Hello everyone,
<Skins on Farm> is heading to its first anniversary and I want to celebrate that with you and also give you some insight about the history of the project and where we are heading!
The first year of our journey
In late summer 2015 some in-game friends and I started to regularly organize some old raids to unlock the epic appearances for our wardrobe collection. While the interest in those raids and the related wardrobe skins was high, it was not possible to trade them cross shard, so people from other shards would not get them unlocked. That’s when we started to use the old transfiguration baubles to make the awesome weapon appearances tradable and therefore available for everyone who participated in our raids. Soon other people who didn’t raid with us got interested in those skins too and asked if they could pay a bit of plat to unlock them for their collection. They also asked for lots of other skins they desired. We saw that there were tons of players who wanted to get all the cool skins in game, but it requires a lot time and effort to do it if you do it solo. So we decided to offer a service - we farm the skins, make them tradable and offer them to the community.
We decided to found a guild for that service, as the guild vaults offered us an easy way to store the tradable copies and make them available to our members. We decided to name the guild <Skins on Farm>, as an homage to my co-founders guild <Trash on Farm>. The business boomed and soon we had a lot of skins to share. But there was a big problem we were facing – Transfiguration Baubles, the items which are required to copy the appearances on tradable items, were not sold in the Rift store anymore, and we were running out of them quickly. So instead of only farming the skins on our own, we also used some of the funds we gained to buy transfigured weapons from other players. Within only two months we got more than 200 skins and 100 guild members.
In November 2015 we had a small drama when my co-founder quit the game, giving the project a little shake. But soon I got everything fixed again, ready to bring the guild to a new level. During the first months there was a lot of feedback from members and other people and based on that I made some improvements in early 2016. Placeholders were added to the vaults to make unlocking easier and new skins got announced on the guild wall with their exact placement in the vaults. After that I reworked the rank system, offering a good balance between security and flexibility. Together with that came a new price list, offering different services from buying single skins to all-inclusive memberships, so people with fewer funds could also buy the skins they desire.
Today, after almost one year of existence, we count more than 500 weapon skins and over 200 lifetime members. I am very proud to lead this project and I have a lot of fun helping our members getting the best wardrobe skins in game. I am also happy to have such awesome people in our project, who help with providing new skins and give me feedback and ideas how to improve the project. We are really connecting the EU community! Thank you everyone!
What is coming next?
The grand opening of the “Cosmic Fashion Studios”
In the last two months our Dimensioneer Malefizia (Shadana@Brutwacht) created the most awesome fashion-themed dimension for our guild. This dimension is now available to visit and will be the home of upcoming events and contests hosted by our guild. We will officially celebrate our first anniversary with a huge wardrobe contest in August, which will use the multiple sceneries of the dimension for the screenshot entries and the catwalk for the later contest stages. Stay tuned for more information about that by end of July! You can find a preview article for the dimension on the Dimension Gallery homepage.
A new guild homepage & raid planner
I am working on a new guild homepage that will include a raid planner for regular retro raids. There will be farm raids for wardrobe but also achievement hunts! Want to finish off your 500 strongholds in Dendrome? Here you go! Of course you don’t need to be a member to join our raids, everyone is welcome!
And yes, I hope this time I can finally manage to create a complete list of our skins incl. screenshots to publish it there. And a WTB list for those who want to earn some plat with their leftover Transfiguration Baubles.
Bringing the guild to a new level
Completionism is love, completionism is life? I want to make the guild a good home for high-level alts to build up an active community for retro raiders, achievement hunters and completionists. Therefore I am currently leveling up the guild to offer you the perks you desire. Of course, any help with the guild quests is appreciated. If you want to change your current character for a high-level character already, I am of course happy to do that for you at any time!
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1st Anniversary Recap & Celebration
