Figured I'd help ya with a sticky.

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Rusty and others beat me to it in this thread, but I've offered some suggestions here on how our wonderful community resources can help avoid potential frustration.

I merged a couple threads that are really about the same topic, and I'm going to use this opportunity to remind folks of two resources right at their fingertips: This forum, and the appeals process.

We have a game that's nominally set in 1720, and in all areas are trying to keep a reasonably consistent visual style that respects the setting. That includes User Content and as such, it might take some folks a little bit of experimentation before they truly get a sense of what we're looking for.

That process of experimentation can be frustrating, unfortunately. There's no real way around that short of an "anything goes" policy, which would be at odds with what we want for the game.

Anyone and everyone, however, is welcome to start a thread for their flags and sails right here, in this forum. It's a fantastic opportunity to preview your ideas and get feedback, before you submit a single pixel! The response you get -- from the community, from the 2D Steering Committee, and occasionally even other Devs -- is not only faster and more individually tailored to your designs, but can help save the frustration of submitting a design and getting it sent back a few times for more work.

Meanwhile, if you've already done that and have a flag or sail sent back to you, if you feel it completely meets our [url=http://www.burningsea.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1909]2D User Content Guidelines[/ur] you can appeal the decision of the reviewer. As noted here and elsewhere, there are many people involved in the process, so it's all but impossible to be perfectly consistent in our decisions. We do try though

Between these two resources, if used conscientiously, you can help make your User Content experience much more enjoyable the first time 'round.

As for Wikepedia, keep in mind that the reason the 2DSC sometimes points people there is because it's a readily accessible trove of open source images. This is important, because we don't want to encourage anyone to violate copyright or otherwise infringe on others' intellectual property rights. For my part, I work in an art museum and am in constant high-level contact with our 80,000+ object collection, and regularly work with curators on how best to represent their materials online. Wikipedia is handy but often lacking, and I definitely agree that anyone who relies on it as their exclusive source on art history is putting themselves at serious disadvantage. Get out and visit your local museums, y'all

As Xylander notes, we have a group of people that judge submissions, and sometimes, someone gets it wrong, and we look a little inconsistent. I'm not a fan of canned responses, but it's easier for me because I'm only an occasional helper of user content acceptance, it's not what I do all the time.

He should log a support request and give us his system stats. We might be able to give him a suggestion as to what's going on. Yes, we do have an immunity timer, but if he's loading incredibly slowly for some reason, it'll time out (otherwise people use it for exploits). In general, loading time is a function of the hard drive, my guess is he had something going on in the background that was killing his access.

I'll bring that up to the character guys.

Closing a duplicate thread.

They do not stack.

There's some problem with it in the live build that should be fixed on testbed.