Its nearly Halloween and the whole of Marada is getting into the halloween spirit! From today until the end of October, halloween celebrations will be occuring all over the site!

The Snowman has taken halloween a little too seriously this year! He is only asking for halloween treats and he is giving out new prizes, such as the Ghost Costume and Pumpkin Gumballs!

NEW FLASH GAME
Today's new Flash Game has just been released. It can be played 3 times a day with a maximum payout of 1,500MP per game. Mahjong can now be found at the puzzle games category of the games section.

Roflings in space?!?! What next...

We have retired the Wild Back Wallpaper from the limited edition items at the Account Upgrades page, and replaced it with the Two Hundred Dukka Coin.

There are five new Avatars for you to find.

Is that an Azul I see flying overhead on a broomstick? There seems to be a witch convention in town today! Three more Witch pets have arrived to join in the halloween celebrations...

Meanwhile over at the Plushie Machine there must be some kind of witchery in the air... We now have these Enchanted Rofling Plushies available to win!


And did something go terribly wrong with these plushies? No, they're just Mutants... Creepy!

Marapets reached 1,000,000 members today!! This is a huge milestone for us and as promised, we will be having a huge party to celebrate. But as the rest of the month is dedicated to Halloween related news and events on the site, our party will be in the first week of November! Thanks for everyone who plays the site - without you we wouldn't have made it!

Watch out if you meet any of these pets on a dark night in the Undying Woods! Three more Halloween pets have arrived in Marada:

Halloween is getting nearer and the pets seem to be getting into the spirit of things! Recently spotted hanging out with Elger are the Ghost Knutt, Ghost Xoi, and Ghost Murfin

The plushie machine Newths have been busy again and hope you will like these enchanted and plain Reese plushies...


You may also be lucky enough to win one of these rather cool enchanted halloween plushies from the machine!

Sorry for the downtime earlier, our server company was having problems and it brought down quite a lot of our database servers. The problem has been fixed, but it does mean that our record for longest length of time without major downtime is now only at 4 months. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. We do have planned maintenance for this Friday, but the downtime will only be in certain parts of the site for only several minutes, so you probably won't even notice it.

The Halloween Ercuw has just been released.

Our Halloween celebrations will start on Friday and carry on until the end of the month. We will have lots of halloween related news, giveaways and our annual Trick or Treat event. This year to take part, you will need to either have a halloween, ghost or witch pet.

The Ghost Jessup has been spotted hanging around the gates of the graveyard in Undying Woods - now your Jessup can become ghost too!



We have a brand new server for Clubs now installed and therefore all of the problems we had with clubs have now been fixed.

The Witch Feliz has also been released.

The network sites are back from their downtime. Each server had a small hardware upgrade and it may take up to 48 hours for them to come back online for you. Sorry for the lack of warning, we wasn't expecting it to be done until the end of the month. This means that a few problems with MaraUploads have also been fixed.

SERVER ERRORS
The whole of the second network on marapets is currently down and as it holds most of our database servers, most of the site is unplayable. There is no reason for it to be down, we had no warning and its been down for 4-6 hours so far. We are waiting for it to be fixed but as its out of our control all we can do is wait. The Forums & Clubs are actually working so you can use them if you are lucky enough to already be logged in. We will keep you updated with any information we find out, but as I've already sent 25+ emails to every email address I could find for the server company, there isn't much else I can do ^_^

NEW MARADA MAP
As we are quickly approaching 1 million members, you may have noticed that most of the site has been revamped. The Marada Map was top of the list, as it hadn't been redrawn since we opened, other than to add new worlds. Its taken weeks of planning, sketching and reorganising, but we have managed to release the new map with every world we have on there and also include all of the 7 new worlds we have planned for the next year. We hope you like the change. This is the first version, so therefore it will obviously have more work done to it soon.

Server Problems

We are currently having server problems with our avatars server. To stop any lag of the site trying to connect to this server, we have disabled it. This means that your avatars will not show up, you will receive avatars around the site you already have and any avatars you try to get right now you will not actually receive. This also means that trophies & awards are not showing on profiles. We had predicted that this would happen very soon so have already ordered the new hardware to prevent this from happening again.

In other news, yesterday was our record for the most ever players online at once, the most page views and the most unique visitors! Yesterday we receched 2,197 online, we did 5,114,210 pageviews and had 82,420 visitors! Hopefully today will beat these records!

We are quickly approaching 1 Million Players! Laimay and I have started preparing for our site party, where will have a week of great site updates, giveaways and fun events! Make sure you are around this week as it should only be a few more days to go!!!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. adammada is the winner of the 1,607,900MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 3, 7, 14, 21 and 23! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. miop0 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 19656! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

Its a little later than usual, but the October Account Upgrades have just been released. This month we need to purchase a few new servers and we want to release three new flash games a week instead of two!

NEW GAME
Today's new Flash Game has just been released. It is the third game for this week and can be played 3 times a day with a maximum payout of 1,500MP per game. Simon can now be found at the strategy games category of the games section.

NEW GAME
Today's new Flash Game has just been released. It is the second game for this week and can be played 3 times a day with a maximum payout of 1,500MP per game. Moon Racoon can now be found at the strategy games category of the games section. Sorry its a little late, it was supposed to be released on Wednesday, but because of its size, lots of work had to be done to the new games section just for it to fit!

The Promote Marapets section has been improved again to avoid the confusion and problems some people have been experiencing. Check out the new page, by going to the 'Cool Prizes' link under the site search. There is tips on how to easily add your code on other sites for free without breaking any rules, there is the status of all of the sites your link is currently on, a list of all of the sites your code is on and new codes for those who have problems adding the current ones. Some of the prizes that you can only get from this are..


If you can get your Promote Marapets code added to 50 different websites, this cool new Award will be added to your profile!

NEW GAME
We have a new, non-flash game that has just been added to Card Games! The game of Snap! is free and can be played once every 10 minutes. Prizes are MP, BP or Blue DNA! This means that now, *EVERY* DNA item is avaliable somewhere on the site, making Blitzen possible. There will be no more blitzen resets.

The Promote Marapets section of the site has been fixed and improved. You now will definately get your prizes every week! If you haven't used Promote Marapets yet, you should check it out now! Simply add a small code on as many other websites, forum signatures, other website profiles, etc and the more sites you place a link on, the more prizes you will received *EVERY* week! Some of the prizes that you can only get from this are..

NEW SHOP SEARCH & PRICE CHECKER
We have improved the shop search & price checking sections of the site. We have purchased a brand new, very fast server to run these sections. At peak times, the shop search/price checker functions were being used 97 times a second, lagging other areas of the site - it caused 12 minutes of server errors yesterday in many parts of the site too! You shouldn't notice anything different, other than the increase in speed in these areas of the site. Searching for a One Dukka Coin took 3.9 seconds before, but with the new search took only 0.8 seconds. The Price Checker also loads instantly too, with no delay. The only noticable change is that items in your shop will not show up on the shop search if no changes have happened in your shop for 14 days. This means that if no items have been added to your shop, or no prices have been updated for 14 days, all items in your shop will no longer show up on the Shop Search. This shouldn't make much of a difference, but it will keep the speed of the shop search fast by removing overpriced items from inactive accounts. Thank you to Account Upgraders for helping us to afford this hardward upgrade.

The Feliz has had an update. The shape hasn't changed much, but it has been redrawn and recoloured!

NEW GAMES SECTION
We have spent several days this week redesigning the games section. It has been organised and improved so that you can find the games that you want. We have added top 6 games, 5 newest games, game of the day, game of the week, browse by category and sort through all games. We have also used the games section as a way for you to find quests, missions and non-flash games. We hope you like the changes.

We also have some really good games related news. In two weeks we will be released 3 Flash Games a Week! Of course this will rely completely on the sales of Account Upgrades, but we have been saving and hopefully will manage to have this as a long term thing. The new timetable will be a new game every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. sebthib55 is the winner of the 4,718,700MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 1, 14, 22, 19, 23 and 21! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. topazjewel is the winner of the Three Dukka Coin and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5204! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 5MP per ticket!
  

NEW GAME
Today's new Flash Game has just been released. It is the second game for this week and can be played 3 times a day with a maximum payout of 1,500MP per game. Memory Pets can now be found at the puzzle games category of the games section.


We have started to send out the Email Newsletters. Most have been sent out, but it will take up to 7 more days for everyone to receive one.

NEW GAME
Today's new Flash Game has just been released. It is the first game for this week and can be played 3 times a day with a maximum payout of 1,500MP per game. Free Cell can now be found at the Games section.

The October Checklist has just been released. We have changed the prizes for this month. There are 2 of the new 2GB ipod nanos to be won, a $50 amazon voucher and a $20 itunes voucher - aswell as tons of Account Upgrade credit! The winners for September will be announced later this month.

We have started to give out the prizes to the winners of the last checklist. We should have all prizes sent by tomorrow.

REESE REVAMP
We have redrawn the Reese to have a nice and fresh new look. We hope you like the changes. You may need to press the CTRL and F5 keys together on your keyboard for the changes to show up.


The Reese is now avaliable in orange, black, grey and white!

JESSUP REVAMP
We have redrawn the Jessup to have a nice and fresh new look. We hope you like the changes. You may need to press the CTRL and F5 keys together on your keyboard for the changes to show up.



The Jessup is now avaliable in orange, black, grey and white!

This week is Double Games Week! This means that instead of sending 3 scores per game per day, you can send 6! That means there is 9,000MP to be made from every game for every day this week!

Double Missions Week has just finished.

The bonus prizes for the Addow Ride game have just been added.