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Sep-11-2006 14:20

Subscribed players can submit their picture to be used as an avatar. Please go to city hall "submitting content to sleuth" for details on how and where to submit. Avatar changes are however a freebie donated by the sleuth team and community volunteers. Reason why it is for subscribed people only is because too many avatars were received to keep up.

The process:
1. People submit avatars which all end up on the sleuth mail server.
2. Once in a while volunteers (Secret Squirrel and myself) pick up the avatars, and get to work if there are more then 5 avatars that we can approve.
3. We approve, and "sleutherize" the pictures. This is a process I won't bore you with.
4. We send the approved and sleuthererized avatars to Ben.
5. We post in this thread who's pictures have ben sent for upload.
6. Ben uploads, and they are live.

There is no need to keep submitting your avatar if you don't hear anything. Avatars sending is as reliable as email is. And we don't log in daily, hence why we are not answering you. There is no need to PM us either as to when we are going to do them. We will get to them, when we have time. If you PM us, that's exactly what we'll tell you. Just keep your eye on this thread.

Avatars that didn't get approved will receive email as to why, and with instructions how to fix the problem. They can them make the next batch.

Common reasons for rejection:
It is already an avatar submitted by someone else in Sleuth. It is not a picture of a person, ie. cartoons, drawn pictures, animals, objects.
Extreme poor quality (too poor to even be properly visual), Pictures that may create offence, copy righted pictures, people submit an avatar for someone else, and want it to show up without that other persons knowledge or permission, not adding the detective name to which they like the avatar to be added, other pictures that are for some reason not in line with the many avatars we already see in this game.

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Jan-30-2008 21:40

did you get one for me?

Jan-30-2008 22:02

ASAP ... S means slow right. I like to ease my way into these things. End of the Sleuth Week will be when I send them off.

Jan-31-2008 08:04

As slow as you like, I'm not going anywhere:)

Thank you very much.

Jan-31-2008 09:12

I submitted my avatar yesterday, 1/30/08.

Hopefully waiting for a change!

Feb-1-2008 22:18

Is submitting avatars still a feature only for subscribed people? Because I see unsubscribed people saying they submitted avatars...
And if so, then can unsubscribed players still change their avatar?

Feb-1-2008 22:35

*head spinning a little*

changing your avatar has always been, and remains, a subscriber-only privilege. Go ahead and call those unsubbed people liar liars, then set their pants on fire. To prove it.

Feb-1-2008 23:06

I don't see any recent people saying they submitted avatars - am I just going cross-eyed?

I guess I should just look for the people whose noses are as long as a telephone wire...

Feb-1-2008 23:21

Been waitingfor over a month for my new avatar.
Any idea when the next batch will be approved ?

Feb-2-2008 00:04

It sounds like they're having some technical problems with the avatar process. They're working on it, as both Admin and Squirrel have posted. I'm sure they'll have a batch ready for uploading very shortly. Be patient, please. ;-)

Feb-2-2008 00:11

PLEASE CHECK THE NEW THREAD STUCK TO THE TOP OF THE BOARD... 'NEW AVATAR REQUEST PROCESS'...

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=26263

DON'T POST HERE ANYMORE.

Thanks. :)