1) Breedings: This one is a little complicated to fully explain, so I recommend just reading the
thread explaining the system in full.
But essentially, each user has two "slots" per month now, and each breeding costs two "slots" (so you can either do one self-breeding, or two breedings with another person, per month). There's a KS fee per breeding (deducted from your account by a mod), and each post must be made within 168 hours of the one before it other (so, 7 days) or else the breeding fails. You still need 25 posts total to finish a room.
I really do recommend reading the thread though, since it goes into better detail. If you have any specific questions on the breeding system, feel free to ask. ovo
2)
Here are all the staff birthday pets from past years.
Chaos Draught - throws in an element of "randomness" for at least one offspring in a non-Kuhna litter (also applies to Elixir of Fertility Kuhna breedings) ie new colors, markings, heads/wings/tails (Paragon) that the parents don't have.
Livestream Ticket - "redeem it for your choice of any
one pet from a Livestream event"
Plastic Candycane - "exchange it for one random Christmas pet from the year of your choice"
Specimen Jar - 10% discount on one order from Evo-Lux or the Metamorphose Medical Clinic
XX Draught - use it to guarantee all babies in a breeding will be female
3) Yes, the war is still going on. Right now the only real event of note is a boss fight for each team, detailed
here and
here. Otherwise, it's still the same as before--- posts in the war RP areas (except Training Grounds) gain you 3 BP per post.
However, we've changed our rules a bit regarding minimum post length requirements. Instead of going by sentence count (5 for normal areas, 10 for war), we've now moved into a word count system. The full list of how many words are required where is
here, but war posts need to be 100 words or more to award BP.
There's a little word counter right below the text input box for posts, to make it easier to see how much you've written.
Hope that helps!