Fennux News

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

Customer Service Representative Applications

Team Fennux is currently taking applications for CSR’s positions. Please read the attached note card for the job description criteria and application process or go to this link http://www.fennux.com/jobs

Please note we are only currently taking expressions of interest and will contact you in the near future for a voice interview.

Only applications submitted via the website will be accepted. If you have already contact us via notecard or IM please resubmit your details via the website.

Best Wishes,

SatoriAsuka Resident

CSR Manager – Team Fennux

Purchase either a Bronze or Silver Pre-Order Starter Pack right now, and you will receive 1-of-20 Randomly Selected Fennux Rideable! The packs start at L$750/ea so get on over to the Fennux Sim today before this offer is gone.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fennux/

Thanks for reading,

-Team Fennux

Hello everyone,

Team Fennux will be holding two Q & A Sessions to update you with brand NEW information and to answer any questions you may have on the Fennux.

The 1st Q & A Session will be at 6pm SLT Tuesday 24th July.

The 2nd Q & A session will be 1pm SLT Wednesday 25th July.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fennux/

Please come with your ears on and type your questions in local chat, we will answer your questions in voice, to help speed things along.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

-Team Fennux