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After reading some suggestions by users, a few final changes are being made to the sphinx update:
-Boobs on pets can have a top to cover them. Together, these are considered one "allowed in isolation" trait, so no other human traits.
-Sphinxy PSDs and designs bought from the Artist USD event can be submitted through May 14th. However, you'll need to PM Skitty (#543) with a link to the thread you bought it from as proof.
-The deadline is being extended to more than 24 hours--you now have through Sunday night (11:59 PM) to sell sphinxes.
-Additionally, while you can no longer buy or sell them after the above deadline, you can submit designs you already have until April 21st at 11:59 PM. This should give you some time to save up if you don't currently have enough on hand to make everything you want!
Hopefully this will solve most of the complaints!
Posted by null
(#543) on Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:06pm
Sphinx Followup 2: Electric Boogaloo
Rules
Here's a nice shiny explanation with some images and stuff. If you have some borderline case designs and are confused about whether they'd be restricted under the new rules or not, you can post them there and I'll try to answer them.
Also, any sphinxes that are waiting in the (admittedly very backlogged) Crystal Thread can be submitted to the Custom Queue for a faster answer. Thanks to the newly-added rejection notices, you should be able to figure out what needs to be changed if your pet is not accepted.
If you do miss the deadline for submitting them, keep in mind that you'll probably only have to change the nose/ears/maybe a little more to get a sphinx design to fit under the new rules.
Finally, keep in mind that the 24 hour limit to submit sphinx designs still only allows designs that would be okay previously. A pet with a human face + full clothing edits still wasn't okay previously. Nor was a pet with a human face + human hands, human arms and legs, human breasts, etc. This deadline allows you to submit your human-eared and human-nosed pets without having to edit them into cat ears/noses, and that's about it. If you submit a pet that would have been too humanoid even for the old rules, it will still be rejected, as it would have anyway.
Posted by null
(#543) on Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:40pm
Sphinx Update
Rules
Since there's some confusion: The sphinx rule tightening actually isn't a very big change.
Pets with dresses and hair are still fine.
Sphinxes with a human face shape but animal ears and a more cat- or animal-like nose are still fine.
You just can't have a 100% human head pasted on an animal body anymore. Most sphinx designs weren't that extreme anyway, but a few of them were pushing it too far and the rules had to be tightened up. This rule won't actually effect that many pets, and those that it will effect will likely be easily edited to fit within the limit (turn human noses into cat noses, etc).
Also, bare human breasts are still not allowed, as anything that would require an [M] in a topic cannot be on a pet. That part of the news post was not well worded, and unfortunately resulted in some confusion. I'd like to set that straight here.
I'm compiling a more thorough followup post that will explain things in more detail and hopefully alleviate most of your fears. To reiterate: This is not a very big change and won't effect that many pets and sphinx-like pets will still be possible--they just won't be as extreme.
Posted by null
(#543) on Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:03am