POST-EVENT MAINTENANCE TIME

• There will be a short 15-30 minute planned maintenance downtime at 12:30AM DVT tonight, where we will be unlocking the new event quest for everyone, as well as removing all Shimmering Embers.
  

ADDITIONAL POST-EVENT INFO

• The event quest, "Lilia & Fantasia's Summer Festival" will be available to begin by speaking to Lilia until the end of September! After which it will seasonally return next year.
• If you weren't able to participate as much as you would've liked this summer, don't worry! The seasonal nature of this event means that it and all of its associated prize items will return again.
• We'll be adding onto seasonal events every time they come around each year, so stay tuned for what new things may lie in store for next summer!
• We'd also like to thank everyone for the feedback provided surrounding the event, and will be striving to improve for next year!
  

NOTICE: It appears that the unlocked overtime rewards have not processed yet, our main backend developer is working on this and these rewards should be distributed to everyone soon!

As we enter into the home stretch of our Summer Festivities event, we have an important event update to announce!


Due to some staff work schedules shifting for this coming weekend, the end of the event will need to be extended in order to ensure that our main backend dev is able to be online during the final moments of the event where the site processes all final scores and awards. While not initially planned for, we hope that this extra time will give everyone a last minute opportunity to keep working on their scores and tier placements!

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• When the event timer hits "0 seconds left to help!", the event will close and automatically shift into processing all scores and reward data. It should take approximately 1 minute for everything to process, after which you may visit the event page to view your rewards!
• All successfully unlocked overtime rewards will be automatically added onto your event rewards - everyone who participated in the event will receive these overtime items!
• In order to update the site with new content associated with the ending of the event, we'll need to have a short maintenance downtime period at 12:30am DV time on September 6th (~30 minutes after the event ends). This should be quick, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes or less!
• As a reminder to everyone, the Shimmering Embers event items will extinguish at the end of the event! Be sure to use them up for some easy Item Alchemy rewards, if you'd like, before they're wiped from player inventories.
  

Hello everyone! We hope you've been healthy and happy! Here is our update for September 2020, summer is nearing its end, make way for autumn!
What are Monthly Shops?

• Every month, Pai and Oran from Peddler's Port will have different sets of 6 items in their shops that will retire at the end of the month to be replaced by new stock.
• These items are obtained from far away lands and follow the theme of the land they visited each month.
• All retired items from Monthly Shops will eventually be able to be obtained very rarely from Grandma Agnes later on.
  

How can I get to Peddler's Port?
Peddler's Port is a seaside location that you can unlock by going through the main storyline in Louise Hill. Once unlocked, you can visit Peddler's Port any time without using up a town hop! 

• The event can be accessed through the button above or by going to the community drop down menu!
• For the first few days, an additional new task will appear each day for a total of 8 different tasks.
• Tasks refresh on a set timer, for example the Gather Refreshments task can be completed every 2 hours (12AM, 2AM, and so on)
• Overtime reward details will appear if the main bar is filled before the event ends!
• A seasonal quest related to the events of this year's Summer Festivities will unlock if the bar is successfully filled by the end of the event!
• This quest, if unlocked will be enabled for the duration of September after the event ends.
• The leaderboard is just for fun and does not include any bonus prizes for high scoring users!
  

Event Related Item Drop

• The Shimmering Ember is an event specific item that is now obtainable by completing daily errands for Louise Hill NPC's (Both positive and negative paths)!
• All shimmering embers are account bound and will disappear at the end of the event.
  

Hello everyone, we hope you're well. We have a quick update for you on some new features, fixes, and upcoming things we've been working on behind the scenes!

STORAGE BOX
We now have a storage box for all items you want to keep safely!
The storage box is located in the Inventory page via the Storage tab.

• All items in the inventory can be moved to storage by selecting the items as normal within the inventory.
• All items in storage cannot be traded, gifted, alchemized, used in quests, given to pets, etc.
• To withdraw items from the storage box, simply go to the storage tab and select items to withdraw.
• Withdrawn items return to the inventory.
  

Smaller Updates

• Item Tooltips now display the item type upon mouseover with colour coding!
• Some parsing issues were causing the word filter to occasionally not work, this should now be fixed!
• The Referral and Registration page text have been updated to be more accurate!
  

UPCOMING THINGS
Here are some updates on our plans for upcoming features!

Summer Festivities EventA reminder that our Summer Festivities Event begins on August 20th, 2020 @ 11:59:59pm DVT! We're excited to share in the celebration with you!Guild Creation
We'll be officially opening Guild Creation soon, after we get the event running smoothly!
We're nearly ready and are doing our final rounds of tests and fixes to make sure it's as bug free as possible.Custom Maker Submission
The custom maker submission system will be officially opened after we have Guild Creation open!

UPCOMING ART UPDATES
We have a few art asset related updates that we will be slowly rolling out in between higher priority features!

Clothing Additions & Adjustments

• More skintones will be added to the early game in the future, including a larger variety of darker skintones!
• We'll be gradually adjusting the darker outlines on some early game items to be subtler while still working well with darker skins.
• A few items that were updated during closed development seem to have unintentionally gotten less saturated, we'll be correcting this over time as well.
• We've added a function to set a pause to animated items which we'll be utilizing later for new as well as existing animated items. This should help alleviate the cluttered effect of an animated item looping immediately.
  

Adventuring Sprite Appearance Icons
To give users a better idea of what a sprite appearance looks like before they purchase or equip it, we're working on more detailed minisprite icons to replace the current circular colour swatch ones.

Some Quick Event Details:

• This event type is a seasonally occuring cooperative event! The community will come together to complete various tasks to fill up a sitewide progress bar in order to successfully help out Lilia and Fantasia with their event.
• This will be our first iteration of this type of event since beta testing, after having reworked some of its features according to player feedback!
• To earn event points, there will be a collection of event-related tasks that will ask you to perform different activities around the site. These tasks can be completed for points multiple times per day on a set time interval.
• Your personal point gain will determine the prize tier that you earn and the rewards you will receive at the end of the event! Each tier and the points required to achieve it will be revealed at the start of the event.
• If the sitewide progress bar is filled, a new seasonal quest about the summer's festivities will be unlocked for everyone onsite! And, because this event will return every summer season, each successful completion of the event will introduce a newly unlocked quest that will expand the seasonal story and lore.
• If the sitewide progress bar is filled up before the set end date for the event, new overtime goals and rewards will appear for the community to unlock!
• On the flipside, if the sitewide progress bar is not able to be filled to 100% within the duration of the event, everyone will earn their tier rewards but the season's unlockable quest will not be unlocked this year.
  

Hello everyone! We hope you've been doing well and having fun as we kick off the start to the month of August. This update includes our new monthly shops announcement, event updates, and some pertinent progress reports!
What are Monthly Shops?

• Every month, Pai and Oran from Peddler's Port will have different sets of 6 items in their shops that will retire at the end of the month to be replaced by new stock.
• These items are obtained from far away lands and follow the theme of the land they visited each month.
• All retired items from Monthly Shops will eventually be able to be obtained very rarely from Grandma Agnes later on.
  

How can I get to Peddler's Port?
Peddler's Port is a seaside location that you can unlock by going through the main storyline in Louise Hill. Once unlocked, you can visit Peddler's Port any time without using up a town hop!
PROGRESS UPDATES
Here are some updates on a few things we're working on behind the scenes!

Custom Maker Submission Queue
We are aiming to open the Custom Maker Submission page some time in August! An update will be released at least a few days prior to its release, in order to give everyone time to prepare their submissions. We have also compiled some basic information about the system below, for anyone that is interested:

• Your place in the queue will be displayed after submitting your request.
• You'll be able to make edits to your request up until an artist claims it in order to begin working on it.
• There will be a set of request rules and guidelines to follow for making custom submissions.
• Since there is currently only one artist (for the timebeing), the queue will likely be worked on in relatively chronological fashion. However, when we eventually are able to hire more artists to the team, requests will be claimed based on what different artists are most comfortable with in order to maximize efficiency.
  

Guild Bug Fix Progress
This past week, we've tackled many of the most pertinent bugs related to guilds and have made good progress! We're currently extensively retesting and working on making sure nothing new broke as well as fixing the rest of the bugs. We'll continue to bring you updates on our progress and announce this month when Guild creation will become available officially!

Vaer's Reef Affection Milestone Quests
Some users who have gotten over 500 affection with NPC's from the 5th town may have noticed that the quest they've unlocked is missing from their quest page. These quests will become available soon, as we've been hard at work behind the scenes revising some of the Vaer storyline with user feedback in mind. Thank you for your patience as we make the quests available!
Trades Market Rule Breaking
There has been an unfortunate trend frequently reported to the Ticket Desk, where some users have been intentionally offering nothing/only a few potatoes on many trade lots in the Trades Market (regardless of what is being asked for), in the hopes that the other person will accidentally hit "accept" instead of "reject". We'd like to clarify that this practice is considered scamming and should be reported by users who spot it happening.