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Remembrance

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Let's have a moment of silence for those who were lost ten years ago, and for how our world has changed.

I hope all of you remain safe today.

Posted by Jack (#1) on Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:16am

Comments: 106

Celestial Day

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Celestial Day
Brought to you by DragonLily (#49)

September 10th is Celestial Day! Lots of heaven related items and pets have been released, and there are plenty of customs to win! The maker of this event wants it to be entirely in BP, so everything is available for BP only!

The Seasonal Shop is stocking some very fun celestial items.

Here are some highlights:

Some Special Edition Gourmet Cooking Items used to make two awesome new Gourmet recipes. You may want to stock up on these ingredients so you can make the Gourmet foods in the future!

The Gourmet foods are below:

Some super awesome new weapons with a celestial touch... none of us know how Battledome will be, so if you might be interested in it, consider it as a possible investment!

A little gift box that gives you three random items from Celestial Day (not including the items over 500k), and a bottle that turns your active pet into a random Celestial Day pet!

A cool Talisman that will summon you five Engagement Rings!

There are lots of cool pets out, all in the Seasonal Shop. Grab one directly, or take a chance for the (slightly cheaper, by average) Angel Dust item.

Now here's the fun part... customs!!
Any colorations made by our site artists that weren't selected by the event holder were filtered into some various custom contests. Feel free to take a shot at any of them.

Create a Character/Personality for the Custom and Win!

Nominate Your Aywas Angel To Win Customs!

Bid Heart Pies on the Pack Of Customs!

BP Auctions!
Click on the pet's image to be taken to its auction.

Last, 25 customs will be placed in the Adoption Center throughout the day. Keep your eyes peeled and you might find one to adopt!

Posted by Jack (#1) on Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:14am

Comments: 68

Raffle #23 has ended

Items

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Congratulations

Bottled Starlight

Randomfrog (#18973) is the winner of the raffle and won the item Bottled Starlight!

Randomfrog (#18973) brought 1 tickets, spending 1 Bottled Elemental Storm!

Posted by Jack (#1) on Fri Sep 9, 2011 2:05am

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Raffle Crystal and Trivia

Contests

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Raffle Crystal Winner

This week's raffle crystal winner is:
Dalavestra #26435
Who had 3 crystals out of 24,268 total, and won a Breeding Coin.

Next week's prize: 5 randomly designed customs made by the coloration team of Common species of your choice

Trivia

The Trivia has been updated.

The regeneration period for the Evil Breeding Pendant has been changed. It now regenerates every three months. The reason for this change is that virtually every breeding made by this coin requires the Breeding Coin team, so it makes sense that it should have the same regeneration period as other BC team coins (BC, Holiday BC).

Posted by Jack (#1) on Wed Sep 7, 2011 2:15pm

Comments: 51

Streaming Item Artist

Random Silliness

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One of our item artists is streaming live, in case you want to watch.

Some of her work here on Aywas!

Go watch items be drawn!

Posted by Jack (#1) on Tue Sep 6, 2011 12:19pm

Comments: 23

Concerns and Community

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If you like the idea of the reputation feature suggested in the comments, why not share some thoughts on it on this thread?

Hello folks, I'd like to talk about something that concerns me. There have been quite a lot of people who have mentioned the Aywas community has not felt the same and has seemed, almost... colder and ruder.

In the beginning, we all knew each other from a small handful of common sites. We recently passed 30,000 users - so we've grown a whole bunch from the original beta testers, and people from all kinds of sites have joined and made Aywas their home.

With more people, the original family feel gets diluted. I suppose that happens when you have so many people coming in. We can, however, all work together on that.

First thing is, for those of you coming from more aggressively moderated sites, you may not know that the moderators are all really, really nice people. If someone rubs you the wrong way or behaves disrespectfully to you, our staff is always here to help. We've seen a large number of these sort of reports lately and we encourage you to keep reporting. We want to help!

Second thing is, we have always required that members be mature and respectful - it's a staple of our TOS . It's kind of awkward phrasing, but I think it's still a decent description - to show respect to other members, the staff that works hard to entertain you, and the site as a whole.

This seems to be slipping. More and more, there are people who are not acting mature and/or respectful. We've seen a larger increase of individuals who express damaging and hurtful comments in public places, on and off site. This also contributes to an overall feeling of coldness and breeds pain and anger, because whether it's here or not, it still affects all of the community in the way that it infects. We encourage thoughtful feedback, but we don't tolerate bashing and mindless insults, whether here or elsewhere. That hurts our community feel, and does not represent a mature and respectful attitude.

While we want to welcome everyone, maturity and respect is necessary to keep our community thriving, and keep that family feel we all yearn for. The best way to ensure this is to report inappropriate behavior and contribute ideas, not venom and hatred.

That said, please remember that Aywas is a private website. It's one of the things that sets us apart from other ones - our ability to filter registrations. That doesn't end at the sign up page, though. We want a community full of awesome people who have fun together and are, of course, mature and respectful. Please remember to be mindful of how you treat others, the staff, and the site - everywhere. Our community does not welcome hurtful attitudes, and we as staff will step up and do our best in preserving the purpose of our filter.

Your reports are the most helpful in aiding us there - whether it's someone speaking in chatspeak or someone who acts disrespectfully toward you, site, or staff, your reports can make or break our efforts.

I think our community needs healing, but I know we can do it. :) Thanks to all for reading. Now let's do our best!

Posted by Jack (#1) on Mon Sep 5, 2011 8:33pm

Comments: 131

Snake Solis

Pets

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It's the 5th anniversary of Steve Irwin's death. It's strange how it's already been five years since he died... I still watch his show on Animal Planet, and he had always shown reptiles in a positive light, something we still need more of in the media.

In his memory I released some more snake-related Solis into Explore:

Did Steve Irwin inspire you?

Posted by Jack (#1) on Sun Sep 4, 2011 10:57pm

Comments: 162

Art Gallery

Contests

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Art Gallery

Here are this week's Art Gallery winners:

The winners won:

Next week's theme is: Comics (one page)! Why not try entering?

Posted by Jack (#1) on Sun Sep 4, 2011 6:01pm

Comments: 13

MBCs and other announcements

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The main point of this newspost is to announce that MBCs have been upped in price in the BP Shop, to 3,000,000 BP each. I know some people might be disappointed in this, but I've seen that they are a bit too easy to get right now with how readily available BP is right now. Price hikes in order to combat a growing Aywas economy are to be expected, so I hope everyone can understand this change! Any items are subject to this within reason, and we consistently monitor the market to balance things out.

I also want to use this post to take people back a bit. Remember this proposition we made about making old x new lineart breedings predict-only? This came into effect March 22nd of this year. It includes Half LBC, LBC, and MBC, and I've realized that many people after that cutoff date continued to submit old x new lineart breedings that sit in the queue and clog it up.

So this is a warning to you all -- it was an unspoken rule in the past that we allowed a month to submit predicts in before you might risk not having them used due to the queue moving along. This is still a reminder for all other breedings to get predicts in quicker, but it pertains to these old x new breedings in particular. All people with an old x new breeding after the above cutoff date have until October 1 to submit predicts for it. After that, I will be going through and refunding all outstanding old x new breedings past March 22nd.

You would be surprised at how much this could potentially speed the queue along. There's still a lot left, and our dedicated artists have done well at cutting down the old x new prior to that date and getting out your offspring! Any before March 22nd will still be completed by artists, so don't fret there.

One last little thing -- please, please be sure to read the descriptions on the new breeding add-ons. There are rules for a reason! For example:

Edit Potion + Hybrid Embryo = Legit! 1 offspring, 50% edits, random hybrid species.

Edit Potion + Greater Fertility Potion = Not legit! Edit Potion = 1 Offspring, so you can't get two!

Artist Palette on a BC breeding = ...Doesn't work for this coin!

My policy is generally not to refund mistakes if I come across them in the queue. If a user contacts me, however, and explains their issue I do take more consideration on a case-by-case basis. If you submit and just neglect to read, though, I won't refund you! So heed this and happy breeding!