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So, the site was down because the domain expired.

I have NO idea why this would happen.... when I was setting up khimeros I purchased EVERYTHING for two years, even the dreamhost hosting for the temp forums that was so bad, we didn't end up using it for more than a few months. However, GoDaddy is saying we only purchased the domain for one year.

The domain was also set to auto-renew, so that if for any reason the domain expired and I couldn't be around to renew it manually or whatever, it would automatically renew itself. So that something like this would never happen.

When I checked it was indeed, set to auto renew, but only FIVE DAYS after the domain EXPIRES. How that makes any sense, I don't know.

Anyways, we're back now and everything is fine, and I'll be looking very carefully at the details of the domain agreement to make sure that it REALLY won't expire in a year instead of two, this time, and set the auto-renew date to BEFORE the domain expires (for which they charge you another fee, ha ha ha).

Sorry about the interruption everyone D:

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Today we added a new feature, the shop log. This will tell you the 50 most recent items purchased from your shop, and how much they sold for. We decided it would be best to not include the information on *who* bought the items, however.

Just as a reminder, item pricing is YOUR responsibility, and if you misprice an item in your shop, it's fair game.

We hope that you will all find the new shop log useful :)

You may also have noticed today that the prices and rarities of foraging stock has changed. These have been "off" since the new foraging system was implemented, and Nas and I spent quite a lot of time today going over each individual item, tweaking the rarity, and making sure the rarity categories are balanced, as well as adding an additional rarity category.

Some items didn't change at all, some changed only slightly, and some changed quite a lot. I know it's frustrating to have rarities change when you've stocked up on things, but it's all part of the challenge/peril of restocking, as well well as something that is bound to happen during beta testing.

There will always be a possibility of item rarities changing, though I don't think we'll be doing a major shake-up like this again any time soon (barring unforseen problems). Some items went up and some went down in value, so hopefully profits and losses evened out at least somewhat.

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Poor Lin was becoming so overwhelmed with all the items that people were asking her to craft that Thimble, one of the fae, decided to help her out.

Thimble used to be a typical fae, dressed in flowers and swan's down, but she seems to have become fascinated with the clothing worn by these new human creatures who have recently come to Khimeros...

Like all the fae, thimble has the ability to make new items out of some very interesting materials! I'm sure she'll have some cool new ideas for clothing very soon.

In the meantime, she's taken over a few items from Lin, so if you're looking to have some jeans, T-shirts or bobble scarves made, be sure to pay a visit to Thumble!

(Her house is really larger than it seems. Have you noticed that about things in the land of Khimeros?)

Tweaks

The item equipping has been tweaked a bit to make it more user friendly.

After you equip an item, you will now remain on the "manage items" page instead of being redirected to your character/pet's page.

Different kinds of items will now equip to different layers by default, instead of all items equipping in the "below background" layer. Khimbits, for example, will equip "Above Body" by default.

The link to regenerate your pets/characters after equipping has also been added to the "manage items" page to make things a bit easier.

And finally, CSS and descriptions have now been enabled on characters :3



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You may have noticed that we've now changed over the khimera item equipping system to work the same way that it works with characters.

Instead of going to your inventory and equipping an item, then going to the khimera's "manage items" page, you just go to the "manage items" page first. This will have a list of all the different items you have that are currently available to equip to your pets.

Simply mark the checkbox for items that you wish to equip, then "equip selected", then "save".

After that you can select the layering for the items - above the background, above front mutations, or whatever you want. If you have multiple items equipped in the "above front mutations" category, for example, you can then drag those layers above and below each other to change the layering.

When you are finished, click "save" again and then "back to khimera's page". Regenerate the image. If it doesn't change to reflect the changes you have made, refresh the page or hard refresh (ctrl + f5 in firefox).

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We're dealing with an issue of art theft made by a Polish game site that's apparently in beta.

They stole art from subeta and Khimeros (or were scammed by a graphic artist, which is the story they've told subeta), and mushed it together on their site o_0.

I'm trying to communicate with them to get them to remove the art, but it's difficult having to go through google translator.

So, this is a call for any members on the site who happen to speak Polish and would be willing to act as a translator between us and them.

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