Community Update

Aside from monthly event news posts and the 2nd Friday of each month being focused on art/coding updates, all other Fridays are centered around the community!

Official Lioden Raffle

LINK - This is our official community update raffle. Everyone gets a chance to win a rare prize, plus something extra for any runner ups. These raffles have a very minimal ticket price, and there is a limit of 1 ticket per account to make it fair! Good luck!
This raffle will automatically end on 2022-08-26 00:00:00.

New August Eye Applicators

Two new items have been added to August's event shops!

Eye Applicator: Intense Blood can be bought in The Destroyers shop.
Genetics: 50% Intense Blood, 20% Red, 10% Black, 10% Crimson, 8% Jet, 2% Fierce Red.

Eye Applicator: Intense Salt can be bought in The Preservers shop.
Genetics: 50% Intense Salt, 20% White, 10% Amber, 10% Earth, 8% Hazel, 2% Intense Gold.

Anniversary Reminder

Free Gift!
A free gift can be claimed from the main News page! This gift can be claimed once per account and will be removed from the News page once it turns midnight Lioden time on August 20th, so be sure to grab it while you can!


Anniversary Contests!
As a reminder, we are hosting 12 themed design contests! Details, prizes, and the link to enter are found below.

Details
* There are 12 contests in total—one for each monthly event on Lioden.
* Each account can enter once per contest.
* Your entries must be themed around specific events (e.g. only submit January-themed arrangements for the January contest, etc.).
* To enter, you must copy the full, long wardrobe URL and paste it into the "Submit Entry" field. Entries cannot be modified once they have been submitted, so please double-check what you have before entering!
* Your entry does not need to have a lion present. You can choose to decorate a lion and theme all decors and backgrounds to an event, or you can go a more scenic route and set up a lovely background view with accenting decors! (As an additional note, Translucent Jellyfish now works in the Lion Wardrobe, allowing you to hide the lion artwork right there within the wardrobe!)
* For contests themed to specific monthly events, you can use any background and decor for your design, it does not need to be limited to items from that month's event.
* Everyone can vote for whichever entries they like best! Each player can vote 5 times per contest, 1 vote per entry (so you cannot put all 5 votes into one entry), and you will get a bonus 5 SB per vote for participating.
* Votes cannot be incentivised. Do not ask for other players to vote for your entries, your friends' entries, etc. anywhere on Lioden. This includes in the chat room, on the forums, or in various other areas of the site. Incentivising votes can lead to actions being taken against accounts—we really want this to be fair and for players to genuinely vote for whichever entries they like best!
* If your design is chosen, it will be added to a pool of randomised images that will be shown on Lioden's front page when that specific event is occurring on Lioden!

Prizes
There will be 120 winners in total—10 winners per monthly event, and each winner will get a prize of 10 GB!

Are you interested in entering? Follow this link to access the Contests page and look over all contests that are taking place on Lioden!

Entries can be submitted for all 12 contests starting from now, up until September 1st. On September 1st, the voting period will begin, and players can then vote for the entries they like best within each contest. Winners will be chosen and announced on September 9th!


Anniversary Raffles!
We have released five official raffles for you all to participate in! These raffles all have the standard fee of 5 SB per ticket, with a limit of 1 ticket per account. You can enter all five raffles if you'd like!

Enter Anniversary Raffle #1 for a chance to win some GB!
Enter Anniversary Raffle #2 for a chance to win some event items!
Enter Anniversary Raffle #3 for a chance to win some Gorilla Enclave applicators!
Enter Anniversary Raffle #4 for a chance to win various Mutie On Demand applicators!
Enter Anniversary Raffle #5 for a chance to win a custom Oasis-made lioness! The players that win the Zebra Hearts will be contacted via PM by Katze (#3) to get their lionesses sorted out and created.

All five raffles will automatically end on 2022-09-01 at 00:00:00.

Reminder: Input Needed Regarding Challenge/Paperclip Trades

We have been observing the discussions surrounding "What can I get for 1 SB" and other similar types of "challenge/paperclip" trades, and we understand that a portion of the community dislikes seeing these in the Trading Center. In turn, we have been discussing how best these can be handled. We have started a topic with some of our thoughts and possible solutions. We would love to hear your input, ideas, and any other feedback you may have on this topic.

Official Topic for "Challenge/Paperclip" Trades

Please do not provide any input, ideas, or feedback within posts on this Community Update. We will not be taking ideas posted in the news into account, so it is imperative that anything you have to say regarding these trades is posted on the official topic linked above.

Our decision to implement a discussion topic does not mean that we will be changing our stance on these trades. If we cannot come to a conclusion or the majority of the feedback is in favour of these trades being unmoderated as they currently are, then we will announce this in the news.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a couple of bugs with contest submission images not working properly:
- Certain mane/mutation combinations would result in missing lions or missing lineart
- Using dynamic backgrounds would cause the images to be completely blank when flattening the image (dynamic backgrounds all default to the Day version now)

Artist Portfolios

Tomorrow (August 20th) we will start responding to the artists that submitted their portfolios. Thank you all for your interest!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Madagascar lady with Almond Inverted Zebra, Noctis Rogue, and the FIRST EVER Climbing Tree background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! It's interesting to see the preference regarding August bases—we appreciate the votes!

NEW POLL - Just a general question this week. Which set of backgrounds released via raffle lionesses is your favourite? You can view the full sets on this wiki page! Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Development Update: September 9th!


Friday goofy doodle comic: