The Lottery has been drawn for this week. DebiJ is the winner of the 479,700MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 6, 7, 15, 16, 31 and 36. Congratulations!

Last Week's Raffle has now ended. wisheart is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 2750! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!


The Game of the Week has now changed to Klondike Solitaire.


This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.
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ACCOUNT UPGRADES
As we haven't had a new Account Upgrades set for a while now we have decided to put 18 very limited edition items on sale. These items will be on sale for a maximum of 6 weeks, but there is limited stock of each item to be sold - so get the ones you want while you can!


Bride Doll
Error Book
Experimental Music

Royal Wedding Stamp


Decorations
Magic Trading Card


Haunting
Groom Doll
Error 51
Genie Male Costume
Wedding Potato
Random Chibs Potion
Wedding Cake

Book of Wings
Battle Gumball
Genie Female Costume
Sorcerer Trading Card
Wedding Pearl

The Angel Wig has been retired and is no longer awarded for your first transaction with Google Checkout. We have also reduced the Google Checkout promotion from 20% to 10% as payments via Google Checkout are no longer processed instantly.
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Happy New Year

It hasn't been a great start for 2007 so far for Marapets, but we would like to let you know what has been happening for the past few weeks. As Laimay was getting married in mid December, we decided that both Laimay and I will have the whole of December off for a break, so that she can get married, have her honeymoon and move into her new apartment and so that I can go on holiday. While we were gone, the site was run by the great team of blue stars staff and I managed to keep the site without any downtime for the whole month.

However, what we didnt know was that our main database server had been installed wrong over 6 months ago, and that the disks on that server were quickly been filled up, not from our data but from server error logs which we not noticable. A few days ago, the server ran out of disk space to save new data. This meant that new items, pets, members and a few other things were acting odd as they couldn't be saved. To stop the server from crashing, we had to quickly shut the whole of the site to try and fix the problem. This was not easy and it has taken a team of us the past few days to fix the problem, which was very close to losing us lots of valuable data, such as items and pets from the December. Luckily enough, we managed to catch the problem in time and fix it, but would like to apologise to you all for the lack of warning and notice for the downtime. It has cost a lot of money to get this fixed, and we hope that you understand how serious this maintenance was. The problem has been fixed and cannot happen again.

We will be continuing with small maintenance this week while the site is open, with much overdue glitch fixing and we will be returning to normal with regular news.

You may also like to know that in a few days, a new and unexpected visitor will be returning to Marada, and she may even be declaring WAR....

You may all be sick of looking at the maintenance error page, but the Burnt Chibs is now avaliable! ›Read the full news