Hi, Chobots.

Two days ago, you may have noticed that Chobots was undergoing maintenance for a short while. Well, Chobots Team included a funny message in the maintenance message! Have a little look.

The message said "We are sad to announce that Chobots has closed". Some people really believed that the game is closing and Chobots will be gone. The thing that they forgot to do is to read the small print under this sentence, that says "For brief maintenance. See you soon!" Haha, that was a good one!

One of the things that was changed while the maintenance is the color of the server bars in the servers select page. The server bars are now light blue.


Another change that happened in the maintenance, is that for some security reasons all the users have to change their password. After logging in, a change-your-password window will appear, and you will have to change your password there.

So, once you've changed your password you're able to play the game as normal.

Also, the green decorations from the Cafe Street that were added during the earth day are gone. The Cafe Street is back to normal now, and it is not a jungle anymore.


The icon that was on the premium items button has been changed; it is not a hand anymore, it is a dollar sign. I think that it looks better like that.


One cool update is that all the items in-game have names now, so if you go to your wardrobe and hover with your mouse over an item, the item's name will appear.

This is really helpful when you'd like to know an items name! Brilliant idea, right?

Moving on to something cool outside of the game: The Market. The first update is that you can now search items by their names! That is why all the items were named. Another update is that the color of the box with the item's auction information depends on the status of the user who listed it. If a junior lists an item, the box will be white. If a citizen lists an item, the box will be green. If an agent lists an item, the box will be light blue. If a staff member lists an item, the box will be red.


And the final thing that we will talk about here in this post, are the new May Citizenship items!
Yes, that is right. May is here with some sweet new Citizenship packs.

The one-month Citizenship pack; "Space Pirate", includes a pirate suit and a player card skin. If you did not know, the parrot is animated while you hover, so try to use a hover board while wearing this suit. You will also receive 10,000 bugs with it.
The six-months Citizenship pack; "Coconut bot", includes a new coconut magic item, two played card skins, and a chat bubble. You will also receive 65,000 bugs with it.
The twelve-months Citizenship pack; "Army Jet", is a huge Citizenship pack! It includes three different jet packs, two player card skins, two chat bubbles and the coconut magic item! You will also receive 150,000 bugs with it. Another feature of the twelve-months Citizenship pack is that you can change your username. If you would like to do it, email support about the username change. Note - The username change feature will be available for one week only after purchasing the Citizenship pack.

At the top of the page, a message has been added saying that the current packages are available for a limited time only, so buy them when you still can!

That's brilliant! Don't you agree? Well, that's it for this post! Thanks a lot for reading.

Hello Chobots,

Wow, I did not post on the blog for a while. I guess that the team members of the blog were doing their jobs perfectly!

Today is finally Saturday, and the week is almost over. Do you have any plans for your weekend? Leave us a comment and tell us! Also, we are going to have a big fashion party tomorrow, at 9:00 PM Cho-time, at the Disco Lounge. An entrance to the Disco Lounge has been added at the Cafe Street. Here is how much time left until the party:


Moving on. Today, a new feature was introduced to the Chobots world - the market.
The market is like an improved version of the old "Actions House" that was available a few months ago. In the market, you can sell your own items by placing a bid on them, choosing when will the bid expire, and letting the other users place higher bids; The highest bid wins!


Getting into the market is very easy. You can go to the market by clicking on the "Market" button at the top of the page, or by clicking on this link: http://chobots.net/market.


The market has three shelves, with 4 items on each each shelf. Above the items, you can see the price of the current bid on the item, how many people bid their money on this item, and how much time left until the bid expires.

To start bidding, you need to log in to the system first. At the bottom of the page, you can see a light blue menu bar, that says "Welcome, guest! Click here to login to the auction house!". Press on the word "here". You will be re-directed to the login page. Use your Chobot's account details (name and password to log in).


After logging in, you will see that the light blue menu bar at the bottom has been updated. There are now 4 buttons there: Home, My Auctions, Add Funds, Feedback/Bugs, and Logout.


First of all, click on add funds. You will be redirected to a page where you will be able to transfer bugs from your actual Chobots account to your market account. You can choose one of the basic options, to add a specific number of bugs. You can also choose one of the percentage-of-your-bugs options, to add 5% of your bugs amount, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%.

After adding an amount of bugs to your market account, go back to the light blue menu at the bottom of the page, and click on "Home", you will be redirected to the home page of the market.

Now, after adding an amount of bugs to your market account, you can bid different amounts of bugs on other's bid. To do that, first of all you will need to choose the item that you would like to get. Check the other pages of the market, there are cool items there too. After you found the item that you would like to get, hover with your mouse over it. A green button with the word "BID" on it will appear, click it. You will be redirected to the item's bid page. In this page, you can see who listed the item that you want, a picture of it, its original price, and a text box for your bid.

Besides that, there is a small explanation about bidding at the bottom of the page:

Note: By pressing "Place Bid," you're confirming that you would like to purchase this item up for sale in the Chobots Market. By doing so, you're ensuring you'll be able to pay for the item if you win. At the end of the bidding period if you don't have enough bugs to cover your costs, your account will be held until you either a) Place enough bugs into your Market account to cover the cost, or b) Forfeit the item and be barred from the Chobots Market.

So before you place your bid, make sure that you have enough money on your market account.

Moving on. If you are wondering how to add your items to the market, that is very simple. To do it, you will have to log in to the game, and head to your wardrobe. After opening it, you will probably notice the new light blue bin at the bottom left corner of your wardrobe.

*Note: The Y badge is not really in your wardrobe, it was added to copyright the picture.

If you will hover with your mouse over the new light blue bin, a small window that says "Send an item to the market" will appear. To send an item to the market, just drag it into the light blue bin. After doing it, you will be redirected to the auction creation page. Set a starting bid price, and the expiration date of the auction.

After that, you could find your item in one of the market pages between other different items by different users.

After your bid will expire, you will be informed about it, and you will have an option to confirm the item transfer and the receiving of the bugs, or cancel your bid. If you will cancel your bid, 5000 bugs will be taken away from your market account as a fee.
If you placed a bid on an item and the seller decided to cancel it, you will receive 110% of your winning bid.

If you already listed an item, or placed a bid, you can check how it is going by clicking on the "My Auctions" button in the light blue menu bar at the bottom of the page. You will be redirected to a page with two shelves; a shelf with the items that you listed and a shelf with the items that you placed a bid on.


The system is pretty new and still has some bugs. If you would like to send feedback about the market, or you found a bug or a glitch, send/report it by clicking the "Feedback/Bugs" button in the light blue menu bar at the bottom of the page. You will be redirected to a page where you will have to choose if you are reporting a bug or giving a feedback. Then, write your feedback/bug in the text box, and send your message. A team member will review after a short period of time.


So that is pretty much every thing about the new market. I hope that everyone likes it. It is a great place for users to trade items and receive bugs!

Moving on. About a week ago our team introduced a new project on this blog - Project CHP. We noticed that many users started working hard to collect Chohelp Points, to get one of the sweet prizes from the catalog. The team and I thought, why not make it more interesting? That is why we added 3 new items to the catalog! Take a look:

Try to click on the green button. It will open a different catalog page with explanations about every item.

Besides the catalog update, we saw that many bloggers have small sidebars on their blogs. That is why we decided to create 2 new banners that will fit the small sidebars! You can get them from the widgets page.
 

Our final blog update for today is a brand new header! This time the blog moved into the purple space edition. As you can see, Peace is not on the header anymore; Art is.


So that is everything for now! Thank you for reading my very long post. Our blog is going to get a few more updates in the next few days, We will let you know when the updates will be released. Stay tuned!

Update: The market has been updated again! First of all, some buttons in the light blue menu bar at the bottom of the page have been renamed; "Home" is now "Market", and "Add Funds" is now "Manage Funds".


The bugs transferring now works in two directions - you can add bugs from your Chobots account to your market account, and add bugs that you earned by winning auctions from your market account to your Chobots account.


If you would like to use an advanced search to find good auctions, you can use the new search options at the top of the market home page! You can now search auctions by a certain user (remember to write his full username), and to use some filters; Most recent, oldest, ending soon, least expensive, most expensive, fewest bids & most bids.


Another update is that you can now see how many people viewed an auction! The views number is placed under the seller's username.


When an auction is over, the seller needs to accept / deny the item/bugs transfer. For example, I opened an auction for the Nicho costume and a user won. I opened the auction, and had to choose between 2 buttons; Complete Transaction or Deny Transaction. Note: If you deny the auction, your item will be returned to you and you will be billed 5000 bugs for your listing.


And the final update is the in-game market bin in your wardrobe. It has been re-colored. The bin is now light blue and orange, and you can see a shadow behind it.


And those are all the extra updates. Enjoy!

Hey guys!

MrSandbox here bringing you the latest news here on Chohelp.


Today, the Chobots team has advanced! I'd like to give a warm welcome to our 2 new moderators; James and Curiosity.

Above is their trackers so you'll know when they're online and ready to assist you.


Our friendly designer, Bit has decided to assist the community even more by creating a email for users to email in and show off their artwork. The official list of what you can submit is as follows;

•    Cool designs that could be created and put into the game and will be given to YOU for free
•    Awesome Graffiti that could inspire us to make art for our blog posts
•    Your original Chobots videos that could be posted onto the community
•    Create your very own music that could be remixed for the game
•    Other creations or unique ideas that could be made

 Personally I think this is a good idea is it gives users motivation to work harder. Aswell as rewarding those creating exceptionally good pieces of work, or working at it non-stop.



Do you like the new header our owner, Yaniv has created? This is a first of 3 updates that will be happening here on the ChoHelp blog. Our Fun page has been under construction for quite a while now, and within this week it will finally be unveiled and finished! How awesome is that?

Aswell, each other will submit a little bit of info about themselves, and it will be posted on the About Us page soon. Keep your eye out for that! ;)

Also, as on my own blog, I will be posting a piece of artwork that I think is really good at the end of each post. Today's artwork is done by our very own author, Kelly123!


Well, that's all folks,

Howdy, Chobots!
Before we get started I'd like to say a BIG "Hello!". I was recently added to Yaniv's astounding blog, 'Chohelp'. The thing I love about this blog is that the posts are very unique, and the design is just simply amazing! I'm really looking forward to posting for you all, if you'd like to check out my blog, click here!

Let's begin with some updates, shall we? Okay, first of all, us Chobots have signed in to find out that some strange things have taken place. What are these 'strange' things? You may be thinking. Let's have a look.
The main page has been updated. You can see that the logo is blue now, and it got some mist on it.
Under the buttons, you can find Chopix, but why is he so sad?


I love what's been done with the Login Page. Especially the way the planets are glowing. It makes it very attractive! The asteroid's floor is now dark purple.


The server bars' color has been changed too! They are now purple/blue.


When I was walking around the city, I went to the park, and something was wrong. I felt that something is missing and then I saw it. Chopix's statue is gone! When I opened the map, it wasn't there either!


I knew that something is wrong, so I thought that Choproff might help me. I went to the classroom to ask him about it, but he wasn't there! I found a broken pair of glasses. Choproff probably dropped them. I hope that he is okay...


Maybe Chopix and Choproff have been kidnapped, just like Sheridan, Max and Blik!
But, who would kidnap such great people? THE NICHOS? Maybe they have a massive plan to take over Chobots. I knew there was something suspicious about them coming to peace with Chobots! I mean, why would they? We've been against each other for years. I actually asked some members of the Chobots Community what they think is going on. They said:

Jamyoos: "So, I think the Nichos lied about the peace contract! I think they will try and kidnap more Chobots to try and get what they want which is apparently 'money'. ".

Theufo: "I think the Nichos have taken them and are brainwashing them all to obey the Nicho commands. I think the Nichos are then going to try and use them all against us!".

Hello everyone!

I hope all of your holidays have been wonderful! Chobots has improved even more with these great, new updates.

To start off, the map has been has been decorated in a Winter color scheme which fits perfectly into the season. As you can see, snow is covering the entire map!

Next, some of our favorite locations have been added back. They are Snowland and Snowland Park. Snowland can be located on the upper-right of the map. It looks very nice with the snowmen and the pine trees as decoration.

To your left, you can visit Snowland Park. The Christmas tree brings a warming welcome.

Furthermore, an update to the game menu has been added. Chobots are now able to lock and unlock the music volume within the game.

Since it is the holiday season, Christmas decorations have been put all around the world of Chobots to make the world look more joyful. Decorations like presents, ornaments and more have been added.

Cafe Street now has a wonderfully decorated Christmas tree with tons of presents under it. Stockings have been hung up around the Café and the snowman now has a present beside it. Also a snowball has been added near the tree along with the red, blue and green ones.

The Home Shop has also been festively decorated with lots of presents, lights, a snowman and a couple of stockings hung around the door. The tree trunk is also red and white.

The Christmas tree in Shop Square has been decorated with colorful ornaments and a bright star. The snowman has a hat now and presents along the side of him.

The Garbage Collector building is also surrounded with gifts and goodie bags. Also, in the bottom left corner, a tree, snowman and gift has been added.

Academy Street has put a Santa hat on the snowman and added green and red ornaments on the ends of the Classroom. Presents and an ornament have been put in the upper corner near the checker tables.

The last location that I noticed that has been decorated with lovely Christmas decorations is the Cinema building. The presents add a nice touch around the trees and the building.

Okay, moving on, the Academy tips have a new sleek look to it. Don't forget to use them when completing a Choproff quiz!

The community around the forum has received some updates as well. First, one of our staff members, Ashely has been promoted to Forum Leader.

Also on the Forum, a new rank has been introduced. It is called "Mini Moderator". Users with 5 stars have this rank.

In addition, we have a new Forum badge called "Legenday Forum Leader" for users that are very active on the forum. If you look on the bottom left of Jake's playercard you can see the badge design and the new playercard color!

Speaking of new badge designs, the "Journalists" badge for users with awesome blogs has also been renovated into an awesome design. This badge was designed by one of our very own Agents, Mollyful.

For those who want a faster way to get to the Robots Configurator , if you press the "citizen's shortcuts" button, there is a new shortcut! This will be really helpful to all Citizens.

The final update we have is that chat history is back! This is a very helpful button for users to report other users not following the rules. Click on the small orange button above the chat bar to access chat history.


Well that is all of the updates and news I have to share with you guys! I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday and I hope to see you around on Chobots!