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I haven't yet heard of any progress on explore, thus, I'm opening it back up so you can enjoy these new Saturday pets.
If the lag becomes too much to bear we may close it down intermittently until the lag dies down, then open it back up again, etc.
I also put these pets in the Trash for Treasure shop:
These will be in there until November 6th.
BTW, for those of you who know deadmau5, I went to his concert last night and it was awesome. I have a lot of front row pictures if you wanna see in a Junk Pile thread or something. =D
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:05pm
Explore being redone
Site Update
We have come to the conclusion that Explore causes a lot of the lag on the site (along with some minor things that we are looking into now). Because of this we will be spending tonight and tomorrow recoding explore from the ground up.
Read more here and suggest your changes to the explore system...
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:58pm
Spirit Day
Pets
I just now found out that October 20 was dubbed "Spirit Day," meant to remember those who were bullied by those who are anti-GLBT. The day is almost over but I still think we should do something for it.
So, for a full 24 hours (from now until tomorrow at 11:59 PM) you can submit up to two purple custom designs to this thread, one for you and one for a friend to be received for free. Please note the customs should have 20% or less lineart edits and the customs must be purple and common species.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:54pm
Hybrid Custom Crystal
Items
Please note that the Hybrid Custom Crystal offer ends at 11:59 PM.
Click for thread if you want a chance to buy one
Note that the price dropped down at 75 GP/7.5MIL BP and people who have entered previously will be adjusted for that as well.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:53pm
Risk - 4:00 AM
Contests
RISK! 4:00 AM Night Edition
View thread!
Another strange array of benefits and pitfalls await you...
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:55am
LOTS of stuff!
Site Update
Updates on glitchiness:
- We are processing pet data to get back any pets lost in the glitch. It may still take a while as it is a lot of data to process.
- The explore location data of all pets will be returned after the Haunted Forest closes (which will occur on November 1st).
- We are disabling the automatic (10-min) energy gain for today to see if it affects the server load. It will either return tomorrow or be replaced with a similar feature.
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The following items now work:
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Newbie Packages
Newbies are now equipped with this package upon registering, so you don't have to feel sorry for them anymore. XD It contains an egg, some rag clothes, a blue tranq, a blue orb, and some misc. other stuff.
The Newbie tutorial is linked from the Archives tab as well.
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Development Work
You may have noticed there is a development board on the forums now: Feature Development. Your input and ideas regarding the content posted there is always appreciated.
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Here are some pet revamps; it's been a while since we've seen some!
Refresh this page if some don't show up for you.
Please don't forget if you want a pet changed back, you have to message Visark with the Pet's ID and nothing more!
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Yasu coded you a couple of new features -- scratchcards, bank interest, and bank CDs for BP and GP (we love INVESTMENTS!!!). We will be releasing these later today/tonight.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:33pm
Exchange Currencies
Items
These items seem to be falling from trees in the Haunted Forest lately...
Will you collect enough to use as exchange currency on October 31st?
The Halloween Pumpkin is the king of all pumpkins and r80. The Melo Pumpkins can be traded in for Halloween Pumpkins in the currency shop, and are r30.
A couple people have been asking about these - they will be used in November.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:13am
ToS Reminders & Hiring New Mods!
Rules
Hey everyone! We hope that you've been enjoying all the festivities and item releases this month, but alas, we have a couple of important reminders for you. Having reached the 10k member milestone, our community is rapidly becoming larger and we want to make sure that we don't lose the best parts of it along the way, so listen up.
Due to the rise in reminders and warnings related to rudeness, flame-baiting and harassment, we would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are on a private, mature website that demands appropriate behavior. When you signed up for Aywas you agreed to abide by the ToS, and as such you are expected to be respectful at all times to your fellow player as well as staff. If you choose to participate in Rants or Discussion & Debates, please review the corresponding stickies here and here to ensure you are utilizing them correctly. After all, they are there to help!
The only thing rudeness, sarcasm and passive-aggression accomplish is that they reflect poorly on you, and unfortunately it's infectious. In order to keep this issue from snowballing into a huge problem, we're intervening now. Staff will be more present on the forums, especially in controversial threads or topics that tend to produce heated fights, so as to keep the mob mentality at bay. Similarly, if you experience any harassment or other rule-breaking behavior directed at you through PM or profile/pet comments, please report it immediately. Even though we're not adding any new rules we wanted to alert everyone to this trend and what we're doing about it in hopes that you will be more mindful of what you post and how you act. After all, each of you contributes to the community, so this is primarily in your hands, and we want to encourage you to be proactive. We're only having issues with a marginal number of people, but we'd like it to be as small as possible, and reminders never hurt.
Secondly, I want to give you a tiny refresher course on some other aspects of the ToS that keep snagging people up.
- You are allowed to have ONE account on Aywas; this means you can only access one account (except during a two-week moving period), so you cannot account sit for someone else. If you want someone to do your dailies while you're away, it needs to be a friend or relative that does not play Aywas.
- We don't tolerate art theft; tracing designs, using site colors as custom bases and taking avatars that don't belong to you (and aren't free use) is unacceptable.
- "All glitches or bugs that allow a user to unlawfully gain BP, GP, Aywas and items must be reported directly to the administration through 'Reports' and not listed in the forums."
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! We would much rather have you ask a question about a rule you aren't sure about than go forward anyway and end up getting a knock at your door because of it.
If you're interested in keeping the site a fun, enjoyable safe haven, then you're in luck because we are once again putting out the call for new moderators! We are confident that a larger staff will not only help us patrol the forums more thoroughly, but will ensure that someone is always available to help you. To apply, fill out the moderator application here and send it to [email protected] for Aetheria and I to review. We look forward to expanding the team and can't wait to read them. Good luck!
Thank you, cheers!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:52pm
Saturday pets
Pets
New Saturday Pets!
All in the Haunted Forest :D
The Lunaris is taking a break until a glitch gets fixed regarding it. :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:02pm
Breeding Subspecies
Pets
So, Frey and I were talking and came up with an idea: what if, with a very small percentage chance, an LBC breeding could result in a baby with an alternate lineart!
So the talk of subspecies has returned, but these are breeding mutations -- or babies that result in an alternate lineart due to the small percentage being achieved. The percentage would be 1% - 5% depending on the species.
Breeding subspecies would have these rules:
- They can only breed to other pets of that same lineart style (LBC)
- Customs would currently not be currently available of the breeding linearts, but possibly in the future. They're rare breeding occurrences!
- Users have the ability to select "no breeding subspecies" while initiating a breeding if they do not want their breeding to have a chance of resulting in a subspecies
What exactly is a subspecies?
A subspecies is a type of genus, like a melo, except that it has a different pose and looks slightly different from the original pet. For example, a subspecies of melo could be a fire melo, or a melo that's flaming from the feet and ears but is in a more action pose.
A breeding subspecies would take on the colors/edits of its parents directly onto the subspecies base, like normal breeding. So, if you bred a horned black melo with a winged red devil melo, you could presumably get a flaming subspecies melo that's black and red with wings and horns :D
Do you have subspecies ideas?
You can submit them here!
So what do you think of the idea of breeding subspecies? Do you have any ideas (aside from actual subspecies themselves) to make it cooler?
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:06pm