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28th October 2020

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The Enpiah Alien was trick or treating in Undying Woods last night for Maraween and was bitten. Until November 9th, the Halloween Alien has new items that he will put up for Auction for only 1MP. These items will retire at the end of the event. If you are really lucky, you may catch a very rare or retired Halloween item!

There are 10 new prizes for 2020 - you can win a maximum of one auction every 3 hours and whenever you win an item, any bids you have on any other Halloween Alien auctions are removed.


The Pet Auctions feature has been discontinued
Pets have never been 'for sale' on MaraPets - they are not property, they are pets! They were to be cared for and if you no longer wanted a pet, you could disown or trade to a player who would want it. This has always been one of the most important rules on MaraPets - pets are not for sale. We started Pet Auctions in 2012 as a trial, to see if allowing pets to be sold here would work. After a week, we didn't like the results and stopped Limited Edition or Restricted species of pets from being sold. For years this was fine and they almost replaced the Pet Pound as a way to disown pets and for people to bid on pets they wanted.

Pet Auctions have never been a popular feature and are hardly used. A huge percentage of those who do use it do so to profit from Pet Names or to cheat (like transferring currency they gained from a multiple account). Selling pets does not make sense here and it is a lot of work to keep a feature like this open and updated when it's hardly used or used in a way it was never created to be. We have much better plans to improve the Pet Pound, Pet Trades and other plans in the future and with Pet Auctions removed, we can purge old pet names more often now!
Glad the pet auctions are gone, honestly.
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Pets may not be property but pet stores are a thing where you go and buy pets.. I really liked the different options available because everyone in trades are so vauge and this way I didn't have to message anyone to try and haggle for their pet :/ it was a done deal easy transaction. I can't wait to see the future updates..
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meychonis21
meychonis press on and on and on
i never did use pet auctions but i will at least miss seeing the mp price on my main pet's page go up. monkey brain liked big number

the fact that the auctions this year have an availability refresh is gonna go a LONG way to keep things from getting as frustrating as they've been in past years because the same three people keep sniping every auction at the last second. unless it was already like that before. i dont actually remember. good mechanic either way, should probably be applied to regular auctions to some degree too
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100% makes sense to me. Looking forward to the new pet pound and the purges :love:
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I will miss the pet auctions, but you are absolutely right and I support the decision. ♥️
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Apatite66
Apatite Lorius Collector
I love that there's a limit on the auctions won for Halloween Alien.

Also I rarely used the pet auctions and I support the decision to get rid of them.
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wow first time ever i can actually get halloween alien items without them constantly being sniped! thank you~
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Mara knows best. That being said I feel for the shy people who may take two, four or five years to get a pet for a goal which costs millions instead of bidding on a pet and then passing it on inexpensively to someone else in need. Pet auctions did that so I'll say goodbye to that.Don't know or understand about double accounts, not in my experience. But looking forward to new goals:)
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I don't really mind the pet auctions being removed-I think pet trades and the pound are enough-but sadly, you can't see WHO will get the pet from the pound, which can be very annoying. I disowned one of my pets once, and it went to a bad home-the person who adopted it got suspended IN LESS THAN A DAY after adopting him.
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I'm gonna miss the pet auctions feature but I'm glad you guys are gonna improve the pet pound feature since the pet pound was hardly being used every time I went to look. Looking forward to the new feaures:like:
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I will miss the pet auctions. I dislike pet trading as I find it bothersome to have to try to find some outlandish offer of a name I want when I could have just gotten them in auctions. BUT HEY. Now people can't keep sniping great names from auctions and morph them into some LE and demand high offers on a pet they never wanted in the first place.
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Meggy75
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I'm kind of going to miss pet auctions since I got a fair number of my statted pets from there. It was also great for when you were looking for specific non-LE pets to complete goals or just because you like them. I wonder if it will wind up making some of these pets harder to get.

That said, I also agree it was not without its flaws and I hated seeing pet names being auctioned. If this leads to more names being freed up in the near future, I am absolutely all for it.

I'm really curious about the changes to the pound and pet trades.
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SofistiCat75
SofistiCat Let's go crazy!
THANK YOU! For doing Halloween Alien like this this year. This is the first year when I managed to get the items myself from the Alien without too much frustration. Earlier I just bought them from resellers - this year this was actually fun! :love:
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