Board Thread:Light and War Update/@comment-14028943-20130731102723/@comment-9946604-20130731205544

I have read enough.

Everyone take a breath and we'll start fresh.

My name is Pete. While our 'leader' Jens Ingels is on vacation, I am responsible for handling any social disputes and problems with the admin team. I am an admin, and I also hold the rank that allows me to promote and demote admins.

First:  Nic.nex is right. Posting images of unreleased content is grounds for being banned. You we given a warning because you didn't know that's what it was. Nic is doing his job (he puts in easilly 40+ hours a week and is not paid).

Second: you'll notice that he's one of the top 5 contributors to this wiki and a very valuable member of our team. Green name = Admin, Blue name = everyone else. He is one of only 4 people trusted to mess with the template code, and in charge of maintaining our image archive. Please be respectful and try to understand there is a language barrier-- he wasn't threatening you, he was warning you that your image is in violation of our policies against unreleased content and hacked content.

Third:  I believe you if you say that this isn't from your game but I promise THIS IS HACKED CONTENT. How do I know this? By reading the data in the configuration file for the game. It shows all of the stats for this and every dragon. The code is written, but the entry for Breedable is 0. Dragons that you can get have a 1. That means it's impossible to get this dragon without hacking. By the way, I checked it about 5 minutes ago to be sure. There is no such thing as a special account. This player is not special, just another hacker. It's not a hard game to hack.

Fourth:  When you log into dragon city, all the data for your dragons and all of the images are retrived from the social point servers. The same place that your game looks for the animation for Terra Dragon also contains the animations for several unreleased dragons that are currently in various stages of development. When SP is ready to release the dragon, they change the breedable entry from 0 to 1 and --POOF!-- the dragon is released.

We already have images and data for many upcomming dragons, but we strongly believe in not posting images that cannot be achieved in a 'vanilla' game. We do this for several reasons:

Fifth:  The Rainbow Dragon and Panzer Dragon have caused quite a problem here recently. Social Point showed images of the Rainbow Dragon and mentioned the name of the Panzer Dragon in several in game advertisements. This created quite a delema. We decided these dragons are "semi-released" and have been doing our best to quell rumors. Not every Dragon City site shares our views on unreleased content, and lots of hacked images and information is surfacing, and we are doing our best to keep it ELSEWHERE. This is why these threads get pounced on.
 * Respect for Social Point
 * Respect of the game
 * We love surprises
 * We like keeping secrets
 * UNRELEASED CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Sixth:  While I would prefer if we only had "satisfied customers", I don't expect this can really happen every time. It's your call how you want to view how you've been welcomed. My point of view is that you posted an image of hacked content and three admins have taken the time to explain the problem instead of banning you. Take that how you may.