Leveling Your Character

Leveling Up Your Character!

So you’ve made your character and are ready to start drawing, roleplaying, and more with them! Great! Doing these things levels your character up and gets them rewards for doing so! Leveling up your character earns them things like XP to level up, and Perri Chips which is currency in Terra for you to spend to get neat things for your character. You earn XP and Perri Chips by completing artwork, literature, roleplays and participating in events with your character!

Perri, Experience, What Are They?

You've probably seen multiple things about XP and PC, that's Experience and Perri Chips! When you complete a prompt, complete a meme, participate in an RP, write about your character, and draw, you're progressively earning Perri and XP points towards your character. Perri is the currency Terra uses, this allows you to buy things like accessories, and other things for your character to use in their gameplay. Experience levels your character up and allows them to do more in the game like different perks and leveling up to new ranks / titles in your character's Faction! Below is charts of how much XP and PC you can earn doing specific things, if we didn't break it down easily enough for you please note an admin and we'll help you right away!

Artwork

Headshot: 1 Point + 2 Perri

Less than half of the equine is drawn, including up to the neck. If shoulders are included that would be considered a half body.

Sketch Dumps: 1 Point + 1 Perri

Quick drawings with sketchy lines , considered quick doodles with little to none rendering, usually uncolored and incomplete.

Full Body: 3 Points + 3 Perri

Full character is drawn from head to hoof.

Reference Sheet + Tracker: 1 Point + 1 Perri

Downloading and completing your reference sheet and tracker earns you an automatic 1 point and 1 perri . Only viable once per character.

Inspired From RP: 3 Points + 2 Perri

Pieces inspired from RP's must include the roleplay being visualized in the description.

Half Body: 2 Points + 2 Perri

Half the equine from the shoulders up is drawn, including up to the knee of the leg.

Collabs: 10 Points + 10 Perri ( for all participants )

Teaming up with one or more members of the group to create a collaboration of characters. All participants will receive the same amounts of experience and perri.

Extra Calculations:

Not only do you get experience from the above, but we appreciate the extra time you might take in a piece, and that is also rewarded! Here we go through the bonuses for your background, and your shading technique! Make sure you apply these when totaling up your experience and perri!

Full Background Detailed: +8 Points

detailed backgrounds are a detailed top to bottom covered canvas, include a background, middleground and foreground and has ample shading and rendering of tackling landscape/architectural challenges. Artists artistic capabilities are also taken in to consideration in overall judging.

Simple Background : +5 Points

simple backgrounds lack the full detail and rendering of a detailed background, and are simple backgrounds such as a clear blue sky and minimum grass detail.

Armor / Clothing/ Weaponry: +1 Point
Full Body Shading: +3 Points
Half Body Shading: +2 Points
Headshot Shading: +1 Point

Artwork Special Circumstances

Photomanips: Apply artwork and backgrounds to calculate total points and perri. Photomanips must source stock used in the description, the photo being used must clearly be changed to suit the character.
Use Of Linearts: Must half points and perri after the first use of the same lineart. Full points will be applied for first time use.
Animations: 10 Points + 10 Perri for simple blinking, snorting, bounce, hair and leg movement. For more flowing, more complex animations will be judged accordingly by an admin.
Comics: Each comic panel should be looked at as a separate piece of artwork unless copy and pasted repeated backgrounds are occuring minus the background points and perri calculation.
Events / Prompts /Character Checkpoints: Experience and Perri will always be specified in event, prompt, or checkpoint.

Literature

Any literature MUST BE UPLOADED TO DEVIANTART. We accept literature from Skype, Google Docs, WhatsApp, Sta.sh so long as there is a link to the story / RP recorded somewhere.

Roleplays & Stories: For every 300 Words generates 1 Point + 1 Perri for role plays and story writing.
Events / Prompts / Character Checkpoints: Points and Perri will always be specified in event, prompt, or checkpoint.

What Do I Get For Earning Experience & Points, Anyways ?

We're glad you're wondering! This will also be explained in greater detail over on the reference sheet and tracker page where we walk you through your reference sheet and tracker, just to refresh your memory after you read it here, or maybe this is the second time you're seeing this.. Anywho, earning experience and perri for your character by drawing, writing, and participating will make your gameplay experience much more fun because it allows you certain "perks" like unlocking shop items, ranks/titles, and developing your character's strengths and weaknesses that are their stats! As you earn experience, you'll use it to assign it to your character's tracker, it's important that you keep up to date with your tracker as much as possible so you know where your character is at level wise!

At the start of the game, every member starts with a total of 350 stat points it's very important you distribute these points carefully as they cannot be changed once finalised. Each stat maxes out at 100 points meaning your character is 100% proficient in said area. Every level up your character earns +5 stat points.