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12th September 2020

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Introducing the new and improved... Costume Boutique

The Costume Shop has been replaced with the new Costume Boutique. Over the past 16 years we've released over 7,000 different pet colours - 78 species of pet and 206 different costumes! The first item ever added to MaraPets was the Blue Costume and for the first few years of us being open, there were always some costumes in stock at the costume shop. Fast forward sixteen years and the shop is pretty much always empty and making it stock more items only crashes the prices, making the costume easier to get but no longer wanted. The 'restocking' shop model that works well for the other 100+ shops on here does not work well for Costumes.
We have therefore changed the shop to the new Costume Boutique. It has all of the benefits of being random and rarer costumes showing up less often but now it will be a fixed price and accessible to all! There are 151 Costumes that have been added to the Costume Boutique, organised into 4 different groups - 19 Colour Costumes, 9 Standard Costumes, 9 Premium Costumes and 114 Account Upgrades Costumes. Every day, a new costume is randomly selected from the Prize List to be sold here for that day only.

One of these 9 Premium Costumes will be selected at random each month, to be on sale for one random day in the month for a fixed price of either MarapointsMP Baspinar PointsBP or Restock PointsRP. You will only know what costume is on sale at the shop on the day you visit. You will not be told when a costume is back on sale here or if it will be on sale for MP, BP or RP.
There are 9 Standard Costumes and four of these will be selected at random each month. Each of the four selected will be on sale for a different, random day of the month and will be sold for a fixed price of either MarapointsMP Baspinar PointsBP or Restock PointsRP. There will also be new costumes in the future added to the Costume Boutique.
There are also 114 Costumes there were released as Account Upgrades Sets over the past 16 years. Although we continue to release one or two Account Upgrade sets per month, releasing new costumes hasn't really been an option while there are SO many that aren't avaliable - it would take another 12 years+ to release them all again this way. To help with bringing some of these back automatically, the Costume Boutique also randomly selects two of these costumes each month to be on sale here for £4 Account Upgrade Credits. Each costume will only be on sale for one day of the month and this will be selected at random. This means that only 24 out of 114 of these costumes will be sold for only 24 of the 365 days in a year - it should still keep them rare and limited, without making them unattainable.
Any day that a Premium, Standard or Account Upgrades Costume is not on sale at the Costume Boutique there will be one of 19 Coloured Costumes on sale instead. Like the Premium and Standard Costumes, the currency required will be randomly selected to cost MarapointsMP Baspinar PointsBP or Restock PointsRP and the prices are fixed and shown on the Prize List.
So if a costume appears in the shop and say for example it's an AU costume - it stays there for the full 24 hours until the next day?

Cause I was reading it (late last night) as being like they come into the shop but as a limited amount and if other users bought them all then there would be no stock.
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MistressMayhem8820
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@SpirouTheDragon From what I understand there will NOT be a limited amount of stock, everyone will be able to purchase the costume in the Costume Boutique as long as they have enough currency for it. :)
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sherrylynn6834
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so excited i might be able to do some goals that im stuck on because i dont have the costume EKKK :love::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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@SpirouTheDragon

no, there are no limits

limits are based on time AND price

4AU is still pretty high, several of those costumes are half that price right now and if they were in an AU set you get that item plus like 7-12 others, including map pieces and maybe an LE pot

you also have to have the BP, RP, MP or AU saved up for that random day of the year that the one costume you were waiting for is on sale there - not everyone visits everyday

it really does have all of the same things that make restocking fun but without most people seeing an empty shop 99% of the time and those who do spend FOREVER trying to restock one, seeing the rare costume they want appear and still not being able to get it because the are a few miliseconds slower than someone else

Plus I get to create new costumes AND new pet colours for old costumes without the news comments and majorty of players being like "the art is great and I would love one but there is no chance I can ever get it" sorta thing haha

Its not the death of restocking either - restockers will have the potion shop and several others. Restocking will be improved a lot next year :D
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@MistressMayhem88 @Ian
Oooh that's awesome! Thank you both for responding ^.=.^
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Ian75
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@SpirouTheDragon off topic but can you (or your friend?) try apprentice wizard game again? I've changed it a lot since it was first released
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@Ian You mean my mate's weird laptop that has a screen like a tablet? I can ask him to go see if it works.
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MistressMayhem8820
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@Ian I play on PC, and played it recently for the first time in a while and I noticed that the shapes are much easier to draw, and allow for a little more error/wonkiness...this is a FANTASTIC change cos I would always get messed up by the lightning bolt shape. The game was like "NOPE! That's not a good enough lightning bolt!" lol :grin: Now it works beautifully! :)
just wanted to let you know that we do notice and appreciate all the little tweaks and changes you make, from the shapes in Apprentice Wizard to letting the cards stack to their final piles easier in FreeCell/Solitaire. :)

@SpirouTheDragon Not a problem, you're more than welcome! :)
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Parrot51
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I love this. Honestly, the costume shop was never a fun place to restock to begin with. There were only ever a handful of costumes "worth" trying to beat others to. And of course, they didn't restock very often. I always skipped it at the :01/:06 mark in favor of Chocolates and Minipets. Just restocking in Chocolates for an hour or two proved to be more productive than waiting around in costumes. The potion shop at least has a lot of variety and more than just a few items that are worth the wait, so the competition feels more fun and worthwhile.

Anyway, great change!:like:
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Love it! Great for me to add to my costume collection!
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@Ian fantastic addition to Mara! Looking forward to seeing what costumes are in stock each day :like:
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Nice! Now if something like this can be applied to the potions shop
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