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Site Update
A Greater Painted Pen is now available for $10.00. It allows you to select one PLBC or PMBC artist for your breeding and rewards the artist with a $5.00 bonus.
Based on user suggestion, the Artist Ticket has been added to the USD Shop at $25.00. It has also been updated to yield a Painted Pen-esque bonus of $10.00 to the selected artist.
Another artist ticket item has sprung up too, the new Crystal Egg Ticket. In case your favorite artist isn't swayed by an extra $10, this item not only yields a $40 bonus to your selected artist, but also allows you to skip the queue and be assigned to their next list (so it's essentially an Artist Ticket and a Speedy Breeding Ticket combined).
Both of these items are compatible with predicts, so you can solicit a non-site breeding artist with these extra premiums. Read the linked Knowledge Base article for more information about these items, their payments, and predicts when using them.
A forum board has opened up to provide people a place to solicit predicts for USD bonus items, or for artists to set up shop and indicate that they are available for these items. Click here.
Programming Update
Here's what our April coder has finished since our last update:
- SQL Error Breeding Eggs should never happen again
- Admins can fix existing SQL Error Breeding Eggs easily
- Breeding panel improvements requested by admins
- Admins can add/fix adventure skills for pets
- Breeding Coin origin logs now
- Admins can edit the origin field to correct them
- Admins can fix incorrect entries in Edit Repository now
- Admins can edit the Knowledge Base easier now
- Users can disable ratings on oekaki pieces
- Bug when sending items with charges fixed
- Trading Post previous owner bug fixed
- HA entries cached so they don't change during the contest
- Ghost items/users removed from Shop Search
- Crystal Archive bug fixed
- Auto-Resize of large forum images to prevent edit link disappearing
- Shop item removal bug potentially fixed (implemented tweaks)
- Account bound items in Easter Egg field bug fixed
As you can see a big chunk of this update was improving things from the back end for the admin team - but that means we can help all of you easier too.
Keep making suggestions, bumping suggestions, bumping bug threads that need fixing - we'll keep working on them!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:01am
- AremRae
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:01am
https://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/2004444964/ (Also if you search for "artist ticket" you'll see there are a lot pending too.)
- Nevara & Blue[H]
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:17am
Azi & Darsol (#6879) finches (#51347)
The PBC queue is just poorly managed over all. Not because it's set up bad, or anything, but because there is far too much allowance to time on the part of the artist. An artist only has to take one breeding a month and then can work on it for another three months before they turn it in, and it's perfectly acceptable.
Not to mention, you can be assigned to certain artist, and then the artist will go MIA. Then, it takes nearly six months of them not taking a list for the opportunity of even getting reassigned, let along getting your egg (I had this experience, myself, where the PBC artist Winter last took a list in August and it took until March for the site to allow everyone with her as one of their picks to get reassigned).
So, there is definitely some work to be done in the PBC queue. However, I think things need to be tightened up on the enforcement and deadlines end before we even talk about adding tickets. Also, Finch does bring a great point with the time thing, because it is ridiculous how long you can wait for a breeding. Ridiculous. I think there would be riots in the streets if some of these people got pushed back farther than they already are/were.
~Blue
- Mostly gone
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:20am
I would love it if I could quick stock into the item gallery.
- finches
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:26am
i did make a suggestion thread for this here - https://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/2004480457/ but i think it'd be swell if we could see all the comments made on a crystal check in public archive instead of just the first comment gray makes in case the final ruling on a design isn't made until several comments later
- JAK
(#15)
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:27am
I double checked and it seems that Artist Tickets are compatible for PBC, but Speedy Breeding Tickets aren't. As a result Crystal Egg Tickets are not compatible for PBC (but you could just commission them for a predict anyway at any USD cost, couldn't you?).
- mothmanesque
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:55am
So happy about the ghost items/users removed from shop search. Clicked them way too often on accident and got a huge error message across the screen :D
- Macheeba
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:55am
I think a big list with all current available artists for all types of breedings would be very helpful. Or do we have something like that?
- Ax & blu
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:45am
Awesome programming updates!! -blu
- Shycat
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Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:08am
They fixed the ghost users in shop search? Yes! That's great news! :D
Posted on: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:56am
Yea artist tickets have been compatible for pbc for quite a long time? Soul and I submitted one ages ago and had to get it refunded because the artist left the team, and I've seen many others artist ticketed.