Community Update #13

Community Update Day!

Just as a reminder, these updates are smaller and are more focused on the community.  Whereas Development updates are centralised on adding in new features, expanding upon or adjusting existing features, and implementing new artwork and coding, Community updates are meant to introduce weekly raffles, new weekly raffle studs, new polls, and showcase some minor changes and bug fixes that have been made in the past week.

Pending Update: Voting on Game Development Topics

The ability to upvote and downvote suggestion topics on the Game Development forum will be implemented tomorrow (October 2nd, 2021).  Each Game Development topic will have a green "Support" button and red "Oppose" button.  Once you vote, you can clear your vote at any time, as the button you press will turn into a "Clear Vote" button.  You can also change your vote from an upvote to a downvote (or vice versa) at any time if you end up changing your mind on how you feel about a certain suggestion.

Scores will be kept hidden from everyone other than site admins in order to keep suggestion topics neutral and unbiased.

Raffle System Clarification

We have seen some questions popping up regarding the raffle system and would like to offer clarification for players.

• If you are offering between 1 to 5 prizes in a raffle, you must have a minimum of 5 unique participants in order for your raffle to automatically run at its scheduled end date.
  
  
• If you are offering more than 5 prizes in a raffle, you must have the same amount of unique participants as prizes offered in order for your raffle to automatically run at its scheduled end date.  This means that if you are offering 10 prizes, you need a minimum of 10 unique participants.  If you are offering 60 prizes, you need a minimum of 60 unique participants.
  
  
• Raffles that do not have the required amount of unique participants will be cancelled when the scheduled end date comes around.  Prizes will be returned to the raffle host's account and ticket entries will be returned to participant accounts.
  
  
• Raffling off "placeholder" currency/items using the official raffle system is allowed, though not encouraged if your prize is an actual Wolvden asset.  You are permitted to use "placeholder" currency/items in place of a prize, and the winner of the currency/item will receive the true prize you are offering.  These types of raffles are usually held for artwork prizes or refunded breeding prizes, but can also be held if you're offering a wolf as a prize that you'd like to hunt, scout, train, etc.  Our staff team will be monitoring "placeholder" raffles to ensure winners actually receive their intended prizes.  If you are a winner of a "placeholder" raffle and you are not given your intended prize, please submit a Modbox ticket and we will handle the situation from there.
  
  
• With the implementation of an official raffle system, we are no longer allowing "raffle proof" trades.  Players will be given one week from today (up to October 8th, 2021) to adjust to this new ruling and cease creating "raffle proof" trades before our staff team will take action against them.  If you are hosting a forum-based raffle, we would advise taking screenshots of your offered prizes if you are not able to directly link to them.  If you are hosting a raffle through the official raffle system and you have more prizes than you can fit into your raffle, we also advise taking screenshots of your offered prizes.
  
  
• Artwork-based raffles should be advertised solely in Art Sales Chat.  Players will be given one week from today (up to October 8th, 2021) to adjust to this new ruling and cease advertising art raffles in Sales Chat before our staff team will take action against them.  All sales related to artwork (creating adoptables and designs, CSS/HTML services, offering commissions, offering custom decor creation services, etc.) should be advertised solely in Art Sales Chat.  The regular Sales Chat is intended only for actual Wolvden assets.

If you have further questions regarding the raffle system, please feel free to comment in the news and we will address these queries as soon as possible.

Official Wolvden Raffle!

Our latest weekly raffle is out!  Each person can purchase 1 ticket at maximum to have a chance at winning a neat prize for the amazing price of 5 SC per ticket! Good luck!  You can find the official raffle here!
This raffle will automatically end on 2021-10-08 at 00:30.

Raffle Stud Winners and New Raffle Stud!

Congratulations to the players that won a breeding with last week's raffle stud!  You'll know if you won, as you'll have received a Game Notification in your inbox informing you of such! As a reminder, the previous raffle stud's exclusive attributes were Storm eyes and the White Wings marking!  White Wings is now able to be applied via Random Marking Applicators and Total Shuffles.

Our newest weekly raffle stud has been released!  His special attribute is the new White Wings Heavy marking!  Enter for a chance to win a breeding with him by clicking here!

Poll Results!

Thank you all for voting on last week's poll!  We see that many are in favour of seasonal, biome-exclusive decorations.  Our artists are taking note!

For our new poll: A karma system is something the developers plan on implementing in the future.  For the upcoming karma system, what would you prefer to see: karma-unlocked encounters or special karma button interactions within encounters?  Please cast your vote by clicking here!

Minor Addition

* Raffle listings are now paginated.
* You can now view the tickets and entries you have purchased at the bottom of a raffle's page.
* Raffle descriptions now allow HTML.
* The Raffle creation page now displays a notice for how many unique participants are required for a raffle to award prizes.

Minor Change

* The option to manually finish a raffle is available again.
* The delay for raffles to automatically end when their criteria is met has been removed. Raffles that meet their "Automatically end if..." settings will now be processed much more quickly!

Bug Fix

* Bug fix confirmed for New Raffle page requires a 'valid date', despite being given one.
* Bug fix confirmed for typo in "watched trade no longer available" message.
* Bug fix confirmed for Raffle items not received.
* Bug fix confirmed for Raffle max-participant, min-ticket oddity.
* Bug fix confirmed for Raffle item entry worth inconsistency.
* Bug fix confirmed for Sentinel Posed Wolf not Posed in Dynasty.
* Bug fix confirmed for 404 Error Page After Clicking "Main Listing" Link on Raffle Search Page.
* Bug fix confirmed for inconsistency with raffle ticket purchase userlog entry.
* Bug fix confirmed for Currency entry value not visible by the host.
* Bug fix confirmed for Wolf is stuck 'training' puppies, but I have no active puppy training going on.
* Bug fix confirmed for Got the "Leave A Puppy" Quest when no pups eligible.
* Bug fix confirmed for Move Biome Quest Disappears Early.
* Bug fix confirmed for Incorect Raffle Entries and SC Spent.
* Bug fix confirmed for I won a lottery and the prize is not in my account.
* Bug fix confirmed for Raffle Wolf Showing Up in Trade Options.
* Bug fix confirmed for Pup set as a raffle prize able to be given to The Enclave.
* Bug fix confirmed for puppy has / at the very bottom of the page.