Archive for June, 2011

Hi everyone!  We received a letter from the facility that Richie, Tm & maleficent visited in New York to present the Autism Awareness Check too with a very heart warming story and I just had to share it with you the community!  It made all of us staff feel very good knowing that YOU, the Amaretto Community made such a big impact on the lives of so many children!  Grab the tissues and read the email below…

Hello Amaretto Community,
I just wanted to say hi and that I am thinking about what you and your friends at Amaretto Ranch Breedables have done to help so many STAT families!
I just recently sent out our 708th voucher! (and we haven’t even hit the Summer session yet…) I think this is when you say “Whoa!” 🙂
Thank you again and again!
Here’s a story about Johnny. He rides at Country Meadows Equine Park in Walton.
Johnny is 9 and has Autism. He is non verbal. Doctors have told his Mom that he will never speak and that she should just start teaching him American Sign Language.
Johnny has severe behavior issues – if you can imagine having no voice and just having to throw tantrums to get anyone’s attention…
Johnny rides every week and behaves very well when on the horse. so after every riding session, Laura, the riding instructor, gives Johnny an ice cream sandwich as a nice treat (and Johnny loves ice cream)
After several weeks of riding, two weeks ago, Johnny dismounts his horse, looks at Laura, and says to Laura “ice cream sandwich!”
……..and that’s all I have to say about that!
last week he says “Hi Mom!”,  “Go!” and his horse’s name (whose name I forgot…. 🙁  —— so much for Johnny never speaking huh
I figured that would make your day. It made my month!
I would like to forward you some thank you letters from parents, would you like that?
Forever in your debt,
Cat

About The CHARMED Demon Horses

 

This notice is to address the recent issues with the Charmed Demon Horse. This horse IS a charmed horse. It was not intended to pass it’s coat as a normal horse would. There was a glitch that occurred in the server when we switched from our old server to our new one. This glitch was brought to our attention and has been corrected. As with any glitch, when they are discovered they will be fixed. The Demon horse is now as any other charmed horse in regards to its possibility of passing it’s coat.

 

 

There are currently 6 different types of charmed horses:

  • Pegacorn
  • Pegasus
  • Unicorn
  • Robo Unicorn
  • Demon Horse
  • Nightmare Clydes

 

How charming are they exactly? Well the first myth is that charmed horses can pass their coats this is not true, they will not pass their coats, their eyes, or any other specific traits for any one particular charmed.

Charmed horses do have a slight increased chance of giving birth to another charmed however, this increase is not in the normal coat charmed offspring babies,  but only the actual charmed babies from a charmed horse have a greater chance to get another charmed.
If you have a charmed horse that is missing a horn or a wing you need to file a ticket for this horse it is not any more special than other charmed that has these things, but it was a glitch in the older bundles but will be fixed in the next update.

I hope that everyone has a great week!  I wish you all long, longs with many traits!! Happy Breeding everyone!!

If a charmed horse is bred with another horse of any type, or with another charmed, will yield a greater chance of having a charmed, however, when their descedents breed (if they aren’t charmed) will not garner the increased chance.

 

  • Charmed + Charmed= higher chance
  • Charmed + Non Charmed = higher chance
  • Offspring of Charmed (non charmed) + Offspring of Charmed (non charmed) = no higher chance than a normal non charmed horse

 

Hey everyone well what to say its Monday we survived another weekend. I just want to take a few moments to say thank you to everyone who came  to the social gala and participated in our festivities.

All the staff that worked hard to pull it all together,  all the performers we  had entertaining us the entire day!

Ive seen the Elemental horses popping up all over the grid so congrats to those breeders who already have breed them!!

It was def a fun filled day and exciting to see you guys all come out and support Amaretto and just have a good time with the community.  Who knows maybe we should do this every couple of months or something what do you guys think?

Mean while on a side note k-9 beta is well under way we are finding bugs and working on getting them fixed everyday we get a bit closer to release!!

Congrats to our winners! Wtg  team working hard all day Friday to bring the community together, Happy breeding all until next Monday……..

Webmasters Corner

Hello everyone!  Today I want to talk about the Q & A section on the website.
As some have noticed there is a Questions and Answers section on the site that everyone can use to ask a question and get answers from one another in  the community and then You the community can vote on the best answer.
The system works on points as some people will have more points than others this means that they are posting many answers to questions!
Points Table is as follows:
5 Points for your answer being chosen as best answer
1 point for asking a question
1 point for posting an answer
1 point for giving an answer a thumbs up
and if your answer was given a thumbs down you will lose a point 🙁

On a side note the points on the Q & A are aesthetic only and do not translate into anything yet but we will correct anyone trying to ‘game’ points or attacking anyone with the thumbs down feature.
Now the fun part posting a question!
First if you have a question you would like feedback from the comunity on click on the Q&A button on the top bar and you will be taken to the questions page ( you can also search questions if your want to be sure no one else has posted the same question! )
Now click on the ask a question button to be taken to the page to type your question. Give it a title and type out your question the category is always questions and you can upload a photo to help if needed.
Once you hit submit your question will be posted to the question pool ( back where you pushed Ask a Question ) where people can post answers and later on you can give someone the honor of having the best answer ( comes with 5 points to them ).
If you don’t see your question after a while on the front list just hit My Questions and it will show you every question ever asked.
I hope this helps everyone and I cant wait to see some of the questions asked.
Until next Sunday this is Tmzasz ( going back to working on the website! )
P.S. The CSS for custom profiles will be ready soon be sure to watch the announcements for it!

How To Get Elemental Horses

Elemental Horses can only come by breeding a male and female with Element eyes. The Element eyes are Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and Heart. They do not have to be the same Elements.

The Elemental horses that can be birthed will not have the particles like the ones given away at the Amaretto Social Gala, those Elemental horses were One of a Kind! The coats on the Elemental Horses that will be born will look just like the One of a Kind Gala horses just without the particles.

The Elemental Horses are not Limited Edition Horses. They are best compared to the Albinos, you just need to breed 2 Element eyes together for the Elemental Horses and you need to breed 2 Full Siblings together for the Albinos. I will include the text of the notecard that was sent out on the Elemental Horses yesterday below. Good luck to everyone in breeding for the new edition to the Amaretto Horses …the Elemental Horses !!

What are the Elemental Horses?
• Elemental Earth
• Elemental Fire
• Elemental Heart
• Elemental Water
• Elemental Wind

How do you get the Elemental Horses?
To have a chance at getting one of the Elemental Horses, you must breed two horses that have the Element Eyes. They do not have to be the same Element eye, they just need to both be Element Eyes. They DO NOT need to be siblings or anything else, they need ONLY have Element eyes.

Do the Elemental Horses pass their coats?
The Elementals are like the Albinos in that they do not pass their coats. However, breeding an Elemental horse to another Elemental Horse or even breeding an Elemental Horse to another horse with Element eyes increases your chances of getting another Elemental horse. The Elemental coat you receive will be chosen at random.

The 5 Elemental Horses given away as prizes at the Amaretto Social Gala are ONE OF A KIND!
The Elemental Horses that you will be able to breed for will NOT have the particle option that the ones given away have. This makes these 5 Elemental Horses the ONLY Horses of this kind on the grid! Congratulations to the Winners of these special horses.

Amaretto Social Gala Winners!!

WTG everyone great day at amaretto and great party!! I hope you at least got to listen in to some of the great acts that were there today! I know all the staff members had a great time!!! SO to recap all of our winners:

The 5 Elemental Horses given away as prizes at the Amaretto Social Gala are ONE OF A KIND! The Elemental Horses that you will be able to breed for will NOT have the particle option that the ones given away have.

Zues Burali   Wind Elemental  Horse

Strawberry Easterwood   Heart  Elemental Horse

Holiday Blitz Earth Elemental Horse

Clear Jupiter Fire Elemental Horse

Mazie Halpern water Elemental Horse

The following people won a 3 month subscription to http://www.myslhorses.com and should contact Calista Janus to redeem your prize!

Punto Rossini

piper burner

Panster Moonshadow

GUMM Bloobury

Arny Broono

Rayne Saltair

 

The following people won a 3 month subscription to  MySLK9s.com  site to be released soon!! and should contact Calista Janus to redeem your prize!

Buddhy Singh

Nikkol Paine

eqinox corbin

Helene Dragoone

kwaibebe Kaventipovic

Kodex Resident

Thanks everyone for showing your love and coming out to support there community and Amaretto we love you guys!!! It was def a lot of fun!
Well its past my bedtime gotta run……happy breeding!!!

We’ve teased you this week with the following riddles:

The Amaretto winds of change are blowin, soon the tides will turn.
Fires of curiosity rage and questions are sure to grow. Have patience and let your hearts not despair. AmarettoBreedables.com is here to share as the secrets unfold. Be steadfast in your timing to join for timing is everything.  Amarettobreedables.com…join today!

From a different time yet from a familiar face…change is about to take place.
The gnomes, nymphs, sylphs and salamanders are working together in harmony.
The gnomes work the earth so the nymphs can safely remain in beautified waters. The sylphs are blowing the the flames set forth by the salamanders all in unison with one heart. These mythical creatures are here for purpose…to make what was once old…new again.  AmarettoBreedables.com. Join today…the gnomes are watching 🙂

A time for everything and everything in time. A plan we have hatched and riddles we have sent…has anyone figured it out yet? Allow me to provide just one last clue…we are preparing a celebration to include all of you. But 5 will stand out and surely be pleased. For no more than 5 will exist we guarantee! What 5 you should ask? When will you know…join the social network to be just 1 of the first to know. Scrap plans for this Friday… for it is the day…the day when the Amaretto Community will play.  Join the Social Network Today! Time is running out!

So do you think you have it figured out ?? Here is your invite to come join us and see if you did guess the big surprise!

You are Invited! Friday June 10th! Starting at Noon SLT!  Amaretto Ranch Breedables is happy to invite you to Amaretto’s Social Gala! This is a come as you are event but we ask you to leave the horses at home! The party we have planned is huge! There will be music and prizes!

There will be 5 Grand Prizes to be announced during the Gala!  Winners will be chosen at random. 1 winner will be announced at each show. Attendance is NOT required! We will IM you if you are the winner.
P!nk Get the Party Started 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Intermission Party with DJ Ava Staff on Hand 2pm
Maximillion Kleene 3pm to 4pm
Staff Meet & Greet from 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Mankind Tracer 6pm to 7:00pm
David Csiszer 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Nickelback will close the gala from 9:30pm to
Grand Finale Fireworks directly following Nickelback

Who let the dogs out??

Hey guys!! Well WOW what a Monday!! I’m still here at the saloon, partying with the rest of the Amaretto team!

In case you have been under a rock, or have all your notices turned off today was the official launch of beta testing for the Amaretto K-9s. So if you weren’t chosen ask a friend who was!

We had a wonderful party where we all danced and laughed and had a good time! We had a great turn out thank you to all of our beta testers who came and supported us!!
I’m including a pic of one of them in this post but you can visit the K-9 sim, and see the demos if you haven’t already seen them.

I want to congratulate everyone on the team involved with the K-9s! WTG Team!!!!!!  This is  a new chapter for Amaretto, and we are all excited to begin this journey and welcome everyone who is going on it with it us!!

 

 

Also pay very close attention to this

*******Join the Social Network if you haven’t already********If you need help you can file a ticket and we will walk you through it!!

Webmasters Corner

Hello Everyone! Last week I talked about the Advertisments on the website, this week I amgoing to talk about usernames and profile addresses.

First off I want to describe what the profile address is. The profile address is tocustomize your profile url. For example I put tmzasz as my profile address so my profileaddress looks like this:

http://amarettobreedables.com/profile/tmzasz

Instead of this:

http://amarettobreedables.com/profile/1   So its basically its just a way to make your urllook better and is completely optional.

remember you only need to put in the last word do not put in this also http://amarettobreedables.com/profile/ as it will give you an error!

Now for the important part.. Your username!

When registering for the website please make sure that you use your Second Life usernameas your first and last name as this will help us be able to know who is using the websitefrom our community!

If you have already registered just sign in and go to edit yourprofile and change it there! This helps us and the community stay closer connected to oneanother if we know each other by the names we are accustomed to seeing in Second Life!

We will have lots of exciting things coming up in the near future and for a lot of thesethings we will be utilizing the Social Network and you don’t want to miss out on anythingAmaretto ….do you ?

So if you haven’t registered with the website please go to http://amarettobreedables.comand sign up!

Beta Testing time is gearing up !!!!!
Starting today we have been doing Beta Tester selections. If you are interested and have not sent in a notecard, please send one now to Jaymee Caproni or Dakota Delicioso. If you have already sent one in do not send another. Make sure you title your notecard K-9 Beta testing (your name).
Be sure to add your name in the brackets that say (your name). If this is not the title of the notecard it will be deleted since following instructions is a very important part of Beta testing.

Beta will start Monday, and it will kick off with a BIG PARTY, which means lots and lots of fun.
Time and location will be announced at a later time.

We are also looking for Markets that would like to have K-9 Satellite stores. If you are interested, please send me, maleficent Farshore, a note card. Make sure you title the notecard K-9 Store (your name). Inside the notecard be sure to include you name, the landmark to your market and a little bit about your market letting us know why your market would be a good fit for an Amaretto Store location..