I’ve noticed that no matter what time of my day I post these news roundups, at least two or three SL breedable brands out there will later come out with some more announcements of changes, updates, specials or new features. Tuesday appears to be quite a busy time on any Breedable animal’s agenda. We’ll see if something else happens today, then, after I’ve posted up this one for the news from the last week.
But generally, in the Breedable world, there’s some welcome peace and reasonable stability with most breedable brands, with some exciting promises of new specials and items to come soon.
Breedables Overall
The past week’s vote for most community chat will go to the forum discussions over the past update and upcoming update for Ozimals bunnies. Although several ideas put across in those forums appear to have coincidentally been taken up by the other brand of bunnies in-world, that of HunnyBunny recently.
In the meantime, Petable Turtles announced something which got many ‘shellers’ excited – accessories. PinkyPigs and sionChickens showed no movement or changes to their status, nor did the Pound Puppies franchise – where we still await the start of beta. PlantPets went through an emergency update via a plant robot sent out, and all appears to have gone well there also.
With St Patrick’s Day coming up this month, there is much anticipation in many breedable brand communities for some celebratory special or item to perhaps collect for the day. The only breedable brand so far to take up on this holiday publically is HunnyBunny with a special edition St Patteh’s Bunny – something we are personally hoping to be able to purchase.
HunnyBunny Bunnies
The St Patteh Bunneh
HunnyBunny announced a new collector bunny this last week. The St. Patteh Bunneh will be available exclusively over St Patrick’s day, and limited to only 50 editions.
Starter Packs No Longer Sold
HunnyBunny announced that starter packs of HB eggs would no longer be sold via the mainstore or vendors, leaving only the markets for the selling of bunnies and eggs. Market store owners were encouraged to create their own starter packs containing eggs and information on the bunnies.
Trading for Eggs
In a notecard announcement HunnyBunny farmers were informed that we might like to keep our HB eggs because a trade-in system was being setup.
TCD Post : St Patrick’s Day Specal and Starter Pack Announcement (26th February 2010)
HB Post : Preview of the St. Patteh Bunneh (23rd February 2010)
Ozimals Bunnies
1.2 Update Coming
After the impact and discussions over the last 1.1 update to Ozimals bunnies, a proposed 1.2 update feature set was put up onto the Ozimals Community forum for suggestions also. Yesterday, further information was provided on this upcoming update in-world via a notecard through groups.
The update remains being tested, and will remain so until the grid is more stable. Linden Labs intends a series of upgrades and restarts again today and this Thursday, so the update will not come until after those as a minimum.
The update has been confirmed to contain the following -
1. Increase the nest expiration timer to 120 days.
2. Increase the cool down period between generations to 4 days.
3. Extend the “baby phase” to 7 days.
4. Revert the range minimum back down to 1 meter.
5. Adjust bond time to 5 days.
6. Lengthen times on food to allow for the increased cooldowns.
7. Matriach or Patriach and Elder fix (to show in hovertext)
Happy Stumps Taken Away
Happy stumps previously available to purchase via the Ozimals mainstore and xstreetsl.com were taken down from sales by Ozimals with the announcement that they were investigating the stumps for causing inbalances in the game.
Pook Bunny Poses
A smaller pose creator, Pook, came out with a six-pack of bunny poses which work with Ozimals bunnies when holding them. These allow some nice portrait shots.
New Group and Mentors
To help out newcomers to the bunnies, given that the Ozimals Orations & Updates group chat can speed by very quickly, a new group called “Ozimals Questions and Answers” has been opened to join – solely for bunny related chat and for questions – and hopefully answers.
One of the suggestions on the forums recently made was one towards having a group of Ozimals mentors who could help out newcomers with some problems in setup etc. This suggestion has been taken onboard. If you think this is a good idea for yourself, contact Candy Cerveau with your application. You’ll need a good knowledge of Ozimals and be prepared to TP to people’s bunny areas to help out.
International Store
Ozimals is soon to open up an international store beside it’s main store with vendors and bunny packs translated into several different languages.
TCD Post : Pook Bunny Pose Set 1 (February 24th 2010)
Petable Turtles
Accessories for Turtles
Petable Turtles told everyone about an upcoming exciting feature in the next release on Tuesday last. Petable Turtles would have accessories (think capes, glasses, etc). If you have any suggestions for appropriate accessories, you are welcome to add there to the suggestion board on the Petable Community Forums.
New Points Item – the Autoboxer
With the live trader system reaching 100% over the weekend came the new and greatly anticipated release of a new points item – the ‘autoboxer’. This is available for a certain amount of points and for certain levels of breeders or above. It appears to be very popular with larger breeders in particular who have the primmage to set out egg boxes beforehand, saving huge amounts of time in having to manually box each egg from their clutches.
March’s Birthstone – the Aquamarine
With the tick-over to March came the first rash of March Birthstones – this month is the Aquamarine. We had three females immediately, but remain trying to trade at least one of these for a male.
TCD Post:
- Inclusions in the Gallery (March 2nd 2010)
- Accessories (February 26th 2010)
Petable Turtles Posts :
- Now Available : The Autoboxer (February 28th 2010)
- Coming Soon: Accessories
PinkyPigs
No changes or news on the PinkyPigs front.
PlantPets
Emergency Update – Spawn Script to 4
On the 27th with server problems, PlantPets sent out an updater robot to update all plantpets. This updated the spawncontrol script to a version 4. The PlantPets themselves remain sitting at Version 2.0. If you did not receive this Planty 4 robot, you can pick up another copy via simply hitting the update button on your PlantPet control menu. The robot will update all of your plantpets to the latest version, with your help.
Additionally, baby plantpets (in gift boxes) will also need updating. These should be sent in a folder to Bruce Liebknect for updating. Put your name on the folder, obviously. (Note – some people with PlantPets may not be aware of this need with the baby plantpets, as we weren’t, given the amount of IMs and subscribo news items which came through during this same period).
Pound Puppies
Beta Testing
No news on the beta testing front this last weekend.
sionChickens and sionLife
No news on the chickens front once again. Farmers continue to sell out of all their chicken stock, and rare varieties of chickens can be found costing very little if you go looking.
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