This thread will give some insight on how credits are gained and spent.
First things first, keep in mind that we will never tell you exactly how to gain credits, nor how much you will pay.This is to avoid abuse of the credit system.
Gaining and spending credits is a slow process. You will NOT see immediate changes to your credit balance. This is due
to these reasons:
caching of the numbers
we don't want members to find out the exact formula. This is to avoid abuse of the credit system .
As such, your credits balance will change slowly, over time. Here follow how to gain and lose credits:
How to gain credits:
Contribute to the site. Most types of contribution will make you gain credits. Some will not, but we will not tell you
exactly what. Once again, this is to prevent abuse of the credit system.
Note that submitting gallery items is not the only way to gain credits. There are many other ways equally effective.
Just try to think on how to contribute to the community, and you will surely find many ways.
What will cost credits:
Posting a scan: low cost (this will prevent users from spamming the gallery). LOW cost
Posting a new thread: low cost (same reason, but for the forum)
Creating a new group: fixed cost, 40 credits. This is to prevent creation of too many groups. Groups should only be
created when there is a reason for it, and also only if you are really interested in that. Which means, willing to
pay.
Submitting indy art and wallpapers: variable cost, depending on friendlist size. This is to avoid friendlist whoring.
This will ensure that members only post quality submissions. For anything else, use the sandbox forum or the anime pic
dump.
Now before you all go ballistic and start complaining: the formula have been thought so that members who contribute to the community will NOT have problems with credits, as long as they don't want to download the whole gallery. The values are FAIR.
Just participate to the community, and you will not have problems whatsoever. The main reason for the credit system was to avoid horrible problems like indiscriminate leeching, friendlist whoring and spamming.
In minitokyo 3 spamming will not help you increase your credit balance. Quality
contribution will determine that. So just contribute, have fun in minitokyo, be fair and useful to others and you will
never have problems again with the credit system, which is still being worked on.
