MabiPro: The Authentic Old-School Mabinogi Experience

I would like to suggest to add a (fan)art thread to the forums.

can be this one! post away bois!(and mods sticky this!)

I meant more like a topic on the main forum page.

Good idea. Need a place to post skype art

yah~ it'd be nice to have an art section. there's an art channel for mabipro on discord tho

Not everyone uses discord.

The Discord isn't an official Mabi.Pro Discord, so would make more sense that the Forum had it's own art section as well.

Yeah I would like to see some art of my Mabi character, provided people would want to draw her.
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....you could have just posted this thread in general and there you go, an art thread for everybody to post art in. (that being said, feel free to make a new thread if you so wish)

How about opening an art shop for in-game gold/paypal? Would that be okay with the GMs?

For gold sure, I don't see a problem with that.
For actual money, you should consider handling that outside of here offsite, because that is a bit risky.

On-topic
Art sub-forum... meh. I mean, i'd like to see art, sure. A sub-forum would be useful if we see a lotta individuals sharing art. However, i feel at the moment that we have a low enough count of individuals that would contribute, a sticky thread would be fine for a compilation.

In interest of organization and finding a specific member's art though, i would strongly encourage anyone who contributes, to actually edit all their work into one post in the thread. May sound odd, but when someone wants to follow a specific individual's art in this case, everyone posting in a single thread, being able to know where to look and always going to the same spot is a great help. Especially for person B who joins, say a year after person A starts doing their art. Rather than dig through an entire thread, person b will see person a's art in one spot and just like that they know they've not missed anything or have to flip through say 50 pages trying to find everything.

I think over time, it would be worth bringing this topic up again. As more people join, or simply as more art gets shown off than what we could expect over say a course of the next month. Long term, i do see an art sub-forum as possibly a nice thing to have, i just simply think it's something that'd be better handled and more used, after a bit more time has passed.


OFF-TOPIC

I've been curious about such lately. You say 'consider handling that offsite,' i'm going to interpret that as a very insistent 'don't do such matters here.'

And on that note, art for money, can i assume that as these dealings will be between players, so till will any results that come of it? Meaning if someone gets ripped off, the GMs won't intervene? I'll state my opinion on that now, in that i'm of a mind that risk and reward. Sucks to be ripped off, but you should always expect that chance to exist, and while having someone willing to take disciplinary measure against the offending party, the one at risk should always be ready and accepting of such risk, even if they won't just sit happily by when it happens.


Reason for inquiry on this matter, primarily wondering how rl cash and in-game to other means of payment, will be viewed by staff. Though, if this should be its own conversation, or in a ticket, let me know and i'll place such interests elsewhere.
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The answer to your inquiry is brought up in our Terms of Service.

As for getting scammed in an art shop, that is easily guaranteed not to happen by a mutual understanding between buyer & seller: Buyer places order. Seller creates the art. Seller shows the buyer a watermarked version of the artwork, to make sure order has been fulfilled as per buyers requirements. Buyer approves art, pays through paypal (which also has several systems in place against scamming and theft).
After seller has recieved the payment the complete piece is sent to the buyer.


May I ask, what exactly do you mean by risky?

If I had take a guess of what they mean by being "risky", look it at this way. You encounter an "artist" who's going to sketch your avatar. All good and dandy until they ask you for money up front. Sure, you trusting the person, you give them money first and then they tell you that it'll be a couple of days before they can give you anything. Well, days turn into weeks when you realize it's been a whole month. You try contacting them, but you get no response. See. What you did was you've given your money to someone you don't personally know. You have completely trusted that the person, and they just walked off with your hard-earned money. Now you're going to "sue" them but you have to get more information. Then you said you did the transaction on a game called MabiPro. Long story short, MabiPro gets in trouble for having to deal with a fraud, and then it just becomes a big mess with the team. This is probably why Drahan that they should handle such things like that offsite. They don't want to get hit in the crossfire of such transactions and the works. So save us the air to breath and if you're going to sell art, do it where art sells. Patron is a great place to get paid for art, even though I don't use it.

This is what I believe Drahan is trying to say that people "should consider handling that outside of here offsite, because that is a bit risky."
And if not... Well. Drahan. You may now have the stage. lol...