The Spotlight Contest is being taken down until further notice due to fundemental issues with species categories and voting by species.

This feature was brought over from another site, but after testing it on 4dopt, we see that it's not compatible with a site that's focussed on player-created species. The species voting aspect of the contest is unfortunately a basis of this feature, most of the feature is built around this aspect (including prize rewards).

All entries have been refunded.

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Sage

2020-12-06 15:55:39

A potential issue that comes to mind is that there are a lot of adopts in species/nolimit/cannot breed and not many in specific breeding groups, at least in comparison. There are a bunch of breeding groups with one, or none at all, species in them

GonnaFeedback by Draketeeth

2020-12-06 14:34:53

What if the contest ran by another sorting category that already exists? Breeding group. That could lump some species together into larger categories (Avian, No Limit, Cannot Breed, etc.) There's still Species breeding, which can divide down the groups again, but that might help catch some of the "exploit" species that are more limited.

Kaorihoshi

2020-12-06 13:42:41

I see, thanks for the explanations. I think a limit to how many species would be cool, of it's being reworked, or maybe the system could refund if there's only one or two of a species. but regardless, I can't wait to see what you do with it in the future.

Admin

2020-12-06 13:27:35

To clarify, the reason this is taken down is due to problems caused by species voting. Unfortunately separating out the species voting from this feature isn't possible without removing the feature entirely, since every part of the feature is built around species voting. There are three parts to the contest feature: 1. Entries. You can enter one adopt per species. To remove species voting, we will have to come up with (and code) a new system for entering the contest. 2. Voting. You can vote once per species. Again removing species means we need to recode the voting and come up with a new system for how votes are handled. 3. Rewards. Most of the rewards code is based off species votes, so this would also need to be redone. Ultimately, the whole feature would need to be redone from the ground up. This is going to take a lot more time. The Spotlight Contest was transitioned over from another site, which is why we were able to add it more easily. Making a new one will take many dozens of hours for coding, so at the very least it'll take a few weeks just focusing on that alone—but I think it might be a higher priority for us to work on fixing bugs and taking other player suggetions. This feature was nice to test out on 4dopt, but ultimately it seems to have some serious fundemental flaws. It works wonderfully on the site it came from, but didn't translate well to this site.

Sage

2020-12-06 13:22:05

Judging by the conversation in the Discord the TLDR is just that lots of species makes it hard to vote effectively because going through every tab is just tedious, there were a lot of species with only one entrant and the system had potential exploits (like making an unobtainable species and then farming points by being the only entrant). There was a discussion about only selecting a certain amount of species + an other section for the species that aren't selected but that would mean a complete recoding so it's not a priority right now

Kaorihoshi

2020-12-06 13:16:48

If the amount of species possibilities was a problem, maybe the system could choose (ex)10 species per week to be eligable

Kaorihoshi

2020-12-06 13:16:06

Personally I thought the many species being allowed was awesome! And the more players there are on the site the better and fuller each species list would be!! It was GREAT that there was one winner and tons of others.

Kaorihoshi

2020-12-06 13:14:05

Can I ask what happened??? I thought it looked great

Stargaze won the Spotlight Contest!

Stargaze won against 20 contestants with 231 opponent votes.

The jackpot was 11275 PTS, 5520 adopt EXP, 2810 energy, and 1355 account EXP.

Species Winners:

Thump won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

RabbitLate won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

BlitzSee won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

QMuted won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

CompoundingHate won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

AxiomUnfathomable won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

ThoughtsGecko won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

ButterflyButler won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

Betrayed won against 1 opponents for 510 PTS, 105 adopt EXP, 110 energy, and 25 account EXP.

BriarStems won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

MelodyOlive won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

ThinkFib won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

GiftCacti won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

Airways won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

BeholdEars won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

BeverageCautious won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

ChalkyDiver won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

CostumePacked won against 0 opponents for 500 PTS, 100 adopt EXP, 100 energy, and 20 account EXP.

You can now vote for the next winners!

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Kaorihoshi

2020-12-06 00:21:42

Congrats to the first winner

A fix has been made regarding giftboxes. An unintended error was resulting in 6 giftboxes being given for every 100 credits purchased if the payments were split into two separate purchases, instead of the intended 5. This has now been fixed!

There is a new area specifically for seeker adopts who get sold through seekers and sent area.

This is a special area with a unique unlock method, becoming available after at least one adopt is sold through seekers.
It also has unique mechanics. It cannot be populated by items or species from creators. No items can be found in this area, and there is no mass explore. Only adoptables from seekers, misc events, and blurbs can be found here.

All seeker adopts will go here from now on.

The naming categories feature has been expanded on. Species creators can now select from a variety of different types of naming themes in the species panel (under basic info). This will cause adopts of that species to be more likely to have those types of words in their name.

More naming themes have been added to areas as well to give them the game a little more immersion.