Earning Rewards

What your art earns, and who gets it

Overview

Every art submission earns rewards for both you and your vulpeco:

  1. Player XP levels you up. See Player Levels
  2. Nectar is stored power your vulpeco can spend at the Nectar Pool
  3. Vulpeco XP levels up the vulpeco you drew, which earns it stat enhancements. See Vulpeco Stats

How much a piece earns depends on its points. Use the calculator to work it out for you.

Submitting Art

Submit each piece on the site with Submit art. Fill in what's in it, and the site works out the points and shows what it will earn.

  1. Staff check every submission against the art before anything is added
  2. Once approved, the Player XP, Nectar and Vulpeco XP are added automatically, and your level, gifts and your vulpecos' levels update themselves
  3. You get a Discord DM either way, and every piece shows in the Art log on your profile and on each vulpeco's page

Each piece can only be submitted once, so if a friend drew your vulpeco, only one of you submits it.

You don't need a tracker spreadsheet any more. The site keeps it for you.

Points

Base

  1. Sketch: 2 pts
  2. Lineart: 4 pts
  3. Flat color: 8 pts

Background

  1. None: 0 pts
  2. Simple: 4 pts
  3. Complex: 8 pts
  4. Reused background: 0 pts

A background earns its bonus once. If you draw your vulpecos on the same background in several pieces, only the first piece gets the background points. The others count as a Reused background: 0 points, but it still counts as a background for the prompt bonus.

Add-ons

  1. Shading (light and shadow, on any base, including sketches and lineart): 8 pts
  2. Rendered painting (full painted render): 15 pts. The piece must be at least flat colored
  3. Prompt bonus (the piece follows a prompt, see Prompts): 4 pts. The piece must be at least flat colored with a simple background
  4. Interaction bonus (this vulpeco is interacting with another vulpeco in the piece): 4 pts

More than one vulpeco

Each additional vulpeco in the piece adds 40% of the piece's total value, up to 8 vulpecos in a single image.

The same vulpeco drawn more than once

Extra poses, comic panels or a sketch page of the same vulpeco count in one submission. Each extra drawing earns half points:

  1. Sketch: 1 pt
  2. Lineart: 2 pts
  3. Flat color: 4 pts
  4. Shaded: +4 pts

Extra drawings don't earn the background or other add-ons again, and each vulpeco can have up to 4 extra drawings in a piece. Their points go to that vulpeco's Nectar and Vulpeco XP, and to the artist's Player XP.

Example: a flat color piece with a simple background and shading (20 points), plus a quick sketch (1) and a shaded flat color pose (8) of the same vulpeco, is worth 29 points.

Rewards

  1. Player XP equals the piece's points
  2. Nectar is 2.4 times the points
  3. Vulpeco XP is half the Nectar
Example

A flat color piece (8) with a simple background (4) and shading (8) is worth 20 points. It earns 20 Player XP, 48 Nectar and 24 Vulpeco XP.

Who Gets What

Player XP goes to whoever drew the piece. Nectar and Vulpeco XP go to each vulpeco in it.

Your own art

You drew your own vulpeco: you get the Player XP, and your vulpeco gets the Nectar and Vulpeco XP.

Group pieces and gift art

Someone else drew your vulpeco, for example in a group piece or as a gift:

  1. The artist gets the Player XP for the whole piece, including the bonus for each extra vulpeco
  2. Each vulpeco gets Nectar and Vulpeco XP scored on its own depiction. Run the calculator for just that vulpeco: tick what applies to it, and set "Vulpecos depicted" to 1. If it is interacting with another vulpeco, tick the Interaction bonus
  3. You do not get Player XP, because you didn't draw it
Example

A friend draws their vulpeco and yours together, flat colored with a simple background and shading. They get Player XP for the full two-vulpeco piece. The two are sharing a meal, so your vulpeco is scored on its own with the Interaction bonus (24 points) and earns 58 Nectar and 29 Vulpeco XP.

Commissions

If you paid someone for the art, you both earn Player XP for the piece. Your vulpeco earns its Nectar and Vulpeco XP as usual.

Reward rates may be rebalanced while we are in Alpha.