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June Contests Open
Pets
The June pet design contests are now open!
As you're used to, the June monthly pet contest is up.
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There is also a new "BP Shop" June contest, where you can submit lineart edited pets to show up in the BP Shop of Super Riches and Awesomeness.
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Enjoy the contests! They all end June 1st.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue May 11, 2010 2:29pm
Contests, colors, and prizes.
Pets
Prizes: If your pet coloration was accepted as a winner for May's coloration contest please send me another message with what coloration of yours was accepted, what gender you would like, and if you prefer sp or gp. If you've already sent in your request it was probably ignored and was most likely mass deleted with my inbox cleanout.
April's Design Contest Winners
I very much enjoyed how this contest was judged and plan on doing the rest in this manner. It definitely helped us choose winners based on a number of views instead of "oh I like this one!".
What one judge had to say: This is a fairly simple design, but it flows well. There is some additional detail on the body too. The horn edits seem as if they were there to begin with. The metallic appearance is also fairly realistic, while still meshing well with the site (vs. using something completely realistic and out of place)."
What one judge had to say: This design is a take on the sors that is rather unique. The coloring reflects the animal that the sors was based off of and there is an obvious effort to maintain consistency throughout the image, and care was taken to make sure everything was in place.
What one judge had to say: This was a pretty simple design concept, but it turned out that it actually stood out to me among many of the others. I actually went back a few times to look at this one again... the glowing red on the black, with the slight fading texture, and the white face are all pretty interesting/unusual ideas to incorporate into a Vion design.
What one judge had to say: More like a gag coloration entry, I just couldn't stop laughing. For once, the tails are being put to good use! The coloring design might not be comparable to some of the other entries, but the concept of entertainment incorporated into the pet are what makes it stand out. I mean that's what we're here for, to have fun!
So congratulations to our four winners! Each one will receive the pet they made shortly. We enjoyed looking over all the entries and now that orbs are out, hope to see many more of the submissions made into customs.
May's design contest is now posted, you can find the details here! The theme is to create any common breed custom design with no edits. Entries will be judged on designs and patterns within the markings of the custom. Your judges this round will be users #2, #3398, #1008, #181, #4363, and #2172. So we look forward to reviewing your entries. More information about prizes and rules can be found on the thread.
Pet colorations and recolors: I can't stress to you guys enough.... pleasepleaseplease post ideas for colorations for pets on this thread! My artists will be given lists so that we can have the next aywasplosion ready for you. With the wave of limited pets, we need catchable pets to balance it out and while we have some, we need more. We also need more ideas for the artists to work on colorations for the next event. Also don't forget, if your idea gets made, you receive a copy of the pet. I'll also be going through the newest pet suggestion threads picking out colorations to accept or have done.
Also, be on the lookout for polls for the pet updates and recolors that will be posted in news posts. Now that I don't have to directly manage breedings I can get this large project rolling. If you still have suggestions on improving current pets or feel something is wrong, again, this is the link to the thread.
Later tonight I will be posting the breeding tutorial that will be available for both the artists and the users as well as the Guide thread. It still needs some work and both will be posted on separate threads but linked together.
Posted by Aywas Official
(#2) on Sat May 8, 2010 10:22am
glitch
Pets
Anyone using tags in their forum username is abusing a glitch. Cease now. It will be fixed soon.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat May 8, 2010 12:13am
Poll
Pets
Poll Time!
I want to get a feel for where you guys want me to concentrate most of my energy. Feel free to pick 2-3 options that you find most important!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri May 7, 2010 9:37pm
Metal Custom Orb
Pets
in my shop.
PS: I hate you. >:[
-Chi
Posted by Patrice, Pete, Paul
(#22) on Fri May 7, 2010 12:28am
Attack!
Pets
Come up with some Aywas attacks for pets here!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu May 6, 2010 10:29pm
Pet Species/Hybrid Species Suggestions?
Pets
Want to see a particular pet or hybrid species on the site? Share you suggestions here!
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Posted by Jack
(#1) on Wed May 5, 2010 6:42pm
New Breeding System
Pets
I know you're all completely confused, angered, upset, and "done" with all of these breeding updates and changes to rules and percents and chances and what have you.
When it comes down to it, you're spending a lot of money with no guarantees on anything but a pet. I don't want anything to prevent you from getting not what you want, not what we want you to have, but what you deserve and should be entitled to.
Therefore I have discussed with users, staff, and for a lengthy amount of time with Slash and we have set up a new system that guarantees quality and offspring. A system that will work with our current numbers and that will also work in the future as we continue to grow. This entire post will also be found on the Breeding Guide soon to be published (it just needs a few more revisions). This leaves little 'ifs' and will not require future tweaking into amounts or percents unless it's an increase or new types of coins/items are implemented. Want to make it as simple as possible.
Starting off with LBC Same-Species Breedings:
All users will receive 2 offspring per breeding unless the pair of pets being bred are married in which case the user will receive a total of 3 offspring.
Breedings will no longer be simple overlays no matter if a .psd file is provided or not.
I'm in the middle of developing a tutorial on how to create simple, yet unique offspring using multiple layers and color changes and not just overlays when no .psd is available. The tutorial will be made available to artists and users alike and will be finished on Friday.
Official artists will still receive 2gp per offspring completed. Users must still submit 4 choices for offspring created themselves.
BC and LBC Hybrids:
All users will have a 50/50 chance of receiving either one or two offspring. Married pairs give you a 50/50 chance of getting two or three offspring.
LBC hybrid offspring edits will work the same as usual, like the lbc same species breedings.
BC Hybrids only:
In the case of edits, users will either receive a hybrid custom that has 30% edits or if the user receives two offspring they have a 50/50 chance of getting either one offspring with 30% edits and one with 0% edits or both offspring having a mix of edits. However, the type of edits that get carried, the amount of the edit, and the size of the edit are at the discretion of the artist. (basically what we've been doing). If your customs have some type of edit, your offspring will be guaranteed an edit. Example: both parents have edits that equal to one bracelet, a hair edit, an expression edit, and an ear edit. The artist chooses to give both offspring a bracelet edit and one gets the expression edit and one gets a hair edit. Or the artist chooses to give one of the offspring the expression, ear edit, and bracelet while the second offspring has no line art changes)
Official artists will now receive 4gp per offspring, versus 4gp per pairing. Users are still not allowed to send in their own hybrid offspring.
You should also be informed that LBCs are going to be split into two coins. The LBC will let you breed lineart that have different edits, while another coin will come out that will let you breed identical* lineart pets for cheaper. However, this will not come into effect until after the recode is complete. Please do not ask questions about this split, how much the coins will cost, nor the projected date in which to expect this to take place as I don't have concrete answers for you.
identical* subject to about a 5% difference in line art such as base line art x base line art with expression edit or base line art x base line art with a elbow fur tuft edit
In light of these changes, a few offspring artists are currently back close watch due to their lack of quality and a few new artists are being given trial periods to see if their quality can remain consistent. Unfortunately until the recode I can't look over ever single offspring for quality so if you have an issue with one of your offspring please post on this thread.
If you're interested in becoming an artist i'm still hiring! The lbc offspring application has received a makeover, so if you've applied once, feel free to apply again. The hybrid application has also received a make over and again, if you've already applied feel free to apply again. All application requests need to be sent to [email protected].
Crystal Updates:
Hybrid custom crystals now allow up to 50% edits to reflect on the breeding percents.
Hybrid potions have gone back to their original 30% edits.
Also in case of any misunderstanding from the previous news posts, dawn crystals only allow you to remove edits on customs and offspring, not add them.
In other news...
The writing contest is on its way to being judged and results will be announced on June 1st.
April's custom contest is also currently being judged and May's custom contest will be posted shortly.
The design threads will be updated soon with acceptance and payments.
If you have any more questions, comments, ideas, or concerns, please post. There's also a BUCKET LOAD of news posts below this, so make sure you read them too.
Posted by Aywas Official
(#2) on Tue May 4, 2010 9:30pm