MARAPETS MAINTENANCE

Here is an image of the Dentist soon to be opening in Lowlyhood. Just like going to the Dentist, this week is going to be painful and will leave a lot of you grinding your teeth. We are making the major move to a brand new system and its going to take a lot of work, a lot of moving stuff around, editing and tweaking. Its taken 8 months to save up and 3 months to prepare for and I'll be working almost all day and night this week to try and minimise the disruption. I don't want to close the site while we do it, because most of the site will be playable. But, certain sections will be up and down and there will be annoying server errors. I advise against doing any missions unless you are really prepared for them. When I am finished, we'll have a super fast, stable site that won't go down as often - it'll only go down when I want it to! And with the new system, I'll be able to actually go through all the errors and glitches and fix them, because I'll know that they will stay fixed. We apologise for the inconvenience but it has to be done and it will be so worth it! I'll keep you all updated in the news. But please remember that pets, items and MP/currency does not just disappear. If it does, it'll probably show up eventually and if it doesn't after you use some sections of the site, open a ticket. Just don't panic, it'll all be over soon...

NEW FEATURE
The Voodoo Doll items have finally been activated. You can now use one to curse a pet. You can curse your own pets, or curse another person's pet. All you need to do is have a doll in your Inventory, visit a pet's profile and curse them. When you curse a pet, it becomes sick and unhappy. Don't want to get cursed? Hire a Witch Doctor! The Witch Doctor has just been added to the Eleka's Castle map. For 25RP per pet, you can hire the Witch Doctor to protect you against any curses!

NEW FEATURE
The Simerian Sundial is where time was first invented. The Light Fairy realised that the light from the sun gave her all of her magical powers, and that she could tell what time of day it from the position of the sun in the sky. At midday, when the sun was at its highest, she had the strongest power. Ever since Ziranek was invented, everything went digital and Maradans forgot all about her and the Sundial she invented. She slipped into a depression and now takes out all of her anger by killing innocent pets. You can sacrifice your pet to the Light Fairy if you have a Mummy Doll that is the same species as your pet. She'll happily kill it and when shes done, she'll mummify your pet for you to stop it smelling so bad! When shes done, you'll have a Mummy Pet. It might just be a rumour, but if you are really, really, really lucky you may catch her in a good mood and she'll give you a Light Fairy Doll too...



The rest of the Mummy Pets have been released. There is a couple of pets missing and a few Mummy Dolls missing, but Laimay will get to those as soon as she can!


Can you find this Sundial Avatar ?

NEW FEATURE
This ancient Temple has been opened for you to explore. Its very dangerous, so you can only send in one pet at a time and while the pet is inside the temple, you cannot trade or exchange the pet. Make sure you are prepared - the temple has many obstacles, 30 levels some say, but not many have made it all the way to the treasure deep inside! While inside the temple, your pet will see ancient symbols on the walls or floor which will help him safely proceed to the next level. But you will need Hieroglyphics to help translate.

At each level of the Temple, you will get a prize. It can be either items, currency, pet stats or Account Upgrade Credit. There is no time limit for completing the Temple, but you can only complete one level every 48 hours. If you manage to reach level 30, you will be able to change your pet to any species you want - even Limited Edition Pets! You can only ever complete this Temple once.

There are 3 new Giftbox items are on sale at the Account Upgrades page. You can use the Ice Caves Giftbox to use the Ice Caves every 8 hours instead of 16, the Archeology Giftbox to use Archeology every 12 hours instead of 24 and the Mission Giftbox means you can complete a mission every 6 hours instead of 12! When you use a Giftbox, you can use these features twice as often as everyone else forever. However, the missions giftbox will only allow you to do the SAME mission once every 12 hours, but 2 different missions once every 6 hours.


There are now 3 new Booster items on sale at the Account Upgrades page for Elite Gym stats! Every time you use a booster, your pet will gain between 3 and 6 stats! Make sure your pet is ready for the Olympics!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARAPETS
Marapets is 4 Years Old!! Ok, so we are a few days late for our birthday but there was so much more interesting news to release instead, and we were waiting for confirmation before giving you this awesome news! You all probably know that the sites had a massive hardware problem causing us to crash everyday. We could of paid to replace the broken parts of the server, but that would of required us to close the site, backup everything, fix the server, reinstall and configure everything and move the site back to the fixed server. But we decided not to do that, because even if everything went well, we'd have a minimum of 7 days downtime and thats way too long - especially when we don't know for sure if that would fix the server, there could be more broken on it. So instead, we decided to deal with these annoying errors and downtime for a couple of months to save up for a bigger and better new server and system for the site, which we need for the future growth of the site anyway. This was finally bought and is shipping in 5 to 10 working days!! This means that by the end of next week or at the start of the week after that, we will have approx 3 hours downtime while we move to our new system. This will give us a stable site that will be much faster, can hold more players on and we won't crash all the time with stupid server errors!! It also means that all of the broken & disabled features around the site can start return and with less errors and problems for us, the more time we can spend improving the site!

We aim to be running on our new system and have nearly every glitch on the site fixed within the next 2-3 weeks. You are probably thinking you have heard this so many times before, but this time we have a invested so much more time, money and have learnt so much from past mistakes on growing the site's servers. In the past we were growing too fast and couldn't financially afford to keep up with the growth. This time we waited 8 months to pay for exactly what we needed instead of buying cheaper alternatives that only fix the problem for the short term!

In the meantime, you can get a 4 Years Balloon from completing school, university, gym and elite gym courses. You can get a 4 Years Stamp randomly at the Pot of Gold and the 4 Years Cake from completing quests! All of these items will retire when we move to our new servers in approx 5-10 working days!!

NEW FEATURE
We have just released a new Goals Game. At every level you have a new goal to complete related to Minipet Island. Each level gets harder to complete but you will receive a prize for completing each level. Unlike quest and mission games, you have unlimited amount of time to complete each goal level and you can only complete them once. New levels will always be added to the Goals in each world. Prizes include rare items only avaliable from goals, MP, BP, RP, Dukka Coins, Account Upgrade Credit and stats for your pets. The Minipet Island Goals is the eighth world to have goals and currently has 15 levels for you to complete. New levels will be added in the news to these goals all of the time, each with a brand new prize.




The Minipet Island Goals has been added to the Minipet Island map.

NEW FEATURE
The Simerian University is where pets can be sent for advanced education, by ancient Simerian explorers who have centuries of experience in Simeria and around ancient Marada. There are 8 different courses you can take part in at the University and after each session, you gain a level in this course. Each course requires Scholarships. The courses are modern but as the tutor is not so modern, he sometimes teaches your pet ancient Hieroglyphics which can help you in a new Simerian Temple...





Can you find these new Hidden Avatars ?

NEW FEATURE
This ancient Temple has been opened for you to explore. Its very dangerous, so you can only send in one pet at a time and while the pet is inside the temple, you cannot trade or exchange the pet. Make sure you are prepared - the temple has many obstacles, 30 levels some say, but not many have made it all the way to the treasure deep inside! While inside the temple, your pet will notice many closed, locked doors while can only be opened with a special Key. Some doors even need several keys!

At each level of the Temple, you will get a prize. It can be either items, currency, pet stats or Account Upgrade Credit. There is no time limit for completing the Temple, but you can only complete one level every 24 hours. If you manage to reach level 30, you will receive the ultra rare and powerful Staff of the Light Fairy. This new battle item is currently by far the strongest weapon on the game!

NEW SHOP
The 61st shop in Marada has just opened in Ziranek. The Batteries store has opened restocking 40 battery items. You'll find out soon what they're for...

NEW FEATURE
We have just released a new Goals Game. At every level you have a new goal to complete related to Ziranek. Each level gets harder to complete but you will receive a prize for completing each level. Unlike quest and mission games, you have unlimited amount of time to complete each goal level and you can only complete them once. New levels will always be added to the Goals in each world. Prizes include rare items only avaliable from goals, MP, BP, RP, Dukka Coins, Account Upgrade Credit and stats for your pets. The Ziranek Goals is the seventh world to have goals and currently has 16 levels for you to complete. New levels will be added in the news to these goals all of the time, each with a brand new prize.



The Ziranek Goals has been added to the Ziranek map.

NEW SHOP
With the increase of tourists and explorers since the rediscovery of Simeria, these collectable Mummy Dolls are being sold at increased prices. Who would pay this much BP for a doll? They must do something really cool...

NEW DAILY
A new daily game has been released in the Lost City of Simeria. Archeology can be played once every 24 hours. Go digging for rare simerian artifacts and you may find rare new Simerian Keys, MP or even Dukka Coins!

A new Undying Minipet has been discovered! That means there are 50 new bones for you to grab when you go Grave Robbing and a new minipet for you to resurrect!
White Sabertooth Bones +
White Blood =
White Sabertooth

Here are 5 new Mummy Pets from Simeria...

NEW FEATURE
An ancient Temple has just opened for you to explore in Simeria. Its very dangerous, so you can only send in one pet at a time and while the pet is inside the temple, you cannot trade or exchange the pet. Make sure you are prepared - the temple has many obstacles, 30 levels some say, but not many have made it all the way to the treasure deep inside! While inside the temple, your pet will see ancient symbols on the walls or floor which will help him safely proceed to the next level. But you will need to use Runes to help translate.

At each level of the Temple, you will get a prize. It can be either items, currency, pet stats or Account Upgrade Credit. There is no time limit for completing the Temple, but you can only complete one level every 24 hours. If you manage to reach level 30, you will be able to change your pet to ANY COLOUR costume you want!

NEW DAILY
The Simerian Statue was built thousands of years ago, before Simeria was destroyed. It has survived all of the wars and has watched thousands of years of history develop around it. You can leave 100MP at the statue and it might share some of it's wisdom and knowledge with one of your pets and help it gain school stats. You can visit the fountain once every 5 hours.

Can you find these 3 new Hidden Avatars?