Archive for May, 2012

Let’s Go Over The Bird Menu… Shall We?

Hiiiii everyone!!! Today I’m going to cover the Breedable menu for the Barnyard Birds. Clicking on any of your own Amaretto Ranch Breedable Barnyard Birds will reveal its menu. We will cover them in order of their appearance. In your menu you will find the following main categories

 

Main Menu

  • Consumables
  • Send API
  • Stats
  • Update
  • Go Home
  • Wake Up
  • Help
  • Amaretto Website
  • Settings
  • Breeding
  • Feed

 

Consumables

  • Flu Shot (If your Barnyard Bird runs out of food, or if you leave it in your inventory it will become sick. Once your Barnyard Bird is sick it will take 4 days for it to eat its way out of sickness, or you can purchase a one-time use Flu Shot that will heal one Barnyard Bird instantly!)
  • Glow   (This is the trifecta of consumables! The Poultry Glow provides a 5% increase to Stamina, a 5% increase to Vivacity and a 5% increase to Vigor. This consumable can only be used on a Barnyard Bird once in a 24 hour period). To use the Poultry Glow)

**This consumable can only be used on a Barnyard Bird once in a 24 hour period.

  • Main Menu (Takes you back to the Main Menu)

 

Send API

  • We established this button for 3rd party products. It sends the API to their 3rd party products over a certain channel.

 

Stats

  • Clicking this button provides the Barnyard Bird stats in Local Chat

 

Update

  • This button is for use with the Amaretto Updater. When an update is issued, you will rez the updater next to the Barnyard Bird, click the Barnyard Bird, click the update button and the Barnyard Bird will update to the correct version.

Go Home

  • Sends the Barnyard Bird to its home position

Wake Up

  • This button is used to wake up the Barnyard Bird. Your Barnyard Bird must be at 25% energy in order to wake up.

Help

  • Clicking this button will send you a notecard of the Amaretto Ranch Breedable Barnyard Bird User Manual

Amaretto Website

  • Puts URL for the Amaretto Ranch Website in Local Private Message Main Website

 

Settings

  • Extra Anims *On, Off (This button is to turn off/on the extra animations on the bird, which is going to food when hungry and running when bumped)
  • Sanctuary (This button is to send your Barnyard bird/nest to Sanctuary. Once this button is clicked you will then need to confirm sending your Barnyard Bird to Sanctuary. Before you do that though you will see the point value of that Barnyard Bird and just as a little notice that once a Barnyard Bird has been sent to Sanctuary it cannot be reversed)
  • Name – After clicking this you will get the following options:

Rename (This is to create a name for your Barnyard Bird)

Custom (This is to create a custom name for your Barnyard bird)

Clear Custom (This is to clear out the custom name field)

  • More Stats
    • No Companion (Will show the name of Bird if Companioned)
    • Mating: Owner (shows mating status for the bird)
    • Food type: Barley food (shows type of food the bird is on)
    • Home <52.49036, 217.18810, 21.40429>  (current home location for the bird)
    • Range 5 (range the bird is set at)
    • Text On (shows if the bird text is set to off or on for the bird)
    • Movement Locked (shows movement setting for the bird)
    • Animations On (shows animations setting for the bird)
    • Sounds On (shows sounds setting for the bird)
    • Extra Animations Off (shows if the extra animations are off or on for the bird)
  • Main Menu (returns you to the main menu for the bird)
  • Set Home (to set the home position of the bird)
  • Set Range (to set the range on the bird)
  • Text *On, Off (to turn off or on the text on the bird)
  • Movement *Physical, Phantom, Off (to turn movement to physical, phantom, or off)
  • Animations *On, Off (to turn the animations off or on)
  • Sound *On, Off (to turn the sounds off or on)

 

 

Breeding

  • Last Nest ( this shows the last nest dropped by this particular bird)
  • Companion – After clicking this you will get the following options:
  • Main Menu (returns you to the main menu for the bird)
  • Form (click to form a companionship)
  • Break (click to break a companionship)
  • Breeding – After clicking this you will get the following options:
  • Main Menu (returns you to the main menu for the bird)
  • Mating ( click to choose Owner, Group, Anyone setting for the bird)
  • Parents (click for parent’s names and their stats)
  • Last bred to (click for the show the last bird it was bred to)

 

Feed

  • Pellets (click this to set your bird to Pet Pellets)
  • Barley (click this to set your bird to Barley Bird Diet)
  • Main Menu (returns you to the main menu for the bird)

 

I hope this helps make breeding these wonderful feathered friends a lot easier and enjoyable!!! Until next time…..

Are you all ready for another K-9 show ? Well get your K-9 ‘s ready cause we gonna have another one.
Amaretto would like to invite you to participate in our Second A.R.B.C. K-9 Kennel Show. There will be 3 categories:

1st Best in Show
2nd place Breeders Choice
3rd place Highest Traits
The K-9s will have to be over 7 days old and there will be no Enchanted K-9s in this show. Also only one entry per breeder please.
Date of this event will be:
May 28 @ 3pm Sl time.
If you would like to enter your k9 in our second  A.R.B.C. K-9 Kennel Show, please send a note card with all stats to Karrie Woyseck by May 25, 2012.
Thank you and see you all at the show!

Hello Everyone!!!!

Today is the 4th day the Barnyard Birds have been released!!! I hope that everyone has went out and was able to pick up a pack of these wonderful new additions to the Amaretto Breedables Family..  On May 4th the Amaretto Barnyard Birds hit the grid with many people rushing to the store these little guys have clearly made there way across the grid.

Today at age 4 the Barnyard Birds went from there baby colors to there wonderful Adolescent Colors.. Now many of you have been trying to find out why the Barnyard Birds did this. At age 0 to 3 the barnyard birds will be one of 3 baby colors then at age 4 they turn into there Wonderful Adolescent Colors and then at age 7 you will see the full beauty of your Barnyard Birds.. I really hope that each and everyone of you enjoy these wonderful Animals as much as the Amaretto Staff Enjoys them.

Bellow is a pic of the birds at age 4 I do Hope that you all enjoy 🙂

Mother’s Day in the US is on Sunday May 13th and in honor of mom’s everywhere we decided to celebrate with a beautiful Limited Edition Horse!  May 7th to May 14th these Limited Edition Rainbow Dapple horses will be on sale at the stores!  They can be born with any of the available mane/tail traits and can be on any 1 of 4 different horses.  LE Rainbow Dapple horses also contain the beginnings of a brand new trait and the good news is…they ALL have it and you can see it!

That’s right these Limited Edition Rainbow Dapple horses have painted hooves!  This hoof trait is a new trait being added to the horses and it DOES have the ability to pass!

However, the Rainbow Dapple coat and the Mother’s Day 2012 eye do NOT have the ability to pass.

Happy Mother’s Day to all!

New Showhorse and Branding!

Hello everyone today i would like to talk a little about the Amaretto Clydesdale Showhorse and the Cinco de Mayo branding that came out yesterday.

First off i would like to say that the Amaretto Clydesdale Showhorse is so awesome ( its also my favorite ) below this post is a picture of what it looks like. I would also like to remind everyone about a few things aobut this months showhorse:

  • This “Amaretto Clydesdale Showhorse” will have a chance of passing its special eye!
  • And as a special surprise this time it will pass a special coat to its offspring (the showhorse itself can pass the special coat to its offspring)

I cant wait till someone gets that special coat ( i want to see it ).

Yesterday was also Cinco de Mayo and with that Amaretto released a special brand only for yesterday. The Cinco de Mayo brand can pass and was random all day yesterday. Also below is a picture of what the brand looks like.

 

Duplicate Horses and K-9s

I have seen quite a few people file tickets about duplicate horses/K9s. I would like to let everyone know why this happens and what you should do when it does!

 

This happens when there are two copies of a horse or K9 in world, this can happen due to lag, sim restarts, sim rollbacks, crashes, and even updating.

 

If you find a breedable in your inventory and you know that you already have it out, you can right click on the item in inventory, look in the description field and compare the numbers from that with your breedables number. If you set it out and you already have it out, both copies will duplicate.

 

When SL does a sim Rollback, it takes the sim back to a previous state. If you have purchased a horse/k-9 from someone, and the sim where you purchased the breedable from has a rollback, it can create a duplicate issue., maybe even someone else has come along and also purchased the same breedable. This is why we ask for transaction history. If this happens you can contact the seller for refund. Please don’t just assume they are selling duplicates on purpose. Talk to the seller. Things can be worked through.

 

So your horse or K9 is duplicated what do I do now??

 

First file a ticket, be sure to include as much information as possible. The uuid of the horse or K9 is the best piece is information you could provide, so whenever possible please be sure to put it inside the ticket.

 

Also, if you recently bought the horse or K9 please provide the full transaction record with date, time, region etc., for your purchase? This can be found on your dashboard on the Secondlife.com website under transaction history.

 

When the CSR looks up the horse/K9 on the server if you do not show as owner of the horse or K9 we can’t return it to you! This is for all of our customer’s protection we don’t want anyone to just give us a uuid and say the horse or K9 is theirs when it’s really not!

 

Once you have filed a ticket, you will be asked to send in all copies of the duplicated horse/K9. When sending folders to the csr, make sure your name and ticket id is on the folder!

 

Don’t send replies to tickets in IM or notecards, reply to your ticket in your ticket!

If you do the things I have talked about here your ticket will be answered quickly and it will be a smooth process for you and Amaretto CSR’s!!

I know you’ve all heard the word, that’s right Bird IS the word!!

The Amaretto Barnyard Birds are now OFFICIALLY on sale at all

Barnyard Bird Locations!! Please check in-world for a notecard of

landmarks to all the Barnyard Bird stores and “flock” on over to

grab your birds NOW!!!!

There is a copy of the Barnyard Bird Manual in with all of the Barnyard

items that you purchase at the stores but if you want to view that in wiki

form you can head on over to the link below!! Chirp Chirp!!

 

http://wiki3.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Today I would like to introduce and welcome the new Group Moderators!

I know you have seen them in the groups with their names in bold 🙂 They will be joining Draco Carpaccio and Diamond Holiday helping out in all the chat groups!
Give a warm welcome to Anaconda Carter, Arion Christenson, Gator Soulstar, Marv Sideshow and Trinityskye Zarco as Moderators in all chat groups. Also welcome to Baby441 Feila and Lisabella Lane as a Moderators in the Multi-language group.Welcome to all the new Moderators!
So if you are in need of any help look in group for one of these people they will be glad to help you!

Friday is fast approaching, and we are all excited at Amaretto! So we let Mazelina loose with the price gun in all the chicken stores after a long shift of stocking and pricing we are proud to announce the following:

Pack sizes:

Single Nests, Rooster Single Pack, Hen Single Pack, 650L

Clutch Pack-6 pack, 3 of each male & female Nests (Three of each: Barley Bird Diet , Orange Rinds, High Potency Seeds, Poultry Glow, Flu Shot, one Incubator) 4800L

Farmers Pack-12 pack, 6 of each male & female Nests (Six of each: Barley Bird Diet , Orange Rinds, High Potency Seeds, Poultry Glow, Flu Shot, one Incubator) 9600L
Consumables:

Barley Bird Diet (single, six, twelve) (140L, 810L, 1590L)
**Barley Bird Diet- This Barnyard Bird Food is used if you wish your birds to breed. As long as you are using the Barley Bird Diet and all conditions are met you will be able to breed your Barnyard Birds

Pet Pellets (single, six, twelve) (90L, 520L, 1000L)
**Pet Pellets – This Barnyard Bird food is used to keep your Barnyard Bird from breeding. If you decide to change it back to Barley Bird Diet it will take 7 days for it to be able to gain vigor again.

Orange Rinds (single, six, twelve) (160L, 920L, 1780L)
**Orange Rinds- These are used to build the Vivacity of your Barnyard Bird.

High Potency Seeds (single, six, twelve) (260L, 1520L, 2960L)
**High Potency Seeds- This item gives an increase to vigor by 10% and can only be used one time every 24 hours

Poultry Glow (single, six) (520L, 3120L)
**Poultry Glow- Gives 5% Increase to Stamina, Vivacity and Vigor these can only be used one time every 24 Hours

Flu Shot (single, six) (260L, 1560L)
**Flu Shot – If your Barnyard Bird gets sick there are 2 ways of healing it. Let the Barnyard Bird eat out of sickness which takes 4 days or use a Flu Shot which will bring it out of sickness instantly

Barnyard Bird Incubator (0L)
**The incubator is used for hatching your nonstarter Barnyard Bird Nest
Don’t  forget the Barnyard Birds are landing Friday on a sim near you!!!