-LOCKED - Community Update #39!
Posted on 2019-08-23 11:19:26

Community Update:
As we mentioned before, aside from event news and the 2nd Friday of the month being focused on coding/art updates all at once, all other Fridays are centered around the community!

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Official Lioden Raffle
LINK - This is our Official Lioden 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 2019-08-30 00:00:00.


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Environmental Issues
August has always been the month of wildfires and droughts in Lioden. We acknowledge fires being an issue in Africa frequently throughout this event. This year, it has evolved into the month of environmental issues, as recent problems in the world have caused the developers to reflect and discuss how we can spread awareness about these issues.

In recent weeks, Amazon's fire season has spiraled out of control due to man-made fires. Here is CBS News's article about the issue. Over 70,000 separate fires have been confirmed to be consuming the rainforests that are home to the most unique biomass on our planet. Siberian boreal forests are being devoured at the same time, burning down areas that could cover a whole European country. Here is an article from NASA about the issue.

We are aware that fires are a natural phenomenon mentioned in native cultures since the dawn of the spoken word; however, only recently are they becoming a serious problem. Among the issues of pollution and deforestation preventing wildlife from recovering properly, these fires are also consuming endangered areas and biomass on a monumental scale.

We know it's hard to fight all of this from continents away. We're here to spread the word. What can we do? Well, we've chosen a few charities - but first, here is a site to visit if you want to learn how you can help out: "How to help the Amazon rainforest"

Our top charity picks are:
Rainforest Foundation UK
Rainforest Trust
One Tree Planted

Please check them out if you can. Tonight, we will be donating £1000 (roughly 1220 USD) to help the cause to Rainforest Foundation UK. When a lot of people give a little something, it can make a big impact.

Two new backgrounds are now available in each shop, as well: Amazon Fire (The Preservers) and Siberian Fire (The Destroyers).

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Addressing "Free" Breedings and Studdings
As of late, there has been an influx of threads and advertisements wherein "free" breedings and studdings are being offered in exchange for assets, such as items to customise a lioness or main male. Advertising something as being free when in reality it costs an item to redeem it in the first place is false advertising. Any advertisements of this manner should be called "exchanges" or be referred to as "breedings for no additional fee".

We will be giving one week from today, up until August 30th 2019, for any currently-existing threads and advertisements to change their wording before our staff will take action against them.

Admin Clarification: This is ONLY in reference to advertisements and threads where players offer "free breedings" or "free studdings" if you donate Lioden assets to them. This has no bearing on design contests and actual free reverse breedings where all you have to provide are the items you want to use for the breeding.


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Raffle Lioness


Congrats Asha (#121845)! You have won last week's Ebony lady, woo!
A new Lilac lady with Dim Silver, Feline 8 Onyx, and the tenth The Drakensberg background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

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Tags!
Shad has added new tags this week in the Breeding, Doodles, and Miscellaneous categories!

Poll Results - Noctis has won the name for the new dark warm marking colour! We'll happily add Styx as a freshly-suggested dark grey marking colour in the future.

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NEW POLL - Should we implement Noctis as a base and mane base colour as well as a marking colour? :o


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Next Big Update: September 13th!

Friday goofy doodle comic:


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Edited on 23/08/19 @ 12:50:20 by Katze (#3)

KyraG ||Clean
Hematite|| (#66273)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 11:59:51
Mmmmm styx makes me happy. I voted for Noctis to be a base, I hope Styx can be as well. Always on the hunt for those beautiful cold black bases


Admin Response:
Noted, thank you!


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ᵀ ᵒ ᵏ ʸ ᵒ (#163843)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:01:03
.n. can't wait for wolven



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sealand (#74641)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:07:18
@ admin response, i think you can still make it a bit darker and it wont make much of a difference. the original male lineart is one that has issues with darker colours, yes? i looked and it looks fine just a bit darker to me.


Admin Response:
There's 5 lion stages that do have the lineart light enough that the darker gray will look like the shading is lighter than the marking. We can't go much darker, sorry!


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ArtsyAlraune (#8354)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:07:29
Are free breedings in exchange for designs for a king/help designing a king included with this rule, or is that fine since it doesn't involve 'donating' items of value? I'm currently running a design contest for my next stud and want to be sure I'm using acceptable phrasing for the rewards.


Admin Response:
Our news post is only referencing advertisements where players offer "free" breedings/studdings in exchange for donations of Lioden assets (currency, items, lions, etc.). If you are hosting a design contest within the Contests subforum and you are not asking for any assets to be given in exchange for free breedings, then your contest should be fine.


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BeetleBoii (#138750)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:08:18
so hyped for wolvden



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MarieDarcy97 (#132279)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:08:41
The backgrounds are gorgeous but the fires in real life are such a shame



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Kas ♥ (#28458)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:10:19
omg the comic LMAO



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Inkked Newt (#158366)


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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:10:44
Question about free breeding. Threads where a person is offering free breedings to say a dwarf and if multiple dwarves are born the offering player gets to keep one, does that thread need to be removed?


Admin Response:
No. Our news post is only referencing advertisements where players offer "free" breedings/studdings in exchange for donations of Lioden assets (currency, items, lions, etc.).


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EveningShadow♫🔥 (#80109)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:11:21
Ooo Wolvden looks interesting :o



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Toddy (#181262)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:14:11
I love the comics



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Atlaz (#128752)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:14:55
Bless you wonderful staff people for your dedication to stopping the fires! I recently heard about the Amazon fire and it is horrifying, you guys are amazing! <3



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dray (#42420)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:15:21
Thanks so much for boosting awareness of the damage caused by man-started fires. We've been having massive problems with this in North America as well over the last few years.

Any chance of including the backgrounds as a package for donations over a certain price? I'm smack dab in the middle of trying to swing out of the evil shop and into the good, and doubt I'll accrue enough points to get both open before the end of the month


Admin Response:
We're not running a charity movement for purchasing GB, so no, sorry :( it's strictly event-related and awareness spreading. We just decided to donate to charity on our own accord. Our official Charity month is March, and GB purchase gifts are a thing in November only


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Katie {Cherry Ferus} (#104607)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:17:50
Love this comic!



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BioGirl (#158535)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:18:21
Thank you for your fast reply to my question. Is this "We don't have an ETA on when it will be implemented but it is in the works" or "We don't have an ETA on deciding if we're going to do it?"
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Admin Response:
What we meant is that we do not have an ETA on the system being implemented. If we have any updates about the systems, we will be sure to mention them in future news posts!


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Valiant Winecup (#181261)

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Posted on
2019-08-23 12:19:19
HA I got a lioness named Noctis, I got to it first my friends



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