What's that, Furcadia?

Seems a little delayed as of this posting, but the Sweetheart Ball might just be one of the most fun things to do this month on Furcadia.

Last year there was a dance floor that let you waltz around with another player; a swan ride through the ‘tunnel of love’, a balloon vendor, (for those that love balloons!) and parties across Furcadia. If you want to get in on the festivities, (and free guild advertising!) the time to strike is now.

There are many ways you can get people attracted to your dream; one of these includes door prizes. There’s plenty of door prize digos that you can give out to people who show up at your party and stay for the entire event, thereby making them want to come back in the future. (as opposed to prizes given out at the start, in which people show up, grab, and dash.)

You can also take this opportunity to start a new storyline in your continuity, introduce players to new ideas, or expand your world. If you’re a guild owner, this could be as important to you as Groups and Guilds day.

DP updated today to help people out with the FOX update.

Here’s what has changed.

Support for Furcadia FOX Update and the new servers
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Seen the new stuff in the Wylde yet?

There’s a lot of stuff that’s different in there. For starters, no more teleporting. (That’s right, you can actually map out paths now!) The map is about double it’s previous size. Additionally, there’re animations everywhere.

One of the more significant changes, however, might be in the Mountain Aerie. There’s a cliff overlooking the desert below. If you have wings, you can leap off of it and fly down into the desert beneath you.

Original posting can be found in this thread.

First, adding ‘humans’ would not make Furcadia a clone of WoW any more than it would make it a clone of Deal or No Deal. They’re not the same thing, they’re barely in the same Genre.

Furcadia, as Felorin has said numerous times here on the forums, is not about furry. It’s about user created content.
Anthropomorphism is all about being /like/ a human. By the way, Humans are animals too, in case you all weren’t aware, so saying, ‘it’s all about animals’ is kinda silly.

The thing a lot of people overlook insofar as Furcadia is concerned is that The game is pretty much unique insofar as other games go. I don’t, for example, get the same feel from a game like Second Life or World of Warcraft that I do from Furcadia.

People aren’t claiming that this 1 avatar will make-or-break their Furcadia experience, so please stop telling them to GTFO for wanting to play a human, and stop trying to act like it would flat out destroy the game entirely; it would do neither, just like every update hasn’t done so.

Anybody remember how many people were complaining and moaning about how much Gendered avatars were going to ruin Furcadia? Or how about Feral avatars ruining Furcadia?

Seems Furcadia’s still standing to me, and both of those were huge milestones that Furcadia overcame that a lot of players wanted, and a lot of players didn’t. A lot of both sides are still around.

The avatars aren’t Furcadia’s biggest draw to keep players around anyway. It’s the community and dreams that do it. The addition of a human avatar wouldn’t change either of those dynamically.

If DEP does offer one, (which I’m sure they will in the future; I’d almost bank on it,) it will 98.8% likely be a pay-for ‘seasonal’ avatar. Why? Because they aren’t in-cannon. For private dreams, you can turn those off, so it won’t mess up continuity. It’ll make Furcadia a lot of money; that’ll allow’em to add in more features.

Furcadia looks like it’s going to be launching with a new skin. I’ve messed around with it a bit and I happen to like it.

It’s called golden. Here’s a screenshot for you all: