PayPal returns!

We've finally worked out the return of PayPal as an option for purchasing Cash Shop Credits. I'm really glad to be able to bring this back after seeing how many of you don't have access to another payment method. Thank you for keeping the pressure up on us to invest in this!

🤞 This means there will be improvements to the monthly subscription system coming soon, including being able to pay with Stripe or PayPal.

You should get your CSC immediately, if anything goes wrong file a ticket and we'll help you as quickly as possible, as always.

CSC Bonus

The bonus amounts are laid out on the credits purchasing page, with a 20% bonus on top of the usual amount.

Vending Machine Update

Thank you 🙏 to all of you who helped test the vending machine mechanics. I appreciate the help, and remember to join the forum group, you never know when something will come up soon 😉.

We're introducing the revamped Gift of Fashions Past vending machine 🎉. For some of you, this will be your first experience until we revamp the rest of them, so let me introduce you to some of the new concepts.

Finite Items / Pool

Each vending machine has a finite pool of items to grab from, and we won't say how much 🤫. The indicator will give you an idea of how many more there are, but not exactly how much.

This gives us control over the number of an item that go out, and the confidence to tell you exactly how many of an item went out this way. You'll see more exclusive items in other (non-CSC) vending machines in the future take advantage of this feature by stocking low amounts, but exciting items.

❗ We're moving around where items come from on our side, and going forward all wearables we're trying to bring back in circulation will come from here, and non-wearables from the hustler.

Item Pool Rarities

We've always had the concept of high / low chance in vending machines. We could make it so that some tagged items appeared at a 1,20 less chance, but we could never really tell you what that meant, because we couldn't tell you how many items there were, exactly, in the pool.

Now, with exact limits on items (what happens if they run out! we'll see??) we can make items more infrequent. This is as a "chance machine" here, but we can use this mechanic in a lot of exciting ways in the future.

Daily Limit

This now has a 5 per day limit, sorry 😞. It's meant to be a fun use of a small-ish amount of CSC, not something you spin to stock up your shop with by spending as much as you can.

To make up for it, we've added some exciting new items and are even looking for what you might like to see in the future.

Project Kumos updates

I'm making progress on lots of exciting updates on the site, including the ones above! They bring together a lot of different moving pieces, that make it easier and easier to port over features from the site. Right now we're just checking and double checking things like the other vending machines and shops. Here are some highlights!

Item Details

As more and more of those moving pieces get bought on line, this page updates quickly with more and more information.

Try using the search feature there, it's unpolished but great!

User Icons

We've been toying around with moving away from the little person icons. We've already got a human representation in the avatars, and we've really tried shrinking them down in every single way. Take those circular avatars and make them 16x16. Sure, that'll be legible.

We can change these to any colors we'd like, alter the border, and even swap out the icon for something else, like if you earned ultra special icons from features or plots in the future.

Rough: News Comments + Sticker Reactions

Check out this post itself in the news, and you'll see the comments. Some sCode (like the spoiler tag, coming soon!) don't work, but for the most part it does.

One thing I'm playing around with is using your sticker collection as reactions around the site. Check out your collection and choose up to 5 favorites.

On news comments, clicking the "React" button will show you those favorites and you can use them to react. This will be used, if at all, in the forums and other areas of the site where you'll react to things, so choose those favorites wisely!

Phew

I'm sure I missed something, and that was a lot. We're going to post more frequent in-progress updates, more frequent ask for tests in the forum group, and hopefully get more ultra rare very hard to find items within your grasp 😉