Difference between revisions of "MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Regarding Required Pay Content"

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Any content that is available from its creator for pay, donation, etc.  You may not picture pay items in screenshots or upload items that require pay items.
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Any content that is available from its creator for pay, donation, etc.  You may not upload items that require pay items; this means that sims, lots and worlds may not wear/use any pay content, and that you may not upload retextures of pay meshes.  Items uploaded on places like the PMBD Booty (or other sites sharing pay content for free) are not considered free content since they were originally pay - just because you CAN get them for free doesn't make them free content.
 
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This doesn't apply to non-required items (i.e. hair shown in a picture where you're uploading clothing) though. If the status changes, you will not be made to take new screen shots. If you don't like this possibility, please choose a different item to use in your sim, lot, and world uploads.
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This doesn't apply to pictured but not required items (i.e. hair shown in a picture where you're uploading clothing). If the status of such content changes, you will not be made to take new screen shots.
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*''' Free Content:''' Free content is considered any pieces of custom content made by regular artists or '''Select Artists''' (SA's).
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*''' Free Content:''' Free content is considered any pieces of custom content made by regular artists or '''Select Artists''' (SAs). Following a policy change at TSR, all TS2 content has been made permanently free. This means that TS2 content made by '''Featured Artists''' (FAs) is now free, and can be used in uploads at MTS.
  
 
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* '''Pay Content:''' Pay content is considered ANY TS3 items by '''Featured Artists''' (FAs), even if they're free at the moment. This is because their status still changes from pay/free fairly frequently.
* '''Pay Content:''' Pay content is considered ANY items by '''Feature Artists''' (FA's), even if they're free at the moment. This is because their status still changes from pay/free fairly frequently.<blockquote>
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*'''FA - One game or both:''' Often a creator has an FA status for only one game version. For example, a creator can be a TS2 FA but a regular creator for TS3. In this case, that creator's TS3 content is allowed, but their TS2 stuff isn't. To check what games the creator has FA status for, look at the gold badge on their TSR profile.
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* Completely original, made for TS2 or TS3 specifically by them.
 
* Completely original, made for TS2 or TS3 specifically by them.
 
  
 
* A conversion from TS2 to TS3, TS3 to TS2, etc. - from one game to another, as this requires a significant amount of changing.
 
* A conversion from TS2 to TS3, TS3 to TS2, etc. - from one game to another, as this requires a significant amount of changing.
 
  
 
* An age conversion beyond what ages can normally share meshes (for TS3, teen through elder can share meshes - for TS2, young adult through elder can share).
 
* An age conversion beyond what ages can normally share meshes (for TS3, teen through elder can share meshes - for TS2, young adult through elder can share).
 
  
 
* A gender conversion requiring mesh editing, not just ticking boxes to make it work for the other gender.
 
* A gender conversion requiring mesh editing, not just ticking boxes to make it work for the other gender.
 
  
 
* A significant remesh or edit beyond just things like fixing gaps, adjusting bone assignments, and moving around existing geometry.  A retexture would not count unless the mesh was also signficantly edited.
 
* A significant remesh or edit beyond just things like fixing gaps, adjusting bone assignments, and moving around existing geometry.  A retexture would not count unless the mesh was also signficantly edited.
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This means that someone can, potentially, take a pay item from TS2 such as a hairstyle that was pay and convert it to TS3 and put it up for free, and the new conversion will not be considered pay but free as far as MTS uploads are concerned.   
 
This means that someone can, potentially, take a pay item from TS2 such as a hairstyle that was pay and convert it to TS3 and put it up for free, and the new conversion will not be considered pay but free as far as MTS uploads are concerned.   

Latest revision as of 07:10, 6 March 2013

[edit] Pay Content

MTS has long had policies that restrict users from promoting pay content in their uploads - either by requiring that content, or by showing it in screenshots.

The purpose of this policy is to promote the use of free content, as we believe that the community benefits from all items being free to download and use without requiring anyone to pay for it - whether that be paying for individual items, or by subscription. We would like all items uploaded to or shown on MTS to be "what you see is what you get" or "what you see is what you CAN get, without having to pay for it."

TS3 has complicated matters somewhat, but after reviewing the options, our policies regarding pay content for TS3 AND TS2 are as follows:


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