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Posted on 2023-12-08 22:16:18
Event UpdatesMantis ShopWe did a small shop update. One of the retired Advent Calendar sets is now available to purchase in Tier 3 of the Mantis Shop. We have also added a very cool Snowy Desert background to enrich this update with a unique colour palette!
New Combo Base: EskerWe are giving you a new base to breed, starting at midnight on December 9th (12am Lioden time).The main requirement for this base is that it can be bred during Wet Season only (the parents must breed during Wet Season, the cub does not need to be born during Wet Season!).
Factor 1: Esker, Ragdoll, Reindeer Factor 2: Esker, Arctic, Aufeis, Glacial, Ice Like any combo base, to get it you must meet the requirements and breed a Factor 1 base to a Factor 2 base. The genetics for Esker are Cream Medium Countershaded Special and it is tied to Blue skin. Winter Breeding ChallengeThis challenge is repeated from last year, so if you already know it from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, you can skip ahead to the new rewards! :DAll the albino love this month has inspired us to create a community challenge with extra personal goals to achieve! We give you the Albino Cub Challenge!  Community Goal: breed 2000 total Albino cubs! Personal Goal: breed 3 Albino cubs!The challenge begins at midnight on December 11th (12am Lioden time)! Where can I access the information about this challenge? The Gorilla Enclave will provide all information, as well as an extra small area on the sidebar panel on your layout! We also have an Albino Cub Challenge wiki page dedicated to this challenge.
What are the rewards? Community Rewards: 5% chance for a Snowflake-based cub to be born to Albino x any parent, 5% chance for a Hoarfrost-based cub to be born to Interstellar x any parent, 5% chance for a Rime-based cub to be born to Orchid x any parent, and 5% chance for an Esker-based cub to be born to Reindeer x any parent for the rest of December when the 2000 Albino cub goal is hit! The Gorilla Enclave will also ask for more Albino-based cubs for their quests. Personal Rewards: A special title ("Special Snowflake"), the "Albino Cub Challenge" achievement, a background and mutated Albino Cub decor based on your king's karma at the time of completing the 3 Albino cub goal, a Sculpted Ice Armour decor set, an Albino Dwarf Cub decor, a Hoarfrost Markings applicator, a Rime Markings applicator, and an Esker Markings applicator!  What is the time limit? The challenge and its in-game rewards end on December 31st 11:59pm Lioden time. The sooner you guys complete the goal, the longer you can enjoy the in-game rewards, as the 5% chance for a combo-based cub to be born to Reindeer + any parent pairing expires on December 31st 11:59pm Lioden time! This means that the only way to breed the Snowflake, Hoarfrost, Rime, and Esker bases after the challenge ends is to breed their factor bases together during wet season, or additionally, day or night time. Of course, the achievement and title you receive are permanent! The background items you receive will also last until their uses are gone, as with all other backgrounds and decors. Will this repeat next year? Yes! We will add or replace rewards, change combo bases, etc., but we think the Snowflake base will always be its core, and we may add something fresh as an extra every year. What are the background rewards? You will only receive one background for completing the personal goal, and the background you receive depends upon the karma your king has at the time that you claim your rewards!
There's also a universal personal reward set, regardless of your pride leader's karma.
What are the karma thresholds for receiving backgrounds? The karma thresholds are the same for these backgrounds as they are for your eyes changing in Explore. Evil: -400 or lower karma Neutral: between -399 and +399 karma Good: +400 or higher karma  New Personal Rewards in 2023 Esker Markings applicator!  - Esker Dinictis - Esker Frosty Roan - Esker Indri - Esker Snuggle New Karma Rewards  - Albino Primal Cub: Evil Karma Albino Leopon Cub: Neutral Karma Albino Tigon Cub: Good KarmaNew Universal Personal Reward  Albino Dwarf CubNote: The Mistletoe base from 2022 does not apply to the challenge, so there is no bonus for breeding it! Esker Note: Esker markings will become visible in-game once the Winter Breeding Challenge starts!
Monkey Business UpdateOur background artist has drawn some lovely, important places for your lions to visit!
New Raffle-Exclusive Base!It's been a long while since we've added a raffle-exclusive base! It's a bit toned down, like Lilac, but natural in colour. The name and design comes from the infraorder of even-toed hoofed horn-bearers! You can try your luck with the first Pecora release from today's raffle lioness!
The genetics for Pecora are Cream Medium Countershaded Special and it is tied to Dark skin.
Quality of Life Updates* Added training status to replace hunger for grown beetles in the Mound overviews * Added hunger/training status to Unsorted Beetles * Sub navigation of the Battle Beetles has been streamlined and unified across the pages * Feeding cubs to 100% gives a small survival bar boost (2 - 5%) * In the Cub Sex Changer item menu, the current sex of the cub (M or F) is listed beside their name * Browse your customised "Recent Activity" and "Recent Topics" feed, up to 500 most recent topics displayed in each * Den descriptions can now be viewed on mobile * Minor tweak to the "aging up" notice on Den page to be clearer * Crafting has gained a couple of new filters: — You can now hide recipes that are unavailable due to event crafting (they will still show up if the current event matches but a higher tier is needed to craft) — You can now filter by the crafted item type, options being "Show All", "Applicators", "Backgrounds", "Decorations" Gifting CaveSeveral members expressed their desire to send gifts to the Lioden Moderators over the December event. Unfortunately due to the anonymous nature of the moderators, this isn't easy to do.The Gifting Cave now allows you to gift moderators. This is completely voluntary and not expected, but it is available for those of you who want to gift a little something special to the mods. None of the gifts will go to the admins, as they are publicly known. This is a bit experimental this year, it will return next year if it's successful - or we may have some tweaks. Currency will be divided in a weighted ratio amongst trainees and longer term moderators, and will be as even as possible. Any currency that remains and cannot be distributed evenly will be stored to be gifted the following year. Items will be distributed as evenly as possible by item category, and again, any remainders will be saved for the following year. Taking part in the Gifting Cave does not contribute towards the event bar, but does contribute towards your personal goals (number of gifts given, the 888 gifts challenge). You cannot poop on the mods (booo!). Custom decors are also excluded from the Gifting Cave.
Raffle LionessCongrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness! A new Pecora lady with Dark Brown Margay, Outlaw Mottled Fissures, and the sixth Flowering Lake Bisina background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!
Tags! Shad has added 17 new tags this month in the Event ➜ December and Miscellaneous ➜ NPCs categories! Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! It seems many of you love the idea our art team came up with, and would like to see these fish/gecko/frog morphs released in the Flood Pit. We're taking notes! NEW POLL - Lioden... in VR??? What do you think of this madness?!
Next Update: Community Update - December 15th! Next Development Update: January 12th!! Where's the official raffle and Friday comic?  Community raffles and Friday doodles are only released on community updates. This is a development update, so no raffle or doodle will be released this week, sorry! Important Note: Work on the Spirited pose and site update are both ongoing, and will still take some more time. We appreciate everyone's patience thus far!  130 players like this post! Like? |
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#1 Spleen stealer {he/they} (#448720) View Forum Posts  Posted on 2023-12-09 08:23:29 |
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Auris (#229394)
View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 08:37:22 |
Esker is not to my tastes, I'll leave it at that... and the factors are very strange, it being a winter base aside, I don't see ragdoll and reindeer anywhere in the design? I'll echo a few posts I've seen, bandit totally deserves to be part of the factors, the tail stripes and colors are similar to my eyes. Solaris, too, should be a factor- It's also very similar aside from the blue. It's not bad that the bases are similar, combo bases are combo after all. I just feel that the factors are strange. Pecora is one of the nicest bases I've seen in awhile?! I'm biased to seminats but the neutral colors chosen are SO GOOD and I really enjoy the face pattern, specifically that stripe from the nose to the mouth, it's just GOOD. I'm really really happy to see a nice good cream base, the category is lacking in bases and specifically nice BO bases compared to the rest. I'm so fucking glad for the changes to crafting too omg, they're so good! I really love crafting and this will make it so much more convenient for me. I also really like that feeding cubs to 100% boosts survival as normally players just starve their cubs and this gives a reward to expending those resources for them. It benefits ME particularly because I can't be arsed to avoid feeding and playing with cubs so I just take the loss of food and deal with it, so I'm delighted about this!  I'm super happy about being able to see the sex of lions you're sex changing as well, though I'm disappointed this is yet another obvious user suggestion uncredited. I'm super disappointed to see this trend continue, credit deserves to be given for suggestions added to the game. This all aside I was wondering about the BO base pack and I'm honestly horrified to learn it was just subtly cancelled with NO communication planned? I'm glad we learned what happened there and I did have a sneaking suspicion it would just be put off forever, but man.... I was really excited for it. I sympathize though. Players are very harsh with their negative feedback and I can understand that being demoralizing as an artist. That being said as a massive online game us players NEED communication. We can't be left in the dark regarding promised new things in this game, that is what causes a lot of the unrest among the community. I'm begging you guys, PLEASE communicate on the news posts about the progress of features first, instead of waiting for people to ask about them. Male pose has been delayed this long and the players are antsy about it BECAUSE of the lack of communication. I'm not 100% sure about other players but I personally would not mind if male pose was delayed even longer or outright cancelled IF we had constant communication about the progress because that is understandable to me. I really do understand that negative feedback can be super demoralizing and I hope it's not too hurtful to recieve. This is a large online game so it has a different 'feel' to players as compared to seeing an individual artist's personal work, if that makes sense. It's really difficult to seperate the two as an artist as it still feels like your own individual work. IDK, awkward way to word it but as an artist I seriously do sympathize. I do feel like positive feedback has been missed though. Like the issue with the GE markings poll wasn't the markings themselves, as someone who was really upset about the poll I was delighted at the idea of getting pearl marks, madagascar marks, ETC, the problem was that they were going to be applicable. I feel like the negative feedback has been blotting out the positive in you guys' eyes and I think that sucks because even if the negative is more vocal both are important to take into account. Sorry if this is awkward to read I just had some thoughts about it. 20 players like this post! Like?Edited on 09/12/23 @ 08:50:10 by Auris (#229394) |
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katie 🍃 (#106445)
Warrior View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 09:19:51 |
Why is "player feedback" even a factor in regards to whether a rare base pack is released? It was stated that the intention is to fill the gaps and lessen the giant disparity between specials and rares (over half of in game bases are special!). Player feedback has 0 effect on that disparity. Also, none of the bases were even shown to us, so there was nothing that could've received negative feedback in the first place. There is absolutely no way that majority opinion was against more bases being added before the bases were even shown. That makes no sense. Why would players be against new bases? Plus, if "player feedback" regarding quantity of bases added mattered, staff would've slowed down on the insane amount of app specials by now, since the community has been begging them to cool it for months or maybe even years. Is this what we are to expect going forward? Exciting new things being announced, only for it to be stated that it was cancelled around the time we were expecting it to be released? And not even as an announcement! Someone had to ask and get an admin response in a COMMENT! Though, I guess at least this time we were told, instead of waiting for it for years with radio silence. 22 players like this post! Like? |
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Saberkoi (#269834)
Holy View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 09:30:30 |
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that cat [g2 temporal croupe] (#231128) Indifferent View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 09:36:49 |
so uh btw when I said maybe no more bases in chat last night I meant the wacky colorbomb, ice combo and/or easy app, oversaturated specials, not the BO pack lmao 🙃 8 players like this post! Like?Edited on 09/12/23 @ 10:56:09 by that cat [g3 bast smilus] (#231051) |
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ao3 is my will to live :( (#378540) Bone Collector View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 09:38:54 |
I feel bad for all the hate on the esker base, remember they only have limited colours they can use, and there are quite alot of bases that already exist, so some might look more similar than others, i think its great ^^ 0 players like this post! Like? |
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Jackson G1 Mosaic Seal Bomb (#397684) Pervert View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 10:07:47 |
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Ebony (#284585)
Special Snowflake View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 10:19:23 |
NEWSSS Gifting cave?? That's really nice, also lioden in vr would be crazy how would that even work  I actually can't wait for the albino challenge, I'll try to participate this year (that's definitely going to be something) 0 players like this post! Like? |
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🔆solace (#148835)
Maneater View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 11:12:08 |
what is with this site and staff not letting its community know of change of plans/future delays? we were promised the base pack months ago, and this is the very first we heard it has been paused. a simple notice would have sufficed. you weren't even going to place it in this news post, we had to find out through asking questions. as important as the male pose and site overhaul are, it's entirely different when it's a feature perfectly reasonable to expect in its given time. overall disappointing. since you said you take chat as a valid source of criticism, i'm out of things to say about the new combo base. on a more positive note, it's good to see there is still attention toward QoL tweaks and updates. 13 players like this post! Like? |
bunny! (#60888)
View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 11:29:31 |
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Astro (#395756)
Toxic View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 11:46:03 |
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King of the Jungle View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 12:19:17 |
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ꕥ Rosa Canina ꕥ (#209549)
Pervert View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 12:40:39 |
I just didn't give an opinion because I don't have my lawyer present. 2 players like this post! Like? |
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Arcana~ 1.6K-Ferus-Kunzite-1 7m (#69013)
Horse Whisperer View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 12:45:58 |
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frozen 🔪 g1 4x dawn (#230541) Divine View Forum Posts Posted on 2023-12-09 13:16:22 |
Are the old rewards (marking apps) available when completing the Albino Challenge or just the new one? 0 players like this post! Like? |
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