Welcome back to Show Standards everyone!
We're very excited to bring the site back to you and get back to playing around with our sim animals. We appreciate all your patience and are thankful that you all choose to stick around. Now, we do have some changes that we'll list below, please read them carefully and reach out if you have any questions!
Change of ages:
We have changed the aging process from every six months, to one year. This just gives people more wiggle room for collecting points and everything else. As such, you will see the ages in the registries have changed from having he 1 or 2 at the end to just being the year in question. We understand that with horses especially this does mean there are a couple extra foals in some years, instead of changing the year those babies were born, we're just saying they were surrogate born, just to keep it easy.
Please note, this did not change anything for animals that were due to retire in 2024-2. Those animals still retired, and will stay retired.
Credits!
We have gone to a credit system for breedings as well as creations, and prices have changed. On January 1st of each year, you may deposit 10 free breeding and creation credits for use. These credits CAN roll over (so if you have 5 left from the year before, you will not lose those). You may also choose to breed an animal for someone and use your credit, but you can not sell credits. IE you can't take $5000 and just transfer them over. You will be responsible for posting the breeding, registering the offspring etc.
You are still able to buy more creation and breeding credits if you want more! However, the price is step at $100 000 per credit. This is to limit the amount coming into the economy, and making bloodlines more important (while cutting down on work for admins).
With breedings now, 1 creation credit will allow you to keep half a litter, while using 2 credits will allow you to keep the whole litter.
There is also a credit tracker to be posted when you post your registration post, this must be kept up to date, and we'll be looking for them to be updated before creations or breedings are processed. If you don't update, we won't process, period.
Last thing, there will now only be ONE (1) registration post per person, please do not break it down per establishment. This makes tracking credits easier on admins.
Board Clean up
Boards have been cleared, and cleaned up to give us a nice clean start! There might still be a few more clean ups, but here we are!
In closing!
We are welcoming you to our soft opening right now! Feel free to get your stuff sorted and posted, but we will not be updating anything until Monday, July 29, 2024 as there are still a few small things to finish, like updating dog ages in the registry. We will also NOT be allowing for the creation of shows until that time either. Otherwise, have fun, and welcome back!
