TwiztidKidd posted at 11:53 AM Tue, 11 April 2023 - #4461733

15 points for vendor images uploads is actually great!! This will encourage more vendors to promote their own products, do their own promo pics in the gallery, it's something you want... but set the regular members back to 3 points per image... if ur not a vendor or prime. Give 10 points per image only to prime members. Why?? bc AI people will not purchase a prime membership, bc they have no use for it... and you will sell more prime! Does that make sense to you?

well.. i am an "AI person". because i like it, ansolutely - but also because while i love 3D and do it quite a while longer, i have a very old piece of garbage laptop - which means scenes lagging, scenes crashing as soon as you have more than 2 people or a big landscape (i bought so many models i can't even use without deleting most of the contents!), scenes taking half an hour to render just for a texture test so after a few tests you dump it because you spent hours waiting, scenes that take half a night to render during my sleep, and a lot of beautiful expensive animals that i have to render without HAIR. and forget dforce or particles or anything recent. now with AI i can finally create beautiful fluffy felines in close shot, or beautiful men with long flying hair, or full landscapes. that's why i am an "AI person".

buy me a state of the art computer (and a big GC for new items too, while we're at it) and i might be a lot less AI person, and go back to draw 3D with pleasure!

and then i am broke. i ive on increasingly minimal income with felines to feed. i barely can afford the occasional product (ok i have about 100GB on disk...), so i just can't afford prime - this represent 4-6 products i would buy. it's not because "i have no use for it", it's because i can't afford it!

and you know what? now that rewards went up to 10 points i can finally hope to gather enough points to buy some long awaited items that are gathering moss on my wishlist for ages.
i am happy with 8 images a day, i think it's fair, i don't appreciate spamming either. and i pick them carefully from those i have created, with various themes and styles.
besides, honestly, a while ago i have seen "non-ai people" totally spam galleries with dozens of poor quality photos of random objects and places or even themselves in barely decent attire with some awkward photoshopping, i'm sorry but i spend more time/energy on my AI stuff for better results. this is not art what i saw!

if on top of not getting any reward points any more for purchases when not prime (which i find unfair, 5 vs 7 was ok), we go back to 3 points per gallery upload, it's pointless (haha pun not intended) to painstakingly collect 24 points per day until i have 500. it takes me quite some time after all until i have just uploaded and ofc created 8 pics.
and those points? i spend them here. 

unless the general aim is to keep rendo a private insider elite club for vendors and vendors and prime members... is that what you meant?

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