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Pet Spotlight Additions
Welcome to the new (and hopefully improved) Pet Spotlight sticky!
While our rules and requirements have been updated, we didn’t want to clog up the page with the finer details and so we’re including them here for future perusal.
Here’s a link to the main rules page: Pet Spotlight Rules! - Make sure you check those out and the FAQ below before you come to us with more questions!
If you have been given a denial reason that suggests we've overlooked something (like if we've missed a hover section or some such) then please ping , or to this thread with the information and we'll check it out!
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Frequently Asked Spotlight Questions
Q. Does the story have to be a certain length or presented in a specific way? A. The writing content can be however long or short you want, and presented as a story, original poem or song, news report, diary, journal, or anything else you can think of. A short story can still win if the rest of the profile is awesome. However, if the bulk of the story is unoriginal work, this may count against you.
Please note: Pets are required to have 200 characters on their profile before they can be nominated. This is to prevent blank pets from being nominated!
Q. My pet was showing up as nominated for a long time but it is now kicked out of the queue! What happened? A. Pets show up with the "Nominated for pet spotlight" message in three different queues: the nominated queue, the accepted queue, and the updated pet queue. Your pet was most likely in the review queue and was not accepted to win. Don't give up though! Your pet can be renominated in 7 days, giving you some time to try and fix whichever problem it had.
Q. I do not draw/code/write well on my own. Will I still be able to win? A. Absolutely. Whether you decide to commission art and profiles or work hard to make them yourself, you still have the chance to win. It is all about the finished project! Again, there are lots of helpful users on Subeta who can help you touch up your art, read over your writing and help you with a tricky bit of coding.
Q. Custom Wearables receive their own personal denials! Will we get these for the pet spotlight? A. We have begun to issue some basic denial reasons for the spotlight, and will be keeping an eye on how these work out. Custom Wearables are a paid service and so we are able to appoint dedicated staff members to work on them, whereas with Pet Spotlight this is a little more difficult.
Q. Can I submit a ticket asking why my pet was denied? A. Please do not submit tickets asking about this - the UAs will not be able to answer this question for you. Try heading over to the Pet forums and ask for some advice and critique from your fellow Subeta users!
Q. My pet won the spotlight before the rule changes. Will they have their trophy revoked? A. Absolutely not! The only time we remove a trophy is if we find out the pet was plagiarized. As long as your old work is your own, the pet is safe!
Q. Does the pet have to have its name, owner, color, species, and gender expressed in normal, Subeta provided code? Or can these be added into the graphics? A. These can be added into the graphics! They need to be laid out cleanly and not hidden in the story, but you may write them up however you wish rather than using the official Subeta wording for them. PLEASE NOTE - For the username, it must contain a link back to your user profile!
Q. Can you tell me what official information is required to be on pet profiles and what can be taken off? A. Sure! The following are required to be displayed on a pet profile: Pet's name, pet's color, pet's species, pet's gender, owner's name The following do not have to be displayed and can be 'turned off' through code: Pet's born/creation date, Pet's adopted date, battle statistics, and minion HOWEVER - none of the above may be falsified!
Q. My pet only works in certain web browsers. Is this an issue? A. It potentially can be. I do most of my Subeta browsing in Firefox and occasionally switch to Chrome. Most other staff members also use either Firefox or Chrome. If your pet works great in Chrome but not at all in Firefox, it could very well be rejected, and vice versa. It's always good to have a friend check it in another web browser for you just to be safe!
Q. My friend’s are telling me my profile is too ‘simple’ to win spotlight, but I think it’s clean and nice enough - is simple a bad thing? A. Simple definitely doesn’t automatically mean bad! As long as the profile has some basic coding so that it’s not like the default basic profile, it has a chance of winning - of course, a good story, art, appropriate minion and treasure chest can all help to elevate your pet.
Q. Do I really have to show the official pet art on my pet profile? It messes up the look! A. You don't have to show the official pet art (although we do enjoy that!) - you just have to show some form of quad or anthro art - basically, anything that's allowed in the Custom Pet Overlay rules is what we're looking for on your pet profiles. It can be background art, it can be hidden in a hover or a dropdown, you can even put the pet art at the bottom of your text box/beneath the story. We just want to see it somewhere on the page!
Good Examples!
Newbie owned by - an excellent guide for new users of Subeta!
Fan Pets RD owned by - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan pet. Presents original art and an original story, with a complimenting profile and a treasure that fits the character.
151 owned by - Mew/Pokemon fan pet. Presents simple but effective layout, original art, an appropriate treasure chest and a very simple but hilarious piece of text. Making us laugh is always a huge plus!
Illyasviel owned by - Fate/Stay Night fan pet. Visually beautiful profile and background art, well written story, appropriate minion and a lovely pet overlay. The use of the snow overlay against the background art was a simple yet really effective tool in making this profile really stand out.
Tribute Pets Whuffy owned by - photographs can be tricky to incorporate into a profile without looking busy or messy, but this profile has managed it. The photos are clean and tidily displayed, the profile looks great and the minion and treasure chest are appropriate additions.
Wyndell owned by - a lovely clean and simple profile that's helpful in including information on recognising heart disease in cats, as well a heartfelt piece of writing.
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Suggestions and Guides
A selection of design guides and websites for getting the ‘make it look nice’ section of the rules right.
[li] Choosing the right colors
[li] Colour scheme maker
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I seen in the rules for the pet spotlight that there is suppose to be a section for the pets friends but in your Good Example's there is not one of those pets that have won the spotlight with any pets friends section on there pets profile page .... So how did they even win the spotlight when they clearly have left this section out of their pets profile page
- pet friends are not a requirement, they are an extra feature that if done well could elevate your entry.
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Ok then I must have misunderstood the rules
Some of my pets were kicked out of the queue one having been in for probably over a year. I was not given any reason as to why my pets were rejected and I was wondering why when I read that now reasons are posted as why pets are denied.
I dont know why all 3 of them would be suddenly kicked out with no reason given.
It may be that they were rejected before the system was in place. The denials were only added in yesterday. And we had stopped denying people for around 10 days before that (so we could add in the denials for any future pets) so your pets must have been denied at least 11 days ago. Unfortunately we can't go back and give reasons to those who were rejected before the addition of the denial reasons.
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Hello!
I'm not sure if it's appropriate to post this question here, but I was hoping to gain some clarification regarding the updated rules (and also a long-standing rule) for the Pet Spotlight.
Here's the skinny: I have an Aenoid, so the character I assigned to this species is a sentient tree. His design does not include a face or arms, but he is a living creature with a story all his own.
When I submitted his custom overlay for approval, it was rejected on the grounds that a tree is considered an inanimate object. I was very disappointed, as the definition of "inanimate" is having no life and this is a creature that is clearly alive. Therefore, I wondering if there could be any change to this wording in the rules, or an exception for living creatures such as plants in honor of the Aenoid?
This brings me to my next question: based on the updated requirement that a pet's profile artwort must properly represent the Subeta pet in accordance with custom overlay guidelines, is my pet (who is a tree and who is therefor depicted as a tree in his artwork) unable to win the Pet Spotlight with these updated rules?
I'm so sorry if I'm in the wrong place to ask about this, and I hope my questions made sense. I know the staff has been swamped with inquiries about the new rules, which I imagine is overwhelming.
Thank you so much for your time!
- thank you for your question! You are the second person with a tree-pet to come to me ( owns the pet Treehouse, who is also a sentient tree with no face) And also somebody whose pets we've long admired.
I'd like to go into some more details, so we can see how separated your tree-pet is from being an animalistic type pet. Does it move, or is it firmly planted in the ground? (A tree that stood up outside the ground would immediately point to being anthro) Does it have any more anthropomorphic features - for example, does it use its branches to pick things up?
To fit in with the rules, the simplest way from an art perspective would be to fit the aeanoid into the character's design somehow - carved on the tree, even! (A carving of an aeanoid, or a slight face as if to indicate there is more to this particular tree than just being a plant - it doesn't have to be a cartoon moving face, but something that just hints even, like a cloud that might look like a baby or a pattern in a tile could look like a face)
It's a tricky one with plants, because although they are living, they are by nature not able to move or sense unless we make them do so in our stories.
Another simple way around this through art would be to have an aeanoid silhouette made out of twigs, or carved into a cross section of wood, or included in any way that fits in with your profile layout and colours while pointing to pet or animal form that it is based off of.
But yes, if your tree looks like a plant moreso than an animal, at this time it would not be able to win the spotlight.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my question!
This tree is absolutely stationary. Its story comes from what it witnesses, such as being used for its shade when in the company of two (human) brothers who play a central role in his fate. It cannot move on its own accord, so I can definitely see the complications of classifying it being much different than an inanimate object.
I really appreciate the suggestions in getting his artwork approved; maybe I can explore some of these options with the original artists!
- yes, that's very similar (not in story, but in general feeling) to the other tree-pet currently confounding us. I'm glad I was able to help you with some suggestions!
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This has probably has to do with the new system or maybe my coding skills...or perhaps some other reason. I just noticed that I had to re select my Coolidge for the pet spotlight...however, I can't see the option to nominate him on the profile. Is that because he's my pet, or is it because I done something wrong, or is it something new?
- I believe it's because he's your own pet, because I can see the link to nominate him :) (Although I'd suggest filling up that TC, and his profile image is looking a bit pixelly and blurry - you may want to get a better quality image or have someone help you to save a better transparent version)
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Thanks for that :) It's funny, the image i have saved for the profile, his profile image actually looks clearer. But at least I know that the nomination link is showing up and it's not something I've done. Thank you again
Being one of those users with a human character superimposed onto a Subeta pet, I'm having trouble understanding exactly where the lines of this new rule are drawn (no pun intended). So my pet, Cararthur, is a 1920s wizard character who has a familiar--a cat that shifts colors from black and white. So in my case, the actual Subeta pet--the twilight Feli--is the familiar (though they're sort-of-kinda-not-exactly-but-more-or-less the same thing, being a familiar and all?) Now, both the cat and the human character are very clearly visible in the background art. At first I thought this would be enough to clear with the recent rule change, since,
- oh! No, that pet is absolutely acceptable, and your custom feli overlay was missed. That's very clever - sometimes we do miss unusual links and we've been trying to get through the queue to get it down to zero recently, so please excuse us in this case. I have your name noted down along with another person to make sure you're both renominated and added as soon as the 7 days run out. Our apologies!
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- ah, that makes much more sense. Yeah sorry about that! It was the only way I could find to fit it gracefully into the profile without doing a massive overhaul. Thanks for the help!
But just to clarify - the background image with the cat/the art of the framed cat silhouette I already had on the profile, by themselves, would not have been enough to be acceptable? I'm just wanting to know in case it becomes an issue again with future pets.