Hey all!
We've got some updates coming up soon in regards to RC rewards for your prompt submissions. There will be a couple reward bumps and some evening out of MYO ticket prices, as can be seen in the attached image! 

You might be wondering what the new shiny ones are at the bottom. We've opted to add in a bonus for shading, comics, and added an extra background tier for those who want to put in the effort. Here's what each of these will be moving forward:

• Shading - This can be painted, cel shading, or rendered however you deem fit. The whole character must have some form of shading, and must look intentional, either to the stand alone character, or if there's a background it must match the environment around it. Things such as a gradient filter over the whole body will not count!
• Comic Bonus - A comic bonus will be applied to any comic submitted that has over 3 pages and has a clear beginning, middle, and end (or cliffhanger, if that's what you're going for!) Each page submitted will get you +5 RC bonus, with a minimum guaranteed +15 if you just make the standard 3 pages. 
• Level 3 Background - This will be an extensive background that includes both 3 or more elements as well as a clear and defined foreground, midground, and background.

We will be getting examples up alongside the shading and level 3 background additions, so please keep an eye out for that if you have any questions! 

As for the Shop updates...

• The Base hatchling cost has been raised to the price of the trabblet cost, so all starter hatchlings are now 15RC.
• The starter adults have been evened out to be 30RC each, so all MYO tickets for these species are equal with one another.
• Color Edit's price has been lowered to 10RC to make the number make a bit more sense compared to all the other edit items.
• Growth Potion has been removed from the shop and will now strictly be given out through the prompt, They Grow Up So Fast!

Growth Potions still in player's inventories are still perfectly valid for use and will not be removed.

If you're wondering why we are making these drastic changes, don't fret, we've done some other changes to hatchlings as a way to balance things out!

 All hatchlings, excluding future starter hatchlings, can now be freely traded; this applies to both existing hatchlings and new (non-starter) myo hatchlings. All characters on the masterlist have been adjusted to fit these new transfer permissions. Gone are the days of having to grow up your babies if you want them to remain that way! Which leads us into the next big segment of updates.

We've added a new prompt that can be done with hatchlings, Forever Young. This prompt allows hatchlings to stay hatchlings, but in future prompts they will earn the same RC amount as an adult Ranebopet. This prompt will reward you with a Spell of Eternal Youth, which can be used to keep your hatchling a hatchling, as well as give them the following options:

1. Stay exactly the same with no looks updates
2. Have 1 additional color (max 4) and 1 trait 
3. Have 2 additional colors (max 5) and no traits
4. Have 2 traits and no additional colors (max 3)

The trait applied, Never Grow, will not count towards their trait limit. 

Please feel free to have a looksie at the new trait's terms and rules here: Never Grow

Never Grow can be undone at any time via the use of a growth potion obtained via They Grow Up So Fast!

These updates will go into effect on the 28th of February. Design updates and prompt submissions will be held off until we've gone through and updated everything on site to reflect the new RC rewards. Additionally, we've now made a general art and writing prompt which you can find here. All future art and writing claims that don't fit a prompt must now be submitted through this prompt. The criteria calculator can't be used in claims, so this makes things simpler for everyone ♥

On top of these rather large announcements, here’s some changelog stuff for you all as well:

• We’ve now opened a Toyhou.se world! Feel free to join and submit your Ranebopets as you’d like to.
• Added a featured character section to user profiles. You can set your character from the characters page.
• There’s now a daily weather feature and current season on the home page! This is mostly for flavour, though we do hope you enjoy it.
• We’ve had the World Expanded plugin added to the site. There isn’t much there for now, but please do stay tuned for future updates.
• The navigation bar has been shifted around a bit, with some things moving to other drop downs. This may take time to adjust to, but we hope it will make things easier to navigate in the future.