Dev Logs

A few changes have finally been published to the site! Tutorials for each will be created after we finish with our preparations for the October event, but in the meantime, here's what you can expect:

Navbar update

There is now a "Community" section in the main navigation bar. With its addition, we've moved the link to the gallery out of the "Play" section, and the forums link has been sorted under "Community" as well. You can also find a link to the new trade center under the "Community" section!

Trade Center

Introducing the Trade Center! Your one-stop spot to publish and browse advertisements and find your trade queue. When creating an advertisement, there is an "offering" field where you can list your hoard items, Safirans, or even type something custom. Ads will also include a "seeking" section where you can list hoard items, wishlists, or type out something specific. Advertisements will automatically close after being listed for 30 days, so the trade center remains tidy.

• As a reminder, the trade center is only a method of finding a trade partner. In order to actually transfer items with another user, you must visit your trade queue to initialize a trade.
• With the addition of this feature, we have archived the "Hoard Trades" and the "Safiran Sales and Trades" forums. "Art Exchange" will remain until an upcoming Trade Center update.
• We have also addressed an issue where pets, gear, and weapons were unable to be transferred between users. You can now send pets and claymore to your friends (or, heck, even your enemies!) via your trade queue.

Wishlists

Whether for yourself or to share with other users, you can now create a collection of items you're hoping to acquire via wishlists! Browse through the encyclopedia and shops to add items to your wishlists via the "Add to Wishlist" buttons, or stop by your wishlist page to create custom lists to properly organize all your desires.

Minesweeper

...is still in the works. We need to create both a way to distribute rewards to users, as well as design some asset art to make the game look cohesive with the site. BUT! If you would like to test it out, we may have a demo already available (although there are no rewards for playing the demo, no matter what the tutorial tells you).

• For the demo to work properly, you may need to hard refresh your browser. Depending on your browser, a hard refresh can be done via:
  • (Windows) CTRL + F
  • (Mac) CMD + Shift + R
  • (iOS) Turning on airplane mode, refreshing the page, and then turning airplane mode back off.

Donation shop

Those who have stopped by our Trello may have realized there's one thing missing in this update: the Donation Shop. We're still puzzling over how we would like this feature to work for Safira Island. For now, it has been put onto the backburner until our preparations for the October event are completed.

With so many new features, there may be a few kinks here and there to iron out. As always, if you ever encounter an issue, please submit a bug report.

Due to time constraints, the July newspost will be postponed until July 3rd. In the meantime, here are some brief updates a few prompts:

Storyline Prompts

The new prompt, Forked Along Stork Wings, will be available for submissions at 6:00 AM CST on July 1st. The story associated with the prompt, on the other hand, will be released with the newspost on the 3rd of July.

Legacy prompts have been behind in their re-releases, but they will re-open for submissions on July 2nd.

Generous Spirit Prompt

For the duration of July (in honor of Art Fight) all Generous Spirit submissions will receive an additional Arcane Paintbrush.

Activity Corner

Will refresh as per usual on the 2nd of the month.

A handful of other updates will also be coming along, although these will be discussed later in the July newspost on the 3rd. We'll see you then!

Update: It took a little longer than intended, but we're back online! As a thank-you for your patience, we've given all users the ability to explore their daily roll locations for a second time today and tomorrow, until it resets back to normal around ~11:45 AM CST.

Sometime on March 27^th after 9:00 PM CST, the Safira Island website will be updating its PHP version. PHP, for those who are curious, is the programming language that allows for the site to communicate with its database and have dynamic content. This update means that the site will experience some brief downtime.

This should hopefully be for only a short period of time, but the updating process is new to us, so we cannot give a definite answer to how long the updates will take. If the site will be down longer than 10 minutes, we will be announcing the site's status and update progress on the Safira Island Discord Server.

With this update's completion, if you have any issues with the site (slow load times, daily rolls don't refresh, 500 or 404 errors, etc.), please submit a bug report or email AnimatedCritter@gmail.com.

A small set of updates was pushed to the site. This includes:

• Adding forums to the homepage sidebar (and adjusting the style ever-so-slightly).
• Allowing users to ping/mention one-another by typing "@username" in comments and forum posts.
• The "Message User" button no longer displays on users' own profiles.
• The "Message User" button now auto-fills the recipient field of the form.
• The Sales page has been divided up into four categories: open, closed/pre-claimed, Shelter, and user-hosted trades.

A few more minor visual updates are planned for the coming week, including a change to hyperlink colors to make them more visible and reformating of the Sales pages themselves, but feel free to leave some more suggestions!

This maintenance has now been concluded! Details about the new updates will be included in an upcoming news post.

A new event is releasing soon, which includes the addition of some new features. The site will be down for these updates sometime around 4:45 AM CST. Should all go well, this period of downtime should be brief, and the site should be back up no later than 5:00 AM CST.

TL;DR: there are some clarity/balance issues with the prompt bonus/submission system, which will be addressed Sunday night. Regardless, prompts may still be submitted!

First off, thank you all so much for contributing to the site! I'm  overjoyed to already have so many amazing people participating in the ARPG!

But with more submissions rolling into the admin queue, there are two very apparent issues in the structure of our prompt bonus/submission system.

The first issue being addressed is the imbalance between the effort of a submission vs. the Opals earned. We will be rebalancing Prompt Bonuses before Sunday night to address this. In the meantime, you're welcome to still submit prompts as usual during this two-day period.

All submissions created during this period will be compensated in full for what the new system would have granted them, plus a bonus gift for your patience!

Secondly, the structure of the prompt form's "Rewards" field. Default rewards and prompt bonuses feel disconnected in their build, and there are many points where users can become confused (especially if you are not closely following the Submitting Prompts Tutorial). We hope to address this during the Sunday night update.

Once more, we thank you all for your interest in the site; happy creating!

Daily rolls are finally here! After three days of work (whew!) the new feature has been launced. A tutorial, more details, and more locations will be released at a later date, but for now, you can explore the Golden Hills location!

Visit the Game Center to roll todays' loot, but remeber to come back every day after 6:00 AM CST to roll again!

As per usual, if you encounter any bugs, please let us know via a bug report!

Another collection of small updates were added. This includes:

• Fixes for a handful of minor display issues
• Masterlist trade-listings now show the sale-type (via icon/symbol) and link to the purchase page.
  • User-hosted trades (of Safirans with their trade-listing enabled) link to the character's masterlist page.
• A confirmation modal now shows when clicking the "Submit" button on a surrender form
• A link to your User Settings is visible when you're viewing your own user profile
  • (See it under your username, right next to your user level.)
  • User Settings are still accessible via the navbar (Username->Settings)
• A few admin-side bug fixes. The 500 errors never cease ;w;

Some changes were just pushed to the website. Most of these modifications were to the backend of the code, so no visible changes should have occured (with the exception of a bug-fix so users are now able to properly use the level-up button)!

If you do encounter any errors, please submit a bug report, and we'll address it as soon as possible.