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Welcome to the merry month of May!
As the saying goes, April showers brings May flowers, and we have plenty of fresh treats springing up.
This news post is going to be very big, so be sure to set aside some time to read it from top to bottom! ;)
New pets are all abloom in the GP Shop!
While the creatures in the BP Shop are aglow with glee!
If you colored one of these adorable pets, please contact Kyu (#1010) for your payment!
Make sure to include your PayPal address if you are opting for the USD option.
We will also be collecting pet PSDs directly from the thread, so you no longer have to send them in. However, please make sure you keep the links active for two weeks (at least until mid-May) so we have time to snag 'em for science!
Soak up a new month with the Essence of May 2016!
This golden apple potion will turn your active pet into a random monthly coloration from the assortment above.
This month's premium item is the Small Bronze SCC Pen, which allows you a 25% chance at uploading one of your finished Sketch Breeding Coin babies! Let's hope that a lot of new species spread their wings this month~
We kicked off a brand new Lunaris set and calendar last month!
The Beaver Lunaris is with us throughout the month of May!
Visit the birthday link on the anniversary of your glorious birth to receive a gift from Aywas!
June Monthly Pets - BP Shop: Enter
June Monthly Pets - GP Shop: Enter
June Monthly Customs
Theme: Rainfall
Good luck with your entries!
Coding Corner
A monthly update from behind the scenes!
Yasu has told us this month will be spent focusing on the back-end of the game. It shouldn't be possible for one user with a bot to lag the rest of the site through Adventure, for instance, so he's going to be focusing on re-writing some functions to better serve a larger userbase. Fortunately, he knows what's causing these problems and will be tackling them!
Further, he's said that he wants to focus on getting the new forums up. If you recall the new forums are something we endeavored to complete a couple years ago, but had some issues popping up that prevented it. If we are successful in getting the new forums up, we can look into possibly implementing new forum-based features, like vistas or a more robust blocking system. No promises, but we'll see if it's something the users would want if the forum recode is completed.
Here's to some lovely progress throughout the month!
Some new Jeweled Pets have come out to play! Let's give a big hand for our featured artist of the month, Shawnee!
Remember, you can try out to be the new featured artist of the month on this thread! Looking forward to seeing your applications!
Who's excited for the incoming Teo Madness? You can start looking at the Teos that are being stocked by going to this page. They will be stocked throughout May. The event will happen on May 30th!
Be sure to get your keyboards and mice ready for that day, it's always a madhouse! Also remember that during Teo Sales, only purchases you make during the sale can be used to claim an bonus egg.
Antiquity Staves are stocking in the GP Shop until May 15, 2016 at 11:59pm AST! Also remember, you can expect a new raw pet to debut on June 1st, in case you missed the change!
We aren't yet ready to open the SCC Feature because some users still need accommodating from when SCCs were handled manually, but we're ready to start accepting some artists!
SCC Feature artists are paid a flat $20 for all items listed in the feature. Deadlines are one month for completion with a minimum of one pet a month. You can apply to become an artist here.
Soon as the remainder of the manual-SCC users are handled and we get a nice crop of artists, we'll have the feature open for those of you with SCCs (and some of the new items will be released too!).
May is PSD COLORING MONTH!
Let's get those PSDs colored!
The goal of May is to get as many PSDs colored as possible. Whether you are taking MDT requests, USD commissions through the USD panel, GP commissions, BP commissions, or simply coloring PSDs for free, you're an artist who's eligible to post your PSD coloring and claim a raffle ticket!
For every PSD you color and post the resulting PNG on the Event Thread:
1) You, as the artist, receive a ticket to the pot of PSD Coloring Prizes!
2) The user who's coloration you posted has a small chance of having the pet uploaded for them! Special upload days are on Tuesday and five pets will be chosen per Tuesday.*
* Must not be a predict
Read more about the Event here on the Event Thread!
Here are some fun site-wide goals for you guys:
1. Reach 1000 PSD colorings by the deadline and the userbase can move one Raw Pet to either Ay or Ara. There will be a vote.
2. Reach 2000 PSD colorings by the deadline and the userbase can vote on which common/uncommon species make the next two hybrids, for release in July.
Have fun and get your wrists ready for some coloring!
The Faux Box is sporting a new theme!
Submit a Plants/Nature Faux Set (themed edits and themed colors for all five pets) and earn an extra Faux Net.
The TFE and Alidae Egg queues are running a little dry lately, so they've been discounted to $40.00. If you want to buy one, grab one quickly! They'll be discounted until May 8, 11:59 PM.
Let's talk about the Art Gallery! Lately we have been seeing a decrease in submissions to this feature, to the point where virtually no one is participating.
What can we do to make this feature more exciting for you? To make you want to submit to it? Respond in the comments below!
That's all for May... for now! Let's see if we can get those PSDs colored and have plenty of fun this month!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon May 2, 2016 3:23pm
- Tech
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 12:35am
Do metal pets count as psds? Because if so I can totally participate, Been coloring lots of metals for people
- Tech
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 12:38am
Also, about art gallery, well The gallery themes seemed to never update, also I only have time for it during the summer honestly, and maybe during a few breaks where I don't have to worry about college. Also, I prefer to do more crafty themes than straight drawing themes, sure all the themes can technically be done in any medium, but some are harder than others.
- Tech
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 12:41am
Sorry one more thought about art gallery, I really like cinnas idea of having the prizes announced ahead of time, though a month seems a bit long, maybe two weeks instead of one week to work on them
- Marrorow
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 3:17am
I love the art gallery still, it's one of my favourite things. Way back when I made a suggestion for improving it and some things did get implemented but I still stand behind the prize upgrade system I thought up of to make it more interesting but not game breaking either. Read it, please. I still believe in all the ideas listed there. https://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/2004469759/
Now there's also the issue of it nearly always being judged too late, but I hope this is already fixed with a new admin running things.
- Inactive user
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 5:43am
Alatus & Lunaris Jeweled Bases are my favourites :-)
About the art gallery, sadly nothing can help you in my case. I either don't have the time or an inspiration that could make me enter.
But if you would consider I had a idea a while back that it would be great if we could view our entries if we clicked a link on our profiles.
Thank you for the consideration ^_^
- 🍁TinselWolf
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 9:37am
Is there a page somewhere on how the May day teos work?
- Impy
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 12:45pm
Wow, great Teos upcoming, huh? :)
As for the art gallery, personally, I rarely use the feature due to a few key reasons;
- Prizes are not announced soon enough (I prefer to put work into something, knowing I'll potentially want/need the prize!)
- Judging is rarely on time, and so I find myself forgetting when I'm supposed to submit by etc.
- Also, generally, for me personally at least, some of the themes can be difficult to relate to aywas; this might just be my lack of creativity speaking, but I do struggle on occassion to link the two!
Other than that, I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with the feature!
- LadyStoneHeartHiatus
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Posted on: Wed May 4, 2016 1:09pm
Omg love shawnees jeweled pets! I so wish i had internet atm!
- Tae
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Posted on: Thu May 5, 2016 10:13pm
JAK (#15) I wanted to submit one of the new Jeweled pets but when I go to the custom pet feature it's still listing the genus types from last month. I posted a thread about it in help the other day but no one has replied to it. I wasn't sure who was in charge of that feature.
Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 12:25am
I'm really happy to see some of the old features coming back, albeit in a slightly adjusted form. Voting raw pets into Ay or Ara, involving the userbase in creating new hybrids (speaking of, when do we get new rusted hybrids with the new token pets?), and keeping us informed of which issues are being tackled behind the scenes. It's starting to feel a bit more like old Aywas again.