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
yeah I read that comment too... apparently this is worse?? stares into outerspace....
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Seeing the complaints about lack of transparency, this really heavily reminds me of FR's early days. People complained a LOT especially in the first half year? Year? Everyone just needs to... try to take a deep breath and get some perspective. The site does not have enough staff to answer to everything, and no, you honestly cannot compare this sort of job to a regular job, not even one that's heavily CS based. There are literally tens of thousands of registered users for this site, hundreds on at any given time.... Likely if they were as transparent and talkative as it would take to make everyone happy they wouldn't be able to do the rest of their jobs--like answering bug and scam tickets, reworking the coding, processing custom accessories... etc etc etc. It's got to be never-ending. I'm not trying to suggest that people with legitimate complaints should simply be happy with things as they are, but we need to expect that it's probably going to be at least a year before everything is settled out.
I've read a lot of comments that the price for items in Oran's changed this month as a response to inflation, but I don't actually see the devs saying that anywhere. Suggesting that the devs are using this to try to deal with the few people who have managed to amass potato fortunes also seems question worthy: everyone knew in Beta that the KS and Alpha items were going to be incredibly valuable due to their rarity and no matter what potato sinks are built in that is going to remain true and probably become only more intense as the number of users grow; I'd bet a lot of that wealth is sitting in coffers regardless of what gets brought out. So it would be like issuing a retail tax; it won't really affect the 1% the way it would an average person and hopefully the devs are aware of that.... Anyway! At this point, that all seems to be conjecture and people should take it with a grain of salt: it could be that 200 turnips and 9kp is going to be the new norm. A single adjustment isn't enough to establish a pattern. So... I would try to encourage people not to be too worried just yet.
I appreciate at least that this month's set is very pretty--I found it a lot more aesthetically pleasing than the moth stuff, which I only wanted a few pieces of. I'm also very uncertain about the criticism of difference between this set and the last? The color schemes are different, but they're both obviously painterly... I don't see them as being inherently at odds with the rest of the clothing/art on the site.
Also I really wanna know, are more towns in the works? More pets?
the news article we are replying to: 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.
i'm not protesting the adjustment, but you lost me for a second
Dang I'm not sure how I missed that but I did. Thanks for the correction!