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Basics
[General Respect]✦ All users and staff are required to be respectful. Discrimination isn’t tolerated.
✦ Do not poke at, bug, beg from, or otherwise harass other users within the community.
[Using as OCs]✦ You are free to give your Viscets any personality, sexuality, etc, or make one your Fursona.
✦ Do not change your Viscet's anatomy or give them new items that mimic anatomy (e.g. robotic limbs).
✦ You may only alter small non-genetic aspects of your Viscet's appearance (scars, tattoos, etc), unless with permission or instruction from Mint Chip.
✦ No public nsfw, controversially offensive, or otherwise non-childfriendly material concerning Viscets
✦ Feel free to make creative AUs for your Viscets (outside of their 'lore'), but respect others' AUs in their own threads (such as a realistic-themed RP with no magic allowed).
✦ Your viscet may identify as any gender BUT the biological gender cannot be changed after 30 days of ownership (unless gifted--see "Exchanges")
[Creation & Customs/MYOs]✦ You must have permission (staff, GA, or MYO) to create a Viscet.
✦ Once created you may not make changes to your adopts/batches for any reason (customs may be slightly edited with permission from Mint Chip)
✦ Non-artists may only create designs with a MYO Ticket
[Community]✦ Please ask before creating public threads. Personal threads (OC lists, 1v1 rps) are fine.
✦ You are in charge of regulating Viscet rules in your thread(s).
✦ Stream hosts are responsible for allowing bullying/harassment in their streams. Antagonists should be kicked and reported to Viscet staff.
✦ Your thread may have its own rules that you may enforce so long as they do not defy any rules listed here.
✦ Users may be banned from specific threads in particular rather than the whole community (partial-bans).
[ Adopting Viscets ]
Please read the Monthly Adopt Limits!
[Acquiring Viscets]✦ You can only acquire Viscets from permitted artists, gifts, or permitted MYOs.
✦ Artists may host any kind of contests (raffles, fcfs, impress me, etc); respect how an artist hosts and judges their adopt(s).
✦ Do not use others' coding unless with permission and citation.
✦ Any contest may have a Snipe Guard at the artist's discretion (and may be extended 24+ hours if a snipe form has arrived). This is the artist's choice; do NOT harass for a snipe guard.
[Monthly Adopt Limits]✦ Don't feel like you have to memorize; feel free to return for reference.
✦ If you use multiple accounts (including off site) to cheat the monthly limit(s), your Cets may be revoked/resold.
✦ See HERE for a FAQ on this update
✦ You may adopt a limited number of Viscets from those created in a month
✦ (Note: Limit dictated by when the UFA was created (or gift was given), not when they were won)
✦ In one calendar month, you may acquire:✦ 1 gifted or normal adult adopt (main thread, RU, grown abandoned batch)
✦ Pre-owned readopts, PPS (including DA-bought), and your newly-created custom(s) do NOT count towards monthly limits!
✦ 1 GA adopt
✦ 2 purchased adopts (C$ or DA-sales)
✦ 1 new Event Rare (directly from event)
✦ 1 new (bred or adopted) egg/juvenile
✦ 1 Legendary
From those created or gifted within that month.
✦ You may only win 1 Legendary a calendar year (renewed Jan 01)
✦ Co-owning DOES count towards BOTH owners' monthly limits
✦ If you apply for multiple Viscets a month and win one, you MUST inform the artists of the other applied Viscets (via pm, comment, or noticeable form edit) that you are ineligible to win (may still win HMs/Stubs) or withdraw entirely.
✦ We recommend you limit how many adoptions you enter a month.
✦ Viscets won beyond your monthly limit(s) WILL be revoked
✦ You must claim RUs within 30 days of announcement or it will be voided.
[ Exchanging Viscets ]
*Only necessary to read when you engage in Gifting or Readopting Viscets.
[Rules]✦ Viscets may not be traded (for other OCs, etc).
✦ Viscets may only be sold for equal or less than they were purchased for. If a viscet was not purchased (e.g. raffle, free contest), then it may not be sold (including nursery batches).
✦ You may disown a Viscet by contacting Mint Chip or James. and the Viscet's creator/artist. You may let staff handle it or host a readoption yourself (in which it must be judged within 40 days of the end date).
✦ To gift a Viscet notify the receiver, an Ownership Archivist, and the original artist. If the Artist is not available to edit the form Mint Chip will comment on the Visc with proof of the exchange.
✦ The new owner may change the biological gender (DFAB/DMAB) as long as it has not previously bred (ever).
✦ Tickets & potions may be traded, sold, and gifted freely.
[Cool-Downs]✦ Unless quitting or other special scenarios, a single user cannot re-adopt/gift out more than 3 Viscets in one month (including putting pre-owned batches UFA)
✦ Multiple Viscets may be given in one one-way transaction
✦ There is a 30 day limit for transactions between 2 users; if you recently gifted to a user, you cannot receive from the same user for 30 days, and vice-versa (trade prevention).
✦ A Viscet must be owned for 30 days without being bred before being gifted unless stated in the original adoption form (ex: "If I win I'd like to give this Viscet to _")
✦ Disowning a Viscet for readoption does not count towards Exchange limits
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[Honorable Mentions & Stubs]✦ What are Stubs? Stubs are our personal viscet currency.
✦ They are obtained in several ways but the most common way is by participating in contests and winning honorable mentions.
✦ Stubs can be given out in 3 increments. This is up to the artist based on how well your form is compared to the other forms. You can receive x1- x2 Stubs per honorable mention. The last increment is x3 Stubs which is only ever given out for RU trade-ins. (as of 6.1.17)
✦ Stubs used to be able to be earned via Referrals, but the Referral system is no longer needed and is now closed down. (as of 6.1.17)
✦ Stubs are also now trade-able (as of 6.1.17). You can trade them for c$, pets and on occasion viscets (look for a new currency adopt marked by the blue ufa symbol).
✦ Stubs Adopts (a new type of currency adopt, which will be in a blue/cyan 'ufa' sign) can only be bid for and purchased with Stubs earned by HMs and participating in Official Community events that are hosted by the staff.
✦ Artists will keep only 1/4 (if winning bid is not divisible by 4, round decimal down or up to the nearest whole number) of the earned Stubs from a Stubs Adopt auctions.
✦ The value of Stubs varies but currently it's roughly 18 c$ in equivalence.
✦ Stubs can be traded for MYO tickets as well, see the Stub Shop to see how much they are.
✦ To turn in your stubs / have them added to your bank please contact our Stub Shop archivist Razors.
[Staff Rules]✦ Respect & etc applies to staff as much as anyone else
✦ Use the color references for their respective colors
✦ Outline beneath the lines must be in white only.
✦ Ask before creating any sort of 'special' design, such as holiday, event, or character-themed. (This is mainly to prevent there from accidentally being 2 designs closely based off the same thing).
✦ Put UFA up on new designs; change the UFA to green for designs sold on DA; change the UFA to yellow for designs sold for c$;
✦ All DA-Sold designs must be submitted to Viscet Forest
✦ Viscets may be sold for any amount of C$, tokens/pets, DA points, etc
✦ Currency adopts sold for C$ UFA should be colored yellow, currency adopts for DA sales should be colored green/lime and currency adopts for Stubs should be colored bright blue/cyan.
✦ Designs on DA can only be sold for 2000+ points if made on original lines or with large line edits on the default lines (this includes custom items)
✦ Keep track for how much of what they are sold for
✦ Viscets may not be traded for OCs, art, etc.
✦ Viscets may be adopted through the use of any given form; must require the name and gender
✦ No restricting a Viscet OC wise; meaning sexuality, gender, disabilities, etc
✦ Put the Viscet's # in the title
✦ If sold on another site, link to the off-CS source; also link back to the on-CS source wherever it is sold
✦ You may claim one gift or disowned viscet once every 30 days. This staff perk applies to all forms of staff.
✦ You may own an unlimited number of Viscets but only 8 customs total.This staff perk of +1 extra custom slot applies to all forms of staff.
✦ You may make your own customs, starting once you've made 20 New Adoptions or 10 Nursery Batches
✦ You may make a custom with Rare traits for every 25 New Adoptions (adults or abandoned babs) or every 15 Batches made
✦ Staff may make 2-3 Viscets with Uncommon Traits every 8 Viscets made
✦ Staff may make 1 Viscet with a Rare trait every 15 Viscets they create
✦ Except for special occasions, ufa Viscets shouldn't exceed more than 3 mutations max per viscet
✦ Staff may make custom lined viscets to go UFA or sell as a currency adopt, however no more than 2 custom lined viscets can be on the same page. They should be spaced about between 5 and 10 viscets apart.
✦ Please try not to make more than 3 custom lined viscets in the same month if possible.
✦ Nursery staff is permitted to make up to 5 designs max per month on the main thread (regular adopts or currency adopts)
✦Judging Limit- If an adoption has been closed but not judged for 2 months, the Artist will be contacted. They will be given 7 days to respond. If not, the adoption will be confiscated and a method of judging it by another judge will be decided within 7 days.
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✦ You must claim a batch within 30 days of being posted. If not claimed within 30 days (with ownership, name & gender) then the viscet will be put ufa by the staff.
✦ The 30 day rule also applies to viscets and batches that are gifted to a user.
✦ Guest artists have 1 month to create 5 designs to be adopted, but no customs or batches.
✦ For custom creation you can either ask an official artist to make it or you can make it yourself. But it must be done on the oekaki.
- No more cover customs except for very special cases (such as event rares, etc).On occasion you can also have a friend make your custom for you but it still has to follow all the rules regardless of who makes it.
✦ The custom also needs to be approved by Mint Chip just to ensure it follows all the rules.
