[Kyttias]

Newest Plans: Mechanics

Upon signing up, you're sorted into one of four factions based on four simple questions. Think of it as an extremely watered down version of the Myer's-Brigg's Personality Test:

1. Do you seek to have many friends or just a few deep friendships?
2. Would you rather focus on what is real or what is possible?
3. Do you prefer to treat everyone the same or situationally?
4. Are you the sort to plan ahead or go with the flow?

I'll allow players to retake this quiz once every four months for a small fee. Being in a faction does not prevent you from interacting with anyone from other factions. Factions do have their own private section on the forums, but otherwise, these factions exist for competitive reasons.

All the factions are working hard to collect Dream Dust. At the end of each week totals will be tallied to determine which faction collected the most Dream Dust and the entire winning faction will be rewarded accordingly during the following week. Last place may also receive a small boost to give them a competitive edge in the next week as an incentive to try harder.

There will also be individual Dream Dust rankings. The top X amount of players with the most Dream Dust collected may receive special rewards during holidays! These could be rare new patterns, holiday-themed attire, or even first access to a new species (perhaps even ones that might otherwise be bought with Rues Tokens only).

Dream Dust collected will be turned in at the end of each week and your collected amount will return to zero.

Dream Dust will be obtained from interacting with any Novu on the site:

LVL 00 to 24 = May drop between 25 and 600 Dream Dust!
LVL 25 to 50 = May drop between 25 and 1250 Dream Dust!
LVL 51 to 75 = May drop between 25 and 1875 Dream Dust!
LVL 76 to 99 = May drop between 25 and 2475 Dream Dust!

While technically more effective to help only higher levelled Novu, it still really depends on your luck! Younger Novu may gift you other significant things and shouldn't be overlooked.

All Novu also have a 50% chance of giving you between 25 and 500 Aurum.

Rewards for the faction with the most Dream Dust may, in the future, include:

• Shop Discounts
• A Rues Token (Cash Currency)
• A 10% Boost in Pet Happiness

Pet Happiness will be covered in detail in a future post. In short, pet happiness will be increased by feeding, playing with, and offering toys to a Novu. Their happiness levels will effect how well they do when sent out on missions - happier pets will be more successful and may bring home bonus rewards. However, missions also have a chance to fail, and that will decrease your Novu's happiness levels. Being absent from the site for too long will also decrease your Novu's happiness. However, even strangers and not logged in members will be able to play with your pet.

You can still "freeze" pets to prevent them from gaining experience, but this will also prevent them from gaining happiness from anyone but their owners, as well.

Unhappy pets will struggle with missions and won't desire to breed. Certain items may no longer effect them, either. Below 50% Happiness they will be more susceptible to accidentally get certain negative status effects that may fatigue them. Some negative status effects may be "fun" if you like the idea of owning a Nightmare pet, but you're far more likely to deal with more detrimental ailments - being unable to breed until cured, unable to gain any happiness until cured, will never succeed at any missions until cured, etc - and the cures may be pricy. Don't worry too much, however, as negative status effects will usually only be obtained, at a rate of about 20%, when sending your pet on a mission when it's already below a certain low happiness threshold. Stay active and play with your pets and they'll stay too happy to be effected by negative ailments!

Please note that one should not attempt to continue to send pets afflicted with negative status effects out on missions knowing that they will fail. Not including Nightmare pets themselves, any other status ailment may cause the pet to permanently run away. Abusing your pet by making it go out on missions for you while it is sick is a very good reason to cause them to potentially not return if they fail a mission. The chance they will leave if you continue to send them on missions that they fail will increase by 10% for each status ailment.