Raffle winners, event wrap-up, and future plans!
Posted 1 year ago :: Last edited 1 year ago by dioThank you all for joining us!
We would like to thank everyone who joined the beta event! We have an award badge that will slowly be going out to all users who were active during the event, those will go out in the coming few days. [Please be patient as this is a manual process!] If you participated in any event prompt or the advent claims you will recieve a Beta Badge ! Those will begin to go out after the raffle is taken care of!
raffle winners!
And now for the main thing everyone has been waiting for! Our very first RAFFLE has ended and everyone has their tickets! Let's see who has won:
you can also view the raffle winners by clicking here!
Congrats on all of the winners for our first raffle! Here are your instructions:
- Raffle prizes will be handed out once everyone has presented their prize choice!
- You will be given TWO choices in prize.
- A random NEW Star Eater designed by one of the admins! [There are designs by dio [2] , Swifthowler [1], Zoroark [1], and MonsterrTooth [1]!]
- An ADOPTION VOUCHER to get one of the Adoption Center designs! [Remember that after prizes are handed out those will be FCFS!]
- Prize preference will be given out IN ORDER OF THE LIST ABOVE the first user gets first choice, second gets second choice and so on! There are only five of each prize.
- To CHOOSE your prize reply to the coment posted by dio below! Heres a link to it!
- You may respond immediately no matter what position you recieved! The prizes will be given out in order of the list regardless of coment order.
- More info about the prize selection will be in that comment!
- If you do not respond to the claim comment within 2 to 3 days, we may reroll your slot so please be sure to respond even if you do not have a preference! We need all winners to respond to be able to hand out prizes!
Post event reflection and feedback
We know that there were a few rocky patches with this first event, and we've learned a lot! Most of our team has never run an event like this before and we're all learning as we go! But I believe that overall, this event was a success!
We would like YOUR feedback on the event as well! If you participated and would like to send us some feedback so we can improve future events please respond to our feedback form for the event!
CLICK HERE FOR THE EVENT FEEDBACK FORM!
Future plans and updates!
I, Dio the owner and creator of the site and species, have a very busy life currently, so please keep that in mind as we work on the site and make it fun for all! I'm currently a computer science student while also working full time, so my ability to work on Star Eaters and related projects is quite limited. This project is a passion of mine and I have no intention of ever letting it die or let life get in the way from working on it. However, I still must be realistic about my ability to do things and how fast though. That said, I do have a few announcements to share!
We are working on a TIMELINE for the Star Eaters development! I have every intention of polising up a timeline plan and creating a page for it. It may take some time however, so we ask for your patience! We want to be careful not to make promises we cannot keep. This is the main reason we don't currently have a public roadmap.
Valentines Day adopts are likely coming! I fully launched this site out of my own pocket, and since then monthly expenses for the site have increased, so I'm going to begin working on adopts and getting custom slots open! I'm working on Valentines Day adopts that will be uploaded on Februrary 13th. These will be available onsite and on toyhou.se, and they will be an auction with the starting bid of 35$ USD. [About how much my last server bill was! <3] For those of you who don't yet have a Star Eaters account, the adopt will come with an invite code to officialize them!
Customs will likely be avaliable starting in March. This is a tentative timeline, but I will likely begin offering monthly custom slots. The prices and details are currently TBA, but will likely have a base price based on the Star Eaters server costs for Februrary. Something to look forward to with customs: You will be allowed to ask for traits that do not exist yet! Details on how that will work will be in the upcoming customs post!
Our next opening is still TBD! Once we have completed our timeline page, the dates for our next openings will be announced. For now, we will continue to be invite only and invite codes will be available to users who purchase customs and adoptables from dio offsite! Our intention is not to make this site pay-to-play, so this will only be a temporary measure as we work through our growing pains in the beta. We will be working out other ways to obtain invite codes in the meantime. If you have any ideas feel free to submit those to our new feedback form detailed below!
Ko-fi support and MYO sales. We are considering the option of a kofi subscription and MYO sales to support the development of the site. While it's not guaranteed we will go this route yet, we would like to hear from you about your thoughts on this! We have a dedcated form for suggestions and feedback on that: THE KOFI FEEDBACK FORM IS HERE.
Again, we would like to emphasize that we do not want this site to be pay-to-play! We will still have plenty of other ways to obtain MYOs and new Star Eaters without having to invest any real money! We are only considering the kofi option to allow users to help support us where they can and offset server costs coming out of dios own pocket! All feedback [positive, negative, or otherwise] will be seriously considered before we move forward with this decision.
February mini event
Our first seasonal pet will be revealed soon! We're working on a Valentines Day inspired pet, and plan for it to be available to obtain starting Februrary 14th! They'll be claimable via a scavenger hunt and a Valentines prompt that will run from Febuary 14th to the end of Februrary! This mini event will only have one limited prompt with the special seasonal pet and bonus comet coins as it's prize! It will also feature a small scavenger hunt that will begin on the 14th where users can find hidden items which will include the seasonal pet and a few box items with goodies inside! More details on it will be posted closer to the event time!
New General feedback form!
The final announcement I'd like to share is that I've created a deadicated feedback form! This is to help keep our feedback organized in one place. This form will replace the suggestions channel in the discord! We hope this will not only keep us more organized but also allow people who do not wish to be in the discord a chance to give us feedback and suggestions on the website! If you have made a suggestion or posted feedback in the suggestions channel on discord, please feel free to repost it on the form! I'm a pretty forgetful person [Got the adhd hehe] so it would help me a lot if the feedback was reposted so I have an easier time looking back on it! We will soon be making a UI update to the navbar so there will include a permanent direct link to the feedback form!
CLICK HERE FOR THE GENERAL FEEDBACK FORM
in conclusion, thank you all for joining and participating in the species! We hope to continue development and make this species and game as fun as can be!
A little personal note from me, the owner, I want to thank you all so sosososo much for making this event and our first beta opening a success! We could not have done it without all of you! I'm so stoked to see this community make a comeback after the hardships we faced due to the collapse of deviantart and just in general not knowing where to go from there. I am so glad my gamble on making this website and putting my freetime and money into it has paid off and people enjoy the site and species! I hope that one day we'll grow to be something I can work on fulltime. I would also like to personally thank the staff team who have given their freetime and effort for this project as well! They deserve all of the support! Please give them lots of thank yous as well!! :> I can't wait to see where this project takes us from here! This journey is only just beginning and we have so many awesome plans and fun stuff ahead!
I know there was a lot of different forms in this one news post so I'll list them here at the bottom as well for easy access:
★ EVENT SPECIFIC FEEDBACK FORM ★
dio Staff Member It/he - Creature
REPLY HERE TO CLAIM YOUR RAFFLE PRIZE!
Specify which prize you would prefer, if you have no preference in prize then say that you have no preference! Prizes will be given out manually after all have responded!!
2024-02-04 10:18:41
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EternalFyre413 Any
I'd prefer a random design but I'll take voucher instead too if that's out, ;u;
2024-02-04 16:52:55
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dio Staff Member It/he - Creature
You won STAR-293 ! Congrats! Your prize has been transfered to you
2024-02-05 04:47:44
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RLDKelpie kelp/kelpie/kelpself
I would prefer a random new design, thank you!!
2024-02-04 15:29:56
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