-LOCKED - BEETLE BATTLES??!?!?!
Posted on 2016-07-08 09:16:39

BEETLE BATTLES


WELCOME EVERYONE TO BEETLE BATTLES!!!

Your lions now can own pets, feed them, battle them ... Simception? ;D Beetlemon Go?

In Explore, you will have a chance to find a lonely beetle larvae - with a little luck, you can grab it and take home! Larvae in explore are randomized, they have species variation that have certain rarity, and the species itself has colour variation and rarity!


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You can find your larvae and beetles in your den, under lion list. You have 6 slots by default, but you can expand them by buying more.
When you access your insect, you will see a status screen with the larvae/beetle, stats, name, bio etc.

Your larvae will take time to grow! 0-10 months is larvae stage, 11-30 is adult.
Larvae are super hungry and it's best time to feed them lots of grub! Every day their hunger drops by 30% and you can feed them on their page a various selection of Herbs and Water items (Which are obtainable in a new area located here: Beetle NPC.


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Note: Larvae cannot be trained.
* You can name your beetles and give them a bio!
* All beetles you find have same stats, but distributed randomly.
* Rarer beetle species will have more default stats!
* Food items fill hunger to full no matter how hungry your insect is.
* All food items have tiny chances of boosting a stat of your beetle!
* If hunger drops to 100% your larvae/beetle will die.
* All beetles have the same larva image.
* Beetles cannot be traded (yet?)
* DEN ICONS will show if your beetle is hungry, pregnant or has eggs!

When your larvae grows up:
- They become adult beetles. They no longer feel hunger, and don't have to be fed.
- They can now be trained at the Beetle Grounds area, once a day, in the chosen stat: Grab a rock trains Strength, Climb a branch trains Endurance and Ground Race trains Speed.

Males - only males can battle! This is useful if you're not interested in breeding your beetles - you can own a full set of males and fight them fiercely!

Females - females cannot battle, however they still can train and be bred to your males.
- Females have no heat and can be bred anytime.
- Pregnancy lasts 1 day (until next Rollover)
- Females have cooldown of 10 days after giving birth.

BREEDING:
Babies should always get the species base stats, and both parent bonus.
Parents colour matters when breeding! However, colour has a chance to produce a mutation of any common variation, smaller for uncommon and smallest of a rare colour within the species.
*You can only breed beetles of same species.


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Upon birth a clutch image appears on female's page. Player has 1 day (until next Rollover) to harvest eggs. Harvesting will give you 1-4 larva, while the rest of the eggs hatch and run away. If you do not harvest on time, the larvae will scuttle away.

Harvested larva start at age 0 and have heritage.

You cannot harvest larvae if you have no free slots.

DEATH


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When your beetles die, they become unusable, collectible items in your hoard. Depending on species and colour, the item will match the beetle that died (except for gender). When they start becoming more abundant, we'll add craftable decors for each! :D

*Items CAN be traded! (duh)

BATTLING - because beetles need time to grow up from larva and coders need time to code it all, Battling will be introduced in 1 week. For now, enjoy collecting beetles and raising them!

Suggested by Mad Hyena - she's been amazing help and prepared a lot of base for development, thank you so much, enjoy your Owl Badge <3

NOTE ON SPECIES
All species found in Explore are African species.

In future, we'll introduce non-African species in Oasis and some invented ones in Events!

You can suggest Beetle Species here:
Dev Topic

SPECIES GUIDE BY KIRAFIREFLY

- includes species list, rarity, etc.

STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO OWN A BEETLE

with pictures!

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SEPARATION


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Ochre Base is a new Golden Dark Countershaded Common base, that is available to be customized in Oasis or via Base Changer.


SEPARATION


New Admin - Community Manager
Katze became our new team mate, please welcome her and read her introduction thread located here, so you get to know her! :D

At some point Katze will get #3 account, probably. For now we're busy training her! :D

We love Clayton dearly and he was part of admin team for years, so his Explore Encounter will stay as long as possible <3 He just got busy with real life, we'll miss you bro!

Remember that the event ends on July 31st at 11:59 pm, and all your currency will be stored in your account until next year.

Shad has added new tags, check them out as usual! :D

*Fixed: Celestial Lioness personality not appearing. Will fix manually all ones that are missing it

Raffle Lioness


Congrats _Nightshade_ (#81506)! You have won the latest raffle lady along with the first Feline 7 Silver!
Newest lady with the Wild Forest background and Feline 4 Ginger (Katze's first design!) is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Polls and dev notes
POLL LINK -Team Apollyon, Team Apedemak or you don't really care? ;D

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Awesome beetle art by Lalonde (#72594)! <3



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Edited on 10/07/16 @ 06:21:18 by Xylax (#4)

Bailysis (#71958)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:01:58
No no no xD I wasn't saying they do eat meat. It was a suggestion on other ways to feed the beetles



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Kich (#2373)


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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:04:36
Ohhh right. XD Sorry, I'm tired, should really head to bed already. Either way, would really love other feeding options for larvas too! Buying food is so boring, finding and hoarding is the way to go! <3 *coughs*



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Gay Pride (#91035)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:06:28
Don't mind me, I'm just going to cry about this! :w;



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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:20:40
BEETLEMON GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL!!!!

*Ill go hide back in my whole now*



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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:26:16
Haha, it's just so happened that yesterday my older brother and downloaded pokemon go.... Haha



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🌼Wendy (warrior
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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:26:35
THIS IS GENUIS



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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:27:46
LITERALLY YAS

ALL HAIL MAD HYENA
ALL HAIL MAD HYENA
ALL HAIL MAD HYENA



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*Lilian Nightshade* (#80660)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:35:34
I love this update so, SO much. One thing bothers me, though, and it's the amount limit. 6 slots sounds like an awfully too small amount when we can get 1-4 larvae per litter. Sure you can expand the slots for GB(not everyone can afford premium currency), but the default amount is simply too unpractical when you can get so many larvae in each breeding, specially with the females being breedable all the time. This isn't like the lion cubs, which don't occupy adult slots until they grow up. The larvae occupy beetle slots from the very start.

I feel like 10 slots would be fairer in this scenario, or that we should be able to buy the first several expansions with SB and from the 15th slot or so onwards the expansions would cost GB. Heck maybe there could be a system similar to the PVP fighting and we could win the first slots via battling, the possibilities are many.

Edit: and my friend just brought this up, she has been getting the larva encounter a lot and already caught 3 of them. This common rate at which the beetles seem to be caught really doesn't match such a small slot limit.

Xy; While breeding is not needed to have a great team, it's a dedication and requires sacrifices. You can release your beetles to make space. You can also suggest an option to expand your slots via battling maybe? ;)



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Edited on 08/07/16 @ 20:57:36 by Xylax (#4)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:38:36
Awesome that sounds great.

And, they are just little bugs and they cost more to upgrade territory than lions....

I seriously have no GB and I can't get any really...

Awesome idea Lillian

Xy: Well they are a vanity feature ;0; but we're open to suggestions, dev boards + ideas = updates :D



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Edited on 08/07/16 @ 20:58:27 by Xylax (#4)

🌑✨Sebeon [G2
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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:44:22
Beetle battles! Woohoo!



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Tale (#67882)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 11:51:32
Oh my god! These beetles are so cute (that's not normally something I say about bugs)! :D They suit the Lioden feel so well (considering 90% of our currency are beetles). Can't wait to start collecting.



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Harlequin (#16619)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 12:06:15
eek YESSSS beetles! I am so hyped



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Minimanta (#1684)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 12:23:32
Ohh, this is interesting! =D



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Liliflora (#92437)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 12:34:29
Aww! Look at the cute, li'l' buggers!



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Lurgle (#49415)

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Posted on
2016-07-08 12:46:30
This is perhaps the best update EVER!!!!!!



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