News Feed [Announcements]

This thread is made with the intention of keeping an active news feed for quick updates regarding gameplay, bugs, events, or anything else that might be relayed through our discord announcements so that members are not missing anything for choosing to not participate in our server (minus site outage updates for obvious reasons).

Any questions regarding updates may be asked in ask the staff or via direct message to a preferred staff member should you not be part of the discord. We will try to update announcement posts with questions and their answers from the discord if they prove to need clarification!
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I just wanna say yall are crazy and inspiring. The site has been (re)open for 43 days and there are:
350 user accounts (avg 8/day)
513 threads (avg 12/day)
2,264 posts (avg 53/day)

Thank you so much for your creativity, your flexibility, and your passsion. You make this site what it is and we're so happy to have y'all here ❤️
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We didn't realize the individual adopts form was posting incorrectly but it is now fixed and posts to the correct thread (link)
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Introducing our new annual Valentine's Day event!

Welcome to Mapenzi, an isolated island seemingly separated and untravelable from the main lands of Canis, yet somehow it is still Canis. This is an opt-in event, meaning if you would like to not participate, continue writing as normal!

For everyone else, love is in the air, or maybe love is just a dream? Mapenzi is accessible each time your character goes to sleep.

Read more HERE
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Toyhouse World!

For those of you that have a toyhouse account, we do have a toyhouse world (click here). Feel free to request membership and add your characters! <3
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Hey all. With the new site and fresh community, I want to take a moment and thank all of you for being here and sharing in the joy and creativity of writing. This is what we always wanted Canis to be, and what we strive to protect.

For the sake of full transparency, please know that we did ban someone today for harassment, doxxing, and other unacceptable behavior. We approach such behavior with zero tolerance, as long as proof is provided. If anyone ever harasses you, spreads rumors about you, or otherwise makes you feel uncomfortable, please come to us. We will nip it in the bud.

If you have questions, feel free to approach me in my DMs, and I will answer to the best of my ability.
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Hi I made a list of free assets for the community: https://canismajor-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=712 hope it helps
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Created a couple threads to make things easy for everyone: 
- A thread for artists to post their commission status/prices/ads
- A thread for players to post their character design sales, whether it's an established design (with art) or a design that they've made.
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As a heads up, staff will be making a rule adjustment regarding concerns of pack territory locations and neutral territories between claims. This change will prevent any single group from being boxed in by other packs and allow loners / travelers a neutral path throughout the map. Further info will come soon, but in the meantime, if you are planning a group, please try to keep in mind other forming groups and currently formed packs! If you submit a group for formation in a territory that would be affected by this change, the pack will be marked as pending, and staff will work with you to resolve the situation while keeping the territory you want. Thank you!
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After careful consideration, the staff have decided to implement a rule regarding the proximity of claims on the map. Packs are allowed to border one another so long as there is a neutral territory for any neighboring group or loner to travel without conflict. This means if a new claim is submitted that would force a character to cross a claim to continue their travels across the map, the request will be marked pending until the group decides to relocate, the location is moved, or a new territory is submitted to fix the blocked off path. (undiscovered map area does not need to be discovered for this scenario. So long as land mass is there, it is fine.)

We plan to make a visual indicator on the map for locations that are unable to be claimed to make this change easier to understand and notice when creating new group concepts, but it is a backend feature that requires the time of our very busy coder. In the meantime, we will update this thread with off limit and available locations for new claims. Please check it for conflicts before submitting a group for formation.

This should also prevent any group from getting boxed in by others without stifling border conflicts or potential natural tension players might want to write with another group. If issues arise with this rule in practice, we will revise to fit the flow and fun of the game. To address the problems this rule change brings for forming groups, we have added a landmass in the northern sea of the map that is reachable to travel around forming/existing claims. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the staff!


(Map change will not be reflected until the next map update but that mass is in play)
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A reminder that this Friday will be the last day to make new Mapenzi threads! As of Saturday the 15th the location will be "vanished" until next year! (We will leave it visible until all threads have been archived but the ability to make new threads will be disabled)

If you have not finished your threads, do not fear. You can finish at your own pace so long as the thread is not left unanswered for three months. At that point staff will archive the thread. Once all threads have been finished the event category will be hidden until it's next use!
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New Mapenzi threads are now closed! Feel free to finish up what you have started, no rush as long as the thread keeps moving it will remain untouched. Thanks all for participating!
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Temporary Pause on Discovering (More) New Territories!

@member Hey friends! Y'all crazy (in the bestest way) ? Currently there are fifteen (15) territories being discovered! That's 225 points needed to discover all of them! So that we can get all of those territories discovered, and so we have time to update the map with these new territories & packs coming in, we are temporarily pausing the ability to submit new locations. We will enable them again once the community has finished the ones currently in discovery mode (not sure when that will be). Thank you for being as enthused about Canis as we are. We love you guys. ❤️
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Emergency Broadcast - Login Now Required

It has come to staff's attention that there is someone archiving and stripping/scraping roleplaying forums for existing RP content to feed into an AI algorithm to seemingly teach this specific AI bot/program to roleplay. We have decided to put Canis in a state in which users must login. At this point in time, we will not be utilizing a guest account that people can log into. We may change things in the future, near or far, but at the moment this will protect the writing of the players on this site as best we can.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in ⁠site-questions
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We want to take a moment and thank @Rhys for their time over the years. They were a fantastic help in building Canis and while life got in the way of RP, they will always remain a good friend. They have decided to step back from the writing world, and so they are also stepping down from staff. Thank you so much for everything Rhys! 

An update on discovering territories (they're still closed for submission) Frostspire Highlands, Jaggedspine Valley, and Icebound Edge are nearing completion! Also Tearspine Heights has been officially discovered! 

Also, if you clear your cache, Jaggedspine Valley should no longer have a blue name on the map indicating its a magical location. It never has been and never will be a magical location that was a graphical bug we have finally squashed.
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Since we last mentioned it here, Canis Major has been in login only mode, meaning that no one could see any part of the forum unless they were logged in to protect our playerbase and their creations.

This also meant, however, that guests could not view the rulebook (or anything really) to see if they wanted to join/were comfortable with how Canis works.

After mulling it over for a while, the staff team has decided to move Canis off of login-only and instead to a very limited view for guests. They can see two of the OOC forums, the rulebook, and the compendium. Guests cannot see any IC areas, including profiles and the archives, nor can they see the packs & groups planning forum.

The link below is a screenshot of what the forum looks like to guests. We are also working on making the compendium inaccessible to guests to further protect y'all's creations. ❤️ Please feel free to reach out to staff with any questions you may have.

click here for screenshot
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