Exhibited Press

Some updates:

* The wishing well gives out slightly more items than it used to.
* All users can now edit their posts.
* Player shop search have a new look and new functionality. It's pretty neat.
* I think I'm almost ready to release overlays, many thanks to all our testers. :D
* I'm also about to change errands a little. I'm cleaning up the code primarily, but I'll also put in a drop down system where you can select which items you give to the NPCs.

That's all for now. :O

CONTEST WINNERS!!

The contests are over now and winners are picked!

The winner of the Exhibited Spring Art Contest 2011 is:

Zha'krisstol #2373, with their entry: here.

We felt that the Anchiornis nesting, along with the colors, the rabbits, butterfly and flowers just really said Spring! :D

Runners up who won 10 scales each:

- Ankokou #3281 with their entry.
- Ryo #7383 with their entry.
- Sen #551 with their entry.

Yay!

As for the writing contest winners...

PAYA #2473, wins the writing contest! You can read their entry here (for over 13s) and here (for under 13s).

Runners up, winning 10 scales each were:
- Puzzling #1692
- PostWarSalvage #146
- Cinnamon Bubbles #1978

You can also read their entries on those topics.

Congratulations, winners!!!

Hello everyone! With the new EX-integrated overlay feature about to be released, I'd like to inform you of an incoming change:

I will be removing the option to change a dinosaur's picture. If this feature stays, there is no point to the overlay system. As it stands, creating an overlay and selling it on for profits is not allowed. But once this system is implemented, it will not only be allowed but encouraged - but it cannot exist at the same time as people being able to use their own urls.

For more information on the new overlay system, click this link.

Please be aware that dino images will revert back to EX standard ones soon, but I'll keep the URLs of images you've currently made and will display them in the owner area once I remove the option for changing pictures. :)

Edit: If, for example, you have a completely custom dinosaur image made for your dinosaur, don't worry. You can make that into an overlay and, as it will have a solid bg and not transparent, none of the old EX dinosaur will show through. When it's made into an overlay it will become an item you can equip to the dino. :)

Edit II: In reference to the above, yes, you can keep it exclusive for yourself also. Selling it on is completely optional, of course!

Edit III: Kitei (#5) has already started making overlays. An example of her latest one:



:D

Coelophysis has been revamped! It will start circulating in the lab again.



Big thanks to Tyme for drawing it, and Ank for making all the markings. :D

- Account settings has had a makeover.
- If you hover over herbivore counts, it will tell you how many thirsty herbivores there are, and the ages.
- Stats pages are now updated once a night. The sidebar hasn't been changed.
- The HOF is no longer live, but calculated once per night (at 2.30am EX time. :P). However, when I was doing this I made a couple typos so some dinos may have a bunch more days calculated to their HOF time. ALSO: only active dinosaurs will appear on the HOF now. No longer if someone raises a really awesome dinosaur and then leaves it to rot will it show on the HOF!

From what I can tell, the server has been speedier lately with all the little tweaks I'm making. Keep me posted with your comments. :)

I'm also doing lots of other things right now, so check back here every so often. I'll edit with more updates soon.

* Oh, and, prepare for a new layout soon. We have one in the works. Kitty has itchy feet again. ;D

-- Edit at 2.50pm:
* Scales page has a slight change.
* You can now buy one extra recurring lab limit that will permenantly +1 a month.
* The t-rex potion is in the scale shop.

-- Edit 18/05/11 @ 0:30am:
* Finally updated all the contest entries.

-- Edit 18/05/11 @ 1.30pm:
* You can now edit roleplay information, and roleplay characters.
* Fish food can be bought en mass. :P
* OOC Posts now bump RPs.

Because of some troublemakers, I've changed a few things.

1) You must activate each email address. All current members are set to preactivated, so don't worry for now.

2) If your IP address changes from the one you logged in with, it will automatically log you out.

3) We had a troll attempt to deface the economy for the second time running this week so many people had very expensive items bought from their player shops. I erased shop tills that were too high and Herbal has given all the items back into player inventories. If you have any money left over, please transfer it to me (#1) so I can get rid of it. If there's anything else you need returned, it's probably best to tell Herbal because she can bug me on AIM. I'd very much appreciate your cooperation with this. <3

4) The server is being twitchy but several tweaks have been made, hence why you might have seen a page or two going down every so often. This is an ongoing process and if it just can't be fixed through optimization, we'll eventually have to upgrade.

Now for some better things:

Lineheraptor & Sinornithosaurus have had their siamese markings revamped:




Troodons have also just had their markings updated so will be circulating again.

AND sandwiches and icecreams have been revamped:




In order for everyone being so patient with me, I have given every single dinosaur in the game a +5 stat boost in all stats. :) I love you guys!

Whoop, the server seemed to go funny last night. From what I can tell, it was the tmp folder being full. This means that anyone who wanted to login or do something new couldn't because it was already full.

This appears to be fied now though. If you're still having any problems, please let me know.

Thanks guys!

(Stuff like this always happens when I'm sleepin'!)

EDIT: It happened again, this time when I went out. LOL. I'll be monitoring this for the rest of the day now. :3

Graciliraptors have had a makeover!


Baby Graciliraptor


And adult Graciliraptor

All the markings are available again and they'll start circulating in the lab once more.

Big, big thanks to Ank, our new marking artist, and of course Tyme, who drew them up. :D

Our art and writing contests are back!

Win 50 scales and a trophy! Every entrant will receive a trophy regardless and 3 runners up will receive 10 scales!





Deadline for entries is 25th May. :)

Enter Now!

So for some strange reason, I picked today of all days to have an Exhibited blowout. :D

AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED:

Dinosaurs have lots of markings, and an extra set of genetics now. This is the change I have been working on with some artists for the past 8 months or so, and, 700+ images later, we've finally got here.

So what does it mean?

Well, each dinosaur species now has 8 markings each. Those, in turn, have heavy and common variations, totalling 16 different markings per dinosaur. :)

They have genetics to go with them so you can effectively plan and breed for certain ones in your breeding projects once you figure out what makes what. Yay!

Troodons, Graciliraptors and Coelophysis DO have markings but if they appear (they may not), they will not be true representations. The latter two are undergoing redraws so I didn't bother to commission markings for them, and Troodon needs some heavy tweaking. So you can still breed and create them, but they will change the way they look one day.

The next thing is.. TWO NEW SPECIES!

Please welcome Anchiornis (drawn by our wonderful Ank):



and Herrerasaurus:



Both are regular carnivorous dinos and will restock at the lab normally.

THIRDLY!

I released six new herbivores.








Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Centrosaurus, Dravidosaurus, Echinodon, Callovosaurus. ;D One of these is special and will give off nice stat boosts (well they all will, but one moreso), and is extra cheap.

FOURTHLY:

There is also a new background in circulation, the northern lights background:



FIFTHLY:

Allos, Lolos, Spinos and Rexes all show up in the custom tool, but are uncreaatable. I know you guys wanted this. :)

That's about it folks! I'm dog tired now so need to get some rest, but.. WOW, ENJOY!

P.S. There are no new museum factfiles for these dinos right now. If anyone wants to gather information and message me it, I'd love you forever.