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Post by Silver on Nov 16, 2021 20:19:45 GMT -6
All of the MML Stat Pages have been updated! All creatures should now be correctly classified and requirements listed clearly. Every creature/life stage combo we have an image for is now posted: You may have already noticed, but creatures fall into one of three different categories. Basic Breeds - these are just what they sound like, the original starting breeds. Basic breeds can be adopted from the APAA or purchased with vouchers. (Though some rules apply when it comes to adopting creatures who have gone extinct!) Very Special Breeds - these creatures can be purchased from the Hunter's Lodge or with VSC vouchers. Rare Breeds - Everything else! Anything that you buy from shops, earn from events, earn as loot, obtain as prizes, etc. are Rare breeds. Some rare breeds can be purchased at shops (including some 'special VSC' which are now just called 'Rare breeds' to save everyone a headache!), others must be earned, and some are currently not available... but might be soon! Some creatures have changed classifications over the years as their availability has changed over time. All that matters now, for the sake of obtaining (and registering) these creatures is their current, up to date classifications. Side note about registries: I know that many of the "must register" categories are redundant, or more than one might apply to the same creature. (Like how all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares!) Staff doesn't mind which category you choose to register your creatures under. Please pick one that makes sense to you. If you're not sure whether a creature needs to be registered... register it anyway. There's no harm in doing so. Now that was all very long and boring, so here's a fun little bonus if you made it this far: There are some new (and recently un-retired) VSC hiding in the stats pages that are now available for purchase. I'm not gonna tell you which ones, though - you'll have to go have a look for yourself. ;) Have fun! There's also 3 rare breeds newly available in two different shops for you to find!
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Post by Kadin on Nov 20, 2021 6:06:15 GMT -6
A few changes! Staff has opened a new donation shop to help with funding species growths! Keep an eye out, more things will likely be added in the future! The way that Secondary Characters works has had a few slight changes! New limits has been imposed on secondary characters... 4. You may have up to 5 Humanoid characters at a time! Pet characters, Draconic, and Sprites do NOT count towards this limit. 5. Before you can make a new secondary character, all of your existing characters must be Level 20 at minimum. ...but they've also undergone a price reduction! 1 Month Secondary Account Payment- 150 credits per month Permanent Secondary Account Payment- (one time) 1,500 credits Permanent Sprite as a Secondary Account Payment- (one time) 1,125 credits Sprites now start at Level 20 rather than Level 0! Prices for VSC in The Hunter's Lodge have been updated to reflect equivalent cash prices!
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Post by Silver on Nov 20, 2021 17:57:49 GMT -6
Small but fun update:
The stock limit on Anti-Growth and Regrowth potions has been removed. You may buy as many as you want per shopping trip now! :3
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Post by Silver on Nov 23, 2021 1:12:40 GMT -6
Another small update: A new VSC Shabutau has been recovered and is now available, and a Rare breed of Chiryma v2 has been moved to being a regular VSC!
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Post by Kadin on Nov 23, 2021 4:39:25 GMT -6
A few more tricks have been added in! They were from user suggestions or inspired by them, including a few service animal tricks for any of your character needs! Deep Pressure Therapy Ground Handler Alert Circle Tug of War Keep Away Yeet On the same note, the trick "Guide" has also received a Training Point reduction and no longer has a loyalty requirement. If your character requires someone else to train a guide animal for them, that's now a possibility!
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Post by Silver on Nov 24, 2021 17:10:10 GMT -6
Welcome to the Loziuyesh of the Steel Clan! You can pick yours up at the Rookery and you can see their stats here! Thanks again to out wonderful Draconic artist Xentus for this beauty! Also a fun little Draconic breeding update: You now have 30 days from the time the room is posted to finish your Draconic breedings! This is instead of going by calendar months. PS: I know the Draconic tutorials are not caught up to the all the updates we've done recently. I will work on it as soon as I can. :3 In the meantime, go with the thing that was edited or posted most recently. If you have any doubt you can always ask a member of staff to help you.
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Post by Silver on Nov 28, 2021 19:22:21 GMT -6
The Eclipsion Enileaf and Taiga Baakir have been correctly listed as Very Special - they were previously listed as Basic Breeds in error.
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Post by Fiera Ferella on Dec 1, 2021 10:39:50 GMT -6
New Event- The Advent Calendar Hello everyone! We've whipped up a special event for you- an Advent Calendar! Come in each day in December to claim a free item! We're very happy to share this with you, and we hop you enjoy! As for credit where credit is due- the calendar and the majority of the items were drawn by Darky, with the remainder being drawn by Fiera Ferella. Happy Holidays!
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Post by Silver on Dec 6, 2021 18:26:57 GMT -6
There is a New Quest on the board! This one has an extra special prize - something we've never seen before as a quest reward. ;) Now, on to the big news: We will be changing how quests work. Slightly. The reason we're announcing this, is because we're making some changes to the valuations of items at the QI at the same time. We've decided to give everyone a grace period of 2 months to finish any quests they want to finish and spend the QP they earn before we make the change. We WILL be changing: - The price of things in the QI (Things will be adjusted to better reflect value of similar items around the site - this also means that the QP price of credits WILL go up.) - How often we add new quests - The kinds of prizes available from -future- quests - Adding more prizes to QI (not all at once, probably over time) - More QP only quests will be made so people can have more QP to buy prizes with We will NOT be changing: - Any of the prizes for the current quests (You will still be able to do, get QP from, and repeat all current quests!) - You will still be able to buy credits, pet levels, LEs, VSC, and secondary characters with QP, but the VALUES will change - QP will still be finite - if you spend it, it's gone, and you'll need to wait for new quests to come out to replace it You will have until the 7th of February to finish any quests you want to finish and spend your QP at the current rate. TL;DR - You can choose to spend your QP now for more credits, or you can choose to save it for the new items coming out, but credits will be more expensive (cost more QP per credit) than before. You have two months to decide.
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Post by Nadia on Dec 17, 2021 5:36:27 GMT -6
Here's a fun little update for you all - seasonal critters may now be adopted from the APAA during the appropriate season!
Spring - Love Plush, Egg-Snatcher, Ducky, Beast of Fools Fall - Pink Fuzzy Bunny, Corpse Construct, Shadow Lurker, Red Devil, Candycorn Bat, Star Flitter, Crystal Guardian Winter - Snow Flurry, Jolly Bird, Ice Burrower
These critters require the 5 post requirement of an LE for a successful adoption.
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Post by Silver on Jan 9, 2022 0:01:01 GMT -6
So the testing period for creature encounters is over, and we've made a decision about how we want creature encounters in loot areas to work from now on. The guide has a full version, but here's the TL;DR: Staff will let you know what the creature is doing, then you make some posts finishing up the encounter yourself. You can decide how the creature responds to you, but you must stick to the info in the prompt. Staff will give you a range of posts (3-5, for example) to make, and you cannot make fewer OR more posts than the range suggests. Staff will review your thread once you mark your post DONE. You have to wait for staff to make their post of approval before continuing on after the encounter. Tip: the ranges are set up to get you to the 'next roll' so you can finish an encounter and wait for a roll at the same time, but you are not required to make the max posts (or penalized for making the min posts). The range is more to let you spread out the story as much or as little as you want. It's REALLY okay to make the minimum, so long as your story makes sense.
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Post by Silver on Feb 8, 2022 0:19:47 GMT -6
There is a New Quest on the board! This one has an extra special prize - something we've never seen before as a quest reward. ;) Now, on to the big news: We will be changing how quests work. Slightly. The reason we're announcing this, is because we're making some changes to the valuations of items at the QI at the same time. We've decided to give everyone a grace period of 2 months to finish any quests they want to finish and spend the QP they earn before we make the change. We WILL be changing: - The price of things in the QI (Things will be adjusted to better reflect value of similar items around the site - this also means that the QP price of credits WILL go up.) - How often we add new quests - The kinds of prizes available from -future- quests - Adding more prizes to QI (not all at once, probably over time) - More QP only quests will be made so people can have more QP to buy prizes with We will NOT be changing: - Any of the prizes for the current quests (You will still be able to do, get QP from, and repeat all current quests!) - You will still be able to buy credits, pet levels, LEs, VSC, and secondary characters with QP, but the VALUES will change - QP will still be finite - if you spend it, it's gone, and you'll need to wait for new quests to come out to replace it You will have until the 7th of February to finish any quests you want to finish and spend your QP at the current rate. TL;DR - You can choose to spend your QP now for more credits, or you can choose to save it for the new items coming out, but credits will be more expensive (cost more QP per credit) than before. You have two months to decide. The deadline for this is being extended! You have until midnight (US Central time) on the 21st of February to finish your quests! Then, you will have until the 7th of March to spend your points under the current system. Between the 21st and the 7th, we will be putting a hold on completing quests (you can still do them but we won't check them until after), and this will give you time to spend the QP you might have gotten close to the deadline. Staff is working hard on implenting some interesting new kinds of prizes for quests and items to purchase with QP, so we hope you look forward to the update! :D I know I am!
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Post by Fiera Ferella on Feb 14, 2022 8:01:09 GMT -6
It's that time again!
Hidden Crossroad's fifteenth anniversary is on March 10th! For this fantastic milestone, I am THRILLED to bring back the Create a Critter contest! Like last year, we're running polls to let the whole site build the next WELP Corp species. If you recall, last year the result of this was the Catharion. This year, who knows? There will be 8 polls that will be open for 3 days each, starting today (February 14th) and ending on the site's anniversary. Like last year, everyone who votes in every single poll will get an event exclusive Special pet of the species that is produced! The species itself will be released as a site-wide creature adoptable from WELP Corp.
I'm super excited to do this again, and to celebrate 15 years of Hidden Crossroads! Happy anniversary, everyone!
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Post by Silver on Feb 16, 2022 18:37:53 GMT -6
What's this? More fish? Hooray! The loot pool for fishing has been expanded with brand new fish, creatures, shells, and plants. You might also notice some old favorites now come in new colors. Also, as you can see from the examples in this post - we've given all the fishing items names! No more wondering if F_30 was the goldfish or the lumpy fish, now everything has a name that should give you an idea what it is at a glance. You can see all of the new names over in the updated trade catalog. You can of course keep your old images as well - we won't be removing them, but from now on we'll only be giving out the new ones. P.S. All recolors are in the same price category as the originals. Thank you so much Darky for the new friends loot! (Oh, and Silver did the recolors.)
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Post by NPC on Feb 24, 2022 0:31:09 GMT -6
All of the quests up to this point have been reviewed and QP has been awarded.
Doing new quests is currently on hold - any quest completed between now and the revamp will not be accepted until after the revamp is complete.
You can spend your QP at the questing inquisitor until the 14th of March (we've added more time to the previously advertised date). After that point, the shop will be updated. You may spend all of your QP now or wait for the update - the choice is up to you.
We will be adding new quests, new prizes for QI, and other great stuff soon, so stay tuned!
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