DECEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER

Posted 2 years ago :: Last edited 2 years ago by Digimon

December 2023 newsletter:

Hello! We have a lot in store for this month, we hope you guys enjoy it!

PLEASE READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL. MOST THINGS SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN THIS. IF YOU ASK SOMETHING THAT IS ANSWERED ON THIS NEWSLETTER WE WILL REDIRECT YOU TO THIS AGAIN.

December Monthly Uncommon Myo Raffles:

You may now self-enter into the uncommon MYO item raffles! To do so simply go to the “Raffles” page (under the browse dropdown on the navbar), click the raffle you’re interested in joining, and click the self enter button!

Each MYO is 1,000 Cloud Coins if you win!
Please remember to have the Cloud Coins before entering! If we are forced to reroll you because you did not read this, you will be getting a strike. Thank you.

You will be able to self enter until 12/2 23:59:59 site time, and the raffles will be rolled on 11/3!

Secret Santa:

Our secret santa form has closed and we will be contacting everyone with their partners soon!
As a reminder:
All art will be due on the 31st of December! Please make sure you're able your art done by then before signing up! If you sign up and at some point something comes up and you're unable to finish the art please contact a mod by the 26th so we can find a backup for you. If you do not finish the art and do not contact us by the 26th to let us know you won't be able to finish you will receive a strike.
If you sign up to be a backup artist you will be contacted if someone drops! the due date for backup artists will be the 10th of January.

All art submitted, regardless of how much of the character is drawn, must be colored and cleanly lined. Fullbodies don't need to be shaded, but headshots must be.
You must submit your secret santa to the prompt located here

Holiday Item Advent:

Later on this month we’ll be hosting an item advent calendar!
From December 26th through the 31st there will be an item claimable every day! You will be able to view this calendar via the navigation bar or sidebar underneath 'quick links' starting on December 26th!

Character Warnings:

You may now add content warnings to your characters! This will add a popup to the character, along with censoring their icon. You may turn this off in your user settings.

User Shops:

You may now set up your own shop on site! Here you can sell your items to other users!

You may decorate your shop as you please, however your shopfront must be SFW and not contain any gore or other inappropriate imagery. Swearing is alright, however slurs or any offensive language is not.

Keep in mind making your shop name too long may result in users being unable to purchase items from your shop, please try to keep shop names 32 characters or under!

World Information:

This section is still a big WIP, however you can view some information about the world Space Station species are from here! Make sure to check out the sidebar links as well, as some will include more information! These will be slowly added and updated as time goes on.

December Monthly Madness:

This month’s theme is Snowed In! Draw and/or write about your Spacestation character experiencing heavy snowfall!
The December monthly madness will last till December 31st!

Misc:

We have created a page for all the advent designs to be viewed! Designs will be added to it as they’re revealed. You can view the page here!
You must now list what has changed in the comments section when redesigning characters! If you don’t we’ll cancel the submission.
Character pronouns have been added! These will be viewable on your character's profile page! If we find you putting anything aside from pronouns in this box you will be given a warning or banned, depending on what is put there.
Character names are now limited to 32 characters, the abundance of incredibly long joke names has been difficult to moderate for a while now (along with causing issues for those on mobile and those with screen readers), and after discussion we have decided to place this limit. Trying to make a character’s name longer than 32 characters long will cause an error to pop up.

Over the Clouds Event:

This is a multi-part lore based event! The first part will start today (12/1), the second will start on 12/12, third on 12/23, 4th on 12/30, and epilogue on 1/7 ! Each part will include a couple of art prompts, new crafting recipes, raffles, encounters, foraging, and a dialogue event! Please read on to learn more :]

Story art prompts may only be completed once, and must be completed by the character's owner. NPCs cannot be used for this event, however we will have a FTO shop set up to allow users without any characters to participate.

Event prompts may be completed multiple times, and may be done by other members for you (but they must include your characters in them if done by other members).

Story prompts must be completed in order. Any previous ones must be completed before moving on to the next one.

Status effects have been added to the site, characters can roll status effects from prompts. If a character has a mild status effect, they have a slight chance to bring back nothing from whatever prompt you submit to, if they have a severe status effect they have a larger chance to bring back nothing! Make sure to heal your characters before doing more prompts for the event! This does not apply to Monthly Madness, art redemption or the story prompts.

Food and Tools can be crafted during the event, along with a few turn in items for extra rewards. We have also added healing items! Tools will be more clear during the 2nd part of the event

Food gives users more energy to use during encounters and healing items heal status effects.

We originally thought this went without saying, but we have to make this clear upfront now - we do not tolerate any sort of cheating in these events. This includes multi-accounting and getting friends to join for the sole purpose of giving you all of their items. If we catch you (which, trust me, we will), then we will be banning you from participating in events for an entire year, and any items accumulated from the event will be removed from your account without refund.

Dialogue Event:

As stated above, this event will be in multiple parts! The first dialogue event can be seen here, and each part will have a new newspost, including links and new info!

The dialogue event was written by GalacticRing!

Foraging:

Similar to October’s event, we will have foraging for this event! Currently, there is only one location to forage at, but with each part, you will unlock a new place to forage at!

Foraging may drop:

Crafting Materials
Cloud Coins
Raffle tickets for premade designs

Crafting:

Like before, foraging will drop crafting materials!

Most of these recipes are focused on food, which gives you more energy for something very specific…

Exploring (Encounters):

With each part of this event, more exploration areas will be unlocked! You will have a single location you can explore at first, with the next being unlocked at the next part!

With exploring, you will have a variety of encounters from the perspective of the NPCs during the lore event, with the chance to gain items!

Art Prompts:

We will have two art prompts with each part of the event, able to be completed at any time until the event ends, but the story prompts MUST be completed in order! Non-story event prompts rewards will be rolled on characters, so any rewards will go to them instead of your inventory! From there you can transfer the items out of your character's inventory into yours.

For your character to get rewards you must select them as the "focus character"! You can also only submit prompts that include your own characters. If you were to do an event prompt that includes two of your own characters, and one of another member's for example, you'd be able to submit the prompt for your two characters, and the other member would need to submit to it with their character as well.

Story Prompt:

Show your Space Station character doing what they would do in the scenario presented in the first part of the dialogue event!

Rules:

If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 750 words!
This prompt MUST be completed by the character owner
This prompt can only be completed once!
Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

Rewards:

“Routine Check” Patch
500 Cloud Coins
Broken Communication Device
Empty Fuel Tank
Bronze Egg

Event Prompt:

Routine check-in time! Show your Space Station character checking up on and visiting a new planet!

Rules:

If drawing for this prompt, it MUST be at least a shaded fullbody with a simple scene background!
If writing for this prompt, it MUST be a minimum of 750 words!
A maximum of 3 characters can be in one scene, this may be changed in the future.
This prompt can be completed by someone else for you, so long as it depicts your character! Rewards will be given to the person whose character was drawn or written about!
Your piece MUST be submitted to the event gallery AND Event prompt! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)
The person who completed the piece will be the one to upload to the gallery, not the one who owns the character!

Rewards:

Random Crafting Materials (1-5)
Chance at any type of Syrup/Sugar
Chance at any rarity of Sodacat/Guppymander MYO slot
Chance of status effect
- Frigid (Mild)
- Frostbitten (Severe)

Character/User Levels:

We now have character and user levels! While these are only cosmetic at the moment and have no effect on doing things on site at the moment, they do give you rewards for leveling up!

You gain EXP from doing prompts!

Weapons/Gear/Pets/Skills/Stats/Classes:

Most of these are not yet functional! At the moment, the only things that have use are pets and stats.

Pets can be gained from encounters, each pet has a “drop” that gives you an item every set interval! You can view your pets here or via the "Home" dropdown on the navbar.

Character stats are just that! While at the moment they don’t affect anything, they will in the future! You can up a character's stats by leveling them up.

You can view all this on a character's profile!

Event Shop:

Our event shop will be open until the event concludes! Here you can buy food items and items to heal your status effects you can get from completing the event prompts!