-LOCKED - Cave Dens, Tan Base, and more!
Posted on 2016-07-22 03:42:18
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Caves!
Caves are the newest feature on Lioden! Here's a detailed run down of what you can expect:

* Caves have replaced the huge long list of oddly assorted lions on your territory page, allowing the page itself to be a bit neater and clear up some loading lag.
* Each cave you create can house an unlimited amount of lionesses, restricted only by your own territory size.
* You have been given 3 free cave slots to start off with, and if you need extra caves for organising then you can permanently expand your cave slots for 5GB each (when you reach 9 cave slots, this will increase to 10GB per slot).
* You can build a cave using resources you can find freely in explore - Large Rocks and Large Leaves - along with a small SB fee.
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* All dropdown lists in the game have been changed to reflect cave sorting - all lions will be divided into their caves and ordered by that specific cave's sorting settings. The only lists that haven't yet been converted are your Pride Overview and the Raffle Prize lists as they require a little extra fiddly work.
* Caves can have lions within them sorted differently from other caves - you could have one cave dedicated to your stat beasts and order them by stats, and another dedicated to pretty cubs in which you could order them by name.
*Everyone is able to create a free cave to start off!

There is a bug at the moment that if you don't have at least one cave you will not be able to feed or use any items on your lions. Please make sure you create your first cave and we will try to fix this bug asap.

And this is just the beginning! We have a whole host of things planned for caves to make them more personalised and another fun feature of Lioden. Some things to look forward to:

* Selecting a "Featured Lion" for each cave, which will load that lion's image layers (minus decorations) onto the main cave image.
* Having the Feed All tool appear in each cave so you can choose which caves to prioritise - or choose to not feed a cave at all! The Feed All tool will remain on your Den page too, so you will have the choice of either.
* Same thing with Play All tool!
* Future Den Decorating

If you don't like this change, you are more than welcome to ignore caves entirely. We have moved your existing lions list to a new link underneath your player information on your den page. It will show "Unsorted (# lions)" which will list your lions exactly as they were before caves were added. This at least helps out a little with page load times on Den pages, and also stops endless scrolling for those prides that have hundreds of lions. We hope that if you don't like caves, you can at least appreciate our need to do this :)

CREATE A CAVE PAGE - LINK - this link normally becomes available when there's an empty cave slot open for you on Den page. When you're out of slots, a purchase option will appear.

* it is intentional that you can't see anyone else's unsorted lions

New Things!
* Bookmark folders now can be temporarily collapsed in order to easily browse different folders for the correct bookmark. Suggestion [link]
* A small padlock icon will now show up in your Territory Overview, next to lions that have been secured. Suggestion [link]
* We have rearranged the Pride Overview slightly, moving Status icons to the right of lion Ages as we feel this looks a bit neater.
* The Feed All tool now prioritises the food which will expire the soonest.
* You will now receive a notification if a Private Trade is created for you, and the list will also show how many days the item has remaining. Suggestion [link]
* The lion feeding list on the stacked item page will now show lions in order of hunger from most hungry at the top to least hungry at the bottom (with the exception of main male who always comes first ;D).
* Lion raffle message with link on lion’s page if it is in a raffle. Maybe in upcoming days a den icon will be added too, we're still thinking what it could be. Maybe a rolled dice?

Bug Fixes
* Off-season gems should now appear in explore a little more frequently as they were unintentionally restricted before. They will still appear less often than in-season gems, but we've just made a small correction.


SEPARATION


Two new beetles are now available for you!

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Dynastes hercules - found in explore, Uncommon, user suggestion
Xylax: yes.. my mistake :( Somehow it was in my African chart, this is American beetle. But if feels unfair now to move it to Oasis, so let's say it's introduced species and leave it in Explore <3

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Stolas beetle (defaults on imperialis) with subspecies as colours - Oasis beetle, user suggestion

Explore encounter
A new explore encounter aimed at beetle owners has been added - it will grant you a random free herb when you get it.


SEPARATION


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Tan is a new Cream Dark Solid Common base, available via Oasis or applicable via Base Applicators.

NOTE POSES are planned for next week, unless one of admin's house is on fire, or something. That might delay it.


SEPARATION


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 Tala (#23331)! You have won the latest raffle lady along with the Feline 6 Silver!
Newest lady with the Knysna Lagoon background and Feline 6 GOLD is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Polls and dev notes
POLL LINKWhat 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?



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Edited on 22/07/16 @ 22:55:51 by Xylax (#4)

Beata [PFM] (#956)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 05:41:16
"The fact that you can't view others' unsorted lions is weird as heck, as is the fact that beetles don't have their own mounds and are displayed on our den, while our lions are hidden away."

Exactly. You can see bugs, but you can't see lions. Strange.

I don't like caves. It's so messy, in my opinion. Too much clicking. And I want to see other player's prides.



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Malokia [PFM] (main) (#88471)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 05:55:07
Could unsorted lions be visible in murder stone...? I know event is just for one month, but it's still much unnecessary work with moving every single NCL to a cave just to sacrifice her.



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Hwarra (#1796)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:00:35
Are cave resources supposed to be that rare? Out of 200% energy spent I only found 1 leaf.



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Edited on 22/07/16 @ 13:00:47 by Aaralyn [PFM] (#1796)

Artwolf 🐺 (clean
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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:05:34
... I'm no fan of the update, sorry... :c

1. Why will nobody be able to see my unsorted lions? (I love playing a forum game called "What lioness would you steal" where people need to see my lions ;-;)
2. Will this really help the server since you can put all your lions in one single cave? o.o (Would simple drop down menus in our (old) den be an alternative? (maybe we could sort the lions there as well??)
3. I think it's weird that I can see all my beetles in my den, but none of my lions... (and that other people will only be able to see my beetles and not my lions...... ~ why??)
>>> Will lioden become beetleden? ó.ò the revenge of the beetles?? D:



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Kripke ICE {Weekly
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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:05:44
I have spent 4 full bars and have a rock to show for it. :(



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Silence (#93398)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:13:29
Can we have a "put all lions in this cave" option because right now I have to click through 26 and it's just silly



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Fart (#25392)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:13:38
I too would like to know the answers to chaodise's questions.



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Kripke ICE {Weekly
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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:14:35
When the beetles came out, they flooded the explore encounters, so much that a player actually started a thread to hide them... please give a Monkey shop or Oasis option for leaves/rocks.



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GonnaGetBanned (#79897)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:26:10
Not a huge fan of the caves. Makes my page look ridiculous. I prefer the old way



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Artwolf 🐺 (clean
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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:29:43
Okay I understand how this helps the servers.. and I understand why no one will see my unsorted lions now... and I thank you all for this! but I never experienced any problems loading den pages o.O I always have problems in explore (especially in exploring) and my hoard.. will help this new sorting system the loading issues in hoard as well?
I only wish those bugs would disappear from my den now (even though I still like them..) ~ I hope for good user suggestions to improve this update, maybe I'll put something down as well.. we'll see..




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Edited on 22/07/16 @ 13:31:28 by chaodise (#59509)

Momma Jelly (#51159)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:44:52
I really don't like the caves. It's super confusing now. Can we get an optin not to use the caves?



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Beata [PFM] (#956)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:48:33
How about an option "Show chosen lions/cubs/lionesses"? And they could be visible in lion's den. Ten, twenty, I don't know. Something like that.



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rotisserie🍗 (#45907)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:49:48
is there going to be an option for players who dont want caves for their lions to move the caves entirely ??
kinda like how if we dont want to see lion footnotes we can disable them



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*Lilian Nightshade* (#80660)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 06:51:01
Yeah I'm not a big fan of this whole cave thing and I've been thinking exactly what Chaodise said: I never had any problems loading my list of lions and thus this update caught me off guard... I guess it helps servers, but won't we still have to load lists of lions regardless, only with even more links to click in order to get to them? Those who don't like the cave system and still want their pride to be visible to the public will just dump all their lions in one cave and have a list identical to the previous version, which changes nothing. To me this only makes it an annoying and really messy way to browse your own lions.

In fact I never felt that the old system was messy in any way either, I didn't even feel the "endless scrolling" burden with the bigger dens! I personally never had the need to organize my lions this much due to how simple the list was and really easy to browse. I guess to those with OCD and extreme urge to organize everything would like to sort their lions in specific groups, but... was this such a big demand we had to get this update as the new default system? I really didn't feel it, at all, and would rather see this update as only a secondary option instead. I really want to be able to turn it off myself.

And the fact it was announced that not being able to see users' unsorted lions was intentional really, REALLY bothers me. Just... why? What's the point of that?? To me this is like forcing everybody to use this cave system whether they like it or not, because I don't know about everyone else, but I enjoy peeking in random users' dens and browsing their pretty lions, not to mention when you happen to find a really nice one and PM the owner to check if they would be willing to sell them. Hell not to mention that I often find people looking for lions for sale and I usually ask them to browse my cubs, because I have SO MANY cubs for sale all the time I can't link to them all without creating visual noise in the forums.

PS: Also I've always felt that Lioden is an extremely unfriendly site to newbies, and I just know that this cave system will make it even worse for newbies to get the hang of ¬¬'.



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Momma Jelly (#51159)

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Posted on
2016-07-22 07:07:15
You also mentoned ocd, What of people who have other metal illness that have to have things a cerntain way. I was able to oganize my lions the way I wanted the old way and it was not messy at all. If someone as ocd they would have already found a way to sort their lions without the cave system. What of people who Autism or memory issus. Or even Ones who have physical issues that can't click so much?!



Ps: I have aspergers autism. I had my den sorted the way I like it now I don't and it makes me angry and sad. I love lioden but this cavesystem made me hate it.



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