REFERRAL CONTEST
We have just started another Referral Contest to boost the Maradan population and see if we can reach 1 million players a little quicker. The referrals have now been fixed, so you can now refer new people with your referral link and get the referral prizes. But for the next couple of weeks, you will also get a free prize with *EVERY* referral you get from now. Prizes include Account Upgrade credit, MP (up to 1,000,000MP can be won), a Rotten CD, Rainbow wallpaper, blue/green/yellow/red Ercuw Potions, Gumball Machine Stamp, Virgo star and other cool prizes. All those who can refer over 25 new members during the referral contest will also receive a shiny new trophy for their inventory! The cd, stamp, star and wallpaper will retire after this contest and will not be avaliable again! For more information about the Referral System please click here.

The Aquarium has just been released in Jenoa! The Maradan University uses the Aquarium regularly for its research and in return, free scholarships are being offered to lucky visitors of the Aquarium if they feed the fish. The Aquarium fish minipets can only eat worms. These worms can only come from the fertile soils of Gigantic Paradise. Whenever these fish are hungry, it will say underneath the fish what worm they would like to eat. If you are quick enough to feed the fish, you will be rewarded.

NEW WORLD
A new world has been discovered in Marada! Lush Lake is where every marapet dreams to have a holiday at - but only a few can afford to! Lush Lake has fun-filled attractions and entertainment and is based in a relaxing and peaceful part of Marada. Some areas of the map are labelled but unreleased - these will be released over the next couple of weeks.

NEW FEATURE
We have just released Photo Albums. You can take a photo of your pet at the Photo Parlour in Lush Lake for 1,500MP once every 12 hours. You can then trade/sell the photo item or add it to your photo album! There is currently 15 photos for you to collect.

Tree Hugging Party Won

The Election is now over. The Tree Hugging party won with 6,713 votes! The Easy Money party came second with 4,390 votes and the Snobbish Party came last with only 2,169 votes. The voting has now ended and a new election with a new manifesto for each party will begin later today/tomorrow. The following changes have now happened on the site:

You can now only disown one pet every 24 hours.

The fee to disown a pet has changed from 5,000MP to only 500MP.

In a few months, the Sindi will return to Account Upgrades.

You now get 60MP per post or topic on the forums, instead of 50MP.

The portal and whirlpool now change the colour of your pet more often.

We will have a whole week dedicated to Characters. Character week should begin sometime this week and will have character news daily for 7 days.

And finally, our new Plot will begin before August ends. This will lead to a war and the dark side's castle. As the Easy Money party came very close to winning we have decided that Lush Lake will also be released.

This is a sneak preview at the newest pet. This is the 35th marapet, called the Phanty. It is limited edition and will be a mission pet, for a new mission that will be released soon. It will be the last mission we release for a few months.


The Mutant Sindi, Oglue and Kronk have finally been added.

The Town Hall has been released in the City of Marada. You can now rename any pet that you own aslong as you have a Male or Female certificate.

We have finally released the mutant, zombie and prison Viotto. Their battle poses are also now released.

Now that my vacation is over, normal news will return with tons of news planned starting from now. We have a brand new Game for you to play in the games section. Blackjack has just been released!

It has been a while since we've had an Editorial so this one is longer than usual!

NEW GAME
A brand new flash game has just been released. Oglue Lunch can be played 3 times a day with a maximum earnings of 1,500MP per play. We have decided that its time for us to remove ALL of our old games as we have enough of our own games to compensate for them. We will soon, hopefully, be back to 2 games every week released so our Games section will be massive. Laimay is currently completing all of the trophies and bonus prizes for each of the games we have, so we will soon have an avatar, 5 bonus items and a trophy for each game too! Our games section now has the room to expand and should get a complete makeover within the next few weeks, with new features and a new look.

Happy Birthday Marapets
Marapets is two years old today! We have acheived so much in the past two years and we would like to thank you all for playing and helping us to grow. We will not be celebrating our birthday, but as promised we will soon be having a huge party for reaching 1 million players.

NEW FRONTPAGE
You have probably already noticed it, but we have changed the frontpage of the site. Its not entirely finished yet, as we will be adding more to it soon. As you already know, this month is dedicated to improving the whole of the site. Therefore there may be a few errors and glitches. Although the maintenance to pets, items, homes, quests, shops, galleries and missions finished last week, we are still working on the smaller sections of the site. Please let us know of any errors on the site using the Help Forum so that I have a list of things to fix while I work offline.

Sorry for the problems there has been with Images not loading. There was a problem with the log files reaching their limit and not overwriting themselves. This has been fixed now but we also had problems with some of our database servers last night, which caused the Battle & Restocks servers to crash. They're being fixed now and should come online again soon.

For the next two weeks I will be without internet access. Therefore during this time, I will be fixing all of the areas of the site that are broken or down, such as highscores, random events, price changes and all of the other sections of the site that will be missing. I will be working offline, and will try and get online as often as I can to release news. This also means that for those who do not receive their account upgrades instantly and therefore have to email us, replies may take up to 5 days instead of 48 hours. When my internet access returns, you will see the release of Lush Lake, more items for characters, highscores and bonus prizes for all of the games and tons of other new content. For now, I have released two new Games for you to play. Fropa Attack and Baterminator are now in the games section, replacing Fish Food and Bombs Are Us.

The Town Hall will be released tomorrow.

NEW GAME
We have another brand new game for the site. Whack an Azul has replaced the Whack a Penguin game. We may have another game for Wednesday, but after that it will be around two more weeks until we have another game released. We are currently low on funds to pay for the games twice a week and hopefully in two weeks we will have saved up enough to continue doing so.

We have made a lot of changes to the Forums today. You can now view someone's latest topics and posts from their profile. You can also change your font, avatar and signature again. There is also a new feature which allows you to add a topic to your Favourites, which everyone else can also view from your profiles! We have also brought back the online/offline status, which we had to take away before because of server troubles - thanks account upgraders for bringing it back :)

Clubs have had several changes today. You can once again create a club, you can edit your font and avatar and also align/valign your messages. We have fixed the report button so you can report bad posts quickly. There is also the offline/online status next to each message. We are sorry but for now, club layouts are still down.

We will be working on the Games Section later today to change the scores on profiles from the old games to the new ones. Playing the old games will no longer count as a game played for the checklist/trophies.

Maramail has had many changes too today. The online/offline status has been fixed and the maramail search is back. You can also edit your font and avatar and also align/valign your messages and have a signature just for maramail.

Its a new month at Marapets and the August Account Upgrades have just been released. Sorry for the delay, we have had problems with Paypal which still have not been resolved - but we can actually receive money again now. The official election results will be release later in the week, but we can tell you that Tree Huggers have won by far. We will have the plot beginning sometime this month and we will also have Lush Lake released this month too. This month is dedicated to fixing the whole site, so that all parts of the site are working and updated if they are full of old content. We will also be improving lots of the site, such as new features for Maramail, Trades, Forums, etc. We hope to complete all of this before September.
The August account upgrade themes were Princess and Robot, but as the Princess Costume is reserved for the Princess Rapunzel Tower, we swapped it with a Fat Costume.

The Fat Costume and Robot Costume are part of the upgrades.

We have a Princess Dagger and a Robotic Knife avaliable.

There are two new minipets, the Lela and the Olvic...

Two new Stamps are avaliable, one of them for the new page of the Stamps - Lush Lake.

There are also two new Pearls avaliable...

And finally, the Quell or Osafo/Xoi are avaliable, depending on what potion you get.


In other news, 3 new Hidden Avatars are somewhere on the site for you to find.

You can also no longer get any MP as a prize from the Marapop Event.

NEW GAME
Introducing our first Two Player Game. This game has a two player version, so that you and another person at the computer with you can play against each other! Football has been added to the games section. It has replaced Quick Shot.

We have added a new feature to Trades. Now when you view offers you can check the shop search price! Be sure to use the Price Check forum whenever you need the price of an item to avoid being ripped off!

A new version of Fruit Harvest has been released. It has fixed all of the bugs that we have been told about.

This is just a quick update to let you know that our long term Maintenance that we have been having over the past few months is almost complete and completely in time for August, two weeks ahead of schedule! All of the major tasks have been completed, which consisted of a total recode of every aspect of the site, database server movements, new software installed on servers and optimisation of the whole site to find any bottlenecks we had. Right now we predict that it will be another week or two until the site returns to normal, with all bugs and glitches that appeared along the way completely fixed. We will continue to release daily news as usual, and thanks for your patience while we improved your Marapets experience - you should already notice a major difference.

Just a quick reminder that the August Account Upgrades will be released later today. This is your *last* chance to get the March upgrades and the April upgrades at $20.

A new Monthly Checklist will be released on the 2nd of August, so if you have not already entered for July, you have until then to do so!

The Mega Marapoptastic Extraveganza has now Finished


Just a quick apology for how badly this event has been delayed over the past few months, too many more important things took its place. The event will stay active for the next two weeks - but you can NO longer start it. In two weeks time you will not be able to claim any prizes. We hope you enjoyed it and the plot should begin soon...

I wonder how you get this avatar.....

Level 39 : Love Marapop

Clue : 'HSUS'
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Level 38 : Diet Cherry Marapop

Clue : '1290'
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Level 37 : Diet Musical Marapop

Clue : 'I can't decide!!'
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Marapop Event
We have spent most of the day testing all of the previous clues released so far and have fixed any that were not working. Today is your last chance to enter! There are 4 more clues to be released, which can be released at anytime over the next 24 hours. Those who finish tomorrow will receive the full set of prizes and 100,000MP. Those that finish Monday will receive a full set of prizes. Those who finish after this, within the next two weeks, will receive a Jacket Potato with Cola and a full set of Marapops. To make it fairer with all timezones, the 1,000,000MP will be given randomly to ten who finish tomorrow. All of these items will then retire (not the Marapops) and this event will FINALLY end to make way for our Plot.
1,000,000MP
Can Trading Card
Marapop Stamp
Jacket Potato with Cola
40 different Marapops

Sorry for the problems you may have experienced the past few days on the site. Once again we have had some important maintenance and you should already be seeing a huge difference in the loading times for the site. Pages now load almost instantly, and by the end of the week we hope to have all remaining bugs and glitches fixed.

NEW GAME
We have just released yet another flash game. Ushunda Invaders can be played 3 times a day and you can earn up to 1,500MP per play!

Level 36 : Blueberry Marapop

Clue : 'Shoot!'
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The Gigantic Paradise map has been updated.

NEW DAILY
A brand new game has been added to Gigantic Paradise. Worm Digging is the latest craze! Every three hours you can select one of the twelve plots of mud you think a worm will be in, dig and you may get a worm! Worms will be very useful soon...

For those who have not received their Email Newsletter yet, the Marapop Event will end on Saturday!

NEW GAME
Another new game has been added to the games section.... Leido Bounce! It has replaced Mars Rover.

We have added Bonus Prizes to Murfin Chase. Eventually every game will give out 5 unique items which will only be avaliable from these games. Murfin Chase is the first game to have this completed for. When sending score, you may be lucky enough to randomly win one of 5 of these items!

The Ziranek map has been updated, with a couple of new places added to it.

We have just released the digital clock in Ziranek. It is basically a feature that should make the site much easier for you to play. It has a Countdown for you to let you know how long you have to wait to do something again. For example, it could tell you that you have to wait 12 hours and 35 minutes until you can use the Whirlpool again. Never miss a daily again!