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Nesting and Updates

Posted 2 years and 10 months ago :: Last edited 2 years and 10 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

I have a small assortment of updates to make everyone aware of! 

General Changes and Updates

Let's start with some nesting updates: 

  • Vigilant dragons previously were coded for a +10 chance per parent of an extra egg buff 
  • Aggressive Dragons now have a +10 chance per parent for breath passing 
  • Calm Dragons still retain their +10 chance per parent for mutation passing 
  • Sinister dragons have a +10 chance per parent for a skill to pass - the parents must have a skill for this to take effect. 

Nesting and Hatchery both have their trait lists updated to match the new names of changed traits (i.e. wild tail was changed to Crocuta and so on). This should illmeminate some of the errors we have had with logging genos! Hatchery now also rolls Sapiere's properly for all your troller testing desires and nesting roller got an update to text color to make it more visible.

Primal Point Calculator received following updates:

  • Personal art and BG bonus now apply properly to Literature too
  • BG bonus now appears on the right hand side, no longer just under Art (Meaning it can be applied to animated and icons/pixel)
  • Various number fixes so that the calculator matches the number updates from a little bit ago.

Marking: Gemstone

Gemstone now covers 60% in recessive (from 40%) and 100% in dominant

Crafting

Crafting will return soon, and will no longer have experience tied to it. We will be using an extension built by Draginraptor which will streamline crafting! 

REMINDERS

- The sale ends on the 20th of May 

- The Great Egg Hunt ends on the 6th of May

 

SCHEDULED UPDATES

We will be doing an update to the site after the end of the Egg Hunt to clean up some back end and update features of Lorekeeper as well as add in new features! You may experience some downtime during this time period!

Egg Hunt and Spring Sale

Posted 2 years and 11 months ago :: Last edited 2 years and 11 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Good afternoon! I come bearing news of our event and spring  sale! 

 

Miscellanious News 
  • We are still looking for new staff, especially in our design approval section! If you are interested, please check out our documentation here!
  • We are working on tidying up the site and adding new functionality during the month of April, so you may some changes or bugs occur while we work on this! 
  • Warden Dragons are still pending their line update, and now that I haver access to much more stable internet, this will be worked on during this month! 
Great Egg Hunt 

The Great Egg hunt is back! With it comes a new annual event currency, like we did in the Grand Harvest, excerpt instead of Gourds, we have Wooden Eggs! Wooden Eggs are earned by completing the event prompts and can be turned in at the Great egg Hunt Event shop during the event and after it closes. 

The Great Egg hunt will start at 5 pm CST today, and will end on May 6th at 23:59 CST.  It features two prompts for all members of the game, and a third prompt exclusive to new members who do not own dragons yet, so it is a fantastic event for new players to join in on and get their very own Common Dragon Egg! 

  • EH: An Interesting Nest: Rescule or steal dragons from nests! 
    • Rewards: Wooden Eggs, 4 Items from the Egg Hunt Loot Table
  • EH: Safety Transport: Transport eggs from one place to another safely! 
    • Rewards: Wooden Eggs, 4 Items from the Egg Hunt Loot Table  
  • EH: A New Journey: New players can earn their very first dragon here!
    • Rewards: Wooden Eggs, 4 Items from the Egg Hunt Loot Table, 1 common Dragon Egg
    • This event prompt can only be completed once by new members! 

Particpation in any event grants you the 2021 Egg Hunt Trophy! 

SPRING SALE

The spring sale will last from April 6th to May 20th.  The sale is available now and a countdown will be added to our group page! 

You can view the prices for the sale here. 

Please remember items listed as " Not Available outside of special occasions" Are not available in this sale. 

Tier 4 Starts are finally being added to the site and will be available in the sale. Designs for our new starters are still pending, but will be completed during the month of May! 

In adition to this sale:

  • Every purchase $50 or more will get you a free Dragon Soul Coin Bundle (25 DSC)! 
  • Every 1 Starter slot purchase you get an extra slot from that same tier! 

To purchase items in the sale, please submit a claim with the following form: 

Paypal: (Your paypal for invoice) 

Purchase Details: (What are you ordering? How much of each?) 

Need a Payment Plan?: (If yes, please detail the plan!) 

 

If you have questions, please direct them to our group notes or to our discord! 

Quick Update

Posted 3 years and 1 month ago :: Last edited 3 years and 1 month ago by Cryptid-Horror

Hey everyone, Cryptid here with a few things to go over! 

You may have noticed it's been a tad quiet. This is because I had some things going on in my personal life that needed my full attention to handle. I had to step away from Souls for a while to handle these things, and I am still handling them currently. I'm in a place now where I can check in on Souls nearly every day, and I'm slowly working myself back up to doing work at a healthy pace. At the time, this was news I only shared in the discord, and I appreciate everyone's understanding as I focus on my mental well being! The good news, is that I'm mostly back in a state I can do work. This means things will start happening again, but be mindful it's still at a slow pace and at what I can handle. 

Here's a few things we will be doing over the next few weeks/months: 

  1. The Great Egg Hunt
  2. Fleshing out location history and lore 
  3. New Website Skin for Spring (Sorry winter :C) 
  4. Continued development on Genetics and other game mechanics (such as giving all temperaments use outside of selective activties) 

Additionally I'll be bugging our resident coding gremlin about our Combat roller and work on our crafting roller. Once these are sorted, these activities will be ready in full swing!

Our Staff applications are open! We need extra hands in a few areas, so apply where you'd like to help us!

 

!!IMPORTANT!!

Please be aware that our staff may be affected by the difficult and dangerous weather happening right now! This means some areas may be slower than others as they stay safe and tend to their families! We are working to keep queues clear and up to date.

New Year Reopening!

Posted 3 years and 2 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 2 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Hey everyone, the new year has come around and while a bit late (I apologize!) we have reopened the site. 

Unfortunatly our design section didn't get many things completed, so this area is still a bit backed up but the requests at the time of opening are in single digits. We will get these covered as our staff is coming off breaks and holidays. 

We are still looking for new staff members, and if you're interested in joining our team please check out our Staff Applicants.

More news about the Frigid Festival will be around in the coming days, I'm still recovering from the holidays so things may seem a little slow! 

Prompt/Claim Closure

Posted 3 years and 3 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 3 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Hello everyone, we wish our entire community a happy holiday season as we come to the end of the year! There isn't much to talk about it, but this does server as an important announcement that the prompts and claims will be closing at 11:59 PM EST and will reopen on January 4th by noon EST! During this time our staff will be catching up on the submissions and will also be taking a much needed break from admin work. With this in mind, you have until 11:59 PM EST to submit any last minute nesting submissions, dailies, quests, or claims that need submitting! 

 

Changelog 2

Posted 3 years and 3 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 3 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Going to start numbering these changelogs! This update also serves a quick reminder for events and upcoming scheduled down time for staff (yes that does include me, but we will see if I listen to myself). 

General Changes and Updates
  • Tier 4 starters didn't make it into the sale in time, had some serious burnout. To make up for it, you will see something special in the Frigid Festival involving them! 
  • Boar had a fix to its zoning images, now you can actually see the image! 
  • Reminder that locked genes Agouti and Seafoam can only be obtained from other players through nesting! The only exception is Seafoam can roll in radiance. 
  • All invoices for the sale have been distributed! Thank you to everyone who supported the group and our new format for sales! If you did not recieve an invoice, please let Cryptid-Horror know through discord or dA! 

Upcoming Events

  • Frigid Festival will be available when staff returns from holiday 
  • The Great Egg Hunt will return in April!

Staff Holiday 

Staff has been instructed to take from the 21st of December to the 3rd of January 2021 as time off to spend with their families. As of right now, we have no plans to close submissions. However, should the backlog become too cumbersome by the 21st I will close submissions so that staff can catch up. Thank you for understanding! This break does include me but I will check the discord regularly for any emergencies! 

Design Change Log

The various Design changes will be occuring and will appear in a guide for the respective changes. This is not the completed list, but an update on the design changes coming! Please ask us questions if certain areas are unclear, or make suggestions for changes you'd like to see! We will happily go over any suggestion or question!

Teeth Rulings and Allowances

  • can be White, Black, Cream, Greys, Brown, Yellows
  • To change the color you need a touch up kit
  • Markings cannot affect unless otherwise listed
  • Can have light shading
  • Can gradient color from front teeth to back teeth but needs to be a gradual gradient of the same color (value/saturation, not color)
  • Small item kit and dye can be used in design approval to change teeth(remove/add change size etc)

Horns, Claws, and Spikes

  • Can be White, Black, Cream, Greys, Brown, Yellows, A color or shade of a color found on the design.
  • Markings may extend to horns, spikes, but not claws
  • Nail polish can be used to change colors (one nail polish per color)
  • Can have light shading
  • Can gradient color but can be a dramatic gradient (different color blending into another color)
  • Large item kit needed to change the concept/redraw the horn
  • Small item kit needed to add small accents / remove small parts
  • Can be edited in design approval, but keep in mind we may need to see the design on the original horns too (keep a copy of it)

Eyes

  • Eyes can be any color
  • Central/partial/full heterochromia allowed for all eyes
  • Pupil of the eye needs to be fully visible depicting its proper shape
  • Dark greys/blacks are reserved for Eclipse, Omen Eyes, and Aether Eyes
  • You can make either the sclera (whites of the eyes) or the Pupil black but not both, if the eyes are not the above types
  • If your eyes appear blind (white or bright colored pupil/ dark sclera) then you will have a blind dragon.
  • Markings cannot effect eyes
  • Albino needs to have red/pink/blue/Lilac eyes
  • Multi eyes (falls under eyes) - can be moved around as needed/off the head; extra eyes can be added anywhere on the body. Cannot have an eye on the forehead.
  • Triclops - must have a third eye on the forehead
  • Small item kit that can be used in design approval to change the shape of the eye as a whole (making it fit a horn, a certain expression etc). However, the eye needs to look like it’s an eye.
  • Eyes can have shading and detail

Gums, Flesh, and Tongue

  • Nostrils, Paw Pads, Gums, Flesh around the Eye, and Tongue
  • White, Black, Greys, Browns, Creams, Pinks and other “fleshy tones”, Reds, Heavily Desaturated Blues, A color or shade of a color found on the design.
  • Certain Markings can affect these features (tobiano like markings)Can gradient color but needs to be a gradual gradient of the same color (value/saturation, not color) unless a marking is affecting it
  • Dye may be used to change the coloration of these features (1 dye per color/feature)
  • Can be edited in design approval, but keep in mind we may need to see the design on the original design too (keep a copy of it)

Wing Membranes 

  • 12 point value difference from the body’s coat color(not saturation/color)
  • Opacity may not go below 50% for translucent wings
  • Wings may have translucent variety (parts of the wing are translucent while other parts are not)
  • Feathered Dragons can choose between the three types of wings freely in design review, however all other dragons, and edits to feathered dragons post review, will require a large item kit. This can be done in review

Breath Elements 

  • Cannot obstruct design
  • Can be any color, combination of colors, or effects
  • Can be any shape so long as it is not a copyright logo or otherwise against game’s rules.
  • If you have fire breath it should look like fire breath, but you have a lot of wiggle room for design.
  • If you don’t have an element you cannot show an element on the import.
  • Breath element needs to come from the mouth
  • Radiation breath is unique that it can cover parts of the mouth, but not more than 50%, all elements of the mouth need to be easily viewed and judged in design review.

Special Features

  • Glow/scales on a Sapiere, Feathers/Fur on an Emperor, etc. A special feature is something that if looking at the Common Coat of a dragon, does not fit into the other sections above.
  • Can have color changed with Dye
  • Feathers/Fur can be edited with shampoo
  • Manes added to dragons falls into this category
  • A guide will be made to show all the special areas on different species

 

The following Refers to items used in design review, their limitations and uses

 

  • You cannot Add different feature structures or shapes (such as changing the nose)
  • You can use item kits to slightly lengthen or shorten the face.
  • You can use item kits to add different “snout” shapes such as giving a dragon a more roman style nose, etc.
  • You can use item kits to make your dragon thicker or thinner in certain areas, such as thicker necks, thinner bellies, etc. Edits must be reasonable and not outlandish.
  • You can use item kits to add 10% of another coat’s feature to your dragon’s coat. This could be adding a feather crest to a common, some scaling to a feathered, etc.
  • Wing edit rule does not apply to the item kit limit on adding a different coat’s feature, you may use a large item kit to change the wing type of your dragon for all coat types in design review. However, only feathered dragons do not need an item kit for this feature in design review. All coat types need a large item kit for design modifications that replace the wings.
  • Changing the wings in such a way they no longer appear to look like the species wings. (tearing, tattering, holes, or minor simplification is ok, however making a Sapiere wings look like a Stalker’s, or some other dragon species wings, is not. It should retain a general shape that matches.)
  • Adding mutations or features that appear to be mutations that the dragon does not have.
  • Adding horns or other features that the dragon does not have.
  • Creating or extending markings that the dragon does not have.
  • Covering too much of the design; you can instead request these kinds of edits be added to the description. Things that fall in this category is armor, large decor like saddles that cover a lot of the design/etc. You cannot get around other rules by having the image posted in the description.
  • Items cannot be used to do the following as per our ToS guidance:
  • Harmful or hateful images/slurs/speech to be added to the design.
  • The following items can be applied in design review:
  • Dragon Tears (to remove a marking)
  • Nail Polish
  • Large Item Kits only to change the wings
  • Dye for paw pads, gums, flesh, and tongue.

All other items must be added via the Design Modification section.

 

Item quantity and use

Items have limited uses based on their function and use in a design.
Shampoo

  • 1 Shampoo is needed per section of the dragon edited. Sections are decided based on the start point, and are broken up by the dragon zoning images.

Dye and Dye Kits

  • 1 dye = 5% of the body (roughly half the face)
  • 1 Dye also = 1 per color. Having multiple colors means you need more dye, even if below the 5% ruling.
  • Dye kits must be opened to be used

Tongue/gums requires 1 extra dye regardless above.

Flesh/paw pads requires 1 extra dye regardless above

Nail Polish

  • 1 nail polish per color for all claws
  • Nail polish does not change teeth color (touch up kit does)

Dragon Tears

  • Can be used as many times as needed to remove markings only.

Dragon's Blood and  Voucher

  • Can be used once per dragon to apply the rolled result.

Event and Sale Ending

Posted 3 years and 3 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 3 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Grand Harvest and Fall Sale

The Grand Harvest and Fall Sale will be ending today, December 7th, at 11:59 PM EST! Last minute entries and purchases will need to be submited before this time. There was an error in the ending time that has been resolved now. If you are waiting for your invoice, they will be sent out today!

 

Frigid Festival 

The Frigid Festival is postponed to January, as we would like to move over the event to the site, clean it up, and get some needed backlog things completed! This also gives everyone a chance to relax before another event lands. As we get closer to January we will announce the date and time! 

 

Staff Time Off

Staff will have the week of Christmas and New Years off! Additionally, if you are looking to join our team, applications are open!

 

From the Souls team, we wish you happy holidays!

 

Event and Sale Extension

Posted 3 years and 3 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 3 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Hey everyone, short news post today! 

 

The Harvest Event has been extended by 1 Week, and will end on the 7th of December! The sale will also be extended to this time. 

Up to Tier 3 Starters are currently available, with Tier 4 starters being uploaded tomorrow. You can find the new starters if you filter the official dragon masterlist by "Group starter." 

 

Our staff has been on break for the holiday, so we will be back to working soon! :) Our next break will be the week of Christmas and New Years! 

Changelog/Updates

Posted 3 years and 4 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 4 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Hello everyone, I have more news to give in the form of changelogs and updates, including some bugs found by the community! 

Staff Applications 

Are currently open, we are looking for Design Review, Uploaders, Player management, and Activity staff! If you'd like to apply, please go here.

Changelog 

The following changes and additions have occured to the game

  • Dye kits are now tagged as boxes, this means you can open them to gain your 10 dye from them. You will need to open dye kits in order to use them in design review. 
  • Radiance bond can now affect Agouti. 
  • Petty Radiance bond has been created for Agouti's "petty" category of Umber, Haze, Ivory, Vanta, and Golden colors. Petty Radiance bond will not drop in loot boxes, but you can obtain it from the emporium or the market. 
  • Staff voted for internal limits on submissions, this means you can post as many submissions per day, and staff will not have you resubmit. Instead they will skip over you in queue once you hit your internal limit so that others may have their submissions reviewed. The next day, your submissions will be worked on. The limit is per staff member, and at discretion. If you have hit your internal limit for the day with one staff member, another staff member may choose to skip over you to the next person, or complete up to another internal limit amount. 
    • Design review limit: 2 
    • All other prompts/claims: 4 
    • This should not impact you heavily, as staff will not request you resubmit unless you have errors. 
  • Staff voted for prompts to be 1 dragon per activity submission. This rule remains unchanged from our dA rules on submitting submissions. 
  • World locations have been added!
    • Locations are currently brief, and awaiting expanding upon for lore. 
    • Players can set their own home locations via your settings  menu. 
    • Players can set dragon hom elocations via the dragon profile editor. 
    • You can change this at any time, and it has no effect on gameplay mechanics. It serves a fun lore experience so that players may feel part of the world! 
Known Bugs

We have a variety of known bugs we are working to fix: 

  • Golden Chest of Mimicy missing box tag
  • Luminescent page missing layering information
  • Misspells in Cloud and Toxin guides
  • Editing dragon profiles returns a 500 | Server Error (high priority fix)
  • Staff is unable to edit certain item pages (high priority fix) 
  • Selecting "all items" in the encyclodpedia returns a 500 | Server Error (high priority fix)
  • Nesting roller returns a formatting issue for when agouti and radiance pass together (missing ", and" between the two.) 
  • Some items have a webpage formatting issue, but are still readable. 
  • Registered dragon slots are not showing skills when uploaded.
Fall Sale 

Fall sale is still on going! Many starters will be uploaded today, and a news post will be made after.  

 

This news post will be uploaded to dA later in the evening!

Banshee, New Marks!

Posted 3 years and 4 months ago :: Last edited 3 years and 4 months ago by Cryptid-Horror

Banshee has been spotted in the forests surrounding the Grand Harvest festivities! Be wary as she may haunt you through the woods and leave you restless! You can now view Banshee's full genotype for nesting slots. 

Banshee brings in two new markings to the game: Seafoam and Agouti. While she doesn't represent Agouti on her design, she is a carrier for the gene. 

  • Seafoam (nSe/SeSe) | Rare Marking - adds the special range of colors of blueish green/teal to the game. 
  • Agouti (nAg/AgAg) | Uncommon Marking - A marking that allows a ticking or dilution pattern to appear on the base coat , below all markings from another color modifier or base.
    • Can appear as patches or ticking across the body. 
    • Has an assigned a color to it, like radiance (i.e. nAg-Azure)
    • Currently cannot be controlled by Radiance Bond (awaiting Staff vote!) 

Both of these markings have not been added to hatchery or dragon blood rollers. You can only gain them through banshee, or other players who have the marking through her.  Banshee's slots can be earned one of two ways: 

  • Once through the Grand Harvest shop 
  • Multiple times through Ghostly Gleam In The Dark prompt of the Grand Harvest 

Banshee carries Dominant Seafoam and Recessive Agouti. The markings will become available in a later season, and cannot be added to customs from the sale. Guides for these markings will be up soon, along with color sliders for our color modifier markings!

Other starters will be added soon to the site! It is a lot of data entry so it takes a while.