Reading Things regarding the Species
A reminder to all users to thoroughly read all newsletters, prompts, guides, etc. to the best of your ability. There has been an ongoing issue that only increases over time of users not reading important things we have written to directly assist users. Now, we understand that English may not be everyone's first language, and we also understand that some disabilities, such as dyslexia, may make reading difficult, so we are only expecting you to read to the best of your own personal abilites, and we do understand that some things may be missed or forgotten about, which is fine, however we would like to see an increase of people reading what we put out to help everyone.
Below is a list of important things you should generally read fully, but is also not limited to just these things:
- Rules for different parts of the species
- Monthly Newsletters
- Sales posts + claim comments
- Pins in information channels in the Discord server
- Guide posts (both written pages and gallery posts with descriptions)
- Prompts (individual basis; General rules and requirements can change per prompt)
- Announcement posts
- Trait descriptions
- Item descriptions (especially for trait items)
Addressing Mobile Formatting
When browsing the site, many users tend to do so on their mobile devices, but it can make things look quite odd or otherwise completely unusable. We know this is an issue for some people who only browse our site on mobile, unfortunately. For clarity, the base that the Pacapillars website is built on (Lorekeeper), is difficult to make things mobile-friendly on for us. We try to format things to the best of our ability for all device types, however mobile still likes to give us issues. It is highly recommended that you are using our site on a wider screen, such as a computer or mobile tablet in landscape mode. We understand for some users though that a phone is the only device they have access to; for users with this kind of situation, all we ask is that you have patience with us in trying to make a layout for your perspective. We are doing what we can, however fixes can sometimes be evasive to us and take longer than most other updates to the site.
Flaffles
When entering for one of our Flaffle designs, please note that "Flaffle" is slang for "Flat Sale Raffle". They are free to enter, however if you are rolled as the winner, you are expected to pay the designer a set amount of real money to obtain the design. Failure to pay the designer or entering with the assumption that a flaffle is free to win will result in us implementing our 4 week sales ban on you, as per our general sales rules.
Free designs are rarely distributed, however, when they are they will generally be handled one of 4 ways:
- Prompt posts in which you submit a prompt and get a raffle ticket in return.
- In the Discord server though use of one of our bots. These free raffles will be posted in the #surprise channel and simply require you to click a button to be entered.
- Leaflet Pay-To-Enter raffles in which you purchase a raffle ticket in Barrie's Berry Shop with your Leaflets, open the ticket, and get entered into the raffle where no further payments are required.
- Offer to Adopt designs where staff members or featured guest artists may seek non-monetary offers on their designs. (Be sure to read posts however as not every designer offers free-only OTAs!)
Free adoptables will never be added to general sales posts unless they are Leaflet P2E raffles or OTA designs. Fully free designs will always be posted either within the Discord server though use of a bot or as prompts on the site here.
Leaflet P2E Raffles
When entering into a pay-to-enter Leaflet raffle, please remember to open your ticket to actually be entered into the raffle AND make sure that your entry is counted towards the designer's profits. Simply owning the ticket item does not enter you into the raffle, and you must open the box to gain an entry. Designer profit is also tallied based on the amount of entries actively in the raffle once it has been rolled.
Unopened tickets will not only be removed from your inventory and refunded after the raffle has ended, but your purchase will also not go towards supporting the designer of the raffle in question. We undertstand some people may like the artwork for the item, which the artist of the items ( TornPages ) does appreciate, however the tickets are not currently available as collectables and only serve the purpose of raffle entry + artist payment at this time.
Adoption Shelter
Reminder that we have an adoption shelter! Within the shelter, you can surrender characters you no longer wish to own / are struggling to rehome for other users to adopt, or you can occasionally catch a design looking for a new home that you can purchase with Leaflets or Gold Berries! Characters are added to the shelter at surprise times without pings, so make sure you are always checking because you never know when we might add something new.
Check out the adoption shelter here: https://play.pacapillars.com/adoptions
Commenting on Newsletters
A feature that is rarely used, but you are allowed to comment on newsletters if you wish! Though we request that suggestions are kept to the #suggestion-box channel or the feedback form, we would love to hear from you guys regardless! Whether it's showing excitement for something in the newsletter, or simply describing how your Pacapillar would be during an event, you're more than welcome to express yourselves in the comments on newsletters. Actually, since this newsletter is already getting pretty long, if you are reading this part, head on down to the comments and tell us about your favorite pacapillar that you own! What's some of their (PG-13) lore you would like to share with others?
