, but can't always do it at their normal intervals. Please bear with us until that gets sorted out, we'll try to have that remedied as soon as possible.
On a good note, I'm sure you've noticed the drastic improvement in site speed and lair loading. Yasu did some amazing optimization work for us and will continue to do so. He's still working on a lair recoding project that's coming along really well and will make loading and sorting even zippier. :3
And Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:23pm
Story Game + HA Contest!
Contests
Sennara's Story Game results are here!
Winner: Maddy (#39426)
Prize: Blue Custom Crystal
Congratulations!
Click here to go to this week's contest!
As per your suggestions, we have added some HA Contest-specific rules to the game, which can be found directly on the contest page for your convenience! They are as follows:
- Winning entrants of the weekly HA contest must let a minimum of three weeks pass before entering again.
- Users are not permitted to offer any form of compensation or incentive for HA votes, which includes tips, gifts and contest or raffle prizes.
- Users may only advertise their HA entry in a signature, profile, or Human Avatar Chat.
- Otherwise, the soliciting of votes is not permitted through private messaging or any other system, including those that are offsite.
These rules are effective starting June 18th, so make sure to look them over before entering in the upcoming round. We may adjust these as needed, but the game was in dire need of some parameters, so these should help! By popular demand, we also might try some themed HA contests soon. o:
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:00pm
Reminder!
Site Update
The seasonal shop has been cleared and the exotic pets in the Enchanted Forest have retreated. We hope you got all the goodies you wanted! Be sure to thank Eli (#463) for creating such a wonderful event for us to enjoy.
Don't forget that the Genet Potion only has enough magic to work through June 16th at 11:59 PM, so get those customs submitted soon!
Today is my birthday, so I will be answering messages and resuming our regularly scheduled updates tomorrow. :)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:52pm
Revamp Kings
Contests
Schedule
6/15 - Applications close and contestants posted!
6/15 - Revamp period starts!
6/29 - Revamp period ends, and winners chosen!
Here are the selected pets for revamp! Click on their pictures to go to their revamp thread.
Have fun!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:13am