Class Requirement Changes

Antlers,
Our user class rank requirements have been amended to better reflect a positive economy for the community, and will now require a minimum account age to be eligible to purchase the next rank, along with some other changes.

Antlers,
It has been a wild and crazy past few weeks for all of us, and we would for sure like to thank all of our new members for all of their hard work and efforts in uploading or seeding new and existing content. The site has nearly doubled in some capacities! With this came several changes that were both good and bad. We did break the site a few times due to increased traffic, but we believe most of that has been resolved. There are still a few bugs we are working out, but we will get there. What I would like to take a minute to discuss however, are the current class ranks, how they are attained, and what they offer. We have had to make a few changes to the ranking system in order to maintain a fair economy. We were never, and are not trying to compete with PTP, however when valuable feedback is given, were going to listen to it. But due to the way our ranking system was structured, we realized it was in theory possible for a user to blow through some of our class ranks much faster than they were designed to be gained at. For this reason, we have put some age restrictions into some of the upper classes. Starting now, in order to purchase your next class rank from the store, a minimum account age must be met in addition to the other requirements of the class. Another benefit of this is to prevent a single user from taking as many adoptions as possible to grind the ranks out, leaving none/minimal for other users. Sadly this has caused us to need to demote a few accounts. Any account that has an account age < 1 month has been demoted back to Fanatic. However, the account age requirement for Fanatic has been increased to 3mo. So if you have not yet reached Fanatic, you will now need to wait out the clock. This change will affect all users regardless of their join date, the account age requirement is enabled globally. All of the rank changes can be seen here. And just as a quick note, out of the several thousand new users we have, the amount of users that were demoted by system was minimal. So this is a minimal change from the wide perspective.

We thank everyone for their understanding.