Happy 2016, guys!

We wanted to have Hoarfrost out for you (well, those of you with strong pets) today, but with all of these errors, that's probably not a good idea. We'll get him out as soon as we can, though!

This isn't the start of a new monthly thing, just a one-off.

We're going to do a similar thing this year to what we did last year with the monthly guys: 12 CS challengers (this year they will be four "sets" of three challengers that all fit our overall theme) and four non-CS "standalone" characters (not part of the sets, but still fitting the overall theme). It'll be clearer once you see the first one!

He'll be disabled the rest of the year, but once you've earned him, you'll still have him when we re-enable next January (not that he's hard to get anyway).

Hoarfrost himself doesn't have any special coding, but his scrolls do! One scales up based on your pets stats (aka T13 pets have a little more to deal with) and the other scales up based on his own stats.

So, and I are working on loot past 10 wins right now. How many wins would you guys be willing to go through for an amulet or a tome drop? What do you think would be a fair endpoint for the final loot (something like a scroll)?

We're talking about smaller challengers, like Buttwing Bomber or Muffin Man. Not Prodigy or GE :P

3000 wins on GE! :P

We'd like to give people more of a challenge than something they could do in one afternoon.

Yeah, for something like a custom scroll, for example.

We can do tiers, too. An amulet at X wins, a tome at Y wins, a scroll at Z wins... something to work towards. The idea here is not to have people earn all of this stuff in a day or even a week. This is something you'd pick at over time.

Normal drops all along, or we can even set a second tier of better "normal" drops... the sky is the limit now really; we can customize this quite a bit.

You can take your time. We have to do this loot stuff for all opponents first, and would like to redo the battle high scores database table so that we can bring those back, and there are a couple other things we want to do. Then we can reset everybody.

Nope. We're postponing doing that math until we have to. :P

Yeah, we like this. It doesn't make a lot of sense for a little challenger to drop something tailored to a big battler (or vice versa).

Each "set" spans three months. The first challenger is coming out tomorrow (unless something goes horribly wrong).

You should have gotten a sticker and a beanbag. Has anyone else not gotten drops?

I just clarified in the news comments, but basically: four fairy tales, three challengers per tale, one challenger per month. Each tale's challengers will increase in difficulty, with the third one being more of a "boss" (this is where you might expect to see a giant ;) ).

Good morning sluts, bow to your new queen.

Totally kidding :P I'm your new minimod. Just want you guys to know it's always cool to ping/comment/smail/text/whatever me if you need anything. I'm going to spend the next couple of hours cleaning up this forum, so if anyone knows of any threads that need attention I'd totally appreciate the ping.

Does it still have no option? (I just checked the item to make sure on my end and had to change a thing)

The Nacho weapon IS subject to change, so don't get too excited :P But yes, it does a little something more than it shows!

That curse does more than just icons ;o

So, I am thinking it's a bit too strong. I'll tweak it later tonight.