New Image Ratios & Migration Reminders

Following a server poll, we decided to change our standard image ratio to 3:2 (1.5) instead of the admittedly awkward 61:40 (1.525) previous ratio!

I wrote and ran a script that went through all active images and updated them to the new ratio by adding some pixels onto the top (and sides for those that were not the correct ratio before.)

We have updated the official lineart PSDs in the Google Drive to the new ratio: All that's being changed is 20 pixels added to the top of the files. New minimum size is 1260px by 840px.

• You may notice that your colonists look a bit smaller in their space if they had an incorrect ratio before. This was a byproduct of making the images on the site fit the new ratio with clean numbers (meaning, no widths ending in 3 or 7 etc). Feel free to put in design updates if you want those pixels back! If they were the correct old ratio of 61:40 before, they shouldn't reduce in size at all
• Colonists who were not the correct ratio previously should now have been adjusted to be the correct ratio and should be able to use background items
• Colonists who for some reason had images larger than standard have been adjusted down to the correct size (Some older colonists somehow slipped around the standard widths)

Nothing at all!

You'll need to either add 20 pixels onto the top of the image (so that they're 1220 pixels tall instead of 1200) or use the updated PSDs.

Please edit the psds to add the 20 pixels to the height as soon as you can!

As our standard is now to have transparent images, the only thing that can really be done is to update these images into transparent versions. Please put in a design update request, or just leave it be if you are fine with the extra padding.

Forwarding this message from the old Tark'ee chat, for those who were members of the previous Tark'ee ARPG!

Here are the corrected extended deadlines for geno conversion (links to the Tark'ee server) and migration for the four currently released subspecies:

• Aerobic (Flight): February 28th, 2025
• Common (Earth): February 28th, 2025
• Aquatic (Wave): Closed.
• Draconic (Serpentine): Closed.
• Volcanic (Rock): Migration is not yet open, but you may request Xiunus genome conversion via the routes below.

• • Paste your geno's information in an individual post in this channel if you're in the Tark'ee server, otherwise submit a promptless Submission (Claim) or a ticket in our Xiunus discord server to request the Xiunus-ified genes.
  • Wait for Clarity or I to convert them to Xiunus phenotype/markings.
  • Design the geno and paste it in that thread.
  • Fill out the migration form and link to the thread.

Do you have Tark'ee or Belemoid that you don't necessarily want to play personally but want to see on Xiunus? That's wonderful! Submit the form below and we will give them fresh life!

There is no deadline for these, so even if it's long past the geno migration deadline for a species, you're welcome to submit them. They might become Natives, NPCs, or be put onto the new lines for the Immigration Center! Note that there is a "Tark'ee - Giant Rabbit" option in that form, but that's more for future things, so don't worry about that <3