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New Custom HA Clothes
Here are some more sets submitted by other users. They are stocking in the Custom Clothing Shop.
Kimonos by Magnus Vale (#256)
Foxy sets by Karp & Music (#3021)
Assassin set by Vulpes (#186)
Which new explore pet is your favorite? Do you like the new HA items?
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:06am
Custom Clothes + Item Royalties
Items
Peri has wings!
First, I bring you a couple of different new custom clothing items, all stocking in the Custom Clothing Shop:
Second, I'm going to experiment with user royalties. What's a royalty? That means the user who designed the item gets a share of every sale made from an official Aywas shop. Every two weeks or so, I'll find a human avatar set that catches my eye and put it up in the cash shop for two weeks. The designer of that item gets some GP for every item of theirs that gets bought. After the two weeks are up, the items will be retired from official shops.
Yay, experimentation! I am a rock.
Nepherim (#9318) is our guinea pig (thanks, Neph!). She made these cyborg wings for you, in all different colors. They are stocking in the Cash Shop for 3 GP each.
By popular demand, a Mecha Wing Wardrobe was added containing all eight items for 20 GP.
Remember, they leave the shop in two weeks (Feb 25)!
It should be an interesting experiment :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:51am
Artist Pay
Pets
delicious monies
Good evening gentlefolk! I thought you might like to know that I am in the process of handing out artist pay for accepted designs in the Pet Colouration Submissions forum. It has been brought to my attention that the "Reason" section of the notification is a little temperamental and may, in fact, not be giving you any reason at all! Alas, I am unable to plague you with my British spellings.
Rest assured that if you have recently received GP from the Aywas Staff, it is yours to keep.
Thank you!
Posted by Captain Visark
(#185) on Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:57pm
Newbies!
Site Update
Hey guys! We have a lot of adorable newbies coming in from an ad campaign we started, so please do make them feel at home. ♥
You can see the newest newbies by going to the Welcome Back page. Drop them a message, or post on their profiles to help introduce them to the site and make friends.
Don't forget that the weekly User Spotlight goes out to kind, helpful people, and helping out newbies is a great way to make yourself visible and find new friends (among other things!).
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:39pm
Referral Contest Results
Contests
Here are the results for the referral contest!
First Prize: 10 SP + Hybrid Custom Crystal
Aethubryn (#13018) - 16 referrals
Second Place: 6 SP + Flame Custom Orb
wispytearz (#9634) - 9 referrals
Fae&ChibCat (#821) - 9 referrals
Third Place: 3 SP + Blue Custom Crystal
Fluffy (#12099) - 8 referrals
Great job guys! We also got some cool banners. I posted them on the referrals page along with a code to use them.
Which banner is your favorite?
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:31am
More artists for design contest
Contests
More Design Artists!
We've been joined by Brianna, Magnus Vale, and MissMally. :)
EDIT: And lastly Fairy!
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Brianna ....... ....... ....... Magnus Vale
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MissMally ....... ....... ....... Fairy
Click on their images to go to their threads. Check the news post two down from this one if you're not sure what the contest is about.
PS: That's all the artists we can really fit. Thanks everyone for applying. If this contest goes well we might run another in the future. :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Feb 8, 2011 10:09pm
Phanto Line-arts
Pets
Crumbs! Wild DEADLINE appeared!
Don't forget that tomorrow is your last chance to request free line-art switches for the Phanto!
Please have your lists submitted to me by 11:59:59pm AST, February 9th.
You can have a peek at the old colourations here!
Posted by Captain Visark
(#185) on Tue Feb 8, 2011 10:00pm
Win a Design Contest!
Contests
Ever wanted a design from some of the most famous Aywas custom designers?
Now's your chance to get one - free of charge! You get to pitch a design to each of these fantastic artists. At the end of the contest - Feb 15 at midnight - the threads will be closed and the artists will select one winner and design their custom.
Rules
- You may not bribe an artist to take your image on, as it unbalances the game and makes it unfair for users who cannot afford to bribe
- You may only pitch one design per artist
- You may pitch a design for any pet genus you like, provided you have the means to make the design
- You may not pitch a design based on any copyrighted character or concept
- Please do not ask an artist to redraw an existing custom
Artists
(Click on the images to go the artist's thread)
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Captain Kassa ....... ....... ....... Balu
....... 
Dew ....... ....... ....... Imay
....... 
Springdragon ....... ....... ....... Yoolee
....... 
Nepherim ....... ....... ....... Kezze
Have fun pitching your designs to the artists! We may have another artist or two join this contest - I will alert you if that is the case. If you would like to be considered as an artist for this event, drop me a message!
We regret that Youko was unable to participate due to not feeling well and wish her better :(
EDIT: Nepherim and Kezze have joined :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Feb 8, 2011 5:03am
Scav Bites - Week 3 and other such things
Contests
Scav Bites - Week 3
TASK: Your job is to create a sculpture of the Ay world. The best looking sculpture will win the prize. You can sculpt it out of anything you want but it has to be IRL stuff.
ENDS: Feb 14, 2011 12:00 AM
PRIZE: Special Region Event Creator (this means that you get to design a limited time Explore region with your choice of a "theme" of pets - like the Holiday Forest and the Haunted Forest. Your region will be open for one week starting on the date of your choosing, and will come back every year on that date).
Entry thread
Scav Bites Week 2 Winner
The winner is...
Saturn (#497)
With her gorgeous set of entries...
See them full size here: click me.
She wins a
Glittering Skull
Runner Ups
There are two runner ups that each win a
Glittering Potion
Nuiā„ (#9965)
With her entry: click here for larger
Because this is really gorgeous and creative.
Tiifu-Team Awesome! (#5525)
With her entry: it's a video, click on it!
For creativity!
Pet Suggestions Changes
Mauri has changed some of the policies of pet suggestions:
- the 3 GP reward is rendered each week as the coloration is accepted instead of as it's uploaded
- the SP reward has been bumped to 5 SP for a set of 10 accepted colorations
Breeding Tutorial
In case you have not noticed, Kyu and Mauri made you a new Breeding Tutorial.
Custom Clothes Shop
Delicious, the new Cerby shopkeeper with a tendency toward eating customers, has opened a shop for user-submitted clothes.
Custom Clothes Shop
So all user-submitted HA content will show up in this shop :)
An upcoming contest...
Have you ever wanted to get a design commission from Youko, Dew, Balu, Imay, Springdragon, or Captain Kassa?
Your chance is nearing...
Canidus: Wolf Pack Sim
Kiara is opening a new wolf pack sim with Explorer Games (same company that owns Aywas and Felisfire). If you want to follow her progress, check out this thread:
(click the logo)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Feb 7, 2011 10:17pm
User Spotlight 2
Contests
The new User Spotlight (user of the week) winner is...
Kai (#403)
Besides spending her time in the Help Forum answering questions from fellow users, Kai has dedicated her time to things such as organizing a fun, forum based, user Trick or Treat activity back in October as well as compiling a user guide to all things Fauna. She is one of many friendly, active users that help to make the Aywas community enjoyable for many.
As user of the week, she won a free breeding between:
x 
...and is now expecting egg(s)!
Congrats Kai!
Scav Bites results coming up in a few hours. :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Feb 7, 2011 7:45pm