There has been some first balancing changes to the game! The lottery and the plant growth have been adjusted:

• Lottery: The number of plays per 24h has been increased from 3 to 6! The chance to get seeds has been decreased from 1/2 to 1/5 (So you are more likely to win Pixcoins now).
• Plants/Pumpkins: The speed of grade reduction upon water neglect has been decreased dramatically. It is now -1 grade per 2 hours of overdue watering for pumpkins and -1 grade per 4 hours of overdue watering for plants (Before it was 30min and 1h).

Following Features/Additions have been made:

• You can now instantly change between house parts without reloading the whole page.
• The new decorative object "Plastic Chair" is now findable by Pixpets.

Following bugfixes have been done today:

• Fixed a minor display bug with the popular auctions module.
• The blue dropdown menus work now on touch devices.
• On touch devices it is now required to double tab on objects with a link in your home to actually follow the link. The first tab shows the object label and the second tab loads the link.

If you have any questions regarding the changes, post them here!

Komodo

'Lo there--your guess was right. Since the game is in closed beta, you must be a Patron to join. But it doesn't cost much to be one; the lowest tier is only three bucks. :)