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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
- Tae
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 9:38am
A little disapointed in getting a faux pen as a premium item... I have no use for it... maybe I'll just hold onto it and sell it in a couple of months if the price goes back up again.
- Ashley
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 10:08am
Does anyone happen to know who to write if your premium expired before you could claim the item?
- Issa
(#804)
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 10:27am
Any chance there will be usd collect bonus items between $5 and $200? I have a large amount of bonus to collect and I'm afraid it'll expire but the metal box doesn't interest me :(
I am excited for its new species though!!
- kelsey
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 10:49am
Ahhh Im also really disappointed to see the paintbrushes go... I understand they were problematic on the backend but gosh, they were so useful on the user end!! The commissions panel just can't replace that; it was so awesome to be able to trade GP to other users for an item that paid out USD. I hope there can be some kind of workaround or replacement brought into play that works better....
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 11:01am
Ellory (#804)
I don't believe any member of staff has ever hinted at bonus points expiring, so I wouldn't be worried about that happening. I do agree it would be cool to have some new bonus stuff rotated in!!!!
-Kita
- Issa
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 11:03am
Oh thank you that's good to know! But yeah I'm not complaining just more choices/ different levels would be rad :D
- Gwennafran
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 11:16am
Ellory (#804)
If nothing else, I believe there usually is some extra bonus tier items around Mayday (half a year away from Black Friday).
- Verd
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 11:21am
I don't see why people are freaking out so bad and threatening to leave the site because pBs are leaving. First, calm down. Second, try to not ignore the internal issues the items were causing for the site. If you want to keep ignoring the issues with them, then keep on complaining, I guess. But it won't change anything.
- AuraDragoness
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Posted on: Sun Mar 6, 2016 11:40am
What about the march birthday gift? Can we only get it on our birthday?
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.