Archive for August, 2012

While watching the main Amaretto Ranch Breedables group chat lately it seems like the most confusion is about how many traits are possible on a horse. So I thought I would use my blog today to list the traits possible for all Amaretto Breedables! I hope this clears up any confusion and good luck to all in getting the trait combinations you desire!

 

Max Horse Traits
1 Coat (Non-Starter)
2 Eye (Non-Starter)
3 Mane (Non-Starter)
4 Tail (Non-Starter)
5 Coat Gleam
6 Coat Luster
7 Coat Gloom/Chill/Warmth/Blush/Haze/Hue
8 Coat Opal
9 Hair Gleam
10 Hair Luster
11 Hair Gloom/Chill/Warmth/Blush/Haze/Hue
12 Hair Opal
13 Branding
14 Hoof Paint
15 Ear Size
16 Ear Style
17 Class Stamina
18 Class Speed
19 Wild Hair

 

 
Max K-9 Traits
1 Coat (Non-Starter)
2 Eye (Non-Starter)
3 Ears (Non-Starter)
4 Size (Non-Starter)
5 Collar (Non-Starter)
6 Tail (Non-Starter)
7 Nose
8 Sheen
9 Radiance
10 Sunrise/Sunset

 

 

 

Max Bird Traits
1 Breed (Non-Starter)
2 Eye (Non-Starter)
3 Class (Non-Starter)
4 Leg Color
5 Beak Color
6 Beak Flaw
7 Beak Design

I have seen quite a few people file tickets about duplicate breedables. 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, K9, or bird 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/bird 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, K9, or bird 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/K9/bird  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/K9/bird 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/bird on the server if you do not show as owner of the horse/K9/bird 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/K9/bird 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/bird. 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!!Duplicated

Hey everyone! Happy Hump day! Yup the week is half way over hope you guys aren’t working to hard!

Just a simple reminder, a great tool that I think everyone should know about! Have you checked out the Video Tutorials that Ava creates for all of us breeders?

Well they can be very usefull and she told me that she just added a new one! Thats right a horse hud video, showing us all how to use the functions of the horse hud! Check it out!

http://amarettobreedables.com/videos/7/17/amaretto-horse-hud

I was also told that she was working on video on how to use the racing and training options on the hud!

In other news did you guys hear? That a brand new albino eye hit the grid just the other day? What you didnt? Well let me be the first to introduce the Black Widow eyes!
Heres a cool pic below!

Remember Albinos come randomly from full siblings. Full siblings are siblings that come from the exact same mother and father. Siblings do not have to have the same traits they only need to be full sibling.

Rollbacks Suck!!!

Living in a virtual world can be tough! It’s not pixels and dreams like one may think! The truth is we are all on SL servers, and when they reboot or rollback, man can it cause a mess of your breedables!
I know that you guys have seen it mentioned before, however I can’t help but notice in the majority of the tickets you guys still aren’t putting all the info that will ensure your issue is resolved as fast as possible.
One issue that you might encounter is a duplicated horse! The horse will have a red hover text that reads: Duplicated horse, please file a ticket with Amaretto
But don’t panic it’s an easy fix just file a ticket and the CSR will ask you to send all copies of the duplicated horse!
Another popular issue that happens is [20:26] Amaretto Breedables Bundle: This bundle had an error, MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_BUNDLE_IN_THREE_DAYS:
This happens when a horse has a good bundle, and SecondLife rolls back the sim and turns the good bundle into a bundle that reads [20:26] Amaretto Breedables Bundle: This bundle had an error, MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_BUNDLE_IN_THREE_DAYS
If you encounter this issue please click on the mother horse and go to the breeding menu, then last bundle you will see the following in local chat
The last bundle dropped by this horse was Amaretto Breedable Bundle with the ID of d807a2b9-9dd4-1e8e-631a-7cf4c7e9dadc
You can now include this information in your ticket and will help the CSR swiftly recover the bundle you are missing!
Also an issue with rollbaks is missing items that you may have just sat out, like food or salt licks. You can file support tickets for these as well, just make sure you include transaction history for these items. We try as best we can to help but can unfortunately do nothing about SL rollbacks.
Remember to check out the ARU schedule and attend those classes!

~Amaretto Advertising Network~

Hey guys its Monday! Hows everyone today? I hope that you got to enjoy your weekend! I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of a house keeping issue that I have been battling over the past couple of days!

The ~Amaretto Advertising Network~ is a group owned by Amaretto that is free for anyone to join! We want you to be able to advertise and spam your auctions, markets, and sales. Yes, we allow bots in there! However there are a few rules that need to be followed the group charter states:

The posting limit for this group is 1 group IM per hour and 1 notice per 2 hours.

THE MAXIMUM IS 4 ADS PER DAY!!!!

So please adjust your bots and spammers to reflect the rules of the charter, if you are caught abusing this group you will be ejected and banned from all Amaretto Groups. We want everyone to enjoy and utilize this group however we don’t want to over do it so please respect the charter! If you have any questions about this group please contact Avalon Crystal.

Official Amaretto Websites

Hello everyone its tmzasz your friendly neighborhood webmaster, today I would like to discuss the official amaretto websites!

Now i know we have talked about the official amaretto groups and business avatars but never mentioned what all the official amaretto websites are well today i am gonna show them to you with a brief description of each!

 

First off we have the main website:

http://amarettobreedables.com

This is the main website of amaretto also known as the social network. From here you can go to the forums, view pictures of the breedables , interact with others. There’s just so much to do on the website so why don’t you go have a look? Also to note there are various sub-websites on this domain ( website url )

http://support.amarettobreedables.com Ticket System

http://forums.amarettobreedables.com Link to the forums

http://shop.amarettobreedables.com Link to the shop

http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com Horse Manual

http://wiki2.amarettobreedables.com K-9 Manual

http://wiki3.amarettobreedables.com Barnyard Bird Manual

http://locations.amarettobreedables.com Link to locations page

http://connection.amarettobreedables.com The customer connection ( this site )

 

As you can see we use the main website address for alot of things 🙂

 

Now what you dident know is there is 2 other sites owned by amaretto! One is this:

http://amarettoranchuniversity.com

If you go there right now all that’s there is a coming soon page but I have been allowed to give a small teaser about this site! This site will co inside with the Amaretto Ranch University inside of Second Life. On this page it will have many things relating to the university and some neat features I can not go into right now.

And finally if you have seen our twitter you may be wondering where our short-links for the connection are coming from. Well here is the official url for that:

http://arburl.com

This url is the url we use to generate our shortlinks for twitter like this one http://arburl.com/46bf4 it came from Mal’s blog named Important Information and Tips from yesterday!

Well that covers the current websites owned by amaretto! When we add more I will be sure to add them to the connection.

Till next time Happy Breeding everyone!!!!!

Important Information and Tips

First, it is important to talk about purchases made from Amaretto.

 

When you first purchase your new starters or any special LE’sor SE’s from Amaretto, It is very Important that once you birth them, give them a name. This will help us to find any Horses/k-9s/ Barnyard Birds that maybe didn’t birth properly for you. It is really almost impossible to find your horses/ k-9′s when they are all named Amaretto breedable Horse/ K-9/Barnyard Bird. Please remember to try and name all of your horses and k-9′s something different. If you have to, use numbers in the name.

 

Also your transaction history is very Important Everytime you buy or sell items, or even give items to someone, or get items from some one, even if it is for 0L a transaction history is made.

 

When you send a ticket about duplicated or lost items that you have recently purchased, we may be asking for a transaction history to verify your purchase or exchange, if it becomes necessary. To speed up the answer to your ticket, please include this when you file your ticket.

 

Your transaction history also helps in knowing when and how much foods and consummables that you purchased that may have dissappeared or not rezzed properly.

 

You ask, Where do I find my transaction history? The answer is simple, at the top of your screen you will see the word WORLD, left click, then left click on account history, and find your transaction. Then copy that and paste onto your ticket.

 

Name ALL your Horses/K-9s/Barnyard Birds, Bundles, Kennels and Nests

 

Second Life has many lag issues, that can cause duplication of breedables, disappearance of breedables, or incomplete transfer of breedables. Having your breedable named can be very helpful especially when SL eats you Horse, K-9, or Barnyard Bird. We need information to remake your breedable. What we need is the Name of breedable and/or UUID number. If you leave you horse, K-9, or Barnyard Bird as Amaretto Breedable Horse, Amaretto Breedable K-9,or Amaretto Breedable Barnyard Bird, it can make it harder to find and sometimes impossible. The same goes for kennels, bundles and nests

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We can only replace, remake your item if we have the information, so please take the time to name all your breedables.

 

Names can be as simple as using a number. It will also help you keep track and know when you are missing a horse, K-9 or Barnyard. example (White Walker Female, White Walker Female 2, White Walker Female 3)or for bundles, kennels, and nests, BW/Gar/LL/DblGloom, BWGar/LL DBLGloom 2

 

When you get a bundle, kennel, or nest and you decide not to birth it, name it before you take it into your inventory. Lets say a few weeks down the road you decide to birth that bundle, and the horse stays white and doesn’t birth. or you go to rez it out and it dissapears.You probably dont remember who the parents of the bundle were, but if you have named the bundle and paid attention to the bundle name before you clicked birth, you now have some information to give us that can help in finding out about that bundle. Again try and make the names different, even by using a number. You can start naming your bundles/kennels/nests by starting with a number and then naming the bundles in the next number order (1 BW/Gar/LL/BblGloom, 2 BW/Gar/LL/DblGloom, Etc)

 

Please understand that we know how frustrating it is when something goes wrong, but if you follow these simple things, it will make it more easier to fix them and get everything back like it should be.

A Grey Classic Clydesdale with Wild Hair Mystique Citrine!

A Mystique Erinite with Wild Hair Tan Walker!

A Red Spotted Rocky Mountain with Wild Hair Honey Skewbald!

A Ginger Dun with Wild Hair Gold/Black Mustang!

A Solid Dark Grey Fell Pony with Wild Hair White Classic Clydesdale!

 

These are just a few of the amazing new “Wild Hair” traits that have been discovered and posted on Trinity’s flickr page so far and I have to say they are quite quickly becoming one of my favorite traits! It is just beyond cool to see the different hair combinations on the different horses! The possibilities that this trait opens up are staggering!  I could sit here all day thinking up what Wild Hair I would like to see on which horse!

I have seen a few people asking questions in the group about this fantastic new trait and the main question seems to be will it pass the same Wild Hair trait.  The answer is yes this trait has the ability to pass and it will pass the same as it was.  Let me try to explain that a little more, say the person that got the Mystique Erinite with Wild Hair Tan Walker breeds that horse with a Mystique Citrine. There is a possibility that those two horses will create a bundle that also has the Wild Hair Tan Walker! Pretty cool I say.

So if you are lucky enough to get this new trait please share pictures as we will never be able to put all the many possible Wild Hair combinations on the wiki! Until next week, happy breeding and may you all have “Wild Hair Days”!

 

Rollback Blues!!!

Living in a virtual world can be tough! It’s not pixels and dreams like one may think! The truth is we are all on SL servers, and when they reboot or rollback, man can it cause a mess of your breedables!

I know that you guys have seen it mentioned before, however I can’t help but notice in the majority of the tickets you guys still aren’t putting all the info that will ensure your issue is resolved as fast as possible.

One issue that you might encounter is a duplicated horse! The horse will have a red hover text that reads:  Duplicated horse, please file a ticket with Amaretto

But don’t panic it’s an easy fix just file a ticket and the CSR will ask you to send all copies of the duplicated horse!

Another popular issue that happens is [20:26] Amaretto Breedables Bundle: This bundle had an error, MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_BUNDLE_IN_THREE_DAYS:

This happens when a horse has a good bundle, and SecondLife rolls back the sim and turns the good bundle into a bundle that reads [20:26] Amaretto Breedables Bundle: This bundle had an error, MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_BUNDLE_IN_THREE_DAYS

If you encounter this issue please click on the mother horse and go to the breeding menu, then last bundle you will see the following in local chat

The last bundle dropped by this horse was Amaretto Breedable Bundle with the ID of d807a2b9-9dd4-1e8e-631a-7cf4c7e9dadc

You can now include this information in your ticket and will help the CSR swiftly recover the bundle you are missing! Remember to check out the ARU schedule and attend those classes!

Happy Wednesday! This week I want to talk to you about sending a breedable to Horse Haven, Puppy Paradise and Bird Sanctuary and using the Vendor. It is very important that you wait for the vendor to rez completely for you before making your purchase as ALL purchases are Final. We will not exchange the items for you if you purchase in error. All the items on the vendor have their own button and it is very important that you make sure the item you click is the one you mean to purchase.
We would also like to remind everyone that it is critical for you to re-rez any breedable you purchase before trying to send it to Horse Haven, Puppy Paradise and Bird Sanctuary. This is to ensure that the breedable registers the correct owner allowing the points to be credited to the correct person.
Please remember this when a breedable is sent to Horse Haven Puppy Paradise and Bird Sanctuary they are non- recoverable.
You can check your points at any of these vendors just by clicking the vendor. You can also check your points by going to the Haven sim.