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By purchasing any adoptable from me or an approved hired artist for any of my species, you are agreeing to these rules.
- All species here are closed species. You cannot make your own without permission.
- Do not witchhunt / attack people who make designs or species similar to our own. Most of our concepts are incredibly simple and can be chalked down to hybrids or X animal with X thing changed.
- Be polite to others and treat them with respect.
- Do not harass or beg others to give their adoptable to you. That is not allowed.
- You may not create adoptables or characters based on hatespeech or extremist ideals.
- If you do not win an adoptable, or did not get to it in time, do not whine or cry about it. There will always be more.
- In fact, we suggest you try to channel that negative energy into something positive, and compliment the new owner on their new adoptable!
- Do not bid in an auction if you cannot afford to bid in it. Withdrawing of bids will result in a strike on the first offense, and a ban from all auctions on the second.
- UPDATE: If you want to transfer ownership of a design you must do it yourself, no exceptions.
- We will not accept screenshots from the person who is buying from you as those can be easily faked.
- If you are from CS, you must message kii directly on ChickenSmoothie to transfer ownership.
- The account registered with the current owner [ linked Discords, Toyhou.se's, or other social medias allowed if they're linked at time of purchase ] is the only one who can say "I'm the current owner and transferring to X"
- Do not try to stir up drama within the community.
- If you are banned from the group, all characters that you own are voided from the group and are no longer viewed as valid Kingdom designs.
We operate on a three strike rule and you're out. Typically we give warnings, and then a strike.
If three strikes are obtained you are now banned from all species, and not just one.
We do not maintain a public blacklist nor will we ever. If you are curious as to whether or not you are banned you are allowed to inquire with a group admin.
General Information - Code of Conduct
- Do not be a poor sport about losing a competition.
- Treat others with respect and kindness.
- Do not scam others.
- We at the Kingdom cannot ban anyone without proof of a scam. We only ban people who have scammed others in Kiwi Kingdom-related issues.
- Do not disrespect the artists.
- If you make tryout artwork for a DTA and conveniently delete your artwork, you will receive a warning for poor sportsmanship. This can be circumvented if you have permission from the adopt owner to remove your artwork.
- Do not remove signatures from any official artworks.
- Credit all artists appropriately when posting the artwork off-site.
- Do not try to breed your designs out of the Kingdom.
- Do not witch-hunt or attack people who make artwork, designs, or species similar to that of the Kiwi Kingdom. We do not condone this type of behavior surrounding open and closed species.
- Do not claim any official artwork as your own.
- Unsportsmanlike conduct will result in forfeit of Kiwi Coins potentially earned from a Competition.
- Unsportsmanlike conduct will also earn a warning and possibly a strike.
- Bigotry is not tolerated in our community. Period.
- When making a character design, you are not permitted to copy a design.
- Designs can look similar to one another in traits, colors, or concepts without fear of persecution.
- There must be ample evidence that someone has copied your design in order for us to enforce this rule.
- We believe in 'innocent until proven guilty'.
- You are allowed to take inspiration from another user's design as long as your interpretation of said inspiration doesn't result in a direct copy or a "knockoff" of the original design.
- No one may 'gatekeep' a concept for designing. This includes;
- Food, drink, or animal-based designs.
- Fandom-based designs. Nowhere is anyone allowed to say "I made X fandom animal first, so no one else can."
- In this instance we do not listen to "character copy" complaints.
- Plain designs lacking nuances. (Ie; a plain white Dulcet, a plain black and white Beehemoth, etc.)
- Pride flag based designs.
General Information - Bans & Character Design Usage
If you are rude and disrespectful to myself or my staff, you are subject to a warning and potential ban from any closed species related to Kingdom.
- A ban from my species means you will be blocked from all related groups of those species.
- You are not allowed to participate in group-official activities.
- You cannot breed your adoptable.
- You cannot resell your adoptable.
- You cannot trade your adoptable.
- You are allowed to give your adoptable to someone else in the community.
- No refunds will be issued if you are banned from my species.
- All adoptables owned by you will be voided from the game entirely.
- Adoptables may be unvoided after they are transferred ownership to another member in the community who has been a member of DeviantART or Toyhou.se for at least three months and a member of the group for at least one month.
- If you're found using side accounts to avoid your ban and keep playing, your adoptables will be permavoided.
- Purchased supplementary items can be gifted to unbanned members within the community. However, they will not be refunded.
I will not at any point seize your character design. Once the sale has completed, it is a nonrefundable, permanent, binding agreement that you get to keep the design.
There will be three warnings issued before you are banned. However, depending on the severity of the situation, the ban may happen at one or even two warnings.
These rules may be subject to alteration at any time.
In the event of you being banned from the species, your unmade MYOs will no longer be able to be redeemed by you. You are only allowed to interact with the group in order to let someone else use the MYO. You may sell, trade, or gift the MYO.
Do not create your own Kiwi Kingdom character without a MYO ticket, with the exception of Beehemoths, which are an open species and have their own set of stipulations here.
Ownership + Resale
There will be no resale of the character for more than what you got it for unless it falls within these stipulations;
- You have purchased artwork and/or supplementary writing that doubles it's value by twice as much or higher.
- You have PERSONALLY drawn at least twenty images that significantly boosts it's value.
You cannot sell a character from the Kingdom for a currency you did not purchase it for.
- If you purchase a character with USD you are free to resell it for digital currency, artwork, or character trades.
- If you purchase a character with Points you are NOT free to resell it for USD, but may still sell it for Points, Artwork, or character trades.
- If you purchase a character with Kiwi Coins you are not allowed to sell it for anything other than Kiwi Coins, art, or character trades.
There will be no resale of any character that you got for free. This includes the following scenarios;
- You have obtained this character via a free breeding between your two characters. It doesn't matter if you paid for the parents; this character was obtained via free means.
- You have obtained this character via a free raffle, a Draw To Adopt, a Write To Adopt, a nomination raffle, a gift from an admin, etc.
- Any scenario in which the character was originally obtained without exchanging currencies with the artist that designed them.
- Starter Gooren are account-bound and may not be traded, sold, or gifted.
You are free to trade and gift your character freely.
Please notify this account directly in the event of a resale or trade. We like to know where the adoptables are going.
- Closed species adoptables MUST go to owners that are parts of the group. If you are trying to sell or trade an adoptable to a banned member you will be notified. Banned members are not allowed to purchase or trade designs.
You MUST only trade for other designs that are part of a Kiwi Kingdom species. We do not allow out of group trading.
- The reason for this is that we require all owners of Kiwi Kingdom adoptables to adhere to group rules.
You can own as many characters from the Kiwi Kingdom as you want.
Depiction Rights
Your Kiwi Kingdom character is allowed to be your fursona without prior permission from the artist.
You are not allowed to edit different hair onto your Kiwi Kingdom's design. You may, however, give them alternate hairstyles on your own personal reference sheets.
Do not depict your Kiwi Kingdom adoptable with traits it does not have.
Do not edit additional accessories onto your adoptable's main reference sheet. You may do so on a personal reference sheet.
You are free to give your adoptables other hairstyles, accessories, and quirks, on your own personal references.
- A Rawr does not need a Custom Sparkle mutation for you to depict them with custom Sparkles. Sparkles are a species trait that change depending on the Rawr's mood and how they wish to express themselves.
Artwork, writing, and roleplaying of a graphic sexual nature are not allowed to be submitted in TheKiwiKingdom - our sister DeviantART group.
All artwork should be tagged appropriately with the DeviantART content filters. Failure to do so may result in warnings, strikes, or banning, depending on the severity of the infraction.
Additional stipulations for specific species may be found in the Species Info hub.