[Berenice]

I'm Entering into the Raffle!

Username ;; Berenice.
What is something you are looking forward to with the species ;; looking at all the gorgeous reindeer <3

[conversett]

I'm Entering into the Raffle!

Username ;; conversett
What is something you are looking forward to with the species ;; hmmm all the pretty designs and character development <3

[Venatici]

hello hello all! i come bearing seasons greetings and some nice prizes ~

first, our final sledding winners:


next, I wanted to thank you all for participating in the event! our booths are now all closed, but the event will remain open for another week or so, so that you all can continue to enjoy the adopts our lovely artists are putting out!

as a thanks to everyone who participated in the event, anyone who has posted anywhere or interacted since the event opening (up until this post) is welcome to get an invite code to the website. the website and invite codes will be distributed after the event ends, but before it does I would like those who have participated/gotten bells to fill out this quick form:

https://forms.gle/2kV2Y73qg7EBpJbM8

all I need to know is if you intend to join the website, or if you are not interested and need a spot on CS to spend your bells. because the point of the website is to automate everything, this is a "one time" BSA shop, so after the shop closes on CS it is closed for good.

now for our tallies for the entire event:

►Athena◄ - two full customs, custom accessory, 142 bells
0zero0 - 52 bells
badgerbuddies - two full customs, custom accessory, 146 bells
certified - full custom, custom accessory, 156 bells
conversett - 80 bells
cubeau - 82 bells
cujo. - 44 bells
darkestwerewolf - two full customs, custom accessory, 118 bells
discontinued. - full custom, custom accessory, 78 bells
doggface - 24 bells
furrydogs12 - 112 bells
hainu - 22 bells
honeybunchesofoats - 74 bells
ilya - 40 bells
joke's on you - full custom, custom accessory, 68 bells
kennymcnenny - 74 bells
luxio - 58 bells
marz-barz - 116 bells
Namida_☾ - 30 bells
olivionary - 40 bells
vanilla bean. - full custom, 56 bells
zombiehund - two full customs, custom accessory, 116 bells

if you look at these and go "wait! but I definitely did not win that much" to no fear - there were some additions I made based off of the amount of booths you entered in, how many bells you finished with, and what booths you had bells in. for those who completed all days of the lantern event, you received bells, a custom, and a custom accessory! for those who this applies to, I'd love to work with you creating a staff NPC to put into the lore - so once the event ends, feel welcome to reach out to claim that, though it is not at all required ^^

now for our raffle for reindeer, congratulations to our winners!

first place goes to kennymcnenny, who wins a full custom voucher!
second place goes to vanilla bean., who also wins a full custom voucher!
third place goes to 24beaver01, who wins a semi-custom voucher!
fourth place goes to pandapop, who wins a semi-custom voucher!
fifth place goes to cujo., who wins our last semi-custom voucher!

and that wraps up the rewards for the event, more information will come once the event closes about how to redeem these and how to use your rewards. for now, just hang tight, and enjoy the event adopts before the event fully closes! : ) thank you all for your participation as always, and hope to see everyone around!

[Venatici]

hello all! I wanted to come in and officially announce the closing of the event. thank you all for participating! we are excited to have these kiddos up and running again!

we are going to now be transitioning over to normal operations. what does this mean for you?

starting tomorrow, adopts will be posted on the main thread. this is to give time to runner ups who have not been posted yet, especially for adopts released last night! this means artists will not be posting any adopts today to give some time to catch up.

the website will be unveiled within the next couple of days. currently we are waiting on some users who participated in the event and won rewards, but have not filled out the google form
https://forms.gle/2kV2Y73qg7EBpJbM8
once I get more responses / reach out to those this applies to, we will be able to get things moving ^^

for both species, we are going to be implementing some changes in the way that we do things. there are now four different "services" our artists will be working on: customs, transfers, imports, and breedings!

customs will be free and can only be earned through events or the titling program. our staff go by the rule of thumb to "be sensible", so we are extending that courtesy to the community. however, if there is seen to be abuse of this system, we will be very strictly limiting what customs can have. as for now, the only limitation is customs with very rare or above traits need approval from one of the administrators (oats, arkin, or myself).
transfers are mostly going to be for huskies, and you do not need to receive a voucher any longer for a free transfer. our artists are going to be working off of a 3 - 1 system, meaning for every 3 free transfers they do, they are allowed to request payment for 1. how each artist delegates this is up to them!
imports are now a new thing we are adding, running off of the same system for transfers. essentially these are "founder" dogs that any member can receive, essentially a guaranteed adopt. we are going to be implementing this system with the additional idea for those who do not have any baltics, they will always be free.
breedings are now also going to be open for both huskies and reindeer! I know some of yall are super excited to get some year old breedings in, so these will be postponed for a short while as we get everything sorted out specifically as there have been some discussions we are having as a team. but no fear! all breedings will be free, because at the crux of it we want this species to be free to enjoy.

all of these will be working off of the main thread for each species, except for breedings done with reindeer. since most of these edits would need to be hand drawn by artists (they are not as rigid as huskies) it makes more sense to distinguish the two threads, especially since with reindeer we are aiming for a more typical 'cs adopt' environment.

in addition, we will be making some updates to our genetics guide for huskies and some general updates to both species! this includes looking to onboard a couple of non-artist related staff. more information will be coming about this in the next coming days as oats and I now work to overhaul all of our cs pages so that they reflect the current state of the species, as well as compile those updates into the website. the website changes a lot of things, so I will detail more about that for those who are getting invite codes. essentially the way this will work is we will have our first round of 'early access', which are those who participated in the event, be able to test out the site before it becomes publicly available for everyone. this way if there are any issues we didn't catch in the testing, we have time to mitigate them before it goes public. a little bit easier to test with 15 people than the whole community!

that should be all for now, let me know if any of you have questions. otherwise, thank you again for participating and I hope to see everyone around! if you haven't already, feel welcome to join the discord and bop along with us ^^