There were a few problems with the War yesterday which have now been fixed. War points were not being registered for lots of people when we first started. This took a long time to fix (and just caused us some downtime), but by using our restock logs, we have calculated how many points you missed out on and have just rewarded them to you. Plus, Jenoa was mistakenly added to the Light side when its actually part of the Dark side of Marada.

We will be retiring lots of the Account Upgrade items we mentioned a few days ago tomorrow. You have only a few more hours to purchase them!

Stage 2 of the War will also be starting this weekend.

WAR - Stage 1
With the Light Side now banned from shopping on the Dark Side, King Baspinar has noticed a few problems with his economy. To try and fix these problems, he will be awarding 2 war points for every rarity of an item that light siders restock from his shops. This means that if you restock a rarity 10 item, you will receive 20 war points.

Queen Eleka responded quickly deciding to do the exact same for the Dark Siders. She realises that she has much less shops on the dark side than the light side has, but the dark side will have the advantage on the next stage!

RESTOCKING = buying items from the main shops (not user shops) on the world maps of Marada.

With the news of the War reaching Queen Eleka today, she responded by closing *EVERY* shop in the dark side of Marada from light siders! That means if you joined the light side you cannot restock in any shop on the light side of Marada! The King quickly retaliated by closing all of his shops to dark siders!

With the teams almost chosen, the War Redemption Shop has open in Mini Pet Island. This new shop will be open through the whole war, allowing you to spend your war points as soon as you earn them. This shop will have limited amount of stock for each item, and they may not restock again! There will also be lots more added to the shop all of the time, including real prizes!

WAR HAS STARTED!
It is finally time for our war to start. You can now click on the shields on the site layout, under the logo, and it will allow you to pick which team you want to join. You can only join one team and cannot change it once its been choosen. For the next three to four weeks, we will have our war event which will keep you all busy! It will include quests, restocking and of course, battling! You will find out more soon, but for now its time to pick your teams...

This War Avatar is also avaliable! It will retire after this event..

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. dooge is the winner of the 775,400MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 1, 13, 25, 3, 23 and 12! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. kayliea is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 23016! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

We will be retiring a lot of Account Upgrade items next week. You will not longer be able to purchase the July and August upgrades, the Ball Dress Female Costume, Tuxedo Male Costume and Christmas Treasure Map 6. This will be one the last chances for you to get a Quell, the Whirlpool Treasure map or the Certficates to rename your pet!

Can you find the Superhero Avatar?

This Sponge Equilor and this Space Zetlian are now avaliable.

These items are now restocking at the Candy Shop.

We had another important upgrade to our site today, with all of our application servers receiving a lot of work. We have improved the loading times of the site by over 2,000% by optimising our php servers to full work how we need them to. We still have a lot more work happening on the site, which you will really start to notice happening soon. We are upgrading the RAM on all of our servers with 1GB or less of RAM. We have spent over $12,000 on RAM upgrades this week to make sure each server will, from Friday, have 4GB of RAM to work with. This will also help the site run a lot better, allowing us to cache a lot more data. Then from next week, all of our flash games are moving to their own network so that they can be optimised fully to load a lot quicker and to remove their lagging of our php servers. Thank you for your patience for the last few weeks, and for all of those who have purchased account upgrades, as they have helped to fund a lot of this.

SLATER PARK has received a much needed makeover. As with the server upgrades around the site, we treated Laimay to a new $250 drawing tablet for her artwork on the site. Shes had the same tablet for 3 years, since we started the site and really needed one that still worked! This map is the first piece of artwork shes used it for..

We can now officially tell you the Maintenance is now complete. As far as we know, the sites upgrade was a success and we are now finished. There is still a small possibility of some more problems, but these are unlikely. We would like to thank you all for your patience over the past two weeks, you should start to see the benefits of the upgrade from now on.

The Election results are in. The Snobbish Party has won , receiving 76% of the vote. Already in power, they have decided that they will declare war on Queen Eleka. This means that the war will start within the next couple of days! Keep checking the news for more updates.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. jackbandit is the winner of the 289,300MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 12, 20, 22, 19 and 9! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. theoriginalpeanut is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 20173! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

The site's Maintenance is almost complete. We are not expecting any more major problems over the next few days and if the site manages to stay up all weekend, it will mean that the maintenance is complete. We would like to thank you for your patience the past few weeks. The plot/war will continue once the maintenance is completed.

These two pets can now wear the Water Costume.

To improve the efficency and security of Quests, there is now a six digit code before completing them.

There are some new Addow Photos avaliable to collect.

We have given Dukka Town a total revamp. This map hasn't ever been changed since it was first released a really long time ago and really needed to be redrawn. We hope you like the new map, it gives us a lot more room for new places!

There is a new Millionaire Gonk and Feliz!

New Gummy Xoi & Renat items are restocking in the candy store!

Thank you all for your patience while we were performing important Maintenance. We experienced a lot of problems when our new system went into production and it has taken us all weekend to fix. We are not certain that all problems are fixed, but there is a team of experts all working with me on the work and at least one of us is avaliable 24/7 so any new problems that do appear should be fixed as quickly as we can. It will most likely take until the end of the week for us to get everything finished.

This Huthiq likes it's gothic new look!

We have hidden a Mommi Avatar for you to find and also released the default Lati avatar.

Five new Voodoo Dolls are restocking too...

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. olivia223 is the winner of the 390,000MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 5, 2, 7, 6, 9 and 8! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. auntieappletard is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 23544! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

NEW SHOP
Now than Queen Eleka has returned to her castle, a new shop has opened just outside it. Voodoo Dolls are now on sale there. Who knows what these dolls will eventually do....

The mutant, zombie and prison versions of the Kidlet have been released.

This is just a quick update you let you know about Maintenance we are currently having. For the past week, our new servers were being set up and installed. It will be another 1-3 days and then the site will have up to 24 hours of downtime. It could just be 4-6 hours, but we are allowing up to 24 hours for the site to be closed. This is to ensure it is tested and working properly. This maintenance will be very successful for us to put an end to the lag we have been experiencing recently and will allow for the war to start right away. It was delayed by two weeks because we were worried that the site would be totally unplayable with the large numbers of people that will be taking part. We will give you more news about the maintenance as soon as we have any.

The mutant, zombie and prison Lati are also now avaliable.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. yingwangx24 is the winner of the 487,400MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 6, 7, 2, 13, 20 and 17! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. LamyLove is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 12329! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

The February Account Upgrades have now been released. They are Love themed, just a few days late for Valentines - sorry! They are now avaliable at the Account Upgrades page. Here are some of the rewards:
There is a new Mini Pet, theValentine and a new Valentines Day DVD, a Love Music CD and a Valentine Book to entertain your pets and give them sweet dreams.


There are new male and female Love clothes for you to dress up your character in!

There are also 3 new pets that can be costumed Love including Marada's newest edition, the the Lati

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. daltonlee is the winner of the 476,900MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 10, 4, 7, 22, 11 and 17! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. chocolatelover6 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 12880! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

NEW PET
This is the new limited edition pet, which will be avaliable within the next few days! The Lati is the 39th marapet species to be discovered!


There is a new minipet, named Jacko which is now restocking.

NEW GAME
We have a brand new Flash Game for you to play. Phanty Quest has been added to the Strategy category of the games section. We are also going through a major recode on all of our games fixing all of the known bugs on them and increasing the loading times for all games. We will let you know as soon as its been completed.

The Kidlet is now avaliable in more colours!

NEW PET
We have a brand new, non-limited edition pet for you to create. The Kidlet is the 38th marapet species to be discovered! You can now create a new Kidlet in blue, red, green or yellow.


The Frozen Foods shop is now stocking lots of new frozen foods. The old frozen food has also been redrawn, so they all match the same style now!

NEW GAME
We have a brand new Flash Game for you to play. Rofling Stamper has been added to the Arcade category of the games section.

This is how the new Fairy Addow looks..

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. animallover15 is the winner of the 522,000MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 15, 4, 6, 8 and 25! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. GryphonMayfair is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 33562! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

The January Account Upgrades have now been released. They are following a War theme and are now avaliable at the account upgrades page. We know we are exactly a month late, but we wanted to release them anyway. There will be new ones for February out in a week or two. Here are some of the rewards:
There is a new Eleka Costume and four pets are already avaliable in this colour!


There are also male and female War Clothes for you to dress up your character in!

As the war is on its way, there is a new Eleka Wand and Shield..

A new stamp and book are also part of the upgrade.