67 of the Default Avatars have been updated with new artwork.
There have been many, many changes to do with Caring for Pets. Although we have grown over the years in content, Marapets is and will always be a Virtual Pet Site. The name Marapets was chosen because 'mara' was a reference to death and Marapets would die if not looked after.
Over the years this was disabled simply because it was never done properly. We have made a lot of changes now and brought back a lot of the original features of Marapets. Like it or not, many features of the site have no purpose on here if the Caring for Pets is not required.
The following update relates to Pet diseases, health and prison. Whenever we say a 'pet is not healthy' this is referring to happiness, hunger and tiredness being neglected and has NO reference to health points used in battling.
The following changes have been made:
· Your pet will need to be cared for and healthy. Happiness, tiredness and hunger changes by 5% approx once every 15 hours. This only happens when you are online - if your pets are at 100% happiness and you do not login for 3 months, they will be at 100% when you come back. Each pet's happiness, tiredness and hunger will show as green when it is healthy, orange when it is unhealthy, red when it is being neglected.
· When you use items, such as food for hunger, toys for happiness, etc a pet's status will now change by 25% instead of 10%.
· If a pet is in the Hotel they will remain healthy without the need to use items. The hotel does not protect from diseases/illness. Queen Bee no longer stings pets that are staying at the hotel.
· All Account Upgrades purchased from now on will receive 25,000MP hotel credit. This has replaced extra blog entries or marasite pages. Every player now has a very high amount of these for FREE.
· Gym, Elite Gym, School and University can not be used by sick or unhealthy pets or pets that are in prison in the same way that job wages cannot be collected.
· If you fail a mission of The Fates only one of your pets will be chosen at random to become sick instead of all of them.
· If you are caught at the Grave Robbing only one of your pets will go to prison instead of all of them.
· The Puchalla Inn quest now allows you to select which pet may earn a charisma stat.
· If you do not pay your Electricity Bill random event, you will be reminded several times to do so. If you still fail to pay the bill after the reminders, one of your pets will be sent to prison.
· Finally, pets can once again die if they are not looked after. There has been a lot of panic and confusion over this but its really quite simple. Undying Woods is named undying because pets do not actually die, they just go to the graveyard here and become zombie costumed that other players can rescue. And it takes quite a lot for it to even get that far! If your pet has any kind of sickness or disease, or it has been neglected health wise (starving, thirsty, tired) and is still not looked after, you will have several warnings that show up similar to random events to warn you of the pet that is suffering. If nothing is done about it, you will be reminded several times more. If you still do not do anything about it, your pet will die and move to the Gate of the Graveyard in Undying Woods. You then have 14 days to visit this place and either pay 50,000MP to save your pet and it will be costumed Zombie. If you do not want it be zombie coloured, you can pay 75,000MP. If you do not do this, after 14 days the pet will move to the Graveyard as a zombie where any player can take ownership of the pet and it is no longer yours.
Introducing the new and improved... JOB CENTRE!!!!
After many months of improvements the Job Centre is now back! The Job Centre in the City of Marada is where your pets can start a career and earn MP each day. There are 24 different careers to start with, each with their own requirements for your pet to meet before being employed.
There have many many changes, such as:
· You can now collect all of your pet's Wages at once at the click of a button.
· At the Job Centre you can see all of your pets that are working, their job, level and wages, and any pending promotions.
· Looking for a Job? You can now click any Job to see if you have unemployed pets who qualify for these jobs.
· All 24 Jobs can now be promoted up to Level 20 - earning more MP the higher you go!
· When you reach Level 15 of any job you will still earn a trophy for your pet's profile.
· Now when you reach Level 20 of any job your account will unlock a new Job Perk. Different jobs have a different perk to be earned. More information about these is explained below.
· If your pet is not cared for properly, is sick or in prison you will not be able to collect wages.
· With the new and improved Random Events, Job Promotions are much more frequent.
· A new Career History feature has been added for future use. All jobs your pet has from now on will be logged in this history, showing the maximum level of promotion for each job. In the future, the higher this counter is, the more prizes you will be rewarded.
Can you find these new Hidden Avatars?
If any of your pets accepts a Job Promotion at Level 20 your account will permanently unlock a new Job Perk. The Job Perks are as follows:
· Veterinarian and Doctor jobs will earn Free Hospital treatments permanently.
· Architect, Teacher and Scientist jobs will earn Free School MP Tuition Fees for all pets permanently.
· Politician and Businessman jobs will earn Free Hotel stays for all pets permanently.
· Pop Star and Actress jobs will earn Double Magazines at the Magazine Stand permanently.
· Journalist and Astronaut jobs will earn Double Newspapers at the News Stand permanently.
· Model and Policeman jobs will earn Double Photos at the Photo Parlour permanently.
· Athlete and Chef jobs will earn Double Plates at the Ferris Wheel permanently.
· Clown and Fireman jobs will no longer need any Circus Tickets for the Circus mission permanently.
· Spy and Thief jobs will receive Half Price Prison fees permanently.
· Programmer, Banker and Hacker jobs earn 2 for 1 Raffle Tickets at the Raffle permanently.
· Soldier and Mechanic jobs will no longer need any Dentist Tickets at the Dentist permanently.
We would like to apologise for the unscheduled Site Maintenance since Wednesday. So much had changed with the servers since the February crash - new hard disks, new software, etc and we were still having random, unexplained crashes.
We had 3 server kernel panics this month alone! The issue was that many of our servers in the cluster were running different versions or had other slightly different configuration. They were being fixed one by one but it was taking far too long.
We took the decision after the Wednesday crash to keep the site down and just do a fresh install of all servers at once. We thought we could bring 50% up within 12-24 hours and therefore downtime was limited.
This wasn't the case and with the many issues we ran into along the way, it took 4 days altogether! The good news is that it was a complete success. Everything is now consistent, stable and should run without any issue or lag.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The Invisible Account Upgrade package has been put back on sale for 3 days.
The Astro, Ideus, Ike, Kidlet, Knutt, Poera, Vlad, Walee, Yakubi and Zola can now wear American Costume.
Introducing the new and improved... STOCK MARKET!!
After many months of improvements the Stock Market is now back! The Stock Market in Puchalla Village is where you can invest your own MP in many of the Shops through out Marada. The share price of each shop changes throughout the day, depending on the level of stock, number of customers, profit and other various factors.
There have many many changes, such as:
⋅ You can only buy shares in a company with a share price of 100MP or above and below 1,000MP.
⋅ You can only make one purchase of shares every 3 hours. A purchase can be between 1 and 100 shares in one company.
⋅ Shares in a company cannot be sold within 2 hours of purchasing new or additional shares in this company.
⋅ There is a new 'Stock Market News' letting you know of all the changes in share prices throughout the day. These are effected by hundreds of different factors happening around Marada including shop sales, shop profit, shares given out for free, shares sold recently and other mission, quest and general game play factors.
⋅ There are also new random and environmental events that can happen to each company that may push its share price up and down more than expected - such as bad weather, new trends, etc.
⋅ In extreme cases, a company can now go bankrupt. If a company goes bankrupt you will lose any MP invested in this company and shares can no longer be bought in this company while it is in administration. You will be notified in the news when the company has recovered and has shares back on sale.
⋅ You may be lucky and win Free Shares randomly when you restock any item from a company's shop.
⋅ Any shares you held in the old version of the Stock Market were automatically refunded at the value you originally paid for them.
Today's random theme is... MAGENTA!
Eleven new Magenta items have been added as prizes around the site. Win Magenta Pancake from the Pancake Pile, Magenta Feather and Magenta Feather Plushie from Talon, Magenta Jelly from the Jelly Castle, Magenta Potato from Guess the Weight, Magenta Gumball from the Gumball Machine, Magenta Sugar Cube from the Sugar Stack game, Magenta Worms from Worm Digging and finally, the Ball of Magenta Yarn from Farming quests.
All missing Photos have been released - including 73 Magenta Photos!
The Belle, Flurso, Gruff, Bottled, Noot and Terra minipets can now wear the new Ball of Magenta Yarn.
Can you find the 'Magenta' Hidden Avatar?
These 11 new Magenta items are on sale at various shops around Marada.
A brand new Magenta Costume is now restocking in the Costume shop. 73 out of 76 pets can now wear this new costume.
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