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Hello dears, I'm sorry to appear out of season but I've been sent to you with an important message from the Lunaris Council, the governing body of this corner of the universe.

It's very possible you haven't heard about them since they have been mostly absent during the seven years that humans have colonised here on Ay and Ara. You see there were a few problems they've had to attend to in order to keep you all safe here, and because of that we - the Lunarii and the Shapeshifters - have mostly been absent. We've sent down contacts on a monthly basis for a long time now, and a few Shifters - like myself and Tech - have recently come to make our homes here.

What enabled us to do this was the presence of some people you have come to know well - Kaz, Shoe, Chaos and the others. They came here from their own world to look after all that lived here, and guide you beings that are so like their form in becoming settled, and in accepting people such as myself who are both humanoid and creature.

Now that the worlds are safe again, and that you have accepted us as we are, it is time for them to return home. They catch their transport home tonight at midnight to return to friends and family who miss them dearly, and the lives they have so graciously put on hold for so long to be here with you all.

We thank them for their services, their advice, and their love, and wish them well going forward.

So what does this mean for you?

Well, now that myself and those like me are once again able to be here, we're hoping to keep things running for you as you know them. There may be a few small tweaks, a little personalisation by each of us, but we will try to not rock the boat too much while you become more accustomed to us.

We're all very pleased to be here, and look forward to speaking and spending more time with you. We sincerely hope you feel the same.

As for the Lunaris Council... they are rather hands off and don't like to interfere in interplanetary affairs, but they are watching over us from the skies, keeping us safe as always.

Take care, my loves, and I will see you in February if not before.

Staff just have a few quick notes to add on to what Eryn has said.

We want to give you a list of what the games have been known as and what they are becoming as of tomorrow (June 15th), along with any extra notes we think you might want or need to know about the updated games!

- "Xero's Pet Research" will become "Dylan’s Pet Project". The game remains the same.

- "Axl's Pet Research" will become "Naoki’s Pet Research". It has been updated to show if you have the pets or not, same as the Aywapedia, and the pet name even links you to the Aywapedia so you can go in search of one to buy! Be careful though - the button to give up shows in the same place as turning in a successful trio, so watch what you're doing!

- "Scavenger Hunt" will become "Miksa’s Pet Bingo". The game is the same, but will bring back the old game mechanism where you cannot use "Search" or the Aywapedia purchase options to find a Pet ID.

- "Talk to Xero" will become "Manju’s Musings". Your old data will be transferred to the new game - but beware, the mechanic that resets your BP amount if you miss a day has been fixed! The day is counted as 00:00:01 to 23:59:59, so you can check in with them any time of the day, just so long as you don't skip it!

- Free Food will now randomise between 1 and 10 items for you, but still feeds all your pets.

- "Tam's Item Quest" will become "Pablo’s Item Quest". This too remains the same, but again has a click through to the Item Directory page for the item they want to make it easier to complete!

- "Kaz and Shoe" will now feature Rowan and Minerva! Our cutest Aywas couple will throw plant pots and blow kisses, and you might even get an item out of it!

- "Tak's CDs" will become "Tech's CDs". Once again the item name will click through to the Item Directory so you can see what they gave you!

- "Rogue's Zapping" will become "Ambriel's Alterations". Other than a new caretaker of the random result, the game will remain the same.

There's also new NPC Plushies for you to collect... Some of them come from the updated games, if you're lucky...

We will have more on those at a later date!

Posted by Aywas Official (#2) on Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:32pm

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Aywas Official (#2)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:54pm

Tae (#66637) - At the full release of the new NPC plushie set we do intend for there to be a museum collection, yes.

Sandy (#50007)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:55pm

I'm relieved to hear that the old plushie items will stay on site if i read that correctly -- I'm still looking for some of them :P

especially since the plushie talismans were just for were just available to buy - for usd?

Aywas Official (#2)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:03pm

Sandy (#50007) - Exactly, it's a concession we've been allowed due to users collecting them, and messing with site items doesn't feel right in general. And as you said, especially since we've re-opened the old museum collection.

Starry 🦋 Par (#5230)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:16pm

Honestly, it seems to me like so many people are getting worked up over the daily streak when in the grand scheme of things it's not even that much BP? I mean, do some explore in the rainforest for a few minutes and you can make just as much if not more. Our streak is over 100k right now, and if we lose it, yeah, it'll be a bummer, but it's not like it's really going to affect our aywas finances that much.

I understand nostalgia, and that change can be rough, but in the grand scheme of things is this really worth getting up in arms over? There are tons of opportunities for making BP on the site, and raising a fuss over a relatively small freeby handout just seems like an over-reaction to me.

~Starry

Tae (#66637)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:17pm

that makes me super happy ty ^ ^

💜Kristi💕LL (#6558)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:28pm

I have to echo the sentiment of many users, I am not pleased at all with the change to "Talk to Xero" / "Manju’s Musings". I have been a loyal player for years, and truly feel like users are being punished. It is nearly impossible to log in every day. Something is always going to come up. I thought the game was functioning the way it was meant to, and that Aywas was lending a hand if you missed a day it was ok. I looked at it like a reward to those of us who are loyal. Now after years of it working one way it is just being changed. I have built up a nice streak through the years barely missing a day. Though no matter how hard you work to keep a streak alive, life will happen. Events in life will interfere with the game and keep us from getting on at certain points. Wrecking a streak that took literally seven years to build! That will make a bad day even worse and it is entirely not fair!!! Not to mention, it's not like I can have my best friend hop on my account and save my streak for me if I was having a heart attack. It's against the rules for her to touch my account, not that she would be thinking of saving my streak at a time like that. Its just an example. The old saying "if it isn't broke don't fix it" really comes into play here. I have been a member of Aywas for 7 years and it has always worked this way. In my opinion lets not fix it. It's working perfectly! It's not tons of BP, we should get the reward we have worked so hard for. If I work for it, I want to keep it. If I don't get to keep it, I am not seeing much of a point to logging in daily. The loss of my seven year steak is just going to sour me towards aywas. Seven years has been a long time!!! I have only missed a couple of days here and there, tornadoes, power outages, a death in the family. I still got what I worked for. I thought Aywas was cool like that. If you take that away what is the point? I also should not have to stress on if I will loose my streak because of the site going down for a undetermined amount of time.

Conium (#39365)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:39pm

It makes a difference because of a few factors. First we still don't know WHAT gets an account flagged in adventure as "botting", so I don't use It as much or for as long- and so I miss out on a good million or so a day. The complaint corner isn't nearly that much, but for me it's 50k right now, so I do that, other games, take anything from the shop til, and stick it in the bank. Then I take the daily income and stick THAT in the bank. Yeah this means about 100k a day, which is 1/10th of what I used to make.

The second aspect is that there's very few bp items in the middle of the scale, some big, but all the new additions have been in the multi-million area. Yes there are going to be people who can afford that level, but they'll be fewer and just widen the gap between rich and poor. As the site has said they're aware of people leaving in droves and that they want to make the game a place that people would want to put money in again... is widening a massive gap a great idea? No, it's terrible. And it doesn't put confidence in me that I want to put in more money than what I did during mayday.

Mind you they do need to make bp a viable currency, and this is one of the steps they need to take, but they also need to place in midrange incentives for the shops or introduce features that drain bp for another sort of reward or experience. We've had too many cutbacks and scaling down on features that bring in money and enrich player experiences. Viable answers to stabilize bp should come more in things like custom adventure returning, or the like. Not making it hard for people to have fun and buy things.

Conium (#39365)

Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:47pm

Also adding in, the site is terrible to use on phone or tablet. This makes it much harder for people who don't have access to computers to make sure they play the games every day. If you want to have no grace period or regenerating "free pass in case you miss a day" and go "too bad, toughen up buttercup" fine.

But in that case also fix your darn mobile site.

Arinaya Rutherford (#34865)