7 hours ago: Soo, don't buy it while you're in battle until it's fixed. If you do, it has to be corrected manually. (And yes, I can see if you bought it)
7 hours ago: Note that there is a known issue in HV where, if you get the Innate Arcana perk while you're in a battle, you won't actually get your slot.
The EH Translations team needs help! For long, we've been a disorganized bunch, putting out uncoordinated releases now and then with no real coherency. Well, that's about to change, but we need your help to do it!
As part of this organizational effort, we're going to need a mascot, a unifying brand, so to speak, for our releases. While we may be awesome at editing manga, translating awkward dialogue and procrastinating, we don't know the first thing about character design, much less drawing those designs. This is where you come in!
Your task is to design and draw a mascot for EHT. We like variation, so we would like each submission to contain your mascot in at least three different poses. The mascot also needs to be your original creation; submissions obviously based on/plagiarized from existing characters are not allowed. Finally, all submissions must be in PNG format, to avoid compression artifacts.
Aside from these three rules, you are free to submit whatever you want. Keep in mind though, that this mascot would be used in a logo-ish capacity on our future releases. As such, simple, chibi-ish creations would probably stand a better chance than highly detailed creations. We will not, however, reject any submissions for being "too detailed" or "not simplistic enough" or anything like that; if you have a great idea, go for it!
Since this contest is about creating a character, not just drawing a pretty picture, you're quite welcome to flesh out your submission with a name for your character, a backstory and other misc. information. That said, our primary focus is of course on design and visuals, so don't sweat it if you don't feel like coming up with a story. Also note that you're not limited to one submission. If you have several good ideas, then by all means, submit all of them!
Submission format; each submission should come in the form of a post to this thread. Submission posts should follow this template: Please note that it's quite important to ensure that the "Submission" at the top of your post is in bold type, as that will make it easier for us to skim the thread and immediately distinguish the submissions. Also note that name, bio, extra material and motivation are not mandatory, and may be omitted if you wish.
The winner will receive a grand prize of 100,000 credits and 100 Hath, and is chosen by the EHT team. (S)he will also receive the honor of having his/her submission featured on our releases. There are no formal criteria or metrics to measure your submission against; we will simply choose the submission that we like best (or nothing, in the case that we don't find any submissions acceptable). That said, we like some things more than other.
Things we like: * vector-based images, so they can effortlessly be made to fit any release; * variety - three poses is the bottom limit, more is better; * creativity and originality - if your submission is cliched, it had better make up for it by being extremely well done or in some other way.
Deadline All submissions must be posted no later than 00:00 GMT, Friday, August 20th.
Usage details By participating in this contest, you agree to irrevocably allow any and all redistribution and modification of your submission by anyone, for any purpose, without reservation, effectively placing your submission in the public domain under U.S. copyright law. The reason for this rights grant is to ensure that we will actually be able to use your submission for our releases.
Based on the responses in this thread, as well as private discussions with a number of people, we have decided to make the following changes to the Acceptable Content rules on E-Hentai Galleries.
You may:
- Post real high-quality and/or asian porn that complies with US law. + Post real high-quality cosplay and asian porn that complies with US law.
You may NOT:
+ Post real porn galleries that do not fit under the Cosplay or Asian Porn categories.
In order to facilitate this change, the new expunge category "Real Porn" has been added. This is a full-power expunge with the additional tweak that galleries posted before the rule change do not count towards the automated anti-abuse mechanism, while galleries posted after the rule change do.
I've been seeing a lot of concerns from a number of people, some in private and others in public, about the recently initiated purge of "real porn" from Galleries. I've already posted my thoughts about this here, which can be succinctly summed up as "today's situation is unsustainable". Mixed galleries of random people has already been banned, primarily for age verification reasons, but the recent movement aims to remove all real porn that would otherwise qualify as "Misc", but this is being heavily objected against by other people.
Due to this, I've decided to start a more formal feedback process about the situation
Essentially, I see two sustainable alternatives that are both more restrictive than status quo. You won't be restricted to these two in your response, but please indicate which of them you'd prefer.
Alternative 1
"Misc" real porn will be banned entirely. Any subjective or objective quality will be disregarded, and as long as it depicts real subjects, only those that fit within either of the two official categories will be allowed.
Alternative 2
"Misc" real porn will still be allowed, but the existing quality rules will be tightened up and enforced more vigorously. Mixed galleries will still be banned, and a new expunge category will be introduced for "Low-quality real porn" - unlike Garbage, this expunge category will qualify for the automated abuse ban for galleries posted after the change is made.
As quality is subjective, some guidelines will obviously need to be established to quantity a RP gallery. Furthermore, the expunge system will likely be augmented with the ability to vote against an expunge.
I'm also looking at implementing some changes to the Misc limit suggested by Shadow Weaver, that involves having to buy additional slots past a certain point.
You are only allowed to make a single post in this thread. Do not argue with other people or their opinions, just state your own views on the matter.
Again, this is not a majority decision. Obviously, if you're an active contributor or active in the Vigilante your voice will count for more than random lurkers, and I'll be weighing the responses to decide what changes to make.
- The front/search page, gallery pages and torrent page should now gracefully degrade to 1024x resolutions. -- Note that there is some minor IE rendering retardedness related to not obeying explicitly set table cell widths on the front page due to this change. If this bothers you, switch to a browser that follows the spec. Like Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
- The "Misc" posting limit has been changed. The limit is now calculated as follows: + 5 base + 1 gallery for every ~8 days registered, up to a maximum of 95 after two years + 25 galleries per level of "Misc Poster" trained in the HentaiVerse (which was also added), up to a maximum of 500 + a star bonus depending on your donation star: 25 for Bronze, 50 for Silver, 100 for Gold, 200 for Tri, 300 for Quint, 400 for Septua and 500 for Catgirl
.. that is all. Since I ran out of numbers, that's probably the end of the 0.16 branch. Just imagine what the next one will bring.
We'll be moving the data in the primary user/hentaiverse database to the replicated database set in order to a. improve data redundancy in case of a hardware or network failure, b. reduce the number of "critical" hosts from 3 to 2, and c. improve performance, all over.
I've started turning off the stuff that needs write access to this database, at the top of my head this is the following:
- classic events - karma - the archiver - credit conversions - credit transfers - the hath exchange - the hentaiverse
If I forget anything, that will just stop working for the duration of the move.
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09:21 UTC; Everything has been moved. Except for the HentaiVerse, which has to wait for some DNS records to update, everything has been turned back on.
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09:33 UTC; The HentaiVerse has been turned back on. Note that you might still have to wait for DNS propagation before you can access it.
Note that the move also includes an update to the HentaiVerse. The changes aren't visible enough that I'll bother to make a version of it, but for the most part, what has been added is extensive use of caching and memory-based temporary storage. Which should give a noticeable speed boost.
As always with caching there is a chance to encounter weirdness, so if you notice stuff that doesn't update as it should, let me know.
7 hours ago: Soo, don't buy it while you're in battle until it's fixed. If you do, it has to be corrected manually. (And yes, I can see if you bought it)
