Welcome to August!
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!
Our second month of limited shops is finally here:
August's theme is the mysterious Rosethorn Forest!
These items were procured from the vision of a nighttime forest.
Freshly fallen leaves line the ground, soft crimson rendering your
footsteps silent. A perpetual dusk envelopes the gloom, vibrant
thorns block your path...
What are Monthly Shops?
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!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai will host these 6 items in their infinite stock shop this month for 200 turnips each. If you spend 2000 turnips, you will be able to choose a free item of your choice! Free item claims will expire 3 months after obtaining them.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's shop will be stocked with these 6 items for 9,000 potatoes per spin! The spin price has been increased compared to last month, in order to adjust for inflation as more currency is generated by players and the economy begins to find its footing after just over a month since the site launched.
These monthly shops will run until August 31st, after which they will be removed to house September's monthly items!
AUGUST SUMMER EVENT
We have a big summer event planned to happen some time this month. We're aiming for a mid-August release, so we will have more information about the specifics of the event for everyone soon!
Our Adventuring Riddle Contest is also now under way!
It ends on August 30th, 2020 so get your submissions in before then!
Read our event rules and submission instructions here.
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:
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.
Our second month of limited shops is finally here:
August's theme is the mysterious Rosethorn Forest!
These items were procured from the vision of a nighttime forest.
Freshly fallen leaves line the ground, soft crimson rendering your
footsteps silent. A perpetual dusk envelopes the gloom, vibrant
thorns block your path...
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!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai will host these 6 items in their infinite stock shop this month for 200 turnips each. If you spend 2000 turnips, you will be able to choose a free item of your choice! Free item claims will expire 3 months after obtaining them.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's shop will be stocked with these 6 items for 9,000 potatoes per spin! The spin price has been increased compared to last month, in order to adjust for inflation as more currency is generated by players and the economy begins to find its footing after just over a month since the site launched.
These monthly shops will run until August 31st, after which they will be removed to house September's monthly items!
AUGUST SUMMER EVENT
We have a big summer event planned to happen some time this month. We're aiming for a mid-August release, so we will have more information about the specifics of the event for everyone soon!
Our Adventuring Riddle Contest is also now under way!
It ends on August 30th, 2020 so get your submissions in before then!
Read our event rules and submission instructions here.
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.
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!
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.
Thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!
Comments
Complaints are ‘so loud’ because people keep repeating the same things. Give staff time to work on the issues, these things aren’t going to happen during the first and second months. I’m not blaming anyone - just advising everyone to relax a bit.
Yeah. I think a lot of reactions are high (myself included) from the underlying messages from other users of “you’re just overreacting”. The enjoyment of a game can be greatly damaged by fear of where the game is headed (which is my concern) and invalidation of those concerns. I want this game to do well, I think it’s pretty neat and lovely in a lot of ways. I’d really hate to see it squander it by getting money hungry like so many other games have done, I’ve been burnt so many times before.
I played Neopets for like 15 years, and watched as they drove their site into the ground. It was sad. But this site is just a baby site, and needs some time. The staff all seem like good honest people, and I have no doubts yet that they will do the right things for the site. Plus this community has no qualms about speaking up, most of us having been burned by sites in the past.
I mean, I do think it's a little shady of staff raising potato price without a warning, but the economy is still young, we saw accessory artists raise their custom prices from 25-50k to 100-300k without previous warning week after week, it's a normal thing that'll happen for a couple of months until economy kinda stabilizes.
I'm relatively casual, but still get a lot done throughout the day which I'm pretty darn proud of. But I have a cyst in my wrist. Had it for ages, clicking sites don't treat me well and are quite frankly painful but I play them because I love them and like to do things that make me happy. I most often make my money through careful trading instead on them. So really, being told to not complain because I should apparently be putting in more clicking is... well, it's sure something.
But otherwise I've got to say I love this set! The colours are so killer, I hope to be able to get some nice pieces! And that promo art? Wow, beautiful.
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Not only that, but users are absolutely allowed to have opinions on both sides. If "negative" opinions or legitimate criticisms aren't welcome by staff, then they are welcome to say so or turn off comments and run the site however they choose. But as far as I know that is not the case, so I'm going to assume they hopefully take everyone's thoughts into consideration. I think it's important that users aren't made to feel afraid or shamed for voicing what direction they would like to see the site take, especially since we obviously ALL want it to succeed. Is the hostility really necessary towards users who share the same goal?
Did you know you can press the "F" key to fast-forward through NPC dialogue?
It helps eliminate a lot of clicking (though obviously not all of it).
If you're doing a daily quest and you see the beginning text and know how it's going to end, just press "F" to fast-forward to the next dialogue choice.
> Legally they cannot sell potatoes for real world currency, but they can put things in game that can be converted turnip to potato. (This is the legalities, they *cannot* sell cash to potatoes directly).
You've lost me with that. can you explain why it would be illegal?
I understand wanting the devs to talk about this more in regards of what they expect for the future. Those of us answering you aren't trying to invalidate your complaint, just trying to preempt their answer, which is just going to be "we don't know, we'll try not to to increase it more because we are aware players would not like it, but the site is young and we are still tweaking the economy, hence big changes like that happening now".
They don't intend to make it cost 3k more potatoes every month! Of course not. But it's not unlikely they will keep tweaking some stuff if potatoes drop in value too much, they could add more stuff to buy, or maybe lower the playground cap. Like you said, you know about game economy so you can yourself think of other good ways to manage balance.
You have 30 days to make the necessary potatoes to get the items you want. You might not get everything, but that's why it's Premium. They have to make the turnips worth something. I like that Premium stuff is valuable. The people who get it are those who will either work really hard for it or pay turnips for it.
Other than that, I have no complaints about the set, I think it looks beautiful!