Corsetcrush
Mayor
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
Posts: 71
Location: Washington State
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 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Vendor Information |
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Any villager (registered user) of our forums who want to post their creations for download.
 Who can be a vendor?
Villager creators, beginner or advanced. However we do not offer upload space at this time. My recommendation is Snapdrive, it's free and you get a LOT of space to upload to.
 What can Vendors showcase here?
Original content (walls, floors, clothing, objects, Sims)
Maxis recolors
Maxis lot variants
Recolors of other Creators things if allowed by their terms of use
Original custom lots (if they contain other Creator's work, it HAS TO BE with the permission of the creator, or ok to use in lots stated in their terms of use)
Decorative community or residential lots are built for their look in the neighborhood view (adds variety to the neighborhood without the bulk of fully furnished lots)
Custom neighborhood terrains (.sc4 files)
Custom Neighborhoods (with only allowed custom content/creator has given permission)
Custom Avatars for the Simburg Village forums (if containing other Creator's items they must have it be allowed that they can be used in pictures)
 The following is never allowed:
No paysite items or recolors of paysite items, objects, walls, floors, lots, etc. (or clones), EVER. They have their rules and we have ours.
Lots that were not created from scratch/an empty lot (modifying other peoples work and calling it your own is stealing no matter what you call it)
Expansion/Stuff pack clones for non expansion/Stuff pack use, even just the mesh or part of it. Maxis owns the rights to these. This is stealing, no matter what moral justification you tell yourself.
Cloned objects that the creator does not give users the right to duplicate/clone, even just part of it. This is stealing their time, energy, thought, and blood sweat and tears. This is just a foul and loathsome thing to do and is a banable offense without warning.
Avatars from other sites that are not offered for free, or that you do not own the permission to use and/or redistribute.
Mature content. Our board will be closed by the Host if this is found, plus the Mayor doesn't want to see it.
 What's The difference between the Farmer's Market and the Flea Market?
Farmer's Market: A commons area where any registered user can post their things for upload according to the guidelines.
Flea Market: This is a showcase area for Villagers with ten or more uploads. They can submit an application in the Mayor's Office for their own booth (subforum) for posting their creations. The booths follow the same guideline as all the others but the purpose is to make it easier to locate downloads based on the Village Creator. (This will be unlocked once someone qualifies.)
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I really like Mod the Sims 2 but a lot of times even I'm intimidated by what can be posted because they have worked to the point of being 'the best of the best' for free sites. It's frustrating working so hard on something, a new object, recolors, lots, etc. only to find out that it was rejected.
This happened with my very first house I uploaded because the BACK of the house (probably a 5x8 area) was not landscaped even though the fenced in front yard was. The house was a request (when Mod still allowed them) and I had done my best to fill the requirements. Ultimately I was told, not by the requester but by one of the moderators, that it wasn't good enough for Mod unless I fixed something I had done intentionally. I know the person was just doing their job, but I was hurt. I already had felt like EVERYONE else could do everything better than me, and yet I had nowhere to post the 'baby steps' of my progress, getting feedback on what people liked. Granted I had been making homes and community lots for myself for at least two years in Sims 2 and all of my Sims 1 gaming time. I'm not a dunce in creativity, I just prefer not to use the building cheats for my lots because I find them annoying to use.
I have so many different Sims, from grotesque cartoons and very vanilla Maxis Sims to rather realistic people, often in the same neighborhoods. I still have the very first shredded t-shirt I made, looking like junk and I didn't use an absolutely skintight mesh, but I know my hubby still uses it. I look for variety in my game, not everything being perfect, because for some of my Sims it doesn't work.
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 What the Mayor wants to see:
A vast array of things for our Sim's world. Do your best for whatever level you are and then post it for the world to see. Submit quality work (no buggy objects, objects without unique GUIDs unless stated as a default replacement, walls and floors that do not repeat well, etc.).
 What the Mayor doesn't want to see: 
Shoddy work that never improves. There is plenty enough tutorials out there to show you how to do it, and plenty of free programs that give you the tools. Using Paint for textures is fine if you can create higher quality work for your ability with it (although Gimp would be better) but using it because your lazy is a poor excuse.
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