GUIDE: ACTIVITIES

Once you have a Felvarg accepted and uploaded to the group, you may be wondering where to get started. Although they are by no means necessary for your participation within our game, activities are a fun and useful way to build your character's story while also netting some nice in-game rewards to apply to your Felvarg or exchange for Felcredits (the game currency, used to buy even more goodies from our Village Market). Normal activities have no time limit, so you can complete them at your leisure in between other work. Additional special activities feature entry windows, but don't fret if you miss out on a specific prompt -- there will always be more opportunities to enter in the future, and the prizes will vary to keep things exciting.

Getting Started

Before you participate in activities, you MUST create a tracker journal or sta.sh file. Admins will use your tracker to comment and hand out your rewards. You may have one tracker for all of your Felvargs, or one tracker for each Felvarg, but make sure you have one! Go here for more details and examples of what your tracker should look like.

You may create a bank account over at the cache prior to participating in activities, but it is not necessary. When you redeem your rewards for the first time, an account will be made for you then if you do not already have one.

Review the general activity requirements to ensure you do not put a lot of work into an entry only to have it rejected. Art and literature are both acceptable.

After you have finished an activity piece, upload it to deviantart. You will need to include an activity form in the description, one form for each Felvarg depicted in the work. Once that is done, submit your deviation to the group's folders. An admin will accept it and look it over shortly!

 Before starting an activity, Review the Bartering Post for details on each activities specific requirements, which includes word count for literature.

 Please be patient with the admins rolling items for you. Activities generally do not sit for long, but admins do have other things going on and they complete this work in their spare time. Additionally, keep in mind that if you feel any reward roll seems unfair, Felvargs' item roller is scripted and a log is created each time a roll has been done. Feel free to request proof that no cheating has occurred, and we will be happy to provide it.

General Activity Requirements

Although each activity has its own specific requirements, the rules below apply universally to any activity you complete. Please make sure to look over each activities specific requirements, which can be found on the Bartering Post, before you create a submission so that it meets all of the criteria.

Each member may only submit a maximum of 2 entries into each activity folder, daily.

Activity entries, regardless of type, must have a completed activity form in the description of the deviation (see the 'activity form template' below).

 All images submitted for rolls must be official! We can not accept sta.sh files attached to activity images in order to make markings or backgrounds more clear for the admins. 

 Each activity entry may only be submitted to the group for rewards one time. Players caught submitting multiple times will be punished; our team keeps a close eye on submissions and it is not difficult to tell when people are reusing entries. If more than one person's Felvargs are depicted in the piece, the form for each Felvarg should be included in the description of the work, but only ONE person should submit it to be rolled.

 Trackers must have links to comments at the TOP of journals. Rolling admins will not scroll through comments in order to find a specific comment, and if links are not provided, they are allowed to drop the results at the top of a journal.

 Collaborated entries may only be submitted to the group for rewards one time. This means that only one of you may submit the collaborated piece and only that one submission may receive rolls.

 Backgrounds may be anywhere natural and fitting to our world location. Fields, mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, forests, or anything of this variety! However, you may not depict your Felvarg in an unnatural environment to the group, such as for example, on the moon; and still receive rewards for such a piece, however you're welcome to do so for fun and submit it to our MISC folder.

 Any ARPG species other than Felvargs are allowed to be included in your normal activity rolls, unless stated otherwise. This rule, however, only covers normal group activities, so any specials such as: quests, hierarchy updates (HU), Passage of Courtships (PoCs), and others require species to be lore appropriate or only allow Felvargs.

 Admins are NOT required to add bonuses into the roller if they are not listed on your “applicable bonus items” section of the activity form. Unless applicable bonuses are listed on the activity form, the roll will be at risk to not have applicable bonuses put in, even if your Felvarg has that item listed on their official import. Be extremely careful to add all applicable bonuses to your form so that you receive the best odds possible for your rewards.

 The Felvarg(s) depicted in your work must be focused on the task at hand. This may mean different things for different activities, using the name of the activity is a good example as to what each activity requests as far as setting goes. A good example of not being focused on the task at hand would be for example; drawing your Felvarg on a mountain with water, with no fish or aquatic like prey in sight. Another example of an entry not focusing on the task at hand would be depicting your Felvarg chasing a butterfly (Tracking) while participating in tracking, with no acceptable prey present. For literature entries, too much filler content (ie: content not focused on the specific activity) will render the entry 'not on task' and corrections will be requested.

Information on Filler: While we respect in literature filler is unavoidable to meet word counts, the group still requires the entry be focused primarily on the task at hand. Flexibility is far more acceptable in entries that allow the user freedom as to what is happening in each Felvargs story. For example, adventure, the group will allow more filler than usual in these entries as we do not give a direct request or task. However with activities that have a direct task required of the felvarg, such as but not limited to, quest, beast hunt, seasonal prompts or even 1v1, the group requires the entry complete the task and be focused on the task at hand. Examples of healthy filler in specific task entries may include how the Felvarg feels, the location, what they smell, see, hear or even taste.

 (10/19/2017) Be mindful of where long literature RPs are broken off per submission - Entries are judged separately, so if one submission does not focus on the task, then it will be sent back for corrections, even if the next one or the one before it is fine.

 Regardless of the medium, your Felvarg and any others features, including marking colours, should be depicted reasonably as well as having every marking shown. For art, all markings must be present, although they don’t have to match the exact locations and you don’t have to put in every ticked mark. It must simply be recognizable.

 Felvargs cannot be too small to the point as to where you struggle to fit in the markings or where it is difficult to make them out. For literature, each Felvarg participating in the activity should be mentioned fluidly and frequently. This is determined at the roller's discretion, and if they feel the Felvargs are not present enough, the work will be sent to corrections.

 Art entries must show at least 75% of the Felvarg to have the image rolled for rewards. While perspective is taken into consideration, abuse of this feature will warrant a correction. You may read more about this in detail under the “Visible Percentages Guide” which is located at the bottom of this journal.

 Artwork needs to be approximately 500 x 500 pixels in size or larger. Images with a similar total pixel size will be allowed, for example making your image 600 x 400 pixels would equally meet the requirement. Members should be careful not to abuse this by doing for example: 100 x 900 pixels, the image would then be far to short and wide for us to comfortably make out that all requirements are present to receive rewards.

 Any digital art images submitted to the group to receive an activity roll should not contain a background made up of solely pre-made brushes. While brushes are allowed, the heavy use of brushes tends to make an image look rushed and can warrant for an image to be sent to corrections.

 Transparent backgrounds do need to have the Felvargs actively interacting with the background. If it appears that the Felvarg is standing outside out of the background, it will not be rolled. If you are unsure what is good or what might be questionable, here is a link with examples. (Check back for visual examples)

 (05/10/2019) Rushed entries will be kicked back for corrections. Your activity entries and the Felvargs present must be reasonably detailed. While we do not strictly require mouths, eyes, noses and toes to be present, we will request these details should we feel your image is lacking or rushed.

 (05/19/2019) Lineless work requires simple shading to be present. We do allow lineless work but we request that you add simple shading and definition so that we make discern the Felvargs' features and shape.

Activity Form Template