Post by TERRA on Aug 26, 2013 17:32:17 GMT -6
updates
Hey everyone! It's been a while, but we have a lot of updates for you all. Please do look carefully through them, so you can keep up to date.
Autumn has come upon many of us, and with that we bring to you the new season skin, along with the season change. The days have passed through Sepalum's summer weather, and the beautiful colours of autumn has blossomed.
First thing that comes with the season change is that Habbue returned to us a while ago, but she also took on adminly duties this august. Welcome her back as a staff member of our team! We missed her.
Second is we're introducing a few of the suggestions that members have come up with. There will be a thread to list people's relationships/marital statuses, because let's face it, This Is Home deals with a lot of romance. And it's nice to have an easy way to check if someone's taken or not.
There is also a new application template with a few new things to fill out. Appearance, family, and you can even write up a special item for your character to propose with, that only your characters knows about. Courtesy of kaz, who brought it to our attention that filling out more stuff in applications can be fun. If you don't want to fill out everything, simply write n/a.
With this we're going to be having a small activity check, however, so hop on over to the application to fill it out and PM it to one of the staff members. Once we recieve the PMs we'll replace the old applications with the new ones you've filled out, so be sure to take care of everything you don't want to be deleted. And for the characters that we don't get new applications for, we'll wait until September 6th and then they will be deleted.
We'll also bring in the quest system that doxxie suggested before she left. Basically what you do is post up an ad in the bulletin board about going on a 'quest', where you enter in details about your adventure like where you'll be going and what you'll be doing (it can be anything). Then if someone wants to join your 'quest', they'll post a notice in the bulletin board, and then go join your thread. You'll have to make the thread beforehand, and if no one joins your 'quest', it will still count. Remember to make it a specific thing you'll be doing, as it is a 'quest' thread, and not an ordinary thread.
We have also invested in a money system, so all the leveling up will go through buying 'upgrades'. You want to level up? You'll have to earn enough money by posting, and then go buy it in the shop thread now. But we're also adding in a few new cool things you can buy, like a new faceclaim for your character. And sprite/imp involvement in your threads. There'll probably be more things as time goes on, but for now, go earn that money!
We've gotten a new town resident NPC, the gossip girl. She is a nosy twenty-six year old, who loves to stalk around and watch people through their windows as they eat their dinner and dig gold from their noses. No but in all seriousness; Sorenne Bellegarde was a former gossip columnist at a newspaper in the city, The Star Victorialis, who got fired for being too prying into people's private lives. Now she's in Sepalum to torment the people living here with her very own gossip channel. Mostly she just twitters about what people do in their threads, though. Oh, and if you don't want to be mentioned in the twitter gossip, send a PM to a staff and let them know, so she doesn't do anything you're not okay with. The twitter is up in the banner slider, second page.
You might have seen that there's now three sister sites instead of just the one we had until recently. We affiliated with two new sites, who became our sister sites, because they're just that awesome. Blood Red Snow White and Close To Home. Speaking of affiliates; we will no longer be accepting animal or real life roleplaying sites, as this is an animanga site and most people who rp at animanga sites are more inclined to visit other animanga sites.
One of the last things to mention is that we consolidated a few of the boards to make it less lengthy and more inviting. We now have Primula Town, the ranch district, outside of town, Rosa Beach and the islands. All of the sites your characters love to hang out at such as the lake and the woods, even the city, are now sub-boards under 'outside of town'. We hope this won't be too confusing, and that it will serve as an improvement.
And last but not least, the summer event has now closed. However, many people have still not made their exit posts, so we'll hold it open until everyone leaves the beach. If they don't, Njord might possibly have to drag everyone into the sea, who knows. Consequences, people. In any case, we're also opening up a new event soon, the autumn festival. There will be a thread up to clarify all of that at the time, however, so look forward to it.
Aaaand I think that's it for now! Whoa, that was a lot, wasn't it. I'm sorry if it's too much to take in, but we're so excited to make these changes and new involvements, and we hope you guys are excited too c:
Have fun in the falling leaves!
Autumn has come upon many of us, and with that we bring to you the new season skin, along with the season change. The days have passed through Sepalum's summer weather, and the beautiful colours of autumn has blossomed.
First thing that comes with the season change is that Habbue returned to us a while ago, but she also took on adminly duties this august. Welcome her back as a staff member of our team! We missed her.
Second is we're introducing a few of the suggestions that members have come up with. There will be a thread to list people's relationships/marital statuses, because let's face it, This Is Home deals with a lot of romance. And it's nice to have an easy way to check if someone's taken or not.
There is also a new application template with a few new things to fill out. Appearance, family, and you can even write up a special item for your character to propose with, that only your characters knows about. Courtesy of kaz, who brought it to our attention that filling out more stuff in applications can be fun. If you don't want to fill out everything, simply write n/a.
With this we're going to be having a small activity check, however, so hop on over to the application to fill it out and PM it to one of the staff members. Once we recieve the PMs we'll replace the old applications with the new ones you've filled out, so be sure to take care of everything you don't want to be deleted. And for the characters that we don't get new applications for, we'll wait until September 6th and then they will be deleted.
We'll also bring in the quest system that doxxie suggested before she left. Basically what you do is post up an ad in the bulletin board about going on a 'quest', where you enter in details about your adventure like where you'll be going and what you'll be doing (it can be anything). Then if someone wants to join your 'quest', they'll post a notice in the bulletin board, and then go join your thread. You'll have to make the thread beforehand, and if no one joins your 'quest', it will still count. Remember to make it a specific thing you'll be doing, as it is a 'quest' thread, and not an ordinary thread.
We have also invested in a money system, so all the leveling up will go through buying 'upgrades'. You want to level up? You'll have to earn enough money by posting, and then go buy it in the shop thread now. But we're also adding in a few new cool things you can buy, like a new faceclaim for your character. And sprite/imp involvement in your threads. There'll probably be more things as time goes on, but for now, go earn that money!
We've gotten a new town resident NPC, the gossip girl. She is a nosy twenty-six year old, who loves to stalk around and watch people through their windows as they eat their dinner and dig gold from their noses. No but in all seriousness; Sorenne Bellegarde was a former gossip columnist at a newspaper in the city, The Star Victorialis, who got fired for being too prying into people's private lives. Now she's in Sepalum to torment the people living here with her very own gossip channel. Mostly she just twitters about what people do in their threads, though. Oh, and if you don't want to be mentioned in the twitter gossip, send a PM to a staff and let them know, so she doesn't do anything you're not okay with. The twitter is up in the banner slider, second page.
You might have seen that there's now three sister sites instead of just the one we had until recently. We affiliated with two new sites, who became our sister sites, because they're just that awesome. Blood Red Snow White and Close To Home. Speaking of affiliates; we will no longer be accepting animal or real life roleplaying sites, as this is an animanga site and most people who rp at animanga sites are more inclined to visit other animanga sites.
One of the last things to mention is that we consolidated a few of the boards to make it less lengthy and more inviting. We now have Primula Town, the ranch district, outside of town, Rosa Beach and the islands. All of the sites your characters love to hang out at such as the lake and the woods, even the city, are now sub-boards under 'outside of town'. We hope this won't be too confusing, and that it will serve as an improvement.
And last but not least, the summer event has now closed. However, many people have still not made their exit posts, so we'll hold it open until everyone leaves the beach. If they don't, Njord might possibly have to drag everyone into the sea, who knows. Consequences, people. In any case, we're also opening up a new event soon, the autumn festival. There will be a thread up to clarify all of that at the time, however, so look forward to it.
Aaaand I think that's it for now! Whoa, that was a lot, wasn't it. I'm sorry if it's too much to take in, but we're so excited to make these changes and new involvements, and we hope you guys are excited too c:
Have fun in the falling leaves!