Hello and welcome to the newsletter! We hope the following information helps get you up to speed on things we've been working on behind the scenes and gives you an idea on what to expect from us in the future!
Prompt Cap Our Reward
A suggestion from community members for prompt incentive was some form of a cap out bonus on top of whats earnable for it all! I discussed it with the team and gave it a test run in our newest April prompt, Tune of the Marsh, which grants a doeluge upon a claim submission with links to approved and finished pieces! It seems to have sparked up some extra activity, and with the positive feedback and bump of activity we're going to do that for future prompts as well! We are looking into hosting a pet popularity polling in our discord to help determine future pets the community feels would make a good incentive as an extra alternative to the rng of egg hatchings! Theres also possible thought on making cap out pets specifically for this area that could blend into this idea alongside the polling for specialty prompts (similar to how kanga and buff spud are prompt exclusive earnable pets), to bring in more interest for the arpg side! At this time we will be skipping the with you prompt for a pet cap out, as its focus is the kanga and the free common myo. A future smaller newsletter may pop up with further development on this idea and how we'll implement it!
Fox of the Month Refresh
In taking note of fox of the month falling a bit lackluster and silent, the team has come together after asking the community on ideas to help bolster interest in this rng pick and rotate system! We have decided to not only keep the double bonus reward you'd normally earn, but offer a Fox of the Month Raffle Box! Here's how we plan to have it work, but please note we can always make adjustments from community feedback and suggestions!
To bolster entry incentive beyond the double crystals, if 3 people participate in fotm for that month a raffle for a FOTM box will be activated! This box functions like our Nitro Booster Box, and has a flat odds chance at getting any option available inside of it! We are also adding in an rng element of how many foxes are chosen for that month (up to 3) to give a light variety for artists, and help more foxes get into the fox of the month spotlight!
If you would like your fox possibly picked for fox of the month, please go to their masterlist, then profileon the side tab NOT the button on the right, and check if the gift art is allowed/open for gift art! You can also tell if gift art is allowed via the widgets in the upper right of their main masterlist page, if the first one is not green its not set to gift art allowed! To edit this, go under profile, then at the bottom right of the masterlist image on that page it says edit profile! Scroll down to the bottom, and on the left there should be a drop down box that says allow gift art right above it. change it to gift art allowed, then on the bottom right click edit profile and tada! Your fox is open for gift art! We will not be using ask first foxes.
In addition, every 10 entrants adds 1 box to the raffle, so if 13 people draw the fox of the month, 2 boxes will be raffled!
Fox of the Month Raffle Box
Box artwork by Nocti0bake
At this time, there is no cooldown on winning a box, rules and descriptions are subject to change as the system settles in! This system will be rolling out starting in May!
Fox of the Month will also be maintained on a news hub bulletin and bumped every refresh, we hope this brings a better spotlight and reminder about FOTMs existence!
Guest Artist Applications
Since last time went well and we have a setup plan of action now, we will be hosting Guest Artist applications at the start of June, which means adopts would be releasing in July if everything goes smoothly! Like last time we will be taking in our applicants, then the community will vote for the 2 users they'd like to see as guest artists! In the event of a tie, owner and admins will break it. More information to come when the time comes!
Upcoming Lore Expansion Prompt
In lineup with Agapes prompt from Feburary (Days of Peaceful Admiration), we will be continuing on into Hanabi being inspired from the gift, and ellude to future events to come that will come to affect more than you'd think! Please look forward to what we have to bring for the gods and your foxes in a 2 month long prompt set rolling out in Summer!
Long Term Goals Update
Our species long terms goal list is a setup list thats main focus is to tackle bigger updates/upgrades to the species overall quality of life features and expanse into making our prompts develop into more than the usual! I would like to take this section to give an update on background efforts and plans we are working through/on at this time for the species among standard things we maintain!
-Biome Artwork Progress-
At this time, we are nearing completion on the Sea Palace biome! The artwork itself is nearing completion (pending scarfox inserts to bring it to life), and owner is writing up information for the biome (reference of biome info:
https://www.scarfox-realm.com/world/locations/4 )
Please enjoy this peek from our biome artist Nocti0bake!
In expansion to this, our next biome to tackle will be the Desert Biome! Dragon-Eternal is nearing completion on the desert god, with talks on how we can make the Desert biome and the god an important part of scarfox lore and your scarfoxes development, including things like purposing our chronicle pages! Chronicle pages were always meant for developing your fox inside of our world and lore, and Dragons been brainstorming and talking with owner and staffing on ways we could start integrating this in the upcoming year or so! Please look forward to what we have to bring, and we thank you deeply for your patience and continued support!
(colors not final)
-Trait Visuals/Info Progress-
The trait upgrade goal has had steady progress over the past year from our admin Dragon-Eternal! At this current time, we are at the halfway mark and nearing the end of the Rare tier! (for reference, the species has 79 traits at this moment, and the more a trait affects an area or can have mixed effects that need to be referenced with owner and myo admin, the longer it is to finish up that specific trait due to all the checks needed and clarifications). Dragon believes the hardest tier to tackle is going to be the Very Rare tier due to it being a majority of body covering traits, that can make extreme differences and combinations in our scarfox anatomy. She is aiming to catch back up on this task once the lore prompt prepwork is basically done and its refined to managing scheduled check ins for progress from staffing! For a frame of reference on the updated look, please reference our
newer unstable traits framework!
-Animated Crystal Reward System-
This particular long term task has been very tricky to balance tackle for the team! We had uncertainties on what way to section out animation types, if some should work on a % bolster or a flat payout addon, going so far as to tally up rough crystal earning averages for prompts for frames of reference! With the help of our moderators Wren and Nocti, and the long term experience in animating they carry, we are finally at the very tail end of this task, all thats left is for me to refresh the formatting for moderators references, and get the ok from owner and the staffing! We are hoping to implement this system in May if all goes well for its first test run, and will aim to receive feedback from the community for tweaks and opinions!
community opinions Request
To end off this newsletter, we have ideas that we'd like your opinion on!
- We have a recipes system thats been idle for some time, and while the initial idea was to have it tied in solely with chronicle page usage, we are interested in using it for an activity interactive function either alongside our prompts, or as a minigame addition! Ex., it was used a while ago where members would collect colored eggs, and there was a recipe that turned those eggs into a mystery egg! In a similar vein, we would look to bring in utilizing old items (hollyhosta and scillamint), and create materials here and there over time with recipes to bolster the collecting aspect of our arpg, or to be a finishing aspect to a special ending for certain prompts (such as being able to craft/provide a specific item that would resonate with a god and give a crystal % bonus).
- a sub item like earnable for prompts that acts similar to our specialty potions like spooky/aquatic, but to a smaller capacity to make higher tiered traits accessible to the arpg aspect (these are not fully developed, these are in the pre creation concept phase and we'd like the opinion from the community on if this feels like a good integration!)
- chapter expansions for prompts when the sites upgraded, helps develop them deeper into a side story lore like aspect, and may garnish larger rewards alongside giving more information on things like the biomes or fauna, and create new locations to explore like the prism peaks prompt going into the mountains of the wind valley, or the sky worlds exploration prompt where information and visuals are developed for the noted locations, bringing more into the biomes for the community to develop their characters into!
Random made up example: taking an older prompt with dipsi and the cocorat fiascal that happened a few years back and have users delve deeper on the reason behind his rejection of the rats, the rats odd hierarcy and why they cherish gemstones, eventually leading to finding the cocorat lair and their secret conflict with sharkawoodles!
In relation to the site, we are finalizing a plan of action to fix all of our bugs and broken issues that we are aiming to bring up in a follow up newsletter once finalized with our coder team and owner, please look forward to that when it comes out!
Questions and suggestions will be taken in via this form for the newsletter, and checked through at least once a week.
When submitting please title your suggestion with which section! Thank you so much for your time and reading, and we hope your May goes well!
- The Scarfox Staff Team
