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 2022-03-25 00:00:00.

Sales Chat Update

Our staff team has noticed a sudden and concerning influx of spam within Sales Chat. The Code of Conduct clarifies that spam is not permitted on Lioden, and spamming Sales Chat specifically is defined as "excessively advertising in chat, e.g. posting ads for the same asset or service more than once per 10 minutes". Despite our staff team's efforts to curb this behaviour, it continues to be a prevalent issue as more and more players join the game.

Starting today, we have implemented a 10 minute timer within Sales Chat, identical to the one that exists in Giveaways Chat. This means that each individual account can only post one time every 10 minutes. The 10 minute timer starts as soon as your message is sent and prohibits you from posting until the timer is up, so please be sure you're sending the right advertisement out as you cannot correct it until 10 minutes have passed.

Attempting to bypass this 10 minute timer by using another account to advertise the same sale is strictly forbidden. If you have two accounts and two separate sales, you are welcome to advertise these separate sales on your accounts, e.g. advertising your main account's stud on your main account, then advertising your side account's stud on your side account, both within the 10 minute timeframe. You cannot, however, advertise your main account's stud on both your main account and your side account within the same 10 minute timeframe.

With this adjustment, we no longer permit players to post up to four different advertisements at once in Sales Chat, as this is not compatible with the 10 minute timer. We understand many of you have multiple sales you would like to advertise at one time, so we encourage those of you with multiple sales to compile them onto a Stockpile forum topic. You can then link to your topic once every 10 minutes in Sales Chat.

Giveaways Chat Update

Over the past few months, we have been observing all comments and concerns regarding Giveaways Chat, and we have noticed the main issue is that not every player wishes to receive PMs when giving away assets. We fully understand how pinging in the chat room was a more effective way to claim an asset, and having to PM instead can be a hassle for players who may not want to engage in social aspects, or who might want to keep their inbox space tidy.

With this in mind, we've made an adjustment to Giveaways Chat. The "Ping User" option has been removed from the context menu in chat ("...") and replaced with the option to "Claim"—you can now claim giveaways without needing to ping, PM players, or post on forum topics. Of course, if you would prefer to host PM or forum giveaways, you're still welcome to do this. For those of you who just want to do quick giveaways, however, this may be a better option.

How does claiming work?

All messages sent in Giveaways Chat can now be "Claimed". When a player selects the "Claim" option, a selectable box pops up within the chat message that contains a number value. The number value indicates how many different players have claimed a message. Selecting this box will show a numbered list of the players that have claimed that message, along with their IDs and clickable links to their den pages. This mechanic makes it easy to see at an immediate glance if a giveaway has already been claimed by another player, and it enables a player offering a giveaway to know who has claimed without needing to wait for a PM or forum topic post.

With this mechanic, you could even host small giveaway games, such as "seventh player to claim gets a mutated lion"—similar to how ping giveaways were conducted in Main Chat.

Why can't we ping players for giveaways instead?

To hopefully shed some light on why we have not been allowing pings within Giveaways Chat, we want to give a quick background on how the chat room operates.  Within any channel, you can see the 100 most recent messages that have been sent by players.  If you scroll from the very top to the very bottom of the chat room and count, you will see 100 messages.

From years of our staff team monitoring Main Chat, ping-oriented giveaways would very quickly drown out a conversation that may have been occurring.  If multiple players conducted ping-oriented giveaways at the same time, Main Chat would flood and become a combination of 100 giveaways and ping responses to these giveaways.  It can be easy to lose track of where a giveaway even occurred, who was the first, second, third, etc. to ping, if an asset has already been claimed, etc., and it's not difficult to imagine the exact same scenario occurring if ping-oriented giveaways were permitted in Giveaways Chat, with the added downside of other players' giveaways being pushed out of view and needing to wait 10 minutes to re-post these giveaways.

We hope that this adjustment to the Giveaways Chat is a good middle ground for players who preferred ping-oriented giveaways—the ping is still there in essence, but the chat room remains organised, tidy, and easy for players to participate in, especially as visible claims make it easy to see if something has already been claimed by a player.

If you are not seeing the option to "Claim", please do a hard refresh on your browser (CTRL+F5 or CMD+F5)!

Bug Fixes & Adjustments

* Battle Beetle related pages have all had a navigation bar added to them to improve switching between the different sections
* Monkey Business has been updated to prevent double-submission issues (e.g., double selling food)

Raffle Lioness

Congrats bunkum (#255939)! You have won last week's Ogdoad lady, woo!
A new Slate lady with Cimmerian Panther (NEW!), Stratosphere Lycaon, and the seventh Lake Victoria background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Marking Note: Cimmerian Rogue is now possible to apply via RMAs/Total Shuffle!

Poll Results - Warrior augments seem to be the most popular! Our artists have been notified, we're excited to see what they come up with for May!

NEW POLL - What name should we go with for the next May event marking? Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Development Update: April 8th!


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