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The Art Gallery has been updated with some new winners:
They won:
Some new themes have been added too:
October 2nd - October 9th: Breeding on Aywas
October 9th - October 16th: NPCs
October 16th - October 23rd: Gift Art (draw someone's custom)
October 23rd - October 30th: Halloween*
For the 16th - 23rd Art Gallery, you should put the pet's image, ID, name, and owner on the image too :)
Don't forget the Story Game updates every Friday, even if it's not news posted.
Bank CDs have been tweaked to address the inflation of BP caused by the amount of return coming from CDs. Hopefully you will all find these changes fair.
1. The original 7-day CD was changed into a 14-day CD, and its return changed to 2%
2. The 30-day CD's return was changed to 6%
3. The max one can invest into the top three CDs is now 50,000,000 BP
4. A new CD was added, 7-day, with a 5% return rate and a max investment of 1,000,000.
5. The largest CD, the 90-day CD, did not have its return rate changed, but rather the others were changed to scale according to it.
The GP CDs were not changed.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:04am
- Huls and Becs
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:31am
Actually, cyber, I would say that the changes are biased towards you :s the 7 day cd has a 1mil bp limit, and for newer users that is a considerable sum. The point of the changes were to stop the users with hundreds of millions of bp from making millions on it each week, thus widening the gap between the less fortunate and the more fortunate with really no work required.
and actually, bank interest is 3% yearly, so cds give a higher rate of bp than that.
Hope I've helped :>
- ♑ Kat & AK ♈
(#80)
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:39am
IDK what to comment... I just hope GP prices will drop back lower.... Also grats winners!
- Tabbykit
(#16458)
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:04am
OH man oh man oh man! I'm so happy! :D -glee- congrats to the other winners, too, everything is so pretty!! *_*
- God
(#4)
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:12am
"I would say that the changes are biased towards you :s the 7 day cd has a 1mil bp limit, and for newer users that is a considerable sum." ....And yet, to newer users, 1 million bp is quite a sum in and of itself. Newbies would probably be the /most/ likely to use that bp to participate in features of the site and set up a good start on their account, as opposed to investing it for an entire week. To lose access to 1m for a week, for the sum total of 50k in profit... is simply not something I would advise any new user to do. 50k can easily be made in a day or two, given the dailies that are available to everyone. // But about the revisions in general... I feel that locking up a whole 50m of my bp for half a month, to get 1m out of it, is just not worth the time. I'd rather be able to access that 50m in case of one of these events that have been designed to flush bp out of the economy. So unfortunately, the cost of the extended loss of access to such a great sum of bp versus the reduced profit... is not something that I think I'll be using any time soon.
- null
(#543)
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:18am
Er... what Huls/Becs said. Mathmatically, it's more "biased" against the super super rich who could make millions and millions every day by doing absolutely nothing except already being rich (which was crashing the economy). Also, this will not cause GP prices the rise. It'll cause them to, if not fall, then at least rise more slowly than they were before. More BP vs same amount of GP = more BP offered on each GP. Supply and demand. To stop BP being bloated and worthless, we need to reduce the supply (what we're doing here) and increase the demand (what we did with the recent angel event).
- Aki + Agi
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:19am
Meh never used cd's in the first place xD BP is usually gone quickly with me anyways especially when I cannot explore on this cruddy computer. xDDD
- Boethechick
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:45am
Well, I completely do not like the change in BP. I agree with Eveglori! I hate to be rude, But this has completely ruined CDs for me! I would not mind a Cap on the amount of BP in a 7 day cd, though I think a million is sad! And I have to agree with account number 4 in that its just not worth it to use, though I suppose that was the point.
Also, GP prices may eventually go down, BUT I think that they will sky rocket first for those of us that want to invest in the gp cds to make the better profit! Also, It seems to me that the reason GP is so expensive is because of the fact that no one ever has any for sale. After the scav hunt, it was like all the GP vanished!
I think the interested on CDs should be more than interest on the bank accounts. That is how the world works...you make more for tieing your money up longer!
But I doubt my opinions mean much, just glad I could state them! Is this permanent, or will it ever go back to the old way...or maybe the old way with a limit on how much you can have in there?
- Ginny
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:13am
Aww, but I was SO CLOSE to my goal of being able to collect 1 mil! xD; I'm fine with the change, though, we completely needed it- BP has just been getting ridiculous. D=
- Aria
(#330)
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Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:15am
I think God expressed it best. I find the new CDs useless. I am NOT an artist, nor do I have the time, during the day, to grind Explore/etc. I have a job, and while I can sneak online, all I have at work is Internet Explorer, so I can't access Aywas. This site is hard enough, as a West Coaster, to keep up with special events that end at midnight, are 1 day long, and require grinding... This makes it hard for me to earn BP. I go back to being in a position of 'Buy GP and sell' or nothing. I don't think this is the best choice, and I know I shan't be using the new options for the CDs. The return rates just aren't worth the locking away of money.
Posted on: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:28am
cybermesh, it's pretty easy to earn BP. I myself had 17m before the BP sinks, and I don't do anything more than explore quest + cooking + fossil quests.