It's that time again! Let's play "What's wrong with my shield?"
Also known as "Why did it get rejected?"

Contestants at the ready... what rules have been broken by this shield
that I tried to upload!?

Second round... this one? Anything wrong here?  

Theres something wrong on that shield.... It makes people spam shield codes.  

Well the reasons I got back are "It breaks a rule or something of that nature" and "Copyright issues."

The first does not seem to be very clear, and the second... I'm wondering if it's a paradox in the graal universe - copyrighted material not allowed for use in game includes graphics in game?  

Move this thread to the forum games section as it is a forum game  

So my edited version is 'copyright infringement' but this is acceptable.

Wow.  

No, the most likely reason it was denied is because you decided to upload piece of the land that also looked like it held gralats. I believe they rejected it because 1.) Its size, which covers your body or 2.) It has gralats and could possibly trick, and or blend in to players.  

Well I intend to make a window in my GH using statues. They told me it was 'copyright issues' and that's all the answer I received... tried feedback, to no avail, and it's not really a toonslab worthy issue... I guess I just have to wait for an admin who is a little more mature and/or communicative..  

Posted by MisaChan

Theres something wrong on that shield.... It makes people spam shield codes.

Lmao!  

Apparently this one's "filesize" is too large (almost 3kb).

Who's driving this boat, man?  

We do not accept graal sprites as shields. Also, "file size too large" is usually used for gif images that are way too large. Not in terms of dimensions, but in terms of how long it takes them to go through the whole animation.  

Posted by Brick

We do not accept graal sprites as shields. Also, "file size too large" is usually used for gif images that are way too large. Not in terms of dimensions, but in terms of how long it takes them to go through the whole animation.

The file was a png?  

Files over 128kb are also not accepted. Too big  

Posted by 4-Lom

Apparently this one's "filesize" is too large (almost 3kb).

... I think it was 2.7 kb?

I just wish that some one would give me the time of day and help get my image accepted or tell me what needs to change for it to be. When they can hit the deny button in less than 2 minutes, but can't respond to the feedback system, it gets frustrating.

http://www.graalians.com/forums/show...ht=submissions

See here for further issues I have faced previously in this area.  

I'm not sure then. Might have been a mistake. Depending on how large it looks on the body, they might have meant to use "Too big" as the disapprove reason.  

Well I did my best to make it not massively huge - my initial idea was to fill every spot in a 512 x 80 png with the image. I reduced it to about 40x40 per facing side of the character... I tried to align it so that it shouldn't block out any of the player, as well.

I've seen way larger shields out there (some that are just a white panel blocking the character even, because of transparency issues) and wonder how come we don't all get equal treatment, basically, or have clear guidelines so that I can avoid getting rabid about stuff like this.

I even tried uploading it as a personal shield, so as to avoid people "spamming" the image, and it didn't get accepted then either.

How to proceed? If I have to upload 4 different files to slice apart and then overlap the shield graphics to make one image because a single one is too large, I can do that too - to get around these silly rules...