Weekly News 2!
Posted by Admin-Wisteria on 17 Nov 2017, 10:58 pm
Hi again everyone!
Just catching everyone up on the goings-on behind the scenes.
First off, we're working on a solution for pumpkin guts. It should leave most people with roughly the same amount of pumpkin guts - the values will be generated from your herbalist logs, and then adjusted based on your purchase/sale logs.
This process won't be perfect, and we'll have a thread open for case-by-case solutions when we're at that stage. Please note that this is just the current plan, and we may need to consider other options - we'll keep players informed of any changes, however.
Unfortunately, the 2017 Jack-O-Lanterns cannot be restored this way, and is a lower priority over all. However, if you've lost a significant number of the collectible version of the Jack-O-Lantern, we can look at restoring them manually. Please PM me directly to do so. 
We're looking to add a consume all candy button as a temporary solution to overloaded inventories.
Due to feedback, you'll instead be able to donate all your food items in your inventory to the food drive in a single click. This is currently on the top of the coding list.
The Pumpkin growing competition's conclusion has been delayed, with the new target date being the 21st of November. Please note that the Hat / Pies may not have their functionality ready by this date, but will still be awarded at this stage.
The Dragon's Maw Festival will officially conclude on this date as well, with the following occurring:
- There will be a second purge of pumpkin-related items (excluding Pumpkin Guts and 2017 Jack-O-Lantern collectibles).
- The Candy Shop will be closed; left over points will be lost.
- Per above, the competition rewards will be distributed.
- We will all be free!
This is unfortunate but not unexpected; custom items will be delayed until after the above issues are resolved. Details on this will be revealed next week.
Following Dragon's Maw event's closure, there will be no new major events for a time while we work on other on-site issues. However, the existing events will appear at their scheduled intervals (such as the snow festival), with some balance and mechanic tweaks.
Explorer & Warrior events will still appear regularly. 
Unfortunately, in perhaps the saddest news of all, our soup overlords are moving on to new lands.
You'll have a week to purchase Soup Vistas and Stickers from the recycle shop before they retire (don't worry - they're retiring to a life of luxury). 
We've been having a lot of issues with bugs lately, and consequently we've had a lot of bug reports. We've had a flurry of reports on the same issues, and this makes it difficult to isolate reports on unique issues so we can target and resolve them, especially if we can do so without additional coding.
Before you submit a bug report, please check out this thread.
If you have a pressing technical issue that has yet to be resolved and isn't on the above list, please PM me directly.
If you have a community related issue that remains unresolved, please contact Admin-Mat . 
A certain.. friendly NPC is going to help out with item upgrades in the mean time, for a modest price. Keep an eye out for their post if you're looking to increase the potency on some of your items (or add new sockets). 
This little devil is going to get a hard-counter item. Keep an eye out for that too! 
The new "Warehouse" exploration event had an issue where it was incorrectly generating items that it shouldn't of been. I'll be looking to take it down briefly tomorrow to update the list of items it can generate to specific ones instead of generic "Reagents".
That's all for now!
Alright, just remember that there are some people with millions of FC currently.
Also, what about sockets? Is it going to be like an item with a limited amount available or something?
msjanny
I think the mods were planning something. I wouldn't expect anything major, though there may be something!
Ralecune
Basically, the higher you want to improve an item, the bigger the cost. It'll be fairly affordable to fix items up to 100%, but beyond that the price will start to climb to the point where it's not worthwhile, even for people with a lot of FC. There'll be a disclaimer as well - remember, you'll be able to upgrade items later for free (over time).
That said, manually generating thousands of items to push them up to 100% would be a bit overwhelming, so we may need to put in some restrictions. At the very least, I'd like people to adjust items with lowered potency.
I find this unlikely, considering the current state of the site, but are there any plans for the anniversary on Dec 7th?
I don't think anyone brought this up yet, but that NPC that's going to help with potency and sockets, would that be Puck? Cause if this is, this could end up like the last time Puck sold things where only the rich could buy the items and the limited stock would leave everyone else out of luck if they try and save up the money. In this case, the rich could just buy up everything and just be objectively stronger than everyone else. I really hope this just doesn't break the warrior career.
Ooooh upgrades on equips! I'll be waiting for a friendly traveler's posts!
Much obliged, Wisteria! You guys have been absolute champs throughout this ordeal, and I really appreciate the work you've put into trying to fix things.
Sounds like your solutions are good ones!
Admin-Wisteria
Thank you so much! Good luck with working out all the bugs and things :>
@I0dine Dude, the Furvilla base isn't an amorphous hivemind XD We're all different players, and Growlithe and Crunchypuff have been opposed to that since before I can remember. You can't expect every player to think the same way. "You guys asked for it" is other guys asking for it.
Admin-Wisteria
Thanks so much! It means a lot to us. Sorry to stress you even further, I want this event behind us as well. Food drive is good enough.
Laz Entries for that have to be gathered by hand then drawn, it's going to be a bit longer as we've been fairly busy wrangling pumpkin and candy issues...But hopefully soon!
(That was sarcasm btw)