🦊🐙 hello my good foxto friends!!! this is the first ever foxtopus monthly newsletter! these will usually be released on the 25th of every month, to announce the next month’s happenings.

🎉 happy holidays! 🎉 

from today (december 25th) to january 25th, we will be hosting a holiday prompt for our special holiday currency, frosted cuttlewish!! with this currency you will be able to buy event exclusive items from the event shop!

the big theme of this event is “giving,” meaning you make more CW when you make art for other people!

here’s the simplified rules, though we suggest taking a look at the prompt for more information! (remember to click “show details” at the prompt!)

• draw a foxtopus doing something you’d associate with winter! drinking hot cocoa, setting up decorations, celebrating their winter holidays, playing in the snow, etc. etc.
• if the foxtopus in the work is not your own, you will receive a DOUBLED bonus! that’s right… DOUBLED…
• see more information directly on the prompt!

FEATURED ITEMS IN THE EVENT SHOP

seasonal apparition perfumes are now available!

what is an apparition? it’s basically an almost constant hologram-like visual that follows your foxtopus around wherever it goes! it can also be used to create illusions and decorations on the body. of course, a foxtopus can will it away whenever it wants!

foxtopi can have up to 3 active apparitions at once!

this season brings 3 seasonal apparitions, only available for this event! they can be bought at the boutique!

• O’ HOLY NIGHT: gives your foxtopus christmas imagery such as bells, boughs, holly, gingerbread men as well as golden sparkles!
• WINTER WONDERLAND: imagery that makes it appear as though it’s always snowing around your foxtopus!
• HANABI: a special visual that lets your foxtopus appear to have fireworks following it everywhere!

TUAN has graced us with some huli jing exclusive items for this season! we will be selling 2 huli jing myos, as well as 5 of a new drink called “coffin macchiato” to transform an existing foxtopus into a huli jing!

sato has also pitched in with some of our winter event shop items! we will be selling these redesign/add-on items!! :

• a regular snowcone (may give a foxtopus snow traits)
• a regular gift box (may give a foxtopus gift-traits)
• a regular poptoplushie (may give a foxtopus plush-traits)
• a regular ball of glass (may give a foxtopus glass/clear traits)

these traits will be available for this event!

HOLIDAY GACHA

on december 30th, we will be hosting our first ever gacha! and it’ll go until we run out of characters!

the gacha rolls will be $20 for the first roll. to reroll is an additional $5, and you may only reroll twice!

this gacha is 1 character per user, and if you choose to AB, you cannot roll after.

there will be a 24 hour grace period where you cannot AB on designs, to give a chance to gacha rollers!

characters won in this gacha will have a 1 month trade/sale cooldown, though swaps between fellow gacha rollers will be allowed for 2 weeks after.

gifting (to a user who can’t roll for the gacha) has no cooldown, of course! tis the season of giving :D

MYO SALES

on january 1st we will be hosting our first MYO sale event!

the USD sales will last an hour each, and will have an unlimited number of blue and green poptopus slots, with 2 slots each for king poptopus, as well as an additional SINGLE slot for a huli jing.

there will be two sales, one at 4pm PDT (https://timee.io/20220101T2300) AND one at 4pm UTC (https://timee.io/20220101T1600). we will make an announcement 30 minutes before the events start.

the USD prices for the MYO slots are as follows:

• blue : $10 / 700 CW
• green: $20 / 1800 CW
• king: $40 / 3500 CW
• huli jing: $70

we will be also holding a limited CW sale throughout the month until the slots run out!

• 5 blue poptopus/uncommon / 700 CW
• 3 green poptopus/super-rare / 1800 CW
• 1 king poptopus/legendary / 3500 CW

EDIT 1/01: the information above about the limited cw sale is now inaccurate! the cw sale will take place in a timed google form, and will have unlimited slots!

all slots are ONE PER USER and have a 2 week trade/sell cooldown.

❗ from this sale onwards, we will be applying a MYO slot limit to prevent hoarding. each user is only allowed to have 5 UNUSED slots at once. to keep track of this, all character transfers done through the site will now have to be approved by an admin.

UPDATE LOG

1. fixed art appraisal calculations

• doodle pages (aka 5+ characters on one page with little to no interactions) will now have a different system to prevent hoarding of cuttlewish
• character multiplier has been reduced from x2 to +100 per character
• past submissions that fall under the doodle page category have been appraised with the new system, and cuttlewishes in people's inventories have been reduced- this is to make the system fairer to everyone

2. USD SHOP (aka sato's sneaky stockroom)

we now have an onsite shop that lets you buy with real life currency! at the moment it has all of our currently available regular trait items as well as a bundle of our winter event items!

3. january GUEST ARTISTS and guest artist system update

due to the amount of site artists (formerly permanent guest artists) we have, we've modified our guest artist system.

• 2 guest artists will be chosen  per month to participate in an adopt batch with 6 random site artists
• these 2 guest artists will also be allowed to auction off 1 special adopt each

we've already dmed our picks from the january applications and informed them of this beforehand! we will open february guest artist applications in the 2nd week of january, and we will select 2 from there as well!

🎉 january's guest artists are sevenji and fishball, congratulations! 🎉

4. traits added:

• event traits
  • no tails
  • snow body
  • chomper tails
  • elemental body
  • glass/clear tails
  • gift wrapped
  • long body
  • serpentine body
  • plush body
  • plush tail
  • plush ears
• crossbreed traits
  • tail eye spots (vidi)
  • half bone tails (yumipop)
  • clouds/miasma (yumenari)
  • cup tail (chicup)
• regular traits
  • furry tail (rare)

SPECIAL THANKS
to joey, cham, daki, and frey for the newsletter assets!

hi hi everyone! to celebrate the new year, our lovely art staff miao has this jade foxto up as an f2e raffle on toyhouse! good luck everyone, and happy new year!

the gacha is scheduled to begin at 8PM (PST) ON THE SITE. check here to see what time that is for you!

here is how the gacha will work:

FIRST ROLL: $20, REROLLS: +$5 EACH

• the first hour you can claim your rolls (there are 60 rolls available, ONE per person)
  • CLAIMING/statement that you are claiming
    DISCORD/TH USER: (so we may contact you privately for the invoice)
  • CLAIMING FOR: (username)
    DISCORD/TH USER: (so we may contact them privately for the invoice)
  • when you want to claim a roll, fill out this form:
  • you can claim for a friend, just make sure it is a separate comment and that you use this form instead:
• once all of the rolls are claimed or the first hour has passed, we will roll all at once for the first roll.
• afterwards, we will ask if you’d like to keep your prize, or if you’d like to reroll.
  • you can reroll up to TWO times.
  • you are allowed to drop your rolls, meaning you do not have to pay for the rolls you took. HOWEVER, this means you are forfeiting your rolled characters and cannot roll afterwards nor can you autobuy.
• after the first roll, we will allow auto buys (if there are unused rolls available)
  • after the first round of rolls, we will take unclaimed rolls and ABs as FCFS
  • if you chose to roll, you cannot autobuy.
  • if you choose to autobuy, you cannot roll after your purchase.
• after confirming your payment, we will transfer the character over to you on the site. 
  • please wait for the designer to transfer the design to you on toyhouse.
• all gacha adopts will have a ONE MONTH TRADE/RESELL COOLDOWN
  • we will allow SWAPS (gacha adopt to gacha adopt ONLY) for two weeks after all the adopts have been claimed! there will be a news post to allow you to post your offers.
  • gifting an adopt to someone who cant roll is allowed!

here are some other things to note about the gacha:

• only foxtop.us users may participate in this gacha, meaning that you must have a foxtop.us account in order to participate. you cannot claim a roll for someone who does not have a foxtop.us account.

hi everyone, this is uhe, as the grand opening event comes to a close and we reach our month milestone, i realize how much of the species is still left unclear to everyone, as well as how many misunderstandings there have been over the fast changes in the community.

i’ve taken it upon myself to clear up some of these misconceptions, to give a better understanding of what’s going on and hopefully ease some worries.

Monthly Limit

as you (probably) know, recently we implemented into our art appraisal system, a monthly limit to how many submissions you may send to the prompt. i’m going to answer some concerns regarding this change.

“So we can’t post art to the site anymore/draw our foxtopi anymore?”

not at all. it was never our intention to stop you from continuing to participate, the monthly limit is ONLY on the amount of submissions sent to the art appraisal prompt.

“Why the change?”

as an ARPG the foxtopus species at current has very little to offer regarding items and anything else that can be sold for our group currency. to note, the original system i created was meant to serve 150 members or less, which was why it was so easily exploited in the past. the changes were meant to happen gradually, but with the species growth we had to change things fast instead. this is by no means a bad thing, it’s just a bit of a surprise we had to adjust to as soon as possible. so in short, we don’t want this to get boring right out the gate. which is what farming can do to a species with very little to buy and use group currency for.

“So we’ll never be able to submit more than 4 submissions a month?”

no, this is a temporary limit as we work to make more ways to use your group currency beyond redesign items and MYOs. currently staff has many plans in the works and while we are working as fast as we can, we need patience from everyone as we work things out and make sure they are as functional as we can possibly get them before release.

The Winter Event

as we are a new species, we are still working things out which is why much needed to be changed within the first few days of the event happening. i understand how these changes may be disheartening, especially since we did have to take items away, but it is in our best interest to make everything about events fairground for everyone as we feature limited items.

it is important to keep in mind that this is not the only opportunity to receive these limited items and that there will always be opportunities in the future.

i can’t force anyone to believe me when i say this but every change we make is in favor of fairness in the species as well as making this an enriching and fun experience for everyone. we hope that you will continue to support us in the future and understand the changes that need to be made in order to make this species work. we also hope you’ll look forward to the projects we have coming in the future.

thank you so much for what you’ve all done for us so far <3

hi hi! we're very glad everyone has been so excited to participate in the winter event prompt! but to be fair and prevent abuse of the system, we've decided to rehaul the system and update some things. we've also made some changes to regular art appraisal as well!

event updates

• all huli jing related items (coffin macchiato, foxto in a glass) will now be raffle sales! we will hold a raffle in the discord server, and the winners get to purchase it. this is to make it fair to everyone in different timezones.

• we've redone the event prompt appraisal system! the changes are as follows:

  • you can submit a maximum of 10 pieces to be appraised for the whole event.
  • pieces appraised for the event cannot be appraised for regular cuttlewish.
  • if there are different character sizes shown in the piece (ie 1 character is drawn bust up, another thigh up), only the biggest size will be counted.
  • rewards for writing have been adjusted to make it more equivalent to the effort it takes to write! bonuses such as extra characters also apply!
  • staff/npc bonus and holiday gift bonus do not stack!

• the winter bundle item will give a random reward! the possible rewards are 2 random winter event items (seasonal apparitions included) OR 100!

• seasonal apparitions have been added to the event shop! they cost 80 each.

• after the event ends, frosted cuttlewish will be converted to regular cuttlewish! the conversion rate will be 2= 1 

art appraisal updates

• starting january, there will be a limit of 4 submissions per month. we've created a new prompt and a new category in the gallery to help us keep track of this. please only submit your best pieces!

• note that this doesn't apply to art in general! feel free to submit as much as you want to the gallery! we are simply limiting what can be appraised for cw.

• we will be bringing the art appraisal milestones back to 0 as well. past cw earned will stay with you, but from january onwards everyone will start from the beginning!

• we've adjusted the system (again...)

  • writing rewards have been adjusted, and bonuses will also apply!
  • staff/npc bonus will no longer stack.

• because of the adjustments, we've rejected the submissions currently in the queue. please either submit them again or wait for january! thank you for your patience!

thats all for now! thank you so much, and happy holidays!!