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Good Afternoon! I hope everyone is enjoying the Lunar Meteor so I will try to keep this short, it is just touching up on a few things!
I am sure by now most of you have seen the Premium Grab Bag on the Welcome Back page.. Well, it is finally released! This item does exactly what its name suggests it will do! You can pull out a random previously-released Premium monthly item! We removed some of the retired objects, such as Gardening Items, though given time they may find their way back in there.
You can find the Grab Bag in the USD Shop under the Misc section.
Be warned this item will not be a permanent addition to the shop! In order to help keep the premium items of value, it will be stocked randomly, with or without a notification as to when it will be stocked! I will keep it in for a few days to celebrate its creation, then it will be removed and show up at a later time.
Speaking of the previous Premium Items, I know that the Long Island Iced Teo has been a source of irritation for a lot of users (most of staff included) so I am happy to announce that it has finally been fixed! We spent the past few days thoroughly testing it, and it appears to finally be working correctly :D
Which! Now that we have figured out the trick behind regenerating Alcohol, we are going to be testing The Zombie! We ask, until I announce it has been fixed, that you Do Not use yours! You will not be refunded should something go wrong.
My next point of interest involves breedings. Firstly, Cocobeef||Quetz (#8298) is going on hiatus. I have assigned the rest of the Artist Tickets they had, and I am going to be working on compiling a list of artists on the Grand Team so users can know exactly who they can ticket.
Regarding Painted Coins:
I am going to be monitoring the requests closely, so I would like to remind all users that when you submit a breeding with a Painted Coin, you are permitted to give a Theme and a Color Scheme. These themes are supposed to be only a few words, and users are not allowed to ask the artist to use something that is Copyright! You are permitted to ask for certain edits to be used, however the artist is not required to follow your request. Please keep that in mind!
If you have questions regarding the coins, you can check out the Painted Metal Breeding Coin and Painted Lesser Breeding Coin Knowledge Base articles for helpful information.
On the other spectrum, I will also be monitoring the finished babies to ensure they fit the theme, the colors, and that they are of an appropriate quality.
And, again, I am asking ALL of Slash's Breeding Artists to please PM me with the abbreviation of your team and your Paypal address within the subject line. Then, in the body, include a link to your PM with Slash.
Many of you have already contacted me, and I appreciate it! However, those of you who have not, please do so quickly! Your lists will not be processed and you will not be able to be paid until I hear from you!
Artist's Palette and Painted Bottle now work properly with Blind Dates, so feel free to add them as you would like!
We also have a Temporary Breeding Artist opening! This position pays GP, with SP and Custom Item incentives for how many you complete on time! We need someone willing to help clear out the HBC queue, as well as to finish the Drunk Breedings from last year! If you are interested please visit This Thread for instructions and more information on payment!
The Bonuses will work as follows (And be used for current HBC Artists as well):
20 points per list turned in on time
1 SP for every 2 lists turned in on time.
1 Point = 1gp
With your points you can can purchase any custom making item available
You can purchase breeding items ONLY if you are submitting predicts, and you must present the pair and completed predicts when requesting the breeding items
If you cannot submit ONLY predicts, then you cannot request that coin
We have also remade the Birthday Fixes Thread. You should have received a Ping if you had posted in the last thread, asking if you still wish to change your birthday. We apologize for the massive delay in these, however we do offer the Lunaris' for these missed birthdays if you had contacted a moderator within 2 weeks of your birthday. Please visit the thread for more information!
Since you have been so patient and read this whole post, how about we open the Prehistoric Portal once more and see if we can find anything?
It looks like something is swimming out...
Ah! Look at this adorably happy fish! We will call him Daevo, and he will be our fishy.
Some of you may recognize him based on the prehistoric dunkleosteus, and if you are familiar with this fish you will also know they weren't nearly as happy or friendly-looking as ours! They were incredibly interesting, however, and I strongly recommend checking them out! :D
As per normal Prehistoric Portal tradition, once we have 75 Daevo designs in the edit repository, we will take another peek inside the portal and see if we can find something else. Please remember these designs must fall between 15% and 50%
And would you look at these sexy devils? It seems a few more NPC's have shown up! And these ones seem to have brought a few tools?? I wonder what type of construction their planning...
(Our thanks to Frey who wrote these profiles a very long time ago!)
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Wed Aug 3, 2016 9:35pm
- Gwennafran
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 8:58am
Conium (#39365)
Honestly, I'm premium, and the shop discount alone more than makes me the investment back several times every year. Even now, I have 84 Custom item Packages in my inventory, and all of those has had 1 GP slashed off their price, compared to what I would have paid normally. That's 84 GP saved right there (and all of these are less than a year old and far from the only things I've bought from the GP shop this year).
How much was premium again? ;)
It keeps amazing me how upset people are over premium "not being worth it". The monthly items alone usually will bring you in considerably more than the premium price you pay for a year, if you sell them all for GP.
- slothful
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 9:50am
Ellory (#804)
speaking of a mod response...
I don't remember this blurb being there yesterday. but regarding the new USD item it says this:
"Be warned this item will not be a permanent addition to the shop! In order to help keep the premium items of value, it will be stocked randomly, with or without a notification as to when it will be stocked! I will keep it in for a few days to celebrate its creation, then it will be removed and show up at a later time."
again. maybe it was there yesterday (a couple hours before reset).. but I honestly don't remember it there. sorry if I am wrong though lmao. I think maybe it should rest your fears a bit though? idk. Imma feel real dumb if that blurb was always there...
- 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489)
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 10:43am
Tequila Mockingbird (#64472)
That blurb has always been there XD <3
- Eve
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 10:44am
Tequila Mockingbird (#64472) - It was always there XD
- Paleolily
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 10:44am
Tequila Mockingbird (#64472)
That section was there since the news post went up.
- Eve
(#2775)
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 10:45am
Kaiyo (#489) Rudy (#4485) JINX *cackles*
- Issa
(#804)
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 11:13am
Conium (#39365) I'm not some money hoarding monster, jeeze. Like I said I don't use the gp shops much. My money goals are for things that are only in user shops. And isn't that the point of premium items? To be limited to those with premium? So that argument doesn't work either. And lording my money over people? My money is hard earned, I'm not donating daily for massive quantities of gp. And quite frankly I don't tell anyone how much I have and end up giving a lot away so idk how I'm holding it over people and being this selfish jerk you seem to think I'm being?
Idk maybe I'm now reacting poorly but your post read more as an attack on how I play the game and on older users. I don't think it's a big deal if I like playing the market and selling high with the others. If people will pay, I'll sell. It's a game and that's how some play it.
I'm out though, don't want anyone else criticizing me or thinking I'm a hoarding jerk.
I do like that it's going to be random and I'll just trust the admin to know if the time ever comes to pull it
- slothful
(#64472)
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Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 11:26am
WELP! I'm blind then. lmao. My bad. xD;
Posted on: Fri Aug 5, 2016 1:57am
Yeah, sorry, but i'd rather have actual incentives to being premium than "lord your potential wealth over others, it's great fun!" Premium needs to be worked on to make it worth its' price, but not in a way that makes things unavailable to many- all for the sake of a few.
As from how this sort of thing affects economies, i'll tell you how, since i've been on sites that have done this before: die-hard oldbies bemoan the end of the economy and... the price of a few items goes down by like. 10-15%. That's pretty much it. The only people who are going to suffer are people who price their rare items far beyond their worth, and even then they won't feel the pinch much. With a pool this wide, the chance of hitting on a huge-ticket item is quite minimal, and so instead of hundreds of geode carts entering the marketplace, it's more like a handful at most.
Though MAN lemme tell you, playing on that fear has made me a nice bundle. people freak out and are more willing to settle on a lower price if everybody thinks that their items are going to be worthless the next day.