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Good evening, sorry for the late news post but I have a few updates! First up I have been asked to remind everyone that when you use the Crystal Check feature that if you can include a PSD our staff would greatly appreciate it! It helps the process quite substantially, if you cannot include a link to the PSD then if you can color your edits a separate color from the base it will help out too! Such as doing the base grey then all the edits blue.
In the same category, please remember to link your Crystal Check link in the pet when you submit your custom. Even if the pet hasn't been checked yet, just go ahead and add the check. It'll either get processed before the pet is accepted, or when the pet is accepted it'll be processed at the same time, that way our staff isn't bumping into eachother.
There was some pretty good suggestions in my previous news post and after some discussions we thought that it would work to try doing Smaller Breeding Lists for GP! We have several teams that are open for this so I will go coin by coin!
Lesser Breeding Coin e-mail [email protected] with your application, this team is offering lists with a 5 breeding minimum with a 10 day deadline, paying 7 gp a baby.
Holiday Breeding Coin e-mail [email protected] with your application or examples of your coloring and edits. This team is flexible with the amount of breedings, with a 10 day deadline, paying 20 GP a baby.
Painted Metal Breeding Coin pm Kaiyo #489 with examples of your coloring, include a wide array of types! This team is flexible with the amount of breedings, with a 7 day deadline. Paying 9GP per baby.
Painted Lesser Breeding Coin pm Kaiyo #489 with examples of your coloring, include a wide array of types! This team is flexible with the amount of breedings, with a 7 day deadline. Paying 11GP per baby. This position requires you to have a program you can edit swap in, and I will monitor that the edit swapping is balanced.
Blind Dates and Eggnogs pm Kaiyo #489 with examples of your coloring and edits. This team is flexible with the amount of breedings, with a 7 day deadline. Paying 30GP per baby.
Sketch Breeding Coin pm Kaiyo #489 with examples of your Sketches! This team is flexible with the amount of breedings, with a 7 day deadline. Paying 14GP per baby.
We will try to answer all PM's as quickly as possible, however please understand we may get a flood from them and Mauri and I both do have to catch up on previous work.
The time has come to say good-bye to Chaos, he has been teaching our pets how to cook for years and he is ready to retire. In the next few days Claude will be taking over the cooking pots and pans and leading us into a whole new and exciting world of baking. Tomorrow new recipes will be disabled, however you will still be able to collect your finished products.
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Tue Feb 7, 2017 9:30pm
- Namine + Marluxia
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 10:01am
Tee Hi <3 (#39846)
A character archive would be great in my opinion.
Tae (#66637)
Yeah it does suck, but the npcs had been the site owner's rp characters and I'm pretty sure they were made for other things. ^^;; I really like the characters as well, but I think it's better to have characters specifically made for aywas.
- ♥ Mochi ♥
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 10:14am
As nice as the older NPCs were, their art is super dated compared to other art - I'm assuming the new NPCs were drawn by a different artist? Seeing both would be really jarring for me, and make the site feel less well put together.
I feel like the new ones match up with the site better too? For example, Claude being a Cirrus shifter matches the fact he's doing the cooking, where we can get Cirrus pets. One the other hand, the other NPCs didn't seem as matched to the site - like with Chaos's reaper thing, or Desmond having three eyes. They were cool, but they didn't seem to match up with the Aywas world.
Once all of the new NPCs are swapped in I'm sure it'll help the site feel more consistent and professional, which should help newer players be more likely to stay? I feel like having a less cohesive site would turn away new players.
- ♥ Mochi ♥
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 10:15am
If there was no on site archive, I'm sure someone could make a thread archiving the old NPCs. An old NPC fanclub, so to speak? :P Would be nice for all those fans of the older characters, probably. <3
- Voluspa is on Hiatus
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 10:46am
I think the artwork for the old characters is not up to the rest of the site standards, the characters tend to be grouchy and as far as I can tell they're all male. I for one am looking forward to this change (I think the first new characters were introduced several years ago?) and I agree with Mochi that they will bring a more uniform and professional look to the whole site.
For people wanting to visit the old ones, they're listed in the new aywas wiki: https://www.aywaswiki.com/NPCs
- Gale Falcon 🎐
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 11:35am
I've joined in september-october, I guess, and still kinda don't know anything about humanoid charas on aywas (those who are not included into "Site Characters" shapeshifters list. idk who's Rogue, Tak, Xero (and how he's related to Rogue or Chimera), Kaz and Shoe etc etc). Anyho, I'm gonna miss Chaos (he had a nice name and I just recently got into cooking somewhat seriously).
On an semi unrelated note - if artworks are outdated, they could be just replaced with new artworks of the same charas, no? Is there some problems with copyrights? o.o
- Tee Hi <3
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 11:40am
Thanks SO much for that, ♑ Voluspa ♑ (#67552)! *immediately booksmark page*
- ♥ Mochi ♥
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 11:47am
Speaking of the NPC genders - today I realised that Pablo's character page uses entirely they pronouns, and that made my day, honestly. <3
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 11:48am
Namine + Marluxia (#702) Aah I didn't know they were Slash's OC's. That's reasonable then as he's kinda pulled away from the site almost entirely now. It still kinda sucks to see them go, but I can understand it.
Though I will Miss Kaz and Shoe's birthday. Will another similar event be added in to replace it when they get replaced I wonder?
- slothful
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 11:56am
I don't know if this has been asked or if i should maybe put this in suggestions, but can there be like an optional upload thingy for psds in crystal check submission. or can the upload be for 200 x 200 pngs OR psds (does it have to be 200 x 200 too? wouldn't 400 x 400 or 600 x 600 be easier to crystal check, psd OR png as you can see the details more? ). I just feel i'm going to continuously forget to give the psd (if available) without an option to upload it via submitting it.... and i know from practicing crystal checking myself using a psd makes it a million times easier so i feel super bad forgetting.. 'orz
Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 9:43am
Aww that really sucks! I like the NPCs we have already. I don't see why they need to be changed. If they want to add more npcs to new areas that would be cool, but why take away the existing npcs that every one already loves? That's just a bad idea in my opinion sorry.