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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
- p.poke ::: woogie
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:44am
Carni (#12344) I think its possible to tip PBC artists through the feature? i do remember getting tips through the PBC panel, and there's a section that asks us artists if we're enabling tips.
- Carni
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:47am
p.poke ::: woogie (#5869) Hm, could be they implemented that feature with the new standing stones? That would be good, not loosing a feature I quite enjoyed XD I can't check if you'r right though, standing stones are currently down ^^
- Shawnee
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:59am
Such Gorgeous bases for March!! Can't wait to make a million <3333 lovvee
- chloe-k <3 Squirtle
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 4:37am
Really awesome jeweled bases <333
- Keera
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 4:56am
I would like to see an announcement on when the standing stones will be up again...
- Toby
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 7:43am
Oo! I can't wait to see what pets will be up for voting! :D
- Koaf
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:03am
Going to try to make a March Faux Set if it doesnt work out then I will be annoyed
- synicals & pluto
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:28am
I am also very disappointed in the loss of PBs. I liked the fact that i could still commission artists using SPBs, even if i'm not allowed to use my Paypal. Now that this is taken away, i really don't know what to do anymore. :/
maybe it's time to pack up and move on....~pichu
- Calico ☕
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:33am
The new Jeweled bases are cute! I especially dig the miokit and Suune <3
However, I am disappointed to see the paintbrushes go; they filled a niche in the Aywas economy that I feel is invaluable. Not all users can make use of the commissions panel, due to no paypal access or other restrictions or lack of funds, but while they could buy paintbrushes from other users with game currency, they'll no longer have that option. Aywas, I think, may lose out a bit on this too, because users who bought paintbrushes to resell them will not spend that money.
I am sorry this...is not very well worded. I am still sick T_T;;
Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 3:43am
Very bummed out about the pbs. I'd rather have their redemption value decreased than for them to be gone forever. I would think things like putting USD backed items in mystery box tickets would be more of a problem than pbs, which are completely usd backed.