ATM August Planning

Quizzes/Raffles:
AUGUST (Marapets birthday, Plushie Party)
Birthday items, party items, anything from previous birthday events, fiesta items, celebration items, gift bags, pinata items, plushies, plushie items, origami items, punk items, steampunk items, clockwork, desert items, stone age, prehistoric, stone, lava, fire, tiger, leopard, panda, red panda, Dalmatian, shaved, DNA minipets for Transumption Pyramid, Binary Codes for Wonky Pyramid, magenta items, enchanted dips, August items


Calendar:

7/17-8/2 ATM Who Am I (bluetaz2001)
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504216&id=2734210
8/1-8/7 ATM Silent Auction (Dani)
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=505785&id=5428864
8/3-8/10 ATM Pet Jobs Dress-Up Contest (DayravenB ) https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=503081&id=5312326
8/4 Plushie Party
8/11-8/14 Vote for your favorite in the Pet Jobs Dress-Up Contest
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=503081&id=5312326
8/15 Marapets' 21st birthday
8/15-8/22 ATM Birthday Bash (Gwylynnsgarden)
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504720&id=2039393

BANNER CHALLENGE
Time for all our creative and tech people to shine. Earn 25,000 Club Points for each ATM banner you design. We especially need banners for August and September, but we would also love new Maraween Thanksgiving, and Elfember banners. Draw your own or use AI. Maramail me the image link so I can award points and add it to our banner list.
Theme ideas:
August - Marapets birthday & plushie party
September - back to school, Stamptember, autumn, pirates (Talk Like a Pirate Day is 9/17.)
October - Maraween
November - Thanksgiving
December - Elfember


link to ATM banner blog: https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504080&id=2039393

Silent Auction info from Dani:
On August 1 Dani will place trade lots and mark them ATM Club. You have until August 7 to bid on any items that you wish to have. On August 7 Dani will go through and accept the highest offer. Offers must be MP only, please use a low value item as the item for your bid. The winner (the highest bidder) will NOT get their item back, and I do not even look at the value of an item only at the MP offered.

Pet jobs Dress Up info from DayravenB
Let's have a job fair! Your pets all have jobs, right? What if your doll had one of those same jobs!?

Based on the pet jobs at the bottom of this page https://www.marapets.com/jobs.php

decorate your doll to have one of those jobs!

The contest will run from Sunday 3rd July to Sunday 10th July. Then everyone can vote on who has the best costume.

Who Am I? Directions:
How this works:
1. I will give you 3 clues to who I am, and you have to figure it out.
2. Please mail bluetaz2001 the answer.


Add reminder:
WAYS TO EARN CLUB POINTS THAT ARE WORKING
9 Points per post on Club Chat
9 Points per item donated to the Club
9 Points x rarity of item donated
9 Points every time you enter the Club Quiz
9 Points every time you enter the Club Raffle
And through club events & club chat events

NEED HOSTS FOR UPCOMING MONTHS - Check your calendars to see if you can help out at least once in September, October, November, December, or January.

WELCOME TO ALL IDEAS, here are some previous things
Dress Up Contest
Quest Contest - Halloween Snowman, Tweetly, Secret Santa, Santa Claws
Caption Contest
Art/Graphics/Coloring Contest
Short trivia games
Scavenger Hunt
Bingo
Word Fill In
Crossword Puzzle
Word Search
Logic Puzzle
ATM Community Story
Word Decoder Puzzles
Word Scramble

NEXT YEAR ADD TO NEWSLETTER - INFO ABOUT BIRTHDAY GAME - advice from Xenious
"You need 60 secs before you can play ...
The best strategy is to save up 300 seconds before you party. Bags fall faster the longer the game goes. Faster bags means more bags! You don't want to party early and cheat yourself with fewer bags. One 300-second party is better than five 60-second parties or two 150-second parties. 300 is optimal.
Example data:
9 bags at 60 seconds
19 bags at 120 seconds
40 bags at 180 seconds
70 bags at 240 seconds
101 bags at 300 seconds
What about parties "ending early?" Why do bags stop falling when you still have time left? Bags stop falling once you reach a certain number of total bags (mp + gift bags) caught. To prevent wasted time at the end, avoid catching mp bags. If you only catch gift bags, you won't reach the limit, and you can keep catching gift bags up until your time runs out.

advice from Gennie in forums on 8/20:
The thing about seconds is, if you have more than 60 an get an invite from player profiles, you get capped at 300 seconds for playing the birthday game.
BUT, if you don't go for the invite, you can go higher than 300 seconds.

I'm currently at 330 seconds.

I'll be going for my invite via Profile clicking' once I hit 420, which will give me 7 minutes to play the birthday game, rather than 5 minutes.
I often wait to go til I have 360 or 420 seconds, which gives me 6 or minutes for the game. Mostly do to the game running slower for me than others.. despite having decent net speed....
If I did 300 seconds I might grab 50 bags, but at 6 or 7 minutes, I often end up with 80 or 90 bags. so it's worth putting in the extra effort for longer seconds.

This does mean i cut into profile clicking, during the gathering of seconds, but I still end up with ore than enough from that to,.

It helps to find what works best for you. Cap at 300, or push for more minutes of game play by avoiding profile clicks."

HELPFUL GUIDE to prep for the birthday event. If you don't already use a visited links app, go check out Dani's guide. It's so much easier to do the birthday event, trick or treating, and caroling with a visual color change.
https://www.marasites.com/?name=Dani&page=LinksVisitedTutorial

NEXT YEAR - Add a quest challenge? Desert themed - Hump Racing or Kamilah Traveller