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Welcome to the first part of March! Are you excited to see what we have underway for you? You already got a taste of some of the fantastic new stuff we've brought out for this month, but we're going to make it even better! Put your seat belts on, and we'll begin our ride!
New Jeweled Pets
As with every month, the new Jeweled Pets have arrived. This month's artist is Hikaru (LLs) (#15577)!
If you would like to become an artist for the Jeweled Pets, check out the application thread. There's a new incentive to encourage artists to apply!
New FauxBox Theme
A new month always means a new Faux Box theme! So let's see what theme we'll have for March... how about Easter? Adorable rabbits, candies, eggs, chicks... let your imagination go wild with this month's edits!
Premium Item
Wow! You really cleared out the FauxBox! We're really proud of all of you, and happy to see that all those designs now have loving homes in your lairs. So to celebrate those 2,000+ fauxes finding homes, the premium item for this month is the Fox Pen!
If you don't remember what this item does, it allows you to add 10% edits onto your faux to make it more unique. Have fun!
New USD Bonus
There's a new item available as a bonus for purchasing GP or USD Items! That would be the Metal Trinket Box. You can get one Metal Trinket Box for every $5 spent in GP or the USD Shop. Keep scrolling to see why this is going to be extra fun!
This bonus will last until March 19, at 11:59 PM Aywas Time.
Goodbye, Paintbrushes!
After checking out the usage and popularity of the Commissions feature, we have decided that we will be retiring Paintbrushes from the USD Shop. The Commissions feature is easier for the Aywas Team to manage over Paintbrushes, and it also allows artists to collect more cash for less of a fee.
The Paintbrushes will officially be leaving the USD Shop on March 13, 11:59 PM. If you have any lingering Paintbrush transactions to complete, be sure to grab your necessary item before that date.
Despite leaving the USD Shop, existing Paintbrushes will be available to redeem indefinitely. The supply of them will simply cease as we encourage artists to move toward the Commissions feature.
Free Silver Art
We announced a few weeks ago that we were in the process of revamping the "Free Silver Species Artwork" part of Silver Custom Crystals. We will be revamping it to be similar to the GCC and MDT features, where artists can apply for the team and players can submit an item and select artists they want to take their commission.
While this feature is not ready to release yet (consider this an informational update), this is the plan for it and you can start to decide whether you want to join the future team! We hope this will streamline the feature and allow you the ease and accessibility of the existing ones.
Some Voting is A'Comin'!
We teased you earlier in this post that those Metal Trinket Boxes would come in handy near the end of this post... well, here's what's going to happen! We have a number of different pet genus lines that we have hoarded. YOU are going to be voting for your two favorite from the big batch!!
The First Place winner, with the most votes collected, will become the newest FAUX BOX pet! Though, it won't be called a Faux Box. It'll have its own separate box from the existing one.
The Second Place winner, with the second most votes collected, will become a brand new TRINKET species! So if you really, really love that second place winner, you can color it and upload with those trinket boxes to your heart's content.
When's this vote taking place, you ask? You want to see all the pets stockpiled? How's tomorrow sound? Yes, we'll hold our vote tomorrow and allow it to go for forty-eight hours.
And even the losing linearts will show up later as Raw Crystal pets, or for some other project. How's that for excitement?
Let us know which part you're most excited for in a comment below!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Mar 6, 2016 2:36am
- Ivory Ebena
(#43812)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:11am
If I would buy for 8Usd in the usd shop and for 7 usd Gp ... Would this sum up to 2 or three boxes?
- Ponyta
(#28386)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:12am
Agreed on the paintbrushes retiring. I'm sure there are concrete reasons to for the retirement, and I understand that it may be beneficial for the site overall, but they represented a USD backed way that non-paypal users could commission artists. Really disappointed to see them go! :(
- Ancient Mew(Sylver)
(#31969)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:13am
Ivory (LL) Malamar (#43812) that should net you three trinket boxes
- Gone x2
(#550)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:19am
Here's an idea. Let's set up a poll to see what Aywas' users want instead of retiring features without any sort of input?
- JAK
(#15)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:25am
I'm sorry but I am not reversing the retire on the Paintbrushes. They have been causing us problems behind the scene for years now. I'm finally going to put an end to the problems that they cause and the harm that they have been causing to the site. The site's health and ability to function is more important. I'm sorry you can't commission or use paypal anymore, but that's unfortunately the price we have to pay to ensure stability.
- Carni
(#12344)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:28am
Hm, another Problem with the PBs leaving... how do I tip PBC-Artists with some extra money for their effords now? That was the only way to show some appreciation to them that I know of... :C
So it's not simply removing another way to spend USD on the site but removing a whole feature aswell.
Sad to see them gone.
- shiya
(#32813)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:31am
Justarius (#48993): *huggels* I think it just wasn't apparent enough. The original text stated 'valentine in both edits and coloring/markings'. I think you did an awesome job still (I think they are totally cute) just not looking enough like Valentine's. (What I often do is, look at old Valentine's pets (or other event pets) and let myself be inspired by them..)
I am also excited to see the new genuses, specially for the faux-like feature!!
- ☆Liya☆
(#323)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:34am
Another fox box styled pet mm yesss.... Unless not doing the same thing with them. Like no user submissions swap thing, as it is now.
- ❄Sapphire-min❄
(#7680)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:38am
well I knew this was coming for months and I get it but still sucks to hear, idk how going to continue playing on this site anymore, this has effectively cut off anyway of getting anything new commissioned :/
Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:09am
Are you kidding?
With the removal of paintbrushes, I now have no way to purchase any USD-based commission what so ever with paypal blocking anyone under 18. Thanks, Aywas.
We were told when USD was first coming into play that it wouldn't prevent users unable to use USD from playing at the same level that USD applicants can. Now? I wonder how many commissions I'm going to have to drop because I cant use paypal.