[wolfsong-mapleflame]

Bump?

[Soph6297]

-kicks away all that bugs which started to nest here-

Soo.. for all the dear followers out there I just wanted to give a head ups that they live, they are not dead!
Within the next days there will be a big announcement refering to the past, present and future. I do not plan on giving these guys up already. I might have lost my energy for quite a time but now I am back twice as powerful!

Todays posted Adoptable is just the start of a hopefully well-going future I plan with the GoS, the staff and of course the community!
Stay tuned!

Thank you!

[Shadowhunter,]

Yay! I can't wait to see what you come up with Soph ;w;

[NeriHyuga]

i'm happy to see these up and running again x33 and finally i was able to do the last zorse =)

[Soph6297]

Announcement!

Its been a long time without any word from me and it became really silent around the Guardians. But I am not about giving up, I want to give the species another chance but for this some changes and updates are needed.


Hoarding all that staff;

In order to keep the GoS running many hands, eyes and brains are needed. I cannot do it on my own and therefore will need many helping hands around this species. At first I will PM all the current staff, asking if they are willing to keep their position as I already got several PMs saying that some staff want to quit. The next thing I will do is holding an artist competition to bring new fresh blood into the species and community. I am thinking about hiring breeding and full-time artists so that some artists mainly focus on breedings while the others can focus on creating adoptables. Nevertheless the tasks will still cross each others, meaning artists can also do breedings and breeding artists can also create Guardians from time to time.
When everything is hopefully running smooth again I will also look for mods who have an eye on the topics to keep things running correct and to answer questions if there are any.


New rules;

The new rules will soon be updated on each topic they belong to.
1. There will be the feature added to request features when breeding in order to make you love your babies even more. The limit of features you can request are 3 though some artists might be willing to do more if you pay for an extra feature. That is up to every artist. Some artists might cling to how the old breeding worked aka genetics. Thats alright too.
However you cannoth request the foal to be a HGoS, thats still up to luck and the artist. (HGoS information will soon be added to the main page too.)
2. In order to the new breeding rule, everybodys GoS breeding slots have been increased by 2! Every Guardian has now 7 Breeding slots. Keep an eye on them.
3. The third rule wont last forever, just for a yet undecided amount of time until the GoS are fully back running. Everybody who wants to adopt a Guardian needs to have the stamp of the species or (as I know the signatures space is limited) at least a link to the adoption page in their signature. This shall help to spread the Guardians love all around CS and make the more attractive and well-known around.


Fancy events;

Yes, there will be many more events around the Guardians! The Summer Event and the Staff Litter were quite a while ago already but there shall be new ones! During these events you will have the chance to lay your hands on unique Guardians who have (a) event-specific markings/appearance. They cannot breed with other Guardians of their kind but the foals might inherit some of the fabulous genes. Those cannot be requested in a breeding though. They will be similar to themed Guardians. Keep your eyes open for the Otherworldly- and Dragon-Guardians, which are just two examples of upcoming Guardian events!


Get your very own custom Guardian;

Beside the events you guys will have several possibilities to obtain the Guardian of your dreams! There will be several contests in which you can win a custom, from full to half custom. The variety of contests in which you can win a custom will be huge in order to give everybody a chance, sometimes it has something to do with art, sometimes with writing and there might even be a raffle!



I have many more ideas flying around in my head but some of them might be to re-thought again or I need to talk to the staff first. I think for now that are the basic news, there was not much changed but I hope that in the future with all the events that the Guardians will be running again. But for that I of course need my helping hands and nevertheless the awesome community around the Guardians because without you guys the GoS would just be a bunch of pixels. <3
I really hope that we can work on things together to get some ol' glory of the Guardians back and make them grow!

Thats why I will shortly set up the artist contest and maybe even, after talking to the artists, the first new event.

Can we do that?
YES, we can!

Thank you!

[Fuscontidox]

I'm really excited Soph ^^ love the update <3

[Kagome963]

Wow. I need to update my GOS herd. Been neglecting them horribly.

[Ruby-Skylark]

*yay* a chance at a custom \o/
(I haven't yet been lucky enough to win a GoS *sad face*)

[rabbit...]

I am pumped to see what events you and the rest of the staff have in store for us!
The new changes already sound great. ^^

[Soph6297]

Casually drops that here;

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