BEETLE BATTLES - BATTLING UPDATE!

Beetle Battles have been added to Lioden! We will explain how it works now! :D
HERE are Beetle Battling grounds. When you have an adult male beetle, you can enter them to fight!

Your adult male beetles can battle once every 15 minutes. When battling, a random opponent in your beetle's stat range will be challenged and the beetles will battle. The script will pick any available beetle from a player that has been online within last 7 days.

If you don't want your beetle to participate in battles and being challenged, you can disable your beetle from battling on its page.

(If the game cannot locate an opponent, it will generate you an NPC one)

When you enter and click the button, ADORABLE animation of the battle will play out!
The winner will be shown, and given 10 exp. Loser will gain 5 exp though!

THERE ARE PAYOUTS FOR YOUR LION TOO!
For winners, there's a CHANCE for extra payout:
Rare: Extra beetle slots (total 10 on top of what player already owns)
Uncommon: Main male gets EXP that is equal to beetle total stats!
Uncommon: SB
Common: A random herb

For losers, there's a CHANCE for extra payout too:
Uncommon: A random herb

Losers receive notification with information about the battle and the losing beetle receives 15 minute cooldown as well.

**You can battle all your beetles at once if you wish, the cooldown is PER beetle.

How does the exp work?
Now this is the more complex part. EXP needed to level up and gain a stat, is evaluated based on total stats of your beetle, on the moment of levelling up. That means, first level up ever will always be 100 EXP, but further ones will be calculated every time your beetle levels up, because meanwhile it can gain stats from training! This chart will explain it nicely:

Basically, when levelling up, your beetle receives 1 stat, always.
Total exp needed calculated is total stats x 10. So if your beetle has total stats 73, EXP needed to level up is 730. When your beetle levels up, the exp is at 0 again. That's a lot of battles!

This should make breeding "stat monsters" a bit obsolete at some point, and make fresh, wild beetle from explore very exciting to train up and breed.
Training and food still gives your beetles/larva stats no matter what.

Stat tiers
Stat tiers are based on your beetle's stats:
It is counted from -10 to +10 of your beetle's stats. If your beetle is stronger, it should have more chance to win, but there's always a small chance it'd lose.

Again, the Battling link is located here:
Beetle Battles!. (Explore map will be updated next week probably!)

BATTLING BACKGROUNDS
In near future, the beetle battling backgrounds will be EQUIPPABLE! If you prefer a halloween themed backgrounds for beetle battles, you will be able to enjoy that sight during battles!
We're also planning on adding Beetle items such as sex changer. We're still checking your suggestion threads!

Other Beetle related updates:
* Beetle/colour rarity will now display on beetle's page based on Suggestion
* Larva grabbing explore encounter is now less common to stumble upon.
* Larva grabbing explore encounter will now give a button to "Eat" the larva for a tiny chance of getting a stat for your main male. Suggestion

NEW SPECIES

In Explore, new Common species found in the usual encounter is "Bolbaffer princeps".

In Oasis, new type of Beetles can be found: Scarabaeus Argentus and Scarabaeus Aureus (Silver and Golden beetle from Lioden world ;D)

Common beetles in Oasis cost 1 GB and can be bought as tokens. You can trade them, bury them etc. Upon use, if you have a free beetle slot, it will generate appriopriate larva of random colour rarity and gender.

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You can suggest Beetle Species here:
Dev Topic - it's really nice, I can release a new beetle or two every friday as they take little time to make!

Beetle Species guide & Beetle Battle guide

A new Nebula background is available to buy in Oasis (10 uses) in Backgrounds section.

Grit Recolours are new custom recolours of Grit markings that come in Cream and Mahogany. They are available via Oasis or applicable via Marking Applicators.

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

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Apollo'sGold (#86130)! You have won the latest raffle lady along with the first Feline 4 Ginger!
Newest lady with the Cave Waterfall background and Feline 6 Silver is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Polls and dev notes
Looks like TEAM APEDEMAK WON! Wooo! ;D the classics are closer to heart, huh?

NEW POLL LINK What should we release first? A few recolours of Rosette (Dark Brown, Ginger) / Inverted Rosette (Gold, Saffron), orr maybe new Rosette markings such as Soft Rosette or Heavy Rosette?