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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
Brief downtime
Site Update
Aywas will be down for about 15-30 minutes in a short while as we investigate some server backend settings.
Edit: Nevermind, we'll do this at night :p
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:07am
Happy Birthday Kaz and Shoe!
Pets
Don't forget that it's Kaz and Shoe's birthday and you can use their feature to send metal customs to other people!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:59am
SCC Page Update!
Pets
Just a quick announcement to inform you that Nyoko (#585) has been added to the SCC artists page!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:50pm
Weekly Updates!
Site Update
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers:
Q: What do you not see on your friendlist?
A: Birthdays
Q: Who did not win a Bottled Starlight from raffle #15?
A: draconisregena (#5294)
Q: When were Flaming Metal Custom Orbs added to the Premium Outlet?
A: May 9, 2011
Q: What happens if you release a pet into the wild? It will...
A: Get deleted (and result in a 'dead' #ID)
Q: Which is not a color of a CD you can give to Tak?
A: Platinum
Q: The following users are all listed as site SCC artists except...
A: Suki (#531)
Q: How can a user unlock achievement #78 to get the forum title 'Music Lover'?
A: They had to buy the item 'heartphones' available in the BP shop during Valentine's and use it.
Q: In which NPC shop can users not receive 10% discount even with a premium lasting 6 months or more?
A: SP shop
Q: If you used one of every pet slot item available, how many pet slots would you be able to add to your lair?
A: 211
Q: The ennae hybrid can be bred from...
A: Gael x vyne
Weekly Raffle!
This week's raffle winner is:
Kaitou KID (#9617)
Who had 43 crystals out of 11,778 total and won a Book of Flowers~!
Congratulations!
The next prize is a Glittering Rock!
But, if you guys collect 20k crystals or more, it will be upgraded to a Glittering Potion and there could be a second winner! o:
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:59pm
Exotic Reminders!
Site Update
Don't forget to grab any last-minute kibble or potions from the Enchanted Forest today.
Both will be leaving some time after 11:59 PM tonight!
The Seasonal Shop will have its doors open through June 14th at 11:59 PM, at which time the pets will also leave the Enchanted Forest. The Genet Potion will be usable through June 16th at 11:59 PM.
As an FYI, Yasu might be disabling our lairs later today for a short time (about an hour) to do some maintenance. :3
(If you saw the Adoption Center down a little while ago, that was his doing as well, but it's back up. n_n)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:13pm
Recent heavy patches of lag
Site Update
Since the server transfer, there has been a consistence lag problem that has been occurring on the new server. We are aware of this problem and are actively working on it.
There may be some times when you will hit sudden heavy lag or even the site will go down. Usually, this is our doing as we are usually working on something on the backend of the site. We've recently obtained a new toy that's pin pointing what scripts are causing problems and how they are causing it, so we have been hard at work fixing 'em.
If you suddenly hit a bad patch of lag, or if the site even goes down for you, madly refreshing the page will not bring it back up. Again, generally when this occurs, it's us doing something and not just some random patch of lag on the site. Just wait it out a few minutes and give it another try.
Posted by *Yasu
(#3410) on Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:07am