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Lair Groups - Fixed
I am most excited to announce that he successfully fixed the lingering problems with lair groups!
You can once more edit, move and update groups and their descriptions.
The only problem you still might run into is when viewing a very large group of pets, those pets that appear toward the bottom of the page might be a little ornery and will refuse to sort properly. Until we can tackle this beast of an issue, try viewing the pet(s) you want to sort from a smaller group (perhaps a default genus group on the left).
Haunted Pumpkin - Wearable
Brr, I don't know if this poor Haunted Pumpkin likes snow, but it does look darn cute sitting in it!
(If you were around for Halloween when these were just collectables, you can now use it for some HA scenery!)
I didn't forget about the Haunted Keys either, we just have to get something specially whipped up for them.
Lab?
You might remember Slash's news post that mentioned a holiday Frankenstein's Lab.
Since I overwhelmed you with pets and there really weren't too many useless collectables around this time, not to mention it's like, January, I'm going to move this to a special July event. It'll be funner this way, I promise. XD
Pick a Leaf - Updated
You can now actually pick leaves again on Pick a Leaf.
Not the most exciting update, but hey, it needed to be updated at some point.
Thanks again, Dev!
Potions - No Special Rarity
"Hey, Dev! Can you fix potions so they no longer can give out Special rarity pets?"
"I can do anything, Eri."
"Yay!"
"Let's test this Random Reve Potion."
"Okay, let me know which Reves you get and I'll tell you if they're good."
"Test!"
"Perfect!"
"Okay, now let's test one of those Finn Potions."
"... uh oh, I think we maybe uh. Just broke those. Because all Finns are Special. They must've broke potions!"
"Pssh, I got this. *fixes*"
And there you have it, my friends.
Potions should no longer be able to give out Special pets, except for that sneaky Finn one, of course.
I'm going to have him check some other pet-obtaining methods, then I'll make an announcement about Conservation Pet refunds and rewards. I didn't want to mix the glitched pets with legitimate ones. So, if you obtained one of the special conservation pets via a potion or are waiting for your actual pet, stay tuned!
Moderator Control Panel
You guys probably won't be as giddy over this as we are because you can't see it, but if you didn't already know, moderator tools are fairly limited. This shiny new panel (hey, it's shinier than the admin panel, what is this. |:) gives moderators access to some really helpful new buttons and levers, as well as some new tools in general for staff as a whole. It's only in the beginning stages, but what it means is that a huge step has been made for behind-the-scenes progress, which means a more efficient, capable staff for you!
Yasu is responsible for this and has done an awesome job!
We're hoping to get the Monthly Item and Holiday Wardrobe up today if all goes well, too!
Note: The Holiday Wardrobe will be remaining in the Cash Shop longer than the items to give you ample time to obtain one once it works!
Shopkeeper PSDs
I know some people are struggling with the default PSDs, so I wanted to let you know that Dew is offering cleaned up versions of them here! Hopefully that'll make it easier for you to create the custom you want. :3
Not that I really have to remind you, but remember, CCCOs/Cs are still in Holiday Lane and will be until 12:15 a.m. on the 12th (that's 15 minutes after the 11th ends tonight).
The Seasonal Shop also closes tonight (I'll start removing things after Holiday Lane closes, which is also at 12:15), so make sure you grab all the goodies you want before then!
Phew!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:29pm
Candy Cane Crystals & Orbs!
Site Update
Candy Cane Crystals and Orbs are now in Holiday Lane and will be there for a full 24 hours!
(That means like 12:15 a.m. on the 12th, 15 minutes after the 11th ends.)
Go get 'em!
Only not too hard, we don't want to lag poor Aywas that bad. XD
Yasu will be around for a little while in case there are any problems obtaining them, but you should be able to find them in chests and such.
Enjoy!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:12am
January Lunaris & Adventure
Site Update
(Because of the delayed update, if you received the incorrect Lunaris, talk to Visark (#185) about an exchange.)
This is your 24 hour+ warning that Candy Cane Custom Crystals and Orbs will be put into adventure around midnight tomorrow night and will be available for a full 24 hours!
Edit: My apologies for using the term "midnight." The orbs/crystals will go in around 11:59 PM on January 10th and be there all day on the 11th.
Stuck in Adventure/Battledome?
We're going to get you unstuck.
If clicking on "Find My Battle" here or switching active pets doesn't help you, please PM either Vampi (#12221) or Giggles (#3577) with details on your situation. After compiling lists of user IDs, those will be passed on to Yasu, who will both look more into the issue and personally un-stick you!
Don't forget that the Reet leaves us January 15th and will be replaced with a new raw pet!
Monthly Item, Holiday Wardrobe updates, etc. still to come!
(The monthly item is going to be a new item that I think you guys will find to be really fun.)
Make sure you get your votes in for the alt Finx and play the free custom game for a chance at a Baby New Year pet!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Mon Jan 9, 2012 6:46pm
Free Monthly Customs!
Site Update
It's time to give away nine free customs designed during December under the theme Baby New Year!
So we have a lot of cute baby pets to give away! :3
To play the free custom game, please include the phrase "CUSTOM #__" in your news comment. For example, if you want Custom 1, please comment "CUSTOM #1."
1................................................2................................................3
4................................................5................................................6
7................................................8................................................9
Please contact Visark (185) for your prize if you designed one of these customs!
You have until January 10th at 11:59 PM to choose!
(And don't forget to check out all the alt Finx sketches below!)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:00am
Alt Lineart Finx
Pets
NUMBER 1 - TOP LEFT - "Prancing"
NUMBER 2 - TOP RIGHT - "Standing"
NUMBER 3 - BOTTOM LEFT - "Jumping"
NUMBER 4 - BOTTOM RIGHT - "Strutting"
NUMBER 5 - By God "Flying"
NUMBER 6 - By God "Crouching"
(A bit too much like the Finn, maybe?)
NUMBER 7 - By God "Laying"
NUMBER 8 - By Saturn "Twisting"
Select all the ones you like
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jan 8, 2012 10:20pm
Alt Finx Lineart
Pets
You said you wanted an alt finx, so...
Are we going in the right direction with any of these?
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jan 8, 2012 5:53pm
Welcome to January - Part I
Site Update
Let's bring in this year with a bang!
This is just a cute collectable to commemorate the New Year and can be picked up in the Advent Calendar today and tomorrow.
It's a new year and a new month, so you know what that means--new monthly pets!
Here are your brand new GP Shop pets, welcoming winter and 2012!
And here are your new BP Shop pets, celebrating January:
If you colored one of these lovely pets, don't forget to contact the equally darling Visark (#185) for your payment and pet copy!
Three new contests have appeared!
February Monthly Pets - BP Shop
February Monthly Pets - GP Shop
February Monthly Customs - Shadow Pets
Feeling like a gambler this year?
Start off with the Essence of January 2012, now stocking in the GP Shop for 3 GP!
As usual, this potion will change your active pet to one of the many colorations you see above.
Look at this cute snowman I found!
Formerly the Edible Snowman, he has been renamed Snowman Capsule, and I don't think you'll want to eat him any time soon. Not only is he positively adorable, but he will let you create one of our four brand new shopkeepers
We have a Maki, Oske, Fens, and Finx for you to choose from this year!
The capsule allows for a max of 30% edits on them. :3
Click on the images to get the PSDs.
Pick up your Snowman Capsules at the Trash For Treasure Shop, where they will be stocking for the rest of the month!
The new Lunaris, monthly item, free customs, etc. are still to come! (If you had premium that expired any time from January 1st til now, I will see to it that you are given the premium item, no worries!)
Don't forget January 2012 Breeding Season ends on the 9th!
Back to work I go!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Jan 8, 2012 3:44pm
Trivia, Raffle Crystals & Coding Updates!
Site Update
It's a new month and a new year, and I'm sure you're all anxious for our monthly goodies!
As much as I like to torture myself with massive news posts, I'm going to break them up into a few so you don't overwhelm yourself and miss something! By the lack of a snazzy sign, you can probably tell this is not the huge January post(s), but they're coming tomorrow.
My grandfather's memorial service was yesterday so I've been spending a lot of time with my family and trying to recuperate, but I'm very much looking forward to keeping myself busy on Aywas and appreciate everyone's support and understanding. <3
Now, lets knock some stuff out!
(I already uploaded the monthly pets, but they won't be officially announced until tomorrow. You're free to purchase them now, though. n_n)
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Weekly Raffle
This week's raffle crystal winner is:
Mr. Death Bunny (#27858)
Who had 10 crystals out of 21,990 total and won an Elaborate Present!
This week's prize is the elusive Celestial Talisman!
Coding Updates
You might've noticed a new face around the forums asking you about bugs and glitches.
That would be Dev (#8026), our new fixer-upper!
We work very well together, so I'm excited to have him alongside Yasu.
Dev is going to be working on various longstanding and new bugs that will make our game experience that much more enjoyable and easy to use.
Not only will I be assigning him things to work on, but we have a pair of moderators working on compiling lists of glitches to forward to him to ensure that we're addressing everything we need to. This also gives him two staff members at his disposal in case I don't have long periods of time to debug with him--you might even see him asking for YOUR help on the forums, so don't be shy! :3
Consequently, Lair Sorting is almost in tip-top shape! You can once more sort pets successfully, there are just a few issues with naming lair groups and updating the description, so that's next.
Yasu has been fighting with auctions, so if you've been waiting on an expired auction for a while, you probably saw the results today or will be seeing them soon! He manually ran a lot of the crons and rewrote the script to fix the problem that was keeping them from executing on their own, but still has some work to do on Item Auctions in particular. I'm ecstatic that he found the problem and has made so much progress--and I'm sure you are, too!
He is also working on the high score system. In addition to reworking the pet tables and cron issues there, he'll also be making a change that will allow you to view previous months' scores if all goes well!
I know many of you are curious about the other Adventure Locations, so I wanted to let you know that is another of Yasu's focuses. He needs to adjust some things before opening the closed locations and will also be ensuring broken/unusable Adventure items will work (I'm even going to get some of the equipment working myself! o:).
Okay, phew! Time for a little bit of sleep so I can bombard you with lots of new things tomorrow.
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Jan 8, 2012 4:13am
Explore Pets Ta-Dah!
Pets
Kyu and I are at Disney World but I managed to boot up my laptop for a little to bring you... *drum roll*
Explore Pets!
If you designed one of the above. please contact us for your copy of the pet.
Next week's bonus explore pets are the Maki, Oske, and Chromo!
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!
- Mauri
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Sat Jan 7, 2012 9:53pm
Those dastardly pendants...
Site Update
This is a short newspost, so please be sure to check the one under this for Holiday related goodies!
Yasu coded for me a 60-day regen, so I'm using it for the purpose of making Lesser Breeding Pendants 60 day regen. I know people will be rather upset by this, but with several hundreds in circulation and the price of pendant slots still horribly devalued, this needs to be done to cut back. I mean, look at the queue...
Lesser Breeding Coin (x311) | Lesser Breeding Pendant (x383)
This should not be as imbalanced. Pendants are supposed to be rare, so we're hoping this combats it. Think of it logically:
RBPS and MBPs are cheapest and pendants regen at 30 days.
LBPs are mid-grade in price and regen at 60 days.
BPs, EBPS, PBPs, and HBPs are the rarest, and are at a 90 day regen for this reason.
Please understand we do this to keep the balance in the system, and we really want to be fair on all accounts. This effectively means for the amount of LBCs people submit, a little over that amount comes around for free in the system. I hope this pans out eventually despite the obvious frustrations it will cause.
Now aside from this, spend those Candy Canes and Snowflakes and carry on merrily!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Wed Jan 4, 2012 6:27pm