save your apartment designs?

[Purest_Elf]

I was given a folder of designs ages ago, like a good 50+. That twitter account looks like it has a fair few of them on it too, so it must have been passed around far and wide by now. Though it looks very likely have put most of them together from google searches too. I’ve always assume most designers are resellers anyway, just like those claiming to be selling nude pictures of themselves.

The staff on f-list tries to deal with people who use other peoples’ art commissions without permission (and in that case we are talking $100-$1000+ designs, not comparatively quick photo-shop jobs ironically at times full of stolen assets themselves ~ ), but even that is an endless task. They did have a tool for a short while to help identify if your art was being used by someone else, but it just bogged staff down with too many tickets. Take into account a lot of the language barriers on mnfclub and you’ve got a logistics nightmare.

Though I’m not necessarily condoning the actions of players sharing designs around for free, it’s the nature of this kind of exchange. It always has been, and likely always will be. There is a lot of truth in the idea that they were never a customer to begin with.

My main experience of working with designers in real life is bespoke stuff, and I’d imagine that’s the angle you’d want to take on here too. I know I would.