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Edit Approval Update: April 2022
3 years ago
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Starting on April 1st 2022, we will no longer be doing edit approvals.
What this means for you all:
1: Any designs that have been edited before the date will be grandfathered in.
2: If you wish to edit an already edited design, you must go back to the ORIGINAL design. Do not apply edits to an already edited design.
3: If you have an edited design, you MUST keep a copy of the original unedited version with the design.
........A: In the event you trade/sell/gift an edited design, it is your responsibility to inform the buyer and give them both the original and the edited version.
THE NEW EDIT GUIDELINES: April 1st 2022
The following edits have no restrictions
1: Edits to hairstyle, body types, minor gender presenting traits (ex: horns, robber antenna placement, shooter hands), body mods (piercings, missing limbs, prosthetics) can be done at the owner’s preference at any time regardless of other edits
........A: This does not include edits on already edited designs. If you want to edit a grandfathered design, you must revert them back to the original design and apply the edits based on the new guidelines.
2: Edits to hair color, eye/gem color can be done at the owner’s preference
........A: Eye/Gem color must still follow the species guidelines (aka: any species save for shooters must have matching gem/eye colors)
3: Minor edits to markings/colors for the purpose of ease of drawing can be done at the owner’s preference.
........A: Marking edits can include: adjusting the finger colors, simplifying a marking for ease of drawing, adding/removing patterns on the horns.
........B: Marking edits should not change more than 15% of the stardragon’s design/color.
The following edits now have restrictions
1: Stardragon colors: You can palette swap/adjust your stardragons colors. (ex: changing your purple stardragon into a green version)
However, if you edit your stardragons colors you CANNOT make major trait edits as well. (ex: changing your stardragon to a subtype version. Swapping an uncommon trait for another uncommon trait)
2: Stardragon traits: You can adjust your stardragons' traits (ex: changing your stardragon to a subtype version. Swapping uncommon traits for a different uncommon trait. Swapping major gender traits such as the fisher’s tails.)
However, if you edit your stardragons traits in this way, you CANNOT adjust/swap your stardragon’s colors outside of the non-restricted edits.
Major color edit = no trait edits
Trait edit = no major color edits?
But small color edits to gem/eye/markings is okay?
That's what you're saying?
If we make edits now (as in before april) then these edits are being grandfathered in under the new rules?
Also also: What about people that had "rare trait potion upgrades" from the fisher changes way back when? Would these be allowed edits without affecting the restricted edits portions?
As for the first part, you are correct! If you edit the traits the colors need to remain similar and vice versa. This is so the edited designs have a very clear point of reference to the original design. Trying to do a combination of both often ends up with a lot of grey areas and nuances that require an edit approval system for case-to-case basis. As the edit approval system is being phased out in April, there is just too much variations and combinations to consider, hence the simplifying of the new edit rules.