This month's upgrade statues have been released. We hope everyone who kept their account upgraded enjoys their free monthly item.

To be eligible for next month's item, make sure to keep your account upgraded in the Upgrade Center

• Slither into Hissi Day in style this year with the new Gorgon Hissi Outfit! Stop by Uni's Clothing Shop today to check out this mythical new ensemble!

  
  

• Embrace nature this Hissi Day with the Woodland Hissi! Take a dip in the Rainbow Pool today to check out this new Hissi colour!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Hissi Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• Ahoy maties! Don't forget there is free training for all pets on their day! Today all Hissi will get FREE training from Cap'n Threelegs so make sure you slither on over and get your free training on!

  

• Don't forget to congratulate fellow Neopian, iamnotaaron, for winning User Lookup of the Week with their Altadorian summer-inspired lookup page.

  

• The Gallery Spotlight has been updated. Don't miss out on seeing the winning selection, titled "Heaping Helium" which is owned by scrmnow!

  

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Amy Kemence, who had company on her back! -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner PameLily-Gracy a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zoneand ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

Hold onto your cowboy hats because we have another big update for you. In this update, we¢ve focused not only on fixing the economy, we¢ve also tried to make gameplay easier for you. There are multiple cool new things to help you do actions or track information.

°¸ Economy Changes

As mentioned previously, everyone has been cut down to 1/100th of their previous EQD. You will see your new total in your bank account. All money on hand has been moved into the bank. You¢ll see around the site that prices have changed to make things easier for everyday activities with less money. Some prices, like the foundation horses, have stayed the same. We will be monitoring the economy closely the next few months and adjusting as needed. 

A few things we have done for you:

• Clubs have had registration cost for player registration cut to 1,000 EQD if it was >1,000 EQD.

• Club horse registration has been cut to 250 EQD if >250 EQD.

• All boarding centers have DIY, Part, and Full set to 5 EQD each.

• All training centers have been set to 100 EQD.

• Stud/brood requests for EQD have been cancelled to ensure your EQD is not taken. Those for ingots have been left.

• All shouts have been deleted.

This means if you want costs different from what is above, you must go edit it yourself.

° Discipline Show Changes

Discipline shows now have tiers and a new rank of Universal! This will help further split up the different show levels so that horses are more competitive. With the economic change, shows now have entry fees that are much lower than previously. Show tiers have also been adjusted to reward different maximum horse points. This means, most horses may gain levels more quickly. You can read more about tiers here.

Shows will populate tonight and will be able to be entered tomorrow.

¢ Mass Actions

This feature has been a highly requested feature since the early days of V2. You can find the Mass Actions page as a link from Herd Management. You¢ll notice the actions are divided into two sections: Actions and Danger Zone. Regular actions only edit your horse and can be reversible. Actions in the Danger Zone remove the horse from your accounts and are irreversible (unless you adopt again or get someone to transfer back your horse). Any actions done via the Danger Zone cannot be reversed by staff. You must be sure the confirmation pop up for these actions is correct before submitting!

Over time, we will look at expanding these actions to keep gameplay easy to manage.

°§¬ Mass Gene/DNA Testing

You can now gene test or DNA test all available horses in the vet. This a new feature that is only available for Platinum players. The upgrade chart has been updated accordingly.

¢¬¯¸ CSV Download

Another greatly requested feature is the ability to export all your horses to a CSV to help with charting. This has been added to the Herd Management page. Currently, you can only export what is on that page but we hope to expand this in the future.

°® Foal Predictor

You can now see foal possibilities! The Foal Predictor is linked from both Herd Management and the Breeding Grounds. You can select horses from your breedable horses list (same as the Breeding Grounds) OR you can select any horse in the game by ID. This is limited to unretired horses and horses over 2 years. This will allow you to see possibilities with studs, broods, or that horse you¢re looking to buy.

It costs 5 ingots to predict foals, and you will see 4 foals at a time. The default 5 ingot cost includes coat color name, gene string, and potential training boost. For 5 ingots more, you can view the breed standard, breed variance, and possible performance stats. Breed variance will only display if you have input the breed standard into your breed standard tracker from the herd management page. You can directly breed and schedule a breeding from this page if you own both horses.

° Breed Standard Tracker

Traditionally, breed standards and breed variance per horse has been tracked using spreadsheets. Now, it¢s built into the game. The Breed Standard Tracker has been added where you may save the ideal BS values for breeds. It is located from your herd management and is used to display breed variance for foal predictions and in herd management. 

NOTE!! BV will display based on your input into the Breed Standard Tracker. This means if you have an incorrect value, you will see an incorrect BV. It's ideal to find someone to check your values to ensure you have the correct BS values. Most staff have discovered BS for most breeds and are happy to check your values for you.

° Breeding Planner

Have some breeding pairs with great potential? You can now plan a bit better with the Breeding Planner.  You are able to schedule breedings for a pair using their horse IDs and have the option to reschedule if the breeding fails. 

Note: we still need to add in some of the automation here but it will be up in another update soon.

°¥¯¸ Layout Changes

For the new pages in this update, we have switched to a new frontend library. We¢ll eventually be transitioning all pages to this library with a goal to have everything transitioned in August. We¢ll also be making some overall layout changes before then. For this reason, we didn¢t focus as much on mobile optimization in this update as we would have liked although we fixed a few obvious issues.

Note the new frontend library has caused some styling differences in the layout and these will be fixed over the next couple updates as we start to focus more on layout changes.

¢ Small Additions

• You can now see the registry and club registrations for a horse on its page.

• Training now takes up 4% energy instead of 5%. This will allow horses to get down to 0% energy on training days instead of having that annoying 5% leftover.

• The name of the registry hosting the show has been added to the halter show page.

• Both discipline and halter show results will now be deleted after 30 days.

° Bug Fixes

• There was an issue with accepting the highest bid in the Horse Market. This has been fixed.

• Horses should now transfer successfully when someone wins an auction.

• Studs and broods were showing that they didn¢t have energy when trying to breed from their page. This has been fixed.

• Horses should no longer go above their skill caps when completing jobs and halter shows.

• You can no longer place a horse for sale that is for auction.

• The timer should now be fixed on show pages.

°® Coming Soon

May¢s dev update is coming in just a few short weeks! We¢re proud to say that we¢ve been staying on track with the 2021 Roadmap. May¢s plan is player jobs and achievements. We will also be making some changes to how EXP is earned and spent. To prepare, we have removed the experience requirement for estate upgrades and other areas around the game. We¢ve also removed experience gain from shows. 

It¢s so fun seeing Eqcetera come together according to our vision. We¢re well on our way to completing the game while keeping it fun and offering a unique experience for players. 

Before the dev update, we have an art update with a new breed. Can anyone guess what it is based on the sneak peeks posted so far? °

Thanks,

The Dev Team

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught underdog for this weeks aquarium contest winner!

....Congrats!

¢¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

• Celebrate this Lupe Day with the new Faerie Poacher Lupe outfit! Stop by Uni's Clothing Shop today to check out this Balthazar-inspired ensemble!

  
  

• A new Lupe colour has arrived in time for Lupe Day! Take a dip in the The Rainbow Pool today to check out the Elderlyboy and Elderlygirl Lupe colours!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Lupe Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• The Caption Contest winners have been posted! Check out the winning captions and get those creative juices flowing for the new contest!

  

• The Customisation Spotlight has been updated! Come by to see the top submissions now that we have announced this week's winners.

  

• A brand new Story Telling tale was submitted by yoshisislandbandit. Go check out the beginning of Story 879 before submitting your own additions!

  

• NC COLLECTIBLE NEWS: Celebrate your love of seashells with the newest Collectable Sea Shells Background! Find this first item in the Magic of Maraqua NC Collectible series at the NC Mall.

  

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Some new and unusual markings have appeared...

And they are all available for PENCE! :)


Colorize ¢

This marking is a full-body colorizer! Anything BELOW this marking will be colored based on what you apply. (Yes, even paradigms!)

It is applied with a Colorize Cabochon!



Available for 5,000,000 PP in [ Miss Mingo's ]

[ Click here for an example of Colorize! ]



We also have some sets of small markings I have dubbed Minimarks!

The Minimark Splatters contain 3 markings each to their theme, you can choose ONE, then the splatter is used up.
If you wish to apply all three, you will need to buy three!




Minimark Splatter - Flowers
¢¢ Flowers - Eye
¢¢ Flowers - Rump
¢¢ Flowers - Shoulder

Minimark Splatter - Gears
¢¢ Gears - Eye
¢¢ Gears - Rump
¢¢ Gears - Shoulder

Minimark Splatter - Heart
¢¢ Heart - Eye
¢¢ Heart - Rump
¢¢ Heart - Shoulder

Minimark Splatter - Stella
¢¢ Stella - Eye
¢¢ Stella - Rump
¢¢ Stella - Shoulder

Examples:
[ Flowers Example ]
[ Gears Example ]
[ Heart Example ]
[ Stella Example ]


These are available for 3,000,000 PP in [ Miss Mingo's ]



Enjoy :D and be sure to check out the news posts below for the Wishing Kettle and Geek Month news!

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Two new eye types are introduced alongside changes to the eye system.

Bright, Soft Eyes
Bright and Pastel are two new, natural eye types that can now appear on new hatchlings. These types are less common than rare eyes, but more common than goat, faceted, multi-gaze, or primal eye types.

Galore has a couple of clanbound gift vials of these beautiful eyes for each clan until May 10th at 9:00 server time. Be sure to pick them up from Galore before then!

Natural Eye Vials
As of this update, Eye Vials for the following natural eye types now have a chance to stock in the treasure marketplace: Uncommon, Unusual, Rare, Bright, Pastel, Goat, Faceted, Multi-Gaze, and Primal.

When we created the eye type system we intended for it to make breeding a little more exciting by altering the eyes.

Our main goal was to make the act of welcoming any new hatchling a bit more special. We thought that in the surprise cases where when hatchlings exhibited an eye type, it could create an opportunity for players to embark on a dragon project that they may have overlooked otherwise. What once might have been a dragon that would be immediately exalted or sold could open the door to a whole new aesthetic.

As we all know, the best of intentions sometimes don¢t lead to the best outcome, especially in a game like ours. This system became frustrating for many players who yearned to use these new eyes types on their existing dragons, many of which they've been working a long time on or have sentimental meaning.

With the launch of the system, we released an event-exclusive item¢the Vial of Scattersight¢that we¢d hoped would help replicate that randomized surprise for a few existing dragons. Looking back, we recognize that releasing that item was a mistake. Even though we thought we were providing a quirky item that could extend the eye types system backwards for a few dragons per player, they ended up exacerbating that frustration. We don¢t plan to bring back the Vial of Scattersight or any item like it, so we¢re moving forward with the following gameplay philosophy in mind:

In Flight Rising, if you put enough time into it, you can pretty much craft your perfect dragon. That should remain one of the most important aspects of our game.

With that said...

Going forward, we've implemented a hybrid approach: All hatched dragons will still have a chance of exhibiting natural eye types, and you will be able to purchase natural eye type vials on the Treasure Marketplace. (NOTE: The rarer a natural eye type is, the more expensive it will be.)

We hope that there¢s a little something for everyone in this new design. It was important for us to retain the hatchling surprises of the old system, while giving players a path forward for their existing dragons (through enough effort, time, and treasure) who would otherwise have never been able to get them. These avenues combined, we think this expands our dragon customization options for all players and make Flight Rising a richer and more rewarding experience.





Greenskeeper Gathering Skin & Accent Contest
The eighth annual Greenskeeper Gathering will begin May 23, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

Additional Updates:

• Aerborne Gustgather: Mirror Female and Tundra Female - fixed bad smoke/rope layering
• Filigree Boots: Pearlcatcher Female - boots covered up part of the tail fluff
• Standard of the Earthshaker: Nocturne Male - pixels in side of image
• Silk Scarves: Skydancer Female - pixels on top of images
• Nurturing Healer's Reference: Pearlcatcher Female - wrong image uploaded
• Assassin Tools: Tundra Male - fixed tools drawn over wing
• Assassin Hoods: Skydancer Male - fixed missing shadow layer
• Feather Capes: Fae Females - neck fluff of cape covered part of the Fae's face
• Wreaths: Tundra Females - fixed error where wreaths were in front of the wings
• Boneyard Tatters & Sanddune Rags: Ridgeback Females - removed stray pixels
• Thorn Crowns: Mirror Males - removed stray pixels
• Silk Fillets: Male Snappers - removed stray pixels

Thank you everyone for playing, enjoying, and supporting Ichumon over the years! Ichumon has now released its 10,000th collectible item!!!

Head over to Duke at the Prize Claim Center to pick up your commemorative Disco Apple before May 7th! Disco Apple is also an R99 now stocking in the Flavorful Fruits Shop!

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Debowski
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barbchin
30140
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If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 9282

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

It's a sneak post. We're going to war. The war of which color reigns supreme over all the colors. We all know it ain't red, orange, or yellow. I'M KIDDING TAILZ, PLEASE DON'T HATE ME. Post below with your favorite color, your ID, and I will choose 10 people to get x3 Icelandic feathers or x3 Aquatic Fin (one color, player choice) of choice. This will end at 11:30 EST. So you got 40 minutes to get in! I will then staff only it again, and will post the winners on the winner thread.