LAST THURSDAY: Summerrise - UDC Event

Summer hit its peak and you showed up dressed for it. Summerrise went live on 7/30 as a UDC event, which means every look on that runway came from your fellow community designers. You climbed the participation track, you played the brand-new Blackjack minigame!

Huge love to the designers whose pieces made the drop, and to everyone who wore them all week.

THIS THURSDAY: Forever Young - Runway Event

The runway is calling again. This Thursday (8/6) we’re launching Forever Young, a Runway Event, so bring the fit that makes you feel unstoppable.

New this round:

• Pachinko is back, with Leagues: the Pachinko machine returns, and this time it has its own league to climb. Drop your coins, chase the track, then keep climbing.
• Earn Pachinko coins from Runway: walking the runway now feeds your coin stack, so your two favorite things finally talk to each other.
• Fairer ticket earning: we’ve added rate limiting on ticket earning to push back on exploiters, so the leaderboard reflects the people actually playing.

RECENTLY RELEASED

Fresh from the shop this week:

• Heart Signal (8/3) - new grab, live now
• Heart Spark (8/3) - its counterpart grab
• Lady Warren (8/1) - grab, for the drama-forward wardrobe
• SummerRise 2026 (7/30) - the UDC event grab, straight from your fellow designers

IN 4.29.10 (NEXT CLIENT UPDATE)

4.29.10 is a small hotfix release, already out on Android and in review on iOS. What’s notable:

• “Join a crew” push prompt fixed: if a crew made you apply first, you never saw the notification prompt. Now you see it either way. Why: Crews v2 quietly broke this, and you were missing crew pings you’d actually opted into.
• Full-screen prompts only close on their buttons: no more dismissing a prompt by accidentally tapping the background. Why: too many of you were tapping past something you meant to read.
• Promocode / hashtag profile text fix: text no longer displays wrong after viewing a user through a hashtag promocode. Why: small glitch, but it made profiles look broken.
• Creators Tab link-outs: banners under Creators Tab, Collection now carry a clear external-link icon and caption pointing to HR Concepts and HR Ideas. Why: finding where to submit and browse concepts shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt.
• Network diagnostics: new under-the-hood self-check that logs connection health. Why: when you tell us “I keep getting disconnected,” we want real data instead of guesswork. This one is groundwork for fixing the connection complaints below.

YOUR FEEDBACK

We read a lot this week. Three things we owe you a straight answer on:

Bubbles, and whether the new rates are enough. The rebalance landed, and the loudest reaction was about the removed 15k message-streak payout. Many of you did the math out loud: batteries run ~25k for a full, ~12.5k for a half, so losing 15k a week stings. Here’s our intent, plainly: a fully free-to-play player should be earning roughly 30k Bubbles a week once this is fully rolled out, and early achievements are deliberately front-loaded to get new players moving faster. Daily tasks sit around 1,000/day and events around 2,000/day, plus a 5x better Gold to Bubbles conversion, bigger achievement payouts, and unchanged furniture prices. If your real-world earning isn’t matching that, tell us in the Bubble Economy thread, because that gap is the thing we want to fix. We’ve also got recycling and Daily Login rewards queued for their own passes.

“Events feel pay-to-win.” This came through Discord and app-store reviews alike: that past a certain rank, spending decides the outcome and grinding all day still isn’t enough. We’re not going to pretend that’s solved. What we’re doing this round is concrete: ticket rate limiting in Forever Young so exploiters aren’t sitting above you, more Bubble supply on the earn side, and Pachinko coins now earnable straight from playing the runway rather than only bought. Keep the receipts coming, especially screenshots of where the wall hits for you.

Crashes, disconnects, and support waits. We see the reports: crashes when previewing or adding certain grab items, force-closes on chat, older iPhones struggling, and disconnects that pull you out mid-room. We also see the folks waiting one to two weeks on a ticket, and losing threads or tokens to a crash mid-purchase, which is genuinely the worst version of this bug. The network diagnostics in 4.29.10 exist specifically so we stop guessing on the disconnect reports. If you lost items or currency to a crash, please do file a ticket with the date and time even without a screenshot, that record is what lets us make it right.

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