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Welcome to Animal Ares!
To get started you'll want to buy some animals! You can buy animals from the corral with corral tokens or from other players. The corral has a limited supply of animals available at a time, so keep checking back if you're looking for a specific breed.
You can earn free corral tokens by completing goals. Completing goals will also help get you started in playing the game earning many great rewards to help you care for your animals.
Visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to get some quick answers to common questions. You can also ask other members or staff for help on our Help Forum Page.
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Bank Update
The bank page has been completely revamped and is now on our framework. You will notice you can now deposit credits into your bank account. You don't receive interest on credits but for those who don't want to keep it all on hand you now have that option. :) You will also notice there is now record of all bank transactions deposits and withdraws. The first 10 will be seen on the bank page, but you can also view all transactions if you so choose.
This feature is not retroactive. So previous transactions that happened before the update, will not be displayed.
Enjoy!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2016-02-07 14:09:53 -
Breeding and Lineages Updates
Hey everyone. I've added a new area where you can breed your own animals together. Previously you've had to make a request to yourself and accept it. A process that takes longer and isn't very obvious when you aren't already familiar with the process. But now you can go to the Breed Animals Page and breed your owned animals directly. Only animals currently eligible for breeding will be found here (correct age, not in recovering). There is a link to this page directly on the animal overview page as well as the individual animal page but only when the animal is breedable.
Inbreeding Changes
An animals inbreeding percentage is now displayed directly on the animals page, a long requested feature. :) I have also updated how inbreeding is calculated. It may still need tweaking. The new system gives you percentage based on your nearest relatives, so breeding a sibling will result in a higher percentage than a cousin. And it only considers the last 4 generations, so breeding 10th cousins twice removed doesn't matter (Kind of like real life unless you really track your family history). Currently inbreeding only affects whether you can start or carry on a bloodline, it must be less than 15%. In the future I may add negative for excessive inbreeding (50% plus) but for now you just have to deal with the stigma.
Note the inbreeding calculation will affect all animals past and present.
Bugs
I have tested things on my end, but being just myself testing there is plenty of room for error. So let me know if you run into anything strange.
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2016-01-30 12:54:02 -
Show Updates
Made some minor updates to the show system. Better error handling overall and directs you to the training page when trying to view show without a discipline.
Online Users Update
The online users page listing has been updated to the new framework. This means the mobile menu will now work for this page as well.
Have a great Tuesday!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2016-01-05 10:57:49 -
More Forum Updates!
I hope everyone has been enjoying their holidays. I know I have enjoyed spending time with family and relaxing myself. But I am getting back full steam into Animal Acres and finally have more forum updates for you. There are still some minor areas to update such as the forum search, but the main forums are now complete including the ability to edit!
Let us know if you run into any issues especially in regards to the updates. :)
This update also increases security as there previously wasn't much checking being done to prevent badly formed html from being entered or even javascript. Now we utilize the htmlpurifier white list to only allow specific tags, but it should be all the common ones used regularly.
Snowflake Event Finished
You will no longer be able to find snowflakes around the site for now. Hope you all enjoyed it and were able to find some good prizes.
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2016-01-02 19:31:41 -
Happy New Year!
Hope you all are having a great new year.
We look forward to a great year with the AA community!
:D
Aaron & Brittany(#2) Posted On: 2016-01-01 11:07:13 -
Merry Christmas!
On behalf of AA development we would just like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
I pray you have had a great holiday season thus far, and continue to on through the new year.
We appreciate your support and thank you for playing! God bless you.
Aaron & Brittany(#2) Posted On: 2015-12-25 12:10:00 -
New Mobile Menu
I am pleased to announce that we have added a new mobile menu for AA!
This should add to ease of browsing the site from your mobile and/or tablet device. Please note that currently the feature is tied to the updated pages of AA (e.g. News, Forum) and will not show up on the pages that have not been updated so far. The mobile menu will appear on more of the site as we continue to revamp its pages. If you would like to view this feature from your computer just re-size your browser to be smaller/slimmer and the menu will activate, but make sure you are on one of the updated pages.
Now you may more easily access your profile, tend to your animals, and keep up with the AA community on the go, Enjoy!
Aaron(#2) Posted On: 2015-12-17 13:32:58 -
Winter Sale
There will be a sale running from December 16th (today) to the 30th on a few credit items. This is an annual sale that has run before so some of you may be familiar with it.
It Includes
- 40 Credits for 2500 points on each animal (instead of 1000).
- 100 Credits for 7500 points on each animal (instead of 3000).
- 5 Credits for $2 million (instead of $1 million)
- 125 Credits for a 400 day upgrade (instead of 365) bonus of $200k (instead of $25k).
Enjoy!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-12-16 11:53:10 -
Employment - Stable Cleaner
As a stable cleaner you now have the chance to find an item while browsing the site. You are limited per day and currently will just find more average items. Any stable cleaners out there feel free to try this out. Things (such as rate of occurrence) may still need to be adjusted and so may be tweaked to figure out the best balance.
Let me know if you run into any issues and enjoy!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-12-15 19:07:37 -
Snowflake Festivities!
Around the site you can now find snowflakes for the winter season. Click on the snowflake for a chance to win a prize! Most the time you will win a small bit of change, but you can also get a better prize such as credits and upgrade time.
Enjoy!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-12-10 15:18:59 -
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving spending time with family, our U.S. players at least. To celebrate I sent out a couple Goosy Ganders to those who have been on in the past week.
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-11-28 09:11:30 -
Referrals Opened!
Referrals have been officially reopened! There are some changes to how things work however.
Now in order to get a referral point for someone, they must complete at least one goal.
This change counts for users you have previously referred as well, even those who were referred while the system was down. But in order to get credit, they must complete a goal.
And along with that you can get more points the more a user you've referred plays. That means good referrals get rewarded even more. You can get a total of 10 points for one referred player! In order to get the full 10 points a user must complete 75% of their goals or more.
As well goals now count based on your total referral points gained, and so trading in your referral points for prizes won't affect your ability to complete goals.
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-11-21 13:34:15 -
Updated News Section!
The news section has been completely revamped! Visually you can see we have changed quite a bit from what it was before. And along with that we have added the ability to add comments to news posts. This means you can give feedback about an update right on the news post.
All current game rules apply to comments. You are also able to edit and delete your own comments. But keep in mind that any edits or deleted comments are still visible to administrators and moderators.
Let us know what you think of this change using the new comments section below!
Anoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-11-19 15:27:39 -
Updates and Fixes
Hey everyone. I've been hard at work this weekend.
I've made some minor updates around the site and you may now notice on the inventory and store front you are now able to sort species by All and Any where all will include all items of that category type, and any will include those items that are able to be used by Any species. Hopefully this will make sorting for items a little easier.
I've also updated the registration process some. Previously things like email and password weren't really being validated or checked for okay data, but that's now been corrected to properly check before a user can be registered.
I have some more work in progress updates that I will hopefully be able to release later this week. Stay tuned. :)
Last edited: 2015-11-15 2:09:29 pmAnoua(#13) Posted On: 2015-11-15 14:08:40 -
More Forum Updates
Made some more progress on the forums doing some major refactoring to another area and adding it to the new framework. Along with that the styling has been updated to match the forum list page. The basic functionality should be the same, so let me know if you run into any issues.
We may not have enough traffic for it to be noticeable now, but these updates give a faster experience overall as well. We are going from a lot of queries per page load (30+) to just a few. Definitely a good direction as we work to make the site more active.
Take a look and let me know your thoughts on the progress so far. This also means we are another step closer to having the ability to edit your own forum posts!
Brittany(#13) Posted On: 2015-11-07 15:04:56