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Thanks for filling in the housing indexes! It helps a lot to have all the pictures available, side by side. Cheers! -- Elinnea (talk) 14:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
No problemo! Actually, I was mainly doing it so I could see them all side by side, and I figured it would be polite of me to share it with you guys too. lol -- Tigerpanda13 (talk) 18:29, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Promotion
Thanks for all of the Housing updates, you've been promoted to Ninja.
Expect more Housing Changes between now and the end of December, although apparently not in 12.1 next week. :(
Some significant changes in Housing were scheduled after HD release, but before year end. Given that 12.1 has none of them listed (or even hinted at) in the beta release notes, we'll just have to wait and see. The only change to have made it so far was the "clean-up" of the Housing chests.
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