The following is a copy of the first notecard given with the new version 11 SionChicken upgrade, released by Sion Zaius on May, 24, 2009. It was written by Shammy(GreenShamrock McMahon)
Hi all, well it’s that time !!! The most awaited and anticipated update to sionChickens has now been released !! Revision 2 Sub-Version 11 (V11) is, by far, the biggest and best update ever seen and there are things you need to know BEFORE you update your chickens to avoid eggs from dying. That’s right !! Eggs can now be killed or broken, so please read this carefully.
As with all updates, there are things that are unknown to me or not fully understood. There are even results that are unknown to Sion since sims, care, handling, etc .. vary from breeder to breeder. Homestead sims differ from mainland which differs from private island sims. With sub-version updates, we discover new things and learn as we go along the same as you.
I will give you the highlights, then explain in further detail each change below. Try not to jump out of your chair or skip lines to get to the end lol. You will miss important info, that is essential to know, with all that will change. So kick back, put your feet up, relax and let’s see what The Chicken Gawd has done this time.
—————————————————–Oh My !! Where do I even begin?
ALL V10 chickens (lives) will update with food
ALL V10 eggs will update after hatching
ALL V10 TP Boxes & Healing Kits WON’T work
ALL V10 food must be used BEFORE update
—————————————————–CHANGES FOR OUR CURRENT CHICKENS !!
ALL V11 eggs are now UNIQUE ONE OF A KINDS
ALL V11 eggs DIE in inventory, same as lives
ALL V11 eggs are delicate and can be broken
ALL V11 eggs need to be boxed to save or sell
ALL V11 lives will now be named sionChicken
ALL V11 lives have new wings! They are so cute!
ALL V11 lives will be happy to see their owners
ALL V11 lives seek “sionChicken coop” to sleep
ALL V11 lives have floating text upon death
ALL V11 BLACKS CAN MATE !!! Find out how below
ALL V11 Major Communication Improvements* ALL Food updates deaths – Eliminated
ALL Genetic disorders deaths – Eliminated
ALL Boxing/releasing deaths – Eliminated
ALL “Broken Necks” when asleep – Eliminated
Performance Increase Greatly For All Chickens
Lag Greatly Reduced For All Chickens
Collision Calculation Reduced by 50% For All Chickens* once they have updated to V11, so for V12 and future updates
V11 Healing Kits Released – OMG are they cute
V11 Transport Boxes Released CHANGED
V11 Food Released
—————————————————–ALL NEW PRODUCTS RELEASED !!
V11 sionChicken Proteggtor Released
V11 sionChicken radi-O-static Released
V11 Breeder Food Sets Released
V11 “New Wave” Starter Sets Released
V11 “New Wave” Egg Sets Released
V11 * Journal Guide & Hud Released
V11 * Resellers Price Guide Released
sionChicken Vendors for Resellers Released* Sion Corp and sionLabs have acquired, and now hold, exclusive rights to The sionChicken Complete Guide and sionChicken Official Price Guide and all contents of these two guides. Sion Corp will maintain and update it as required in any language.
*** Not Released is the colour calculator; there wasn’t enough time to complete it. The Journal, price guide and vendors will follow very soon if not released at the same time. The calculator will be released as time permits.
—————————————————–NEW VARIETIES OF CHICKENS ADDED !!
V11 “New Wave” Race of Chickens Launched
V11 “Ancient” Rare Chickens Launched
V11 “Scarce” Race of Chickens Launched*** There are 3 new variations of the originals, with Ancients and Scarce that are available to all V11 chickens. New Wave requires a new start with new eggs that are only available from Sion. See below for more details.
=============================Is that enough changes and improvements to have you jumping with excitement yet? Cool, so Sion will save the rest for V12 then. Ha Ha Ha
Seriously though, with this big of an update and this many changes, we are asking that questions, concerns, comments and compliments be handled in the support groups and not sent to Sion.
Note cards to Sion should only be sent AFTER you read the updated guide and asked for assistance in group AND if it is a major problem that was not present before the update. If your chicken suddenly sprouts 2 heads, then contact Sion.
If your chickens won’t eat or won’t mate, those are issues for the groups to handle. Sion’s work for the V11 update doesn’t end upon release, he will still have much to do. Please take this into consideration before contacting him.
=============================A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CHANGES !!
OK, our current V10 eggs will not be affected and you can continue to sell them and/or hatch them the same way we have been doing. They, and the chicken inside, will remain V10. Once these eggs are hatched and the baby chick eats V11 food, it’s a whole new ballgame.
V10 chickens will update through food when it’s v11 food and it’s been placed by their owner. They will not update if the food is placed by someone else. They can also be updated using a V11 Transport Box.
V10 chickens do not need to be updated upon the release of the update, so please use all your food before you buy new V11 food. Once your chickens are updated, they will no longer eat V10 food.
Healing Kits and Transport Boxes that are V10 will not work for V11 chickens. This is something that is being looked at for future changes. Because of the length of time between the V10 release and the V11 release, and the number of new people involved with chickens, it’s unclear at this time when changes may be expected to these.
—————————————————–Our babies have new wings !!! Are they ever adorable !! Sorry, got carried away and jumped ahead. I’m excited too. OK back to where we were.
** V11 eggs include any egg laid by a hen AFTER she has been updated to V11, whether by food or by boxing. The rooster she mates with does not affect the version of egg laid so this also applies to all V9 Golden Roosters.
** V11 chickens (lives) include all chickens updated from V10 AND all chickens hatched from V10 eggs and updated, AND V11 hatched eggs regardless of what variety of chicken they are. V9 Golden Roosters do not update and are not considered to be V11 lives.
Due to the large number of resellers and individuals that have devalued laid eggs by selling at extremely low prices and/or undercutting prices, AND the large number of eggs currently available on the market, Sion has been spammed with complaints and requests from reputable resellers for action to prevent this from continuing. He has taken the necessary steps to ensure the chickens and eggs do not become totally worthless.
All V11 laid eggs are now totally unique one of a kinds. This means that each egg that is laid is a single egg and not copy able and you get to decide whether to hatch it yourself, keep it for the future or sell it and allow someone else to enjoy it.
The chances of 2 people each having the same colour hen and same colour rooster mating at the same time and producing 2 eggs of identical colour are slim. To have both those eggs come up for sale at the same time is even rarer.
Eggs returned to your inventory due to land permissions or by another person, will now die of sharp objects. The same way as lives will die when taken into your inventory now. This will also greatly reduce the number of eggs available at any given time and make them much more valuable should you choose to sell them.
V11 eggs are as fragile as all eggs are in real life. This means they can be broken by stepping on them, other chickens pushing them around may damage them, etc … so they must be protected. If your egg gets turned into an “Omlette”, it will not ever hatch a baby and will become tempory and vanish soon afterwards.
All V11 eggs must be placed in a new sionEgg box that has also been released to prevent them from hatching, allow them to be taken safely into inventory, or set for sale or given away to another person.
sionChicken Rev2, which are our current lives, has had a name change for those of you who make or sell items with scripts requiring the object name to be recorded. They are now called sionChicken. The Rev2 part has been dropped although sionEgg has not changed.
Our transport boxes have also received a new name which is sionChicken box and been changed to SINGLE USE ONLY. They will work the same as always but will vanish after you release you chicken from it. Chickens can also be stored for as long as they would normally be able to survive without food. If they are at 0% hunger going in to the box, they will survive 4 days before thet starve to death.
All V11 lives will now seek a place called sionChicken coop when they become tired and go to it to sleep. This is a most welcome improvement for those who have chickens that roam free on their land. For chickens currently in pens or coops, this is not something you need to be concerned with.
To enable this feature for your chickens, simply edit your coop or pen and change the name on the general tab. If you currently have a pen or coop that is no modify, simply make a box and name it sionChicken coop and place it where you want them to sleep.
Your wonderful chickens now have a hint of mystery to them. They have become more interactive and are developing their own personalities. When you walk into your coop or close to your pen, your chickens may or may not be glad to see you. This one you will have to figure out on your own.
Along with recognizing their owners, Sion has also made them interactive with toys !! Aside from the benefits of toys explained for the new race of “Scarce” chickens, all chickens will benefit from having toys called sionChicken toy to play with. Those added benefits you will have to discover on your own as well. (You can blame Sion for the lack of details)
If one of your chickens dies of old age, starving or is killed by a weapon, they will now display floating text that will tell you if they are revivable and if a healing kit will work. If it doesn’t say that your chicken can be revived, then they have left to The Great Chicken Coop in the Sky. Most other causes of death have been eliminated now.
* Any deaths that occur for any reason that have been eliminated, should be reported in group so they can be tracked.
FINALLY !! They have new wings !! YAY !!! All V11 chickens have cute little sculpted wings and they are so adorable !! Watch them for a bit and see if you notice _____ .
V11 BLACKS will now be a NEW race of chickens known as “Scarce” and can mate !! Scarce chickens can be either male or female and can be made happy by giving them toys. You can lower their anger level long enough for them to mate with any other chickens or with other Scarce chickens.
If your timing is off, or if they are left together too long, the Scarce chickens become angry again and will kill the hen or rooster you pen with them to mate. This you will have to figure out on your own.
The odds of a Scarce chicken egg is 1 in every 100 eggs laid but if you can figure out how to mate a Scarce hen with a Scarce rooster, the odds they lay a Scarce egg increase to 1 in 10.
Scarce eggs look like any other eggs so you will not know what it is until you box it in one of the new sionEgg boxes. Scarce chickens will happen in both the ALL RACES CAN MATE WITH ALL RACES. All Scarce chickens have black bodies and contrasting colour(s) whether they are male or female.
All Scarce chickens are considered rare but will vary greatly in price according to the rarity of the contrasting colour which could boost them to ultra rares. V10 black eggs will update and should, once again, be considered as a semi-rare. V10 updates will not have contrasting colour(s).
Chickens killed trying to mate with Scarce chickens will not be replaced but should be revivable with healing kits. Since there are currently no V11 Scarce chickens or eggs available, they will be very high priced when they are laid. Please consult the price guide when it is released.
Communications have been greatly altered and improved. Failures in communication should no longer happen so the deaths cause by lag or other interference, have been eliminated. This includes using boxes, updating through food and genetic disorders. This comes into affect once they have successfully updated to V11 so for now, there is still a slight risk of death updating from V10 to V11.
This improved communication also reduces lag significantly and at the same time collision calculations have decreased by 50% and performance greatly increased. What does all of this mean to you? That’s simple !! It means you can now have even more chickens on your land !!! YAY !!!
Our babies will now be even cuter when they sleep since the way they hold their heads have been fixed. They will no longer look like they have broken necks or sideways heads. Thank you so much Sion and tons of huggles from all of us.
While Sion has typed his fingers to the bone doing all these improvements, additions and upgrades to the thousands of lines of script for each part of these wonderful babies to make them even more wonderful, (who would have thought that possible?) Pete Perkins has also been hard at work creating new objects for accessories using Sion’s scripts.
Pete is the newest addition to Sion Corp and is quickly proving to be a very talented and creative addition to the team. As a builder and developer, we will be seeing many projects with major input from him so he is not just another pretty face.
The sionChicken V11 Healing Kits have been completely redesigned and released. You have to see them !! Built by Pete and scripted by Sion, they are totally adorable and look great even if you don’t ever need them.
It even has an animated needle that injects revival fluid in to your dead chicken. that’s bigger than the babies !!! eeeks !! Poor things !! The kit itself looks like a doctor’s satchel from years gone by. This is a “must have” so be sure to buy one just to have around as a decoration.
Transport boxes for V11 have also been released with a name change AND have an extended life time. You can now store your chicken in a box for the same length of time it would normall be able to go without food. If you box them at 0% hunger, they will live 4 days before they starve to death and die. healing kits will not work on them when they are released.
Be sure to use sionChicken box as the new name. Along with V11 food will be a breeder’s food pack but we will look at that more in the next section.
Let’s start a new note card to take a closer look at the brand new accessory products, new rare chickens, and whole new races of chickens that I promise you will love. See you on the next page.
