Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: Scare friends and family with this eerie glowing ghost. :o
The answer was: Ghost On A String.

8 out of 12 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

• The Petpet Protection League is back for another weekly surprise as we announce our winner for Week 803 - Yellow Gabar!

  

• The Art Gallery has been updated with two wonderful pages of Lupe Day themed submissions to get you through the week. Check them out here and here!

  

• NC MALL NEWS Roll into some great savings with this nostalgic Blumaroo Retired Mystery Capsule! Each 10 pack comes with 2 free capsules, chock full of Blumaroll-themed retired wearables. This capsule will only be on sale through May 14th, so grab them from the NC Mall while you still can!

  

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: PameLily-Gracy


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 1527

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

Our server will be go offline around 6am tomorrow (Friday), while we upgrade our main drive. Because the server will be completely offline you probably won't see the usual "site is down" message, but if all goes as planned everything should be back up and running around 8am. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding! - Commando

Welcome to Geek month! All month we celebrate the "geek" in all of us!

This months TE items... ROBOTS! and DRAGNS!! What geek doesn't love both?

The votes for the Novitegg Colouring Contest have all been counted! Thank you to all of our talented artists who submitted their creations. Now, it's time to reveal who won!



In third place, we have @rotundusbat! You will receive a Bronze Contestant Trophy, 1 Random Jakrit Morphing Potion, and 100,000 IcePoints. Awesome work!



In second place, we have @quoet199! You will receive a Silver Contestant Trophy, 1 Random Jakrit Morphing Potion, and 150,000 IcePoints! Nice job!



And finally, first place goes to... @Taxidea! You will receive a Gold Contestant Trophy, Golden Competitor Stamp, 1 Jakrit Morphing Potion of your choice, and 200,000 IcePoints! Congratulations! Be sure to send in a Support Ticket to let us know which Jakrit Morphing Potion you would like to receive.

As always, the artists and art-appreciators of Terrafrost made for an exciting contest this year. We hope to see more of your Novitegg-painting skills in the years to come!



Additionally, we have made an update to our Jar Match game based on user feedback! Specifically, the artwork featured on the cards have had their size greatly increased for better visibility. A hard refresh (Ctrl+F5 for Windows and Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) may be needed to see the changes.

Hello everyone. This is a slightly unusual news post but, I am needing help collecting a very large amount of data.

So far, many of you have posted your spending and earnings on shows in this forum. If you haven't already or, you have more data to post for today, please post! Be sure to only post your spending and earnings. It helps tremendously with keeping the data clean.

There is anew post here, where you can post about halter show earnings.

This post is to post shows to help me quickly gather shows of all tiers and sizes.

I will be doing lots of reviewing, bug finding, and possibly adjusting so, every bit of data is helpful. :)

Cheers,

Curly

Congratulations to Harmonys1743, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 35,500 iP and the item prize was Red Crimpy Hair!

This week's item prize will be Magical Newborn Loket Mirror Shard! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

Wajas Merch Spotlight Event This event has been ongoing for a bit, I will be trying to get the prize thread up to date today, but we have some family stuff happening so that may or may not happen. Following the above link will take you to all information relevant to it. I will be reminding about the event probably 1 more times between now and the end of it just in case anyone missed this official announcement. Dates for this are April 17th - May 17th. If you have any questions, please post on the above thread with a ping.

The 2021 SUPER giftpack is now available for purchase. This giftpack contains 20 unique SUPER stuffies - three per giftpack, each showcasing their super skill.

Head on over to the Upgrade Center and collect them all!

This month's upgrade statues have been released. We hope everyone who kept their account upgraded enjoys their free monthly item.

To be eligible for next month's item, make sure to keep your account upgraded in the Upgrade Center

• Slither into Hissi Day in style this year with the new Gorgon Hissi Outfit! Stop by Uni's Clothing Shop today to check out this mythical new ensemble!

  
  

• Embrace nature this Hissi Day with the Woodland Hissi! Take a dip in the Rainbow Pool today to check out this new Hissi colour!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Hissi Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• Ahoy maties! Don't forget there is free training for all pets on their day! Today all Hissi will get FREE training from Cap'n Threelegs so make sure you slither on over and get your free training on!

  

• Don't forget to congratulate fellow Neopian, iamnotaaron, for winning User Lookup of the Week with their Altadorian summer-inspired lookup page.

  

• The Gallery Spotlight has been updated. Don't miss out on seeing the winning selection, titled "Heaping Helium" which is owned by scrmnow!

  

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Amy Kemence, who had company on her back! -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner PameLily-Gracy a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zoneand ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

Hold onto your cowboy hats because we have another big update for you. In this update, we¢ve focused not only on fixing the economy, we¢ve also tried to make gameplay easier for you. There are multiple cool new things to help you do actions or track information.

°¸ Economy Changes

As mentioned previously, everyone has been cut down to 1/100th of their previous EQD. You will see your new total in your bank account. All money on hand has been moved into the bank. You¢ll see around the site that prices have changed to make things easier for everyday activities with less money. Some prices, like the foundation horses, have stayed the same. We will be monitoring the economy closely the next few months and adjusting as needed. 

A few things we have done for you:

• Clubs have had registration cost for player registration cut to 1,000 EQD if it was >1,000 EQD.

• Club horse registration has been cut to 250 EQD if >250 EQD.

• All boarding centers have DIY, Part, and Full set to 5 EQD each.

• All training centers have been set to 100 EQD.

• Stud/brood requests for EQD have been cancelled to ensure your EQD is not taken. Those for ingots have been left.

• All shouts have been deleted.

This means if you want costs different from what is above, you must go edit it yourself.

° Discipline Show Changes

Discipline shows now have tiers and a new rank of Universal! This will help further split up the different show levels so that horses are more competitive. With the economic change, shows now have entry fees that are much lower than previously. Show tiers have also been adjusted to reward different maximum horse points. This means, most horses may gain levels more quickly. You can read more about tiers here.

Shows will populate tonight and will be able to be entered tomorrow.

¢ Mass Actions

This feature has been a highly requested feature since the early days of V2. You can find the Mass Actions page as a link from Herd Management. You¢ll notice the actions are divided into two sections: Actions and Danger Zone. Regular actions only edit your horse and can be reversible. Actions in the Danger Zone remove the horse from your accounts and are irreversible (unless you adopt again or get someone to transfer back your horse). Any actions done via the Danger Zone cannot be reversed by staff. You must be sure the confirmation pop up for these actions is correct before submitting!

Over time, we will look at expanding these actions to keep gameplay easy to manage.

°§¬ Mass Gene/DNA Testing

You can now gene test or DNA test all available horses in the vet. This a new feature that is only available for Platinum players. The upgrade chart has been updated accordingly.

¢¬¯¸ CSV Download

Another greatly requested feature is the ability to export all your horses to a CSV to help with charting. This has been added to the Herd Management page. Currently, you can only export what is on that page but we hope to expand this in the future.

°® Foal Predictor

You can now see foal possibilities! The Foal Predictor is linked from both Herd Management and the Breeding Grounds. You can select horses from your breedable horses list (same as the Breeding Grounds) OR you can select any horse in the game by ID. This is limited to unretired horses and horses over 2 years. This will allow you to see possibilities with studs, broods, or that horse you¢re looking to buy.

It costs 5 ingots to predict foals, and you will see 4 foals at a time. The default 5 ingot cost includes coat color name, gene string, and potential training boost. For 5 ingots more, you can view the breed standard, breed variance, and possible performance stats. Breed variance will only display if you have input the breed standard into your breed standard tracker from the herd management page. You can directly breed and schedule a breeding from this page if you own both horses.

° Breed Standard Tracker

Traditionally, breed standards and breed variance per horse has been tracked using spreadsheets. Now, it¢s built into the game. The Breed Standard Tracker has been added where you may save the ideal BS values for breeds. It is located from your herd management and is used to display breed variance for foal predictions and in herd management. 

NOTE!! BV will display based on your input into the Breed Standard Tracker. This means if you have an incorrect value, you will see an incorrect BV. It's ideal to find someone to check your values to ensure you have the correct BS values. Most staff have discovered BS for most breeds and are happy to check your values for you.

° Breeding Planner

Have some breeding pairs with great potential? You can now plan a bit better with the Breeding Planner.  You are able to schedule breedings for a pair using their horse IDs and have the option to reschedule if the breeding fails. 

Note: we still need to add in some of the automation here but it will be up in another update soon.

°¥¯¸ Layout Changes

For the new pages in this update, we have switched to a new frontend library. We¢ll eventually be transitioning all pages to this library with a goal to have everything transitioned in August. We¢ll also be making some overall layout changes before then. For this reason, we didn¢t focus as much on mobile optimization in this update as we would have liked although we fixed a few obvious issues.

Note the new frontend library has caused some styling differences in the layout and these will be fixed over the next couple updates as we start to focus more on layout changes.

¢ Small Additions

• You can now see the registry and club registrations for a horse on its page.

• Training now takes up 4% energy instead of 5%. This will allow horses to get down to 0% energy on training days instead of having that annoying 5% leftover.

• The name of the registry hosting the show has been added to the halter show page.

• Both discipline and halter show results will now be deleted after 30 days.

° Bug Fixes

• There was an issue with accepting the highest bid in the Horse Market. This has been fixed.

• Horses should now transfer successfully when someone wins an auction.

• Studs and broods were showing that they didn¢t have energy when trying to breed from their page. This has been fixed.

• Horses should no longer go above their skill caps when completing jobs and halter shows.

• You can no longer place a horse for sale that is for auction.

• The timer should now be fixed on show pages.

°® Coming Soon

May¢s dev update is coming in just a few short weeks! We¢re proud to say that we¢ve been staying on track with the 2021 Roadmap. May¢s plan is player jobs and achievements. We will also be making some changes to how EXP is earned and spent. To prepare, we have removed the experience requirement for estate upgrades and other areas around the game. We¢ve also removed experience gain from shows. 

It¢s so fun seeing Eqcetera come together according to our vision. We¢re well on our way to completing the game while keeping it fun and offering a unique experience for players. 

Before the dev update, we have an art update with a new breed. Can anyone guess what it is based on the sneak peeks posted so far? °

Thanks,

The Dev Team