Fennux News

Hey everyone!

September 22, 2012 (this Saturday), Team Fennux will be at Jody’s Fennux Farm during their Fall Festival event! We will start the Q&A at 2:00PM SLT, but the entire event will be going on from 2pm – 9pm SLT.

Make sure to mark your calendars for the event, I hear there are going to be lots of fun things going on the entire day, live entertainment, haunted house, pumpkin hunt, palm reader, raffles and prizes, etc.

If you are new to Fennux, and you want to learn more about Fennux – make sure to come to this event. You will be sure to learn lots. I’m assuming we’re slotted 1 full hour of time for this QnA so we will try and start on time, and finish quickly. it’ll most likely be a voice QnA to keep things going super fast since our QnAs can easily last 2+ hours normally, haha.

LOCATION: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Canadian%20Country%20Westerner/56/211/23

Fennux Q&A TIME: 2:00 PM SLT

DATE: September 22, 2012

ALSO, keep checking back and keep your date planners open for the month of October. We are sponsoring and/or taking part in a lot of events in the middle of October, so keep checking up on http://www.fennux.com/news often!

Thanks for reading,

-Team Fennux

Hey everyone!

INTERNAL TESTING:

We have been actively testing our product to ensure it’s indeed ready for Private Beta. As you can see by the above image, well – we’ve been doing a lot of Internal Testing! So far everything is going quite well. Pairing Fennux to breed is working, Den Creation is working, Crafting Fennux is working, Fennux are linking to homes properly, pretty much everything is going smoothly! We’re still making minor last minute adjustments to Hovertext (see above, haha), as well as some minor particle tweaks for showing a visual “range” / “radius” around certain objects that require it. To sum things up, we’re very happy with the progress we’ve made these past 2 weeks and we expect to be getting our Private Beta out to the public very soon. I know it’s tough being patient, but hang in there everyone – we at Team Fennux promise you that you will not be disappointed.

(You might be wondering why we have so many dens in the above picture, it’s because we have amped up our breeding to happen much quicker in our Internal Testing. These testing Fennux were made to pop out dens at an unprecedented rate to help get an idea of odds / make sure we have no issues with our database server(s). Try not to freak out by the massive amounts of hovertext seen in picture above, haha.)

AFFILIATE PROGRAM (KIOSKS):

If you are not participating in the Affiliate Program – you are missing out. We have seen well over L$100,000 paid out to our affiliates in under 3 weeks time! Make sure to get your FREE pack of affiliate Kiosks by visiting the Fennux Sim today.

How do the Kiosks work? Rez one out at a popular location that you have rights to rez at, and when someone clicks your Fennux Kiosk (so long as they have not already clicked another user’s Kiosk), we record your name and their name into a database. Whenever that user purchases a Pre-Order Pack of Fennux – you will receive 10% commission on whatever they order! And not just their first order, all orders until launch will be 10% commission to you!

So that’s all of the news for today, we’ll be posting more shortly so please stay tuned to this website. Thanks!

-Team Fennux

Calling all Fennux Enthusiasts:

We have decided to give away non-animated “Fennux Grabbers” to all users who put a “Pick” to the Fennux Main Store in their profile! All you have to do is visit the Fennux Sim, edit your Profile, and create a new “Pick” to our Main Store location, and wait for it to update on SecondLife.com, then collect your prize! There are 5 prizes and it changes daily so even if you miss one – you’ll be able to attempt at it again. (If you already had Fennux in your “Picks” you’ll be able to redeem the prizes RIGHT NOW!)

After the “Pick” updates on the web version of Second Life (it can take up to 48 hours) you will be able to click our “Prize4Picks” daily item to receive it instantly.

Again, this could take up to 48 hours, so make sure you get on over to the Fennux Main Store and create a “Pick” in your profile for our Sim, which helps support Fennux – and gives you a few awesome bonus items just for giving us some “Picks” space.

Thanks everyone,

-Team Fennux

Hey everyone! Giving you a bit of news from the front lines of Team Fennux.

Internal Testing:

Our staff have been internally testing our pre-beta product daily, and our team has been updating, tweaking, and reconfiguring bits and pieces of code to make sure our product is going to be more-or-less pristine by the time it winds up in the hands of our Pre-Order customers (to the best of our ability).

The Fennux appear to be eating from the food properly, they are digging up crafting recipes, they are breeding, they are pairing, everything seems great thus far. We had a few minor hiccups with our homes – but we already have implemented a new technology which guarantees a Fennux to always go to the closest home that has room for it, so all is starting to shape up nicely. Our “Packs” (guilds/groups) functionality is working great, our breeding / crafting / dueling experience bars are increasing respectively, which reminds me to speak on our HUD for a bit…

The Fennux HUD is easily one of the most feature-rich breedable HUDs out there, we can’t wait to show it off! For starters our HUD is free, it’s user friendly, and has helpful features that really define us as a breedable game. It’s separated into 4 major tabs, “ME”, “INFO”, “CONFIG” and “DUEL” – with a “WEB” tab and an “ARROWS TAB” used for opening Fennux.com at any time, and showing/hiding the HUD from view.

The “ME” tab enables users to track their breeding/crafting/dueling experience levels, check up on their Reserve Food and FNX Point balances, manage their Pack Options, and more. “INFO” tab shows you everything you need to know about a Fennux, including buttons to IM the owner of the Fennux you’re inspecting, as well as visit the Fennux Details page on the web with a simple mouse click. The “CONFIG” tab lets you take care of any configurable options for the currently selected Fennux, including name changes, mate pairing, toggling the Web Market, rebuilding, eternal merging and more. And finally we reach the “DUEL” tab, this is basically your game controller for dueling, complete with options to battle (or forfeit) and energy bars that show how much fight a Fennux has left in him or her.

Back to internal testing, the Fennux are prancing around just fine, growing properly, eating healthily, I’m very impressed by our scripting talent! We still are dateless, but I know for a fact we are progressing and nearing the completion of Internal Testing so it can be in the hands of our awesome, pioneering Pre-Order customers. Please give us a bit more time, and you’ll all be quite happy.

ACS Land Partnership:

TO BE CONTINUED

CSR Positions:

We just wanted to say a big thank you to all of you that have applied for the CSR positions. We have been absolutely blown away by the overwhelming response to our advert and we are literally drowning in applications.

We had initially indicated we would be interviewing each and everyone of you as we thought we would only have a handful to do. We were wrong. Haha.

At this stage, we are reading through all of the applications and are reviewing them, and will need some time (no ETA yet) before we will be selecting those people we wish to interview in person.

So hang in there, give us a bit more time, and the CSRs will be taken care of shortly.

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That’s all for now, continue checking our news for more updates regarding Fennux, Fennux Beta, and of course the Fennux Launch.

-Team Fennux

Hey everyone!

The Fennux Website has been upgraded! Some functionality is not quite hooked up yet due to the fact that we are not ready for users to start making use of our account features, but we have added some new pages, updated our graphics, and changed a lot of code – bringing Fennux Enthusiasts an all-around, better Fennux Web experience.

Also, we are getting much closer to beta, so we are slowly starting to increase the price of Pre-Order Starter Packs! The discount is now 20% off instead of 25% off. We will be switching the prices yet again, once Private Beta has started, to 15% off – so make sure you do your pre-ordering early to guarantee the most optimal discount.

That being said, we have just released the Fennux Lore to the public. Make sure to check it out by clicking the Lore link on our navigation bar, and of course share it with as many of your friends as you can to get the word out of it’s release.

That’s all for today’s update, we will be posting more news as it comes in regarding Private Beta. Thanks for reading!

-Team Fennux

Hey Fennux Enthusiasts! Two words: BETA STATUS

We thought about changing our FAQs page to simply state “Question: WHEN IS BETA? Answer: Soon, hang in there!” due to the overwhelming numbers of inquiring minds popping into our group chat to see what our current status is. The only thing we have been saying to folks who pose this question has been “soon“, “very soon” or some other group of words that, well, always ends in “soon“. We are tired of just saying soon repetitively so we are going to be as transparent as possible in this post so that you all know exactly what Team Fennux is doing regarding Fennux Beta.

CURRENT STATUS: Final Stage of Internal Testing

On August 31, 2012 we have officially entered our final period of internal testing. This means that a few of our team members are putting extreme efforts into squashing any and all bugs that appear over the next week or so. This is a simple process that allows us to weed out the obvious flaws in our system before we hand it over to you guys and gals. We want you to anticipate us spending a couple weeks of time finishing up our internal tests, so that private beta can begin the moment after it’s completion.

Rest assured that our team is doing everything possible in our power to work quickly and efficiently at getting our beta product out to our Pre-Order customers. You deserve it, we know you want it, and we want you to have it.

Also keep in mind that we did say back in May of this year that we are aiming to have an August Beta, but most people forget (or do not want to recall due to pure excitement) that we also requested a month of padding in case our estimate was a little off. Estimates are rounded, they are not precise – our estimate is getting more precise each day of when we expect our users to be testing out our product, meaning at this precise moment we are looking at a definite Early September Private Beta.

We had hopes to have our phase 1 of Private Beta to be out by the 31st of August, but we just could not justify sending out a product that has not been through enough internal testing. It will be a bad experience for all who are involved if we send out beta on the 31st as we had once aimed for.

We want to thank all of you for having at least some understanding of why we do what we do, and how we do it – our team is very excited to be so close to showing off our actual breedable product. We are confident it will be worth the additional time needed for our internal tests and early bug fixing to take place.

For those of you who look at this as “bad news”, please try to see the glass half full – or rather always completely full considering the air molecules bouncing around inside of it. This extra time for Team Fennux to smooth out the product will be very beneficial for you all. If we didn’t feel we needed this additional time, we would release beta right now – but trust me when I say, we need this. You will be getting an even better product out of us because of this.

Thanks again our wonderful, foxy community!

-Team Fennux

An awesome change to our Fennux Kiosks: they are now called “Fennux – Affiliate Kiosks” and are version 1.2. If you have Fennux Kiosks out already – thank you, but please come get these newer ones as they have something very special inside: an affiliate script.

You might be asking yourself “What’s an affiliate script, and why would I care to have one inside my Fennux Kiosks?”. Simply put, the affiliate script enables us to track who is referring who to purchase Fennux Pre-Orders. This technology allows us to send a 10% commision, or a “finder’s fee”, to the owner of the Kiosk.

Every time someone clicks your “Fennux – Affiliate Kiosk” and makes a purchase, you will make 10% of their sales forever, so long as you are the first person to refer them to Pre-Ordering Fennux.

We also enabled this technology in our Sponsor Display Vendors, so every time someone makes a purchase at a Sponsor Display – 10% goes to the owner of the display, as a way of saying thank you for being a Fennux Sponsor!

If you have any more questions about our affiliate program, contact Daemon Blackflag in-world. Thanks for reading and please feel free to pick up your own Fennux – Affiliate Kiosks at our Official Fennux Sim: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fennux/

-Team Fennux

We just swapped our last bonus item!

From now on when you Pre-Order the 4x Gold Starter Packs, you will receive a 1-of-30 Fennux Scarf Pet! These beautiful little creatures wrap around your neck and hold on tight as you walk around Second Life.

We are offering 6 different coat options and 5 different eye options for this bonus item. That means we have 30 total combinations to choose from, even that little black and orange coat that some people have called a “butterfly” is available as a Fennux Scarf Pet.

So hurry on over and grab a 4x Gold Pack! Pre-Orders will be around up until public beta, but private beta is just around the corner so act fast!

Location to Buy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fennux/128/128/22/

-Team Fennux

Attention Scripting/Coding Developers:

If you are interested in obtaining Fennux API Access so that you may be able to make third-party Fennux tools, and you have a dedicated server lying around, or at least a hosting account with an dedicated IP Address, please send a Second Life Notecard to “Daemon Blackflag” in-world that says “Fennux API Access Request – YOUR AVATAR NAME HERE” as the title. And of course inside it send us your message, what you plan on creating with our API, etc. After a quick review we’ll create a test account for you – and send the details to you via Second Life Notecard.

We are looking for serious inquiries only!

Thanks for reading,

-Team Fennux

LOCATION: HUNTRESS BREEDABLES

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Huntress%20Breedables/106/15/21

WHEN: Friday, August 17 @ 11:00AM SLT

TOPIC: Anything related to Fennux! We will be sharing as much information that we can about our product, discuss a bit about private beta, get everyone up to date on progress, and of course be there to answer any and all Fennux questions.

-Team Fennux