Ryne

It’s no secret that the Ryne group is running heavily off of member participation and is hoping to see a growth among the community and how they work together. To help facilitate this, we have implemented point gains that will help unlock new information, races, and lore as the group grows.

There are several ways to gain points, and we have listed them below and expanded upon them for a better understanding.

General Participation


This is the primary way of earning points in Ryne that works toward unlocking stuff in Ryne. Per every one-hundred words, one point will be gained. Though this is stated, please do not feel the need to bloat or fluff up your posts to meet a certain point gain. We always value quality over quantity, and we’re sure that your RP partner(s) would also appreciate this!

A completion bonus is given to all RP threads that are marked with one of either [DONE], [COMPLETE], or [FINISHED] in the titles of the thread. This completion bonus will net ten points for each person that partook in the RP.


Many events that are released will be permanent events that can be partaken in once per character that resets annually. Each event will have how many points it merits to those that partake in the description of the event.

There are events that will be released that will span only the duration of the month or season that they are released in celebration of the holiday specific month. For example, a The Gift of Giving event will take place throughout the month of December, and can only be done within that time frame. Like the previous statement about events, time limited events will have how many points they merit in their descriptions when released.


For any that are interested, members of the Ryne group can join the Ryne Discord server to communicate more easily with other members of Ryne and get to know one another better. Point gains are not the highest here, but they are there. For every one level that a member gains by being an active participant in the Discord server, they will gain one point that goes to unlocking features of Ryne.

Please note: the Mee6 bot in the Discord server that rewards levels is programmed to only give exp to users once every minute when active in chat. Spamming will not be tolerated in attempts to level up faster and can result in either being temporarily muted or banned from the server should spamming persist.

Creative Participation


For those that feel inspired and compelled to do art that features your and others’ characters in Ryne doing their thing, or otherwise, you will gain points by posting your art in the dedicated thread: Ryne’s Art Showcase.

We will not be handing points based on technical skill, but more the effort that is put into the pieces that are submitted. Point breakdowns are as follows:

Sketch:

Head / Bust Shot - 1 point
Waist-up - 2 points
Fullbody - 3 points

Flat Colour:

Head / Bust Shot - 2 points
Waist-up - 4 points
Fullbody - 6 points

Full Colour:

Head / Bust Shot - 3 points
Waist-up - 6 points
Fullbody - 9 points

Adding a Background:

Simple - 2 points
Basic - 5 points
Detailed - 10 points

Additional Character(s):

When adding a character, we take into consideration of what they fall under of being head / bust shot, waist-up, or fullbody, and will apply the points as deemed appropriate.


If you would like to draw for an event for any reason, you will gain event points as well as art points. If you have already participated in the event, you will only receive the art points. Due to the nature of being an event, all art that is drawn for an event must be in full colour, but backgrounds are optional, and are not strict to being simple, basic, or detailed.


Due to the rather strict nature of not using art that does not belong to you, or using face claims without permission, drawing for others has a big benefit to the community as well as the growth of Ryne. For the most part, drawing for others really entails just being able to provide someone with art of a character that they otherwise do not have art for to help give us a picture of who that character is at a glance.

If you would like to draw for others, please take requests that get posted in the thread Ryne’s Art Resource Centre. Likewise to those that are looking for art -- post up in that thread using the form available to help the artists ready and willing to help.

The admins will frown upon sketches being offered, and would much prefer that any artists choosing to gift art to others in this fashion to at least do flat coloured images if not full colour. All fulfilled requests will be rewarded with double the point gains for unlocking content for Ryne.

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All of this said, points are pretty much gained for a myriad of things, as evidenced. The only way you do NOT earn points in this group is by posting in OOC topics unless otherwise stated. So forum games, general chatter, and personal threads from community members will not net you any points.