Due to the overwhelming influx of stray kittens we have received as a result of the displacement of so many households in the gulf and fertile plains oil disasters, we have opened up a Pet Adoption store.



You can now adopt kittens for the nominal price of 249 Tau which includes a free pet bed!



We would like to highlight the point that owning a new kitten is a big responsibility though. These poor abandoned kittens have had a rough go of it and will need a lot of care and nurturing. They will want to be fed at least twice a day and to be petted as often as possible. They love the attention!

You can purchase milk in baby bottles in the Pet Adoptions store under the Pet Accessories tab. Also note that you will need to clean their pet bed when it gets dirty. If you neglect your kitten it will begin to get unhappy and if you neglect it for over 4 or 5 days it will probably run away!

Hopefully you will take good care of your kitten and it will grow into a happy, well-adjusted adult cat!

Please note that if your Emotional Value is too low you will not be able to take care of your kitten! So, make sure you eat a lot of strawberries and salads high in Vitamin E.

Other miscellaneous updates:

• Floating panels in the lots handle differently from this week: ‘click icon’ to minimize; when open drag with title bar
• Feeds can be sorted by tops news or date - click sort at top of panel to toggle
• windmill improvements
  • checks lot speed on lot load and adjust accordingly
  • fixed bug that was not correctly handling adjustments.
  • tuned the large windmill to accommodate a larger range.
• Made the printer and the scanner for resident use only. added a line to the tooltip about it. We noticed that non-residents were able to use the kiln and sewing machines but we plan to change that next week similarly.
• Store mini update: moved the regular barbeques to food category from decoration
• Finally, we think we’ve fixed the problem of chat text being deleted when a new feed bubble would pop up…

Major Oil Explosion has Hit TirNua

The leak from the explosion which occurred sometime yesterday, looks to be the size of China. Authorities are investigating the exact location of the explosion which has gravely impacted the plateau of the fertile plains region. Emergency response teams have been successful so far at containing the leak from hitting the lake.

So, please come help save the birds and the environment!

Tool to Manage Carbon Footprint

We have a new tool for you to track and monitor your CFP on a day to day basis. On the persona web page, a tab has been added for CFP.

Save Our Oiled Seabirds - Help Rectify these Creatures Misfortune with Mankind

An oil slick from a massive spill in the gulf has begun to wash ashore along the coast in the TirNua Kitchen Zone.

To see this is on the map make sure to be in the Environment Mode on the map.

Homes and wildlife have been gravely impacted by the disaster. If you live in the impacted area, your background will be damaged and polluted. Here are before and after shots of one such lot.

These blackened birds flying around your lot will now land on your lot and you can help with the rescue and rehabilitation efforts by cleaning the oiled birds. Just take them to the cleaning station and select the ‘clean bird’ interaction.

The cleaning station can be obtained from the TirNua Wildlife Preservation Society Store on the Shopping Tab.

If you find an oiled bird on one of your lots and you don’t have the cleaning station or skills to clean the bird, place it in your inventory.

You will encounter many volunteers, environmental and restoration groups that will be banding together to return the gulf to its previous splendor. These folks will want to save your birds for you. Many sick oiled birds will be found far from the oil slick.

The more birds rescued on visibly polluted lots the better the water environmental reading for that lot will be and eventually it will be restored to its pre-oil spill state.

After you clean a bird, an oil splat will remain on your lot. To clean this up, toggle on the ‘Recycle’ button on the menu bar and then select the ‘Send to be Recycled’ interaction on the oil splat.

There are some personal benefits to your efforts to save the birds and environment. Your emotional energy capacity and good carbon score will increase for each bird cleaned. Additionally, you will earn this Good Carbon Badge for cleaning your first bird.

New Designer Badge available for creating Rare Barbeques.

Getting Rid of Toxic

From now on, when you go to work and cross the finish line at the job site you will remove 1 toxic, if you are a Resident. This is an excellent way to rid yourself of toxic components and help your CFP. It is important to know that you will need to have the toxic bins in your inventory when you cross the finish line. One unit will be removed at this time. Crossing the finish line at work will no longer take 1 unit of trash from you. To rid yourself of trash, you will need to take it to a recycling station.

Check Box added to the Inventory Panel to toggle size of inventory icons.

Fixes/Updates

1. You can set the sale price on the BBQ for the corn on the cob
2. Persona snapshot - you no longer need to change clothes first for it to work
3. Rotation slider bar on Custom Content tab is no longer off the bottom of the screen
4. The printer associates the feed and the credit for the badge to the actor and not the owner

As usual don’t forget to check out the VIP Store for the hot deal of the week.
Enjoy!
Audrey and The TirNua Team

Sound System and Volume Controls

Now you have the ability to control the sound level on your radio instead of just turning it on or off. This is all part of our introduction of a sound system in TirNua. To set your preferences, go to the ‘My Stuff’ tab and select the ‘Preferences’ sub-tab.

The Birds

The first sounds that you will begin to hear are SEAGULLS. Yes, we have birds flying around in TirNua!!!
You will see these birds roaming the skies in some locations more often then in other locations, like the closer you are to the beach.

Handy Dandy Mute Button - to mute radio and sounds. Toggle on and off as desired.

RedRed Alert: Player Stores and Store searches is currently broken.
We are working round the clock on the issue and hope to have it fixed shortly.

Other

Fixes/Changes

1. Treadmill bugs are fixed
2. Custom Content Clothing can no longer be put on from your lot, just from inventory. No more missing body parts when putting it on directly from your lot
3. Other players will see you change your outfit without you needing to exit and re-enter the lot to see it
4. Fixed crash when purchasing clothing before entering a lot
5. The owner of a plant will get the badge if someone else grows it to fully grown for them
6. Fixed invisible persona when you change personas
7. Resident Badge appearing in inventory when you don’t own one has been fixed
8. Missing display of water times on tool tips when watering is late
9. Made watering times on flower tool tips red when watering is late
10. Changed Good and Bad Carbon Footprint High Score names to ‘Best’ and ‘Worst’ Carbon Footprint
11. Bad and Good Carbon Footprint are now just called Carbon Footprint in - all badges, good and bad are displayed under Carbon Footprint

So be quiet or noisy this weekend!
Audrey and The TirNua Team

This past weekend I discovered a bug that was causing the display of Carbon Footprint scores to be incorrect. In many case it was showing Good Carbon when in actuality you had Bad Carbon and vice versa. I’ve fixed the bug but as a result many of you were very upset to discover that your Good Carbon Score was actually a Bad Carbon Score. I am very sorry about the mix up. Here are a few pointers on how to improve your Carbon Footprint so you can try to get back to a Good Carbon Score.

What you can do to improve your Carbon Footprint

Growing and maintaining live plants on a lot.

Trees will improve your Carbon Footprint more than flowers.

Recycle your trash in Recycle Stations.

Charge your batteries using clean energy sources such as treadmills and windmills.

If you have to use boilers, burn bio-fuel rather than oil.

Create bio-fuel from plants grown with no Fertilizer or Super Grow

Create objects using the 3d Printers, Sewing Machines, and Kilns using clean energy and your recycled goods

Purchase goods from other users who have printed/sewed/kilned them using recycled goods and clean energy.

Note: You can see the Carbon Footprint of any object before purchasing it by hovering over it.

What you can do to worsen your Carbon Footprint (and pollute the environment)

Use fertilizer and Super Grow on your plants.

Charge batteries using dirty energy such as boilers burning oil.

Leave trash and toxic lying around.

Don’t use recycled products.

In the coming weeks I will be releasing some new UI features allowing you to see better how exactly your lifestyle is affecting your Carbon Footprint.

Larry

Be sure to Dress up Dad with on of these New Shirts this Father’s Day
Find these shirts for sale in the men’s clothing store.

Happy Father’s Day!!!

Dress Me on Lot!

You no longer need to go to the Dress Me Tab in order to change your outfit, now all you need to do is just drag items from your inventory and drop them onto your persona. It is as simple as that. For the time being, you need to be on your own lot to change your outfit. This is just Phase 1 of this feature, expect more to come in the upcoming weeks as we fine tune it.

Inventory Categories

Yes, that is correct, we now have tabs for your inventory sorted by category! We know how long some of you have waited for this - no more long searches for that particular item you think you might have in your inventory. Yay!

New Player Startup Kits - in an attempt to get new players to quickly grasp what TirNua is all about we have implemented a ‘Startup Kit Selector’ whereby new players are given the option to select from 3 modes: easy, medium or hard. Easy gets there quicker but has consequences in terms of ‘bad’ carbon footprint whereby ‘hard’ takes longer but you will start out ‘More Green’.

Other

1. EMP Energy Values are displayed in the tooltip in the Visitor Panel In-game. We removed the EMP numbers from the persona tooltip last week but you can still find the numerical values here.





2. More Energy Activity Badges
1. Oil Industry Professional
2. Bio-energy Producer
3. Biofuel Explorer

3. New Look to the Scroll Bars
4. New Look to Object Tooltips In-game
5. Good Carbon Scores display as negative numbers
6. Batteries & Battery Depot show CFP charge
7. Faster Charging on Windmills - tuned the formula on the windmills so they will charge a bit faster. Let us know what you think.

Fixes

1. Recycle batteries in the depot is working
2. Buying/selling energy causing huge CFP

As usual don’t forget to check out the VIP Store for the hot deal of the week.
Enjoy!
Audrey and The TirNua Team

Water Sprinklers - Huge Time Saver for Gardeners out there!