News Archive: Week 4, 2023

Friendly challengers are back! Each month, an NPC will join the normal tab of the Battle Coliseum for you to battle. This month is Bibi and Lilah; you might recognize them from the Balloon Hunt at Delphi Carnival.

The friendly challengers this year will not disappear after their month finishes - so you have plenty of time to defeat Bibi and Lilah.

We're also back to having a new monthly Cash Shop challenger. You can unlock the challenger Gardak using the Garnet Embedded Clay Figurine from the Cash Shop.

Next year, these challengers will show up in the Cash Shop in the month they were released. For now, though, they will stick around until the next month's challenger release! So if you aren't able to get the Garnet Embedded Clay Figurine before the next Cash Shop Challenger, you'll have to wait until next January.

We've changed the special item for our Subscription Quester, Councilor, and Goddess plans. We will be changing this special item slot every month.

The Recycle Beast is ready to add to his hoard, and is eager for new stuff; he will have more categories including rarity 170 and 195 in his asks. We're also testing something; he will be changing what he asks for to twice a day, EDIT more specifically twice in a twenty-four hour period with at least an hour buffer between, at random times. We are hoping this gives people in other time zones a chance to turn their items in at more convenient intervals, and to entice more Subetans to visit Riverside's resident trash hoarder in general despite the smell.

Updates shortly on shop clearing and Potion Lottery when the coding is done for them!

We're aware of the cycling weekend quests (everyone suddenly wants a turn!) and have reset it back to the Wizard. Ignore any other posts announcing a new one until Friday, thank you!

These bronze pieces from the Blue Building Shop will make work fun by scaring your coworkers by pretending to be statues and then moving! They also make excellent paperweights.

Weekend quests as well as Potion Lottery and Recycle Beast* should be working properly again! Trying to fix the problem with the existing code was not working, so Keith had to write something new and compatible from scratch. To celebrate we're starting it early so for today through Thursday Wizard Quests will count as weekend bonus. We've reset quests as well. Then on Friday morning the new code should set a new weekend quest for Saturday and Sunday and will be able to select someone properly and according to schedule going forward.

We'll be keeping an eye on the switchover to make sure everything's working. One of the advantages of new code is that it should hopefully be easier to fix if something goes wrong again, whereas unfortunately trying to patch the old cron management for those features was just not proving effective despite multiple tries. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy your questing!

*EDIT 1/19: Recycle Beast, Potion Lottery and shop clearing will require a bit more finagling. They are running still, just on the old cron! They'll just require new code and set-up of their own, but we'll do another front page announcement when we have it nailed down.

Oh take us back to Autumn, the harvest colors all around, the pond made orange by fallen leaves, and the trees every shade of warmth. Or in lieu of that: adopt a harvest clawsion or harvest torrent, and let your new pet transport you with its earthy scent and rustling movement.

What's this? You can continue to get New Year Tokens from quests and random events through the end of today! We've also increased the odds of getting tokens, so you can get those last few New Year items you might need. <3