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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
- Voluspa is on Hiatus
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:50am
Kanein (#49712) Actually Easter is early this year and does take place in March so Easter faux makes sense ;)
- Nyte [Hiatus]
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:50am
Kanein (#49712) Easter is on March 27th this year!
- Nyte [Hiatus]
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:52am
Dang, ninja'd. >:c(
I'm so excited for the new genus! I hope they're easier to edit than Faux.
- Kanein
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:04am
Voluspa (#67552) Nyte (#59610) Easter is always the 1st sunday of april Here.. how strange for it to be march .. but still wanted make st patrick day faux xD...
- Voluspa is on Hiatus
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:07am
Kanein (#49712) I had no idea Easter could be on different dates in different places! :) And you can of course still make those St Patrick's faux, you just wouldn't get an extra net... But yeah those extra nets are tempting :)
- Guitarlos
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:10am
If we make Fauxes with an Easter theme do we still get the increased rewards?
- Azi
- Valyria
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:24am
Could we get some items to redeem bonus credit for at some point? It's stacking up pretty high and if I'm going to have to get all my paintbrush purchases out of the way in the next week... it's going to be even more out of control than it is now.
Not thrilled about this paintbrush thing either :( It's going to exclude a lot of people from the biggest aspect of this site.
- NyctiCorax
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:36am
JAK (#15)
Would it be allowed to pay commissions for other users who can't use paypal, if they pay you back in aywas gp/bp/items/pets? As in, I offer like up to $20 of commission credit in exchange for aywas stuff, someone buys it and I place and pay for their commission and then pass the artwork through to them.
I figured it would be similar to the way people currently make ads to sell $20 worth of usd shop stuff before actually buying the items, but I'm not sure if it's allowed to pass on the artwork. It does require a middle man, but I think this would greatly benefit the people who can't use paypal because of age or country restrictions, while not giving aywas any trouble with the paintbrushes, because the commission feature is used.
- Your Gayness
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:37am
Man, the paintbrush removal really sucks.
Now I'm excluded from a major part of the site; thanks.
Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 8:41am
wait.. Eater themes.. but Easter is April.. Are we skipping St. Patrick Day For march Faux now ?? so sad :( i had some good ideas for it. I may do it anyways cause why not celebrate St. Patrick's day anyways with faux