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Our second major December news post has a lot to go through, so be sure to read it carefully!
This month's Jeweled pets are beautiful critters drawn by kat $ hasul (#6480)! Some even have a little holiday cheer added to them.
The Premium Item for this month is the Christmas Edits Pack. It's a new PLBC add-on that adds a pre-made edit to your breeding. You can see all the edits in this pack here.
Christmas items are stocking again!
Stockings have popped into the GP Shop as well for the festivities! They make excellent gifts for your favorite person's Aywas Stocking. Each stocking has a chance of opening into progressively better items.
The random Holiday gifts are back in the GP Shop! In case you don't remember what they do...
Flaming Pudding - a cheap random chance item to get custom crystals.
Random Breeding Coin - yields a random breeding coin.
Tiny Giftbox - tiny chance of opening up into a Holiday Breeding Pendant.
Wrapped Crystal - yields a random custom crystal.
Christmas Tree items are a great way to spoil your friends. Put in five of your friends' ID numbers, and they will be sent a random item from the GP Shop.
Delicious Eggnogs are back! They have a 1 in 10 chance of a successful Breeding Coin breeding with the next (or previous) pet that also successfully bred.
REMEMBER - to make it easier on the artists and breeding team in general (because PSDs are often a problem), they will roll a hybrid base for the babies and function like a Breeding Coin, edit wise. That way, we can all expect high quality babies from the item without any PSD issues.
Interested in being an Eggnog artist? Babies are 30% edited and pay $15. Send a message with your samples. Black Friday artists are encouraged to apply.
The BP Shop is seeing some activity as well! You can grab a Holiday Colored Coal to make some uncommon pets that are holiday themed, or a Holiday Rare Potion to make some rare pets that are holiday themed (note that Teos and Fauxes aren't going to be part of any custom maker, sorry!).
Random Holiday items are fun for stocking stuffers. Here's what the BP Shop ones do:
Truly Random Pudding - small chance of getting assorted holiday items, like HBC, Candy Cane custom makers, etc.
Christmas Cracker - Gives BP and a candy cane custom maker
Candy Shaped Present - contains Flaming Pudding and small chance of Tiny Giftbox
Holiday Cracker - yields snowflakes or candycanes
The Elaborate Present will yield you both a random GP Shop and a random BP Shop item!
New holiday bonus credit levels are in effect until December 31st.
Purchases of $25 or more between now and December 31st are also awarded with a free Delicious Eggnog item.
Platinum Breeding Coins have returned to the shops, but are different this year to meet demand for higher artist pay. The PBC stocks in the USD Shop for $65 and the PBC Talisman for $180.
These USD shop purchases are accompanied by an add-on called the Platinum Dollar. The Platinum Dollar raises the artist pay for the PBC to $35 for one offspring or $45 for two offspring. The Platinum Dollar is an independent item so you could sell it and/or attach it to existing PBC breedings if desired.
The PBC also stocks in the GP Shop for 150 GP (135 GP with premium) which is the equivalent market price to the USD value according to values we've observed of the other USD items over the last months.
The goal of this action is to encourage users to purchase this coin with USD, and in turn paying the artists higher wages. In addition, when the PBC first came out at 85 GP, it was roughly the equivalent of $65 USD which means the coin is at the same price as its original release.
The Faux Box is celebrating the festivities too. Submit a Winter/Christmas-Themed Faux and earn an extra Faux Net with your accepted submission.
The Design Ticket and Metal Design Ticket features are getting a slight revamp to accommodate higher and lower paying customers. Artists will be able to select which tickets they want to work for. Look forward to the release of all the Design Tickets within the next few days!
The Breeding and Breeding add-on revamp is still underway and close to being finished. It is being overseen closely by Kyu and Mauri to ensure streamlining of breeding features and to simplify breeding. Ideally this will result in less confusion about the breeding features of Aywas.
The Customs Queue changes were initially completed about two weeks ago and are in heavy testing. Reports have been sent back to the programmer with bug fix requests and change/improvement requests by Eve. We're currently working out bugs and defining ways to improve the helper queue.
That's about it! See you around again for the release of the Design Ticket hoard!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Dec 9, 2015 3:32am
- Aria ♥ Switch
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Posted on: Wed Dec 9, 2015 8:03pm
Any pile of gift item release planned this month?
- PIKA
(#270)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 9, 2015 9:06pm
It might be a good idea to change the success/failure text and notification on the eggnog item.. I know it's been on the site a long time as is, but the connotations of it are pretty blegh, even for virtual pets. I enjoy the feature but maybe it can be less.. surrounding the notion of getting drunk and unknowingly/unwillingly breeding???
ahhh
- AuraDragoness
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Posted on: Wed Dec 9, 2015 10:51pm
So...quick noob question: how do I create a Faux for the thing that's going on with them? I can't find the PSD anywhere or where to even submit it when/if I finish it.
- Roark
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Posted on: Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:22pm
Not sure who to ask about this, but is there any chance the platinum dollar would be sold in the USD shop as a standalone add-on? I could see why not, haha, but I figure I'll take that potshot. And I second Pika's notion about eggnog, too.
AuraDragoness (#67654), you can find the Faux PSD at the very end of the "Rare" subheading in the pet genus guidebook , and when you're done with your set, you can submit them at the "submit" subheader on the faux box page :]
- Haru
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Posted on: Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:10pm
"Christmas Tree items are a great way to spoil your friends. Put in five of your friends' ID numbers, and they will be sent a random item from the GP Shop."
I don't quite understand where???
- Junebug
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Posted on: Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:58pm
might be a bit too late for this question to be answered, but regarding making winter-themed faux:
1) do we need to make one base and color it different five times, the way we've been getting faux boxes/nets before?
2) can the base be edited? how much?
Posted on: Wed Dec 9, 2015 6:41pm
Ahh I cant seem to be able to buy Gp for some reason, the link gives me a 404.