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Alera (#157) ................................. Hakai & Sapphie (#3044) ................................. Deadpool (#382)
Mars (#128) ................................. bubika (#37935)
Congratulations to all of our winners!
Posted by Lacia
(#25044) on Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:49pm
Clothing Shops
Site Update
Just a mini post to ask you to take a look at a thread in the Suggestions forum about the current HA shops and what to do with them.
I would love to see your opinions!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Tue Jun 9, 2020 4:22pm
Breeding Call June Edition!
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We have a small update regarding the Blind Date/Eggnog Team. The wonderful Allysun is stepping down from managing the team and passing the reigns to Aros (#4353). Allysun has given him all the information he needs to successfully take over this position and all current artists should have been made aware.
Please be gentle with him while he settles in!
Lotus has also stepped down from managing the Breeding and Holiday Breeding Coins as we are moving to a system of the coins being handled by Elves and Moderators!
Speaking of breeding teams, we are looking to hire artists for both the Blind Date/Eggnog Team and Grand Team! If you are interested and would like to apply please PM Kaiyo (#489) with the message title being the team you are applying for and your username (Ex. "Blind Date/Eggnog Application - Kaiyo").
You can find the application for the Blind Date/Eggnog Team here.
Please include whether you have been on a breeding team before, even if it was temporary!
You are also welcome to PM your application using examples from already completed predictions, practice pairs, or edit examples. If applying for the Grand Team make sure to include some examples with 75% edits!
Blind Date/Eggnogs:
1-5 babies in 7 days
Payment:
30% offspring = 30 GP or 45 Credit
Grand Team:
1-5 babies in 7 days
Payment:
30% offspring = 30 GP or 45 Credit
50% offspring = 40 GP or 60 Credit
75% offspring = 50 GP or 75 Credit
An explanation of what “Credit” is and what it can be used for can be found in this Knowledge Base article. For more information about these teams and their coins head on over here.
Sketch Breeding Coin Coin Information for artist
Details with FAQ on the coins in the KB above, and
Here is the application
Key points are:
Lists can be any size you can handle, but typical is 5 pairs.
- The deadline is typically 7 days.
Sketch coins produce unbreedable, silver pets.
- So all artwork must be unique and redrawn, but still, look like a baby the parents would produce.
Sketch Breeding Coins pay 14 GP per baby or 21 Credit per baby.
-- When USD Prepay or Contracts are avaliable, priority is given to current active artist on the GP and AC teams
Please check the application above, to apply!
Lesser Breeding Coin Coin KB
Details with FAQ on the coins in the KB above, and
LBC Application
Quick info:
This coin mixes the same genus pets, with edits.
There no requirement to re-draw anything, but, some skills with masking, or breaking apart PSD's is helpful.
Being able to work with PNG X PNG, or PNG X PSD is a plus, however, Kandria will work with you to teach if you don't know-how.
- Please note in your application, if you need help with them, Still do the pairs the best you can as well so we can see what level you are at!
LBC artists are able to choose the number of babies made per list.
They have a deadline of 10 days per list.
Artists are paid 10 GP per baby or 15 Arist Credit per baby.
The Breeding Coin and Holiday Breeding teams are also looking for artists! Please Pm Kita #3988 examples of BC predictions, edited pets, or completion of the application found in the Breeding Forum.
BC and HBC artists are paid 30 GP per baby, and 40 GP per 50% edited baby.
If they choose to be paid in credit artists are paid 45 Credit per baby, and 60 Credit per 50% edited baby.
Use the promo code "meme me daddy" when applying and Kita will send you a meme every time you turn in a list!
Scribble and Smudged Scribble are next! With a pay starting at 25 GP per breeding and adding 5 GP per extra offspring after the first per breeding, it's pretty dang good, if I do say so myself. Of course, you can also opt in for the equivalent of Artist Credit if you'd prefer!
Interested in Scribble/Smudged Scribble? Check out this thread here!
Next on the list is our very own Rusted team! They're all masters of redrawing markings to fit new bases for 10 GP per breeding, so if you feel like that's your thing, then feel free to check out this thread and give Kozmotis #48993 a shout!
And we're not done with Kozmotis' teams just yet! The Painted teams are in need of some new faces, particularly Painted Lesser. Follow prompts and mix edits -- or not, for Painted Metal -- and get yourself either 9 GP per PMBC or 11 GP per PLBC!
We've got two threads for these, so check this one for PMBC and this one for PLBC!
But wait! There's more!
That's right, for the low, low price of sending a PM to Kita #3988 you can join the Radioactive team! You know all those fun mutants that grace our Welcome Back page? You could make those! I hear they're very fun to make! And you can get paid to do it too -- 4 GP per Mutant and 8 GP per Metal.
If you're interested in this wild Coin, check out this thread.
And, if you call Kita with your application right now, you can also join our esteemed Metal breeding team at no cost to you! Mix markings and colors on pets of the same base and... Guess what? You can get some GP! 8 GP per offspring to be exact! And trust us here at headquarters, there's no shortage of work in this queue, so you're free to mix and match to your heart's content.
Want more information? We've got one more thread for you to check out!
I also would like to remind everyone, keep all transactions on site! Without PM's or forum posts for evidence, staff cannot assist you should something go wrong with your transaction. If you work out the details off site, that is fine, but send an onsite communication with the other party as well to finalize all details.
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Mon Jun 8, 2020 1:29pm
SPLISH SPLASH IT'S PPP 2020 TIME
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It's starting to heat up so time to break out the pools! It's time for the Summer's Prediction Pool Party! (But please maintain a safe distance from one another while splashing around!)
For those of you who weren't here, and those of you who were, I'll be listing out all the rules and bonuses, as well as setting up the threads that have everything compiled for easy reference!
This event will run from June 5 to August 31, 2020! that gives you more than 2 whole months to work and design as many predictions as you possibly can! The point of this is to try to help ease up some of the more backed up queues, so those specific queues will also receive the most bonuses.
- The Prediction Caps are being temporarily removed for all coins during this time!
- Any artist that makes a prediction can enter themselves into a raffle by posting in the Artist Raffle (Coming Soon!)
- All edit percentages are "loose" for this event only, so we will not get up in your business if you submit a 50% breeding and it is 57%. If you have a 50% breeding and we can't tell what species it is, then we might have a problem.
- Remember! Predictions can be done for USD however if they are not Platinum Breeding Coin, Scribble Breeding Coin, or Sketch Breeding Coin predictions they must go through the Commission Panel!
Rules
All predictions must have the PSD attached in order to qualify for this event.Breeding rules still apply! If you bought a breeding slot for only one baby, please ensure that you have the owners permission before making extra baby predictions! If someone violates this they may have their baby deleted without refund.Please included "Prediction Pool Party" in your breeding notes, or predictions and breedings will be processed as normal! All artists must have a forum for their sales thread in our new Prediction Pool Party Subforum. The only exception is if you are just doing your own predictions.Now! Onto the part you are all really excited for, the coin specific bonuses!
PLEASE PM the person in charge of the coin you have questions about your breeding or a specific perk:
Breeding Queues and Who To Contact
All coin bonuses are good ONLY for breedings ALREADY SUBMITTED prior to May 19, 2020. That means your breeding must have been submitted on May 19, 2020 or earlier to qualify for any perks.
Breedings submitted prior to 19 May, 2019 may have an extra perk. They will be listed at the END of each coin that has bonus perks.
ALL COINS may submit this SCC as one of the offspring to your breeding if you so choose. This SCC will ONLY be available for the Pool Party 2020 and has been designed by Aros #4353!
You may use any of the 4 ear variations, and use it with or without the antlers!
MBC/LBC/Radioactive coins will act like a Painted Coin when submitting this SCC as one of the offspring, all other coins will allow edits based off the parents, edit randomizers, add-ons, etc. to the specific % amount (e.g. a BC coin that allows a 50% edited offspring will allow you to edit this SCC 50%)
Sketch Coins will allow 50% edits based off the parents to the SCC if you decide to use it as one of your offspring.
HERE is the PSD with all of the variations!
Blind Dates allow up to 75% edits, Delicious Eggnogs allow up to 50% edits. With permission from the other pet's owner you can upload a second baby! You must include the PM ID in the breeding notes. Both coins have a 20% chance for a rare, Nog's are allowed the same rare's as Blind Dates. Please PM Aros (#4353) for the rolls. Please read the Knowledge Base Article about Blind Dates for information about Blind Date and Eggnog predictions.
Breeding Coins grant an extra baby as well as increased edit percentages:
Breeding Coin without an addon - 50% baby and a 30% baby
Breeding Coin with an Edit Potion - 75% baby and a 50% baby
Breeding Coin with a Grand Edit Potion - Two 75% Edited baby, no USD kickback.
Breeding Coin without a baby addon - 2 Babies
Breeding Coin with a Fertility Potion - 3 Babies
Breeding Coin with a Married Pair - 3 Babies
Breeding Coin with a Married Pair and Fertility Potion - 4 Babies
2% chance for metal Alt Neura (PM Kita (#3988) for the roll)
You may also choose a provided SCC from the pot when a hybrid genetics kit is included.
If submitted before May 19, 2019 - 10% chance of an alt Neura rather than a 2% chance and breedings will act as though they have a Painted Bottle attached.
Evil Breeding Coins will give a Guaranteed Breedable baby, and the user is allowed to choose if the offspring is Evil or Normal.
You are permitted up to 50% Edits
1% Chance at a Metal Alt Neura (PM Kita (#3988) for the roll)
With a Hybrid Genetics Kit you can choose the hybrid or any SCC from the pot.
Holiday Breeding Coins have several bonuses! Predictions for this coin will act like they automatically have a Hybrid Genetics Kit or a Genetics Kit attached which allows you to submit any non-rare hybrid, common, uncommon, trash, or raw species you desire. You can also choose from any of the SCC Pot bases! The edit percentage for predictions is also being raised 50%. Every Holiday Breeding Coin prediction will also act as if it has a Painted Bottle attached, so you can color the baby however you see fit.
If you PM Kita (#3988) she will also roll for you to have a 10% chance of getting a rare hybrid during the breeding and a 5% chance at a 50% edited Alt Neura after the breeding is completed (So an additional super rare baby on top of your others). These rolls are *per* predict breeding not offspring.
If submitted before May 19, 2019- 50% chance of a rare hybrid instead of 10% and a 10% Neura chance.
1 extra baby per breeding
Each breeding acts like it has a Painted Vial attached.
5% chance of a Squishy/Sariform roll and our PPP SCC is available as a base to use for MBC
PM Kandria (#293) for rolls!
For all METAL BREEDING COINS submitted before May 19, 2019- Pick one of the Mudslide perks from the Mudslide event to apply to your breeding.
For all LESSER BREEDING COINS submitted before May 19, 2019 - You may make 2 extra offspring instead of just 1.
Neura Embryo and Dragon Lotus allow for 50% edits and act as if there is a Painted Bottle attached.
10% Chance at a second baby, PM Kandria (#293) for roll.
Painted Metal Breeding Coins and Painted Lesser Breeding Coins grant an extra baby. Married pairs that are bred with a Painted Metal Breeding Coin are given a 100% success rate for the second baby, so they total for 3 babies.
This stacks with Painted Eggs, Twins, and any other compatible breeding addon, however you must provide all babies and you lose out on the site provided baby!
You may add 1 edit to be drawn on each baby, up to 30%. This edit may only be an accessory! No pose changes, or base adjustments! Or you may use one edit from any of the Painted Edit Packs
You are allowed 1 baby of your choice: Mutant or Normal. As well as 1 added Mutant! If you would like to see if your first baby rolls a hybrid you can pm Kandria (#293) for your roll.
Up to 8 additional site pets that you own may be included in the notes for a total of 10 parents for mutants.
Rusted Breeding Coins allow an extra baby and you can breed any 2 pets together and pick your Trash Hybrid! With an HGK or Opalized Rock attached you may also use one of the provided SCCs as a base.
All Polished Rock breedings (Not just PPP!) also allow predictions, please PM Kozmotis (#48993) with the breeding ID to find out your SCC base(s) (for PPP you may get up to 2 SCC rolls since 2 babies are allowed, or ask for only 1 roll and use that base for both offspring)!
Sketch Breeding Coins permit a 3rd additional baby with 10% edits. The "founders" must remain metal however!
We are also allowing thematic add-ons to be added to these breedings.
All breedings may link a 3rd parent in the notes -- 3rd and 4th if a Platinum DNA is attached
With Platinum Breeding coin you are guaranteed a secondary baby with no edits without attaching a life seed!
Transitional Fossil Egg and Alidae Egg allow 75% edits, or two babies with 75% edits if you use a Grand Edit Potion. All breedings will also also act as if they have a Painted Bottle attached.
If you have a scribble breeding from the most recent event, you are allowed to upload predicts and not lose the perk provided that you include the specific day's perks in your breeding notes. For days that were rolled (i.e. Elemental, Cowboy vs Witch, etc), please PM Juke (#7625) for your roll.
Please remember that these changes are only for the Prediction Pool Party event! After August 31 11:59 PM Aywas Time all previous prediction rules are back in place!
I know I mentioned the SCC Pot a few times, what is that you ask? Last year (and for several years!), we had a thread where you could go to "shop" for different user submitted SCCs! These SCCs must be founded and have no rules. Please PM Juke (#7625) if you would like to submit an SCC to be available for use for the breedings -- please include a blank PSD and PNG as well as a link to the SCC Database entry. We will not accept all SCC's, we want to have a wide variety. Expect a thread to be formed shortly with the submitted SCC's and instructions on how to get the PSD's!
We will also be hosting the raffles again but the threads will come at a later point!
Posted by Juke 🇵🇸
(#7625) on Thu Jun 4, 2020 9:25pm
Welcome to June, Part 2 & More
Site Update
Here to welcome you to June yet again are the lovely Jeweled and Rock Custom Crystal pets! This month's Jeweled Custom Crystal pets are by Puppet (#6177) !
If you want to be a Jeweled Custom Artist, please visit the hiring thread!
"As a representation of communication and companionship, Gemini reminds us that we are strongest when we are together ♥" - Kirawra (#11849)
While we have your attention, it seems that Miksa has made a discovery!
"Oh, there appears to be some new pets shuffling around now that May's hype has died down..."
In addition, the March, April, and May pet coloration submissions forum raffle has been drawn!
Congratulations to March's winner Anora (#79257) for winning a Bronze Custom Orb!
Congratulations to April's winner snailfever (#35130) for winning a Gold Custom Crystal!
Congratulations to May's winner snailfever (#35130) for winning a Gold 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 Exotic Pet Palace! Remember, you can earn SP and a Restyle Brush!
If your design is now released as a site pet please contact me, Lacia (#25044), for your free copy.
Are you thirsty for information about the Prediction Pool Party? Be prepared to get drenched tomorrow!
Posted by Lacia
(#25044) on Wed Jun 3, 2020 4:45pm
Welcome to June, Part 1
Site Update
Starting off, we have our GP Shop and BP Shop pets!
If you colored one of these pets, please contact Lacia (#25044) for your payment!
Make sure to include your PayPal address if you are opting for the USD option.
We will also be collecting pet PSDs directly from the thread, so please make sure you keep the links active for two weeks (at least until mid-June) so we have time to snag 'em!
The Essence of June 2020 will turn your active pet into one random June 2020 pet listed above! The image will be updated once we have it in our possession.
A sparkling Lunaris friend has squeaked on by to wish those born in June a happy birthday! It adores finding and rolling pearls around, and its little mask makes it look like a cute, furry thief!
Don't forget to check out the birthday link to claim your gift from Aywas on your big day! Need to change your birthday? Click here!
If you missed your Lunaris or have further questions regarding them, please contact Chelle (#7310).
This month's Premium Item is the Mini Gradient Gargoyle! This little fellow came to inject some color into April - and now he's back to do it again! Add this item to a Scribble Breeding Coin and your breeding will result in two babies - and the second will be up to 15% edited from the first!
The new monthly contests have been announced!
July Monthly Shop Pets: Enter
July Monthly Customs - Sharks: Enter
Good luck with your entries!
The RCC and Jeweled pets will be announced in part two of the Welcome to June post. Until then, you are free to continue uploading May's options, which you can review here!
We wanted to thank everyone who engaged with the news post about the Drinking Game. We read all your comments, and have taken on board the suggestions you made about how to improve Option 2 should we have a similar idea for another feature.
The voting stayed quite steady over this week, with Option 1 polling ahead by 40-55 votes within hours and staying with that consistent lead.
As such, the Drinking Game will now deposit the pairs into the Scribble Breeding Coin queue, from this month (June) onward. May's top 10 went into the Eggnog queue, as it was not fair for us to change the prize that the users had worked for prior to this poll result.
Please remember that should you join the drinking game from this month onward, the resulting Scribble babies are all eligible as the first Founder pet of a Silver species. You will not need permission from the owner of the second pet in your breeding to found the species and sell/gift/trade PSD uses of this species. As always, if your pet has rules that need to be consented to you cannot play the Drinking Game with that pet. Additionally, if the prospect of sharing the edits on your pet in this way does not appeal to you, you should not play this game with that pet.
The KB articles for the game will be updated over this week, so we can make sure we answer any questions and clear up any confusions you may leave in your news comments.
Posted by Lacia
(#25044) on Mon Jun 1, 2020 5:33pm
The Story Game Begins
Contests
A new Story Game has started! The winner of the raffle for the previous story is Toby (#24557)! Thank you for your participation, and I hope that you enjoy your Jeweled Hybrid Crystal!
The deadline for the next installment is 11:59 PM AST on Saturday, June 13th!
For those unfamiliar with the game, you can read about it here. Don't forget, you can also subscribe to the official Story Game thread or the ping group StoryGame! Not only will you be notified of updates and reminders for the game, but it is a good place to chat about the current game, or even about what you'd like to see in the future!
Remember, the story is in your hands!
Posted by Lacia
(#25044) on Sun May 31, 2020 10:37am
Monthly Customs Game
Contests
Are you tired of all these news posts yet? Well don't worry, this one doesn't have too much for you to read, though you'll want to make sure you read the news post below this one if you already haven't!
It's time to give away five free customs designed during April under the theme of Frogs!
To play, you simply choose your favorite from the poll below! This will enter you into a raffle for that particular design. You only get one vote, so choose wisely! If you created one of the pets below, please contact Lacia (#25044) with which prizes you are claiming.
You have until 11:59 PM AST on June 6th to get your votes in! Good luck!
Posted by Lacia
(#25044) on Sat May 30, 2020 9:43am
Drinking Game: Discussion and Poll
Site Update
As part of our addressing Breedings and the hurdles that are preventing us from making headway on clearing out the queues, the topic of the Drinking Game came up.
As you may or may not be aware, all the pets on the score board at the end of the month will be randomly paired together and bred. This means every month 10 new breedings are generated - and while that doesn't sound like much, when you have trouble finding artists who are interested in the type of breeding mix the game generates, the queue piles up. Many long standing members will know that getting the drinking game breedings completed has been an uphill struggle from the game's inception.
As such we have come to the hard decision to make changes to the game - but as this is a big change, we want to share the discussion and the decision with you. After a lot of conversations we have narrowed it down to two possibilities that we feel offer the best results.
Option One
The queue continues to generate breedings, but from June onwards they will now go to the Scribble queue.
While you may pause and question if diverting from one queue to another is a smart idea, the Scribble queue is at a low enough level that injecting 10 new breedings a month would not be unwieldy, especially as the team has been taking on new members recently.
Pets created from the Drinking Game would be eligible as Silver Species Founders without the permission of the other pet owner's permission - so you would need to be certain you are happy to share your pet's markings and edits, with potentially more than one other custom.
Option Two
The queue gets a unique unbreedable genus and from June onwards the top 10 will receive a custom maker.
1-3 = Gold Custom Maker
4-6 = Blue Custom Maker
7-10 = Bronze Custom Maker
The genus would be unbreedable to ensure the rarity of the genus is not compromised. The maker would not be account bound, so it would be possible to sell, trade, or gift the custom maker as the winning user wishes.
Details of the genus are not available at this time, as we would likely try to poll what type of creature people would be interested in.
Bonus Question
As it stands, users may enter as many pets as they wish to into the Drinking Game. In theory, should you have enough alcohol, one person could hold all top 10 spots (though I feel it is important to note that this has never happened!)
Do you believe that the Drinking Game should limit each account to enter only one pet, opposed to entering as many as you wish?
We hope to hear your thoughts about these changes, and especially the bonus question.
Option Two: The queue gets a unique unbreedable genus and the top 10 will receive a custom maker
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Tue May 26, 2020 12:58pm
A Few More Changes
Site Update
After some long discussions Dylan has convinced Scion to embrace his life syphoning side and take responsibility for all the Exotic eggs that have been gathering in the Recycling Center.
As such Scion has taken over one of the empty shops in town to create an Eggery where you can trade your Exotic eggs for Pride Candles. It works exactly as it did in the Recycling Center, and will be updated every Mayday and Black Friday when we have new eggs.
We hope this will make the Recycling Center feel a little less cluttered, and give Scion something positive to do!
There's also been a few other small changes in the last week:
The Edit Repository receives a lot of metal reshades of pets, so we have added a new "Reshade" option to single those out for you.
The tag "reshade" still exists for edited pets that also come with reshaded elements.
Predict-only coins and items have been removed from the Breeding Status page.
As these coins are completed on the user's own timeline, it made the "current status" section misleading for people who were new to the site and/or breeding.
Private Knowledge Base articles are now actually private. No more weird greyed out links that tell you that you're not allowed there
- which means the KB itself looks much better and is much more useful for you all.
"Dig For Bait" has been removed from the Games page while we continue to rework the fishing system.
We have no ETA for the feature at this time.
The "Assign Custom Fauna" section has been removed from "Assign Fauna". It's a feature that I genuinely can't remember the last time it was used, as using a Custom Item Package to make fauna became more popular. Those people who did use the feature will still have the fauna on their pet (and will still lose it, as before, if they assign another fauna over the top). You can still assign both site and privately owned fauna to your pets as normal.
The User Shops of banned users have been blocked from use for a while, but accidentally stumbling on one created a huge notification to skew your tab. As such we've made strides to remove these shops from the search entirely. It may be that one or two, or perhaps even a few, were missed so if you stumble across one please don't hesitate to PM me and let me know the username and ID so I can remove them from search too.
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There are some other changes on the horizon that we're going to discuss with you in news posts, and take polls on, so that everyone gets to put their opinions forward. We know that having a say is something that we're often asked for, and we agree that there are some big decisions that we want to make with you, not for you.
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sat May 23, 2020 4:23pm