News Archive: Week 41, 2020

Winter Wonderland the Glacier Rreign has won the Pet Spotlight!

Winter Wonderland won the Pet Spotlight on August 24, 2020. This is part of a catch up on pets that didn’t receive news posts for their wins.

More weapon revamps just for you!

Raymond the Reborn Jollin has won the Pet Spotlight!

Raymond won the Pet Spotlight on August 23, 2020. This is part of a catch up on pets that didn’t receive news posts for their wins.

You may have noticed that the Pet Spotlight has been stopped for about a month and a half. While we've tried to keep an open stream of communication between users and staff about problems regarding site functions, we held back on this particular function until we had some solid information to provide.

The Pet Spotlight in August was having some issues running every night, this was a combination of code not doing the news post/awarding the spotlight but also in our winners queue there are a lot of pets from the same few users. As those familiar with the pet spotlight know, "after a pet wins, there is a two (2) week cool-down period before another one of their pets can win".

So, we pondered as a team how to address this. The code issue was taken care of, but what about the few users?

Starting October 7, the pet spotlight will be awarded every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. We thought about doing just weekdays as we have in the past, but that wasn't really cutting down the days enough. We thought about doing every other day, but we wanted concrete days y'all could expect a spotlight to happen.

We will be doing news posts this week to catch up on the last few spotlight winners from August that didn't get news posts and then it'll be back to new spotlight winners!

We love that so many of you care about your pets. We're looking for more ways to encourage users to apply for spotlight for their pet.

We know a lot of users are worried about the planned changes to how pet profiles work. We want to assure you that any coding done before the change can be kept as legacy coding. Furthermore, we are not planning to do such a big change before the end of the year so you still have time to create!

RELEASE THE (very colorful) QRYKEES! You can now own your very own spectrum or blacklight qrykee.

[I]The Blacklight Potion can be purchased in the Cash Shop while the Spectrum Potion can be restocked at the Apocalypic Apothecary.[/i]