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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
- Foxtrot
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 3:33pm
Haha it's amazing how "American-ized" this resort is- everything says made in China or USA... they don't even play Jamaican music for the tourists. Headed beyond the gates tomorrow to actually see what Jamaica is like ^-^
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:03pm
🎁❄Kaiyo❄⛄ (#489) All of the old NPCs are retiring / being removed from the site? D: You know that only makes me want to read all about their retirement adventures / shenanigans. ;D But on a slightly more serious note, it'll be sad to see them go. Some sort of Archive / Tribute would be nice. if Slash agrees to it! ^^
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:04pm
🎁❄Kaiyo❄⛄ (#489) A Retirement Party site event to celebrate all the old NPCs, for instance. :D
- Eris Enigma
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:14pm
Thank you Chaos! I'm gonna miss him :(
- Aria
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:22pm
AWWW Chaos! D: -HUGS-
- Eve
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:25pm
To be fair, the old NPCs look less like us than the new ones do - with a majority female userbase and an all male cast with some tropes that people have long thought to border on inappropriate... a change has been long needed to bring things up to date, be more inclusive, and offer new opportunities to bring a proper NPC presence back to the site.
After all, the originals belong to Slash, and he wants them back. Who are we to deny their creators' wishes and continue to co-opt them for ourselves when he's clearly expressed discomfort in that?
♎ Astra ♎ (#16365) I do think we were planning on doing something, but until we've gotten everything sorted it's been put on a back-burner ^^; We don't plan to pretend they were never here, though! We just have to arrange something that's respectful to Slash's wishes.
- Oiseau
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 4:50pm
Eve (#2775) Well said, Eve. I completely agree.
- Tae
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:00pm
Thanks for the Reply Kaiyo. I'm still a relatively new player in the length of the site... just about two years now (I started the end of Feb 2015) so I had no idea they were Slash's OC's. If it had been mentioned it was years, and years ago. By the time I joined he had already started pulling away from the site. I think is this the first time in the last two years since I joined that any thing has been said abut them being replaced, which is why it was such a shock.
It's nice that you guys are going to try to keep or re-do the birthday event. Like I said it was a lot of fun the last two years and I understand about having to find a way to make it so people don't get a free crystal out of it. I know that happened to me when one my friend sent me got denied because the marking made it not pass as metal (though I told me friend and they fixed the markings and I used the crystal to make the pet my friend tried to send over). I am really looking forward to seeing how the event will progress and grow with how the site is growing.
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 5:14pm
Eve (#2775) Okay, thanks, good to hear! ^^ I agree that the old NPCs were bordering on inappropriate, but I liked their edgey-ness. ;D I didn't know Slash wanted 'em off the site, too.
Posted on: Wed Feb 8, 2017 3:32pm
nice to see an overwhelmingly positive response to Chaos' presence...and if by "outdated" images you mean the "original" NPCs look like US, I don't see anything wrong with that - I prefer NPCs more like our characters than our pets. (but my views on this whole subject have been exhausively aired and don't warrant rehashing)
I will be continuing to work on "Chaos In the Kitchen - a Recipe For Disaster (and Other Aywas Treats)", and any who miss him are free to peruse it on my profile bookshelf.