That's exactly what I'm afraid of
I'd like to make a couple of 100 limited ones and I just want to make sure I actually get one lol. I'm usually bad with sniping. Not like I think my design would be super popular, but maybe the trophy is enough of an incentive to make it gone in seconds.

Great job

You can possibly ask someone with multiple editions of your coat if they could sell it to you, or just choose a larger amount to limit your GA coat too. I know 100's tend to sell out within 3-5 minutes (according to a player whose user I have forgotten) and 200s tend to sell out within 1-2 days to weeks, but it kinda depends on the quality and possibly the trophy incentive (for species/colors/etc).

Like a riding horse coat with 200 uses is going to sell out way faster than a winged unicorn coat with 200 uses, simply because unicorns are harder/more expensive to obtain than a regular old riding horse.

Different servers also might have the coat still open, on the US server, there are a lot of 100 use coats that are still open because the US server doesn't have the same kind of traffic that the INT server does.

very interesting

Weee, good to know

Hi I don't no what to do

From my personal experience, it doesn’t matter what the cost is. If it has only 100 uses, it’s gone as soon as the coats are released, no chance you’re getting it the next day or even the next hour. For 200, you have a slightly better chance of getting one, but again, they sell out super quick too for most.
I always put my coats at 500 uses. I will definitely get one and it’s not an enormous number of uses overall. But if you go with even 300 uses and login on the 26th, you’ll likely get a copy of your coat even at that.
It’s been several years since I’ve sniped some bc update time for me is 6 am but I’m assuming the above is still accurate.

Heyyyy y'all. I'm trying to uplaod my GA coat and submit it, but it says the formatting is incorrect. I used the template and the pic is PNG so I'm don't know what's wrong >n< Is there anything I missed?

Never mind, I just realized you need 150 days of seniority to make one. I feel stupid now, aLrIgHt tHaNk yOu bYe

Okay... I'm so sorry to spam messages like this, but I'm SO CONFUSED! In the black market, the black pearl says "You need at least 60 days of seniority and 5 karma points to use the Black Pearl." But this post says "You need at least 150 days of seniority and 5 karma points to use the Black Pearl." So can I use it or not? Am I being dumb and missing something??

They changed the seniority requirement to 60 days recently. This topic's information predates that change.

Hi *Snowy_Wolf*,

The requirement had been at least 150 days for years, but maybe they changed it recently. And because you can't edit posts in the forums, that would explain the discrepancy between the forum and the black pearl page.

I'll assume that the BP is correct and you do have enough seniority. In that case, your problem really is a formatting issue. Here are a few things to check:
— make sure your drawing doesn't overlap the borders of your template
— make sure the template has the correct number of pixels (this might be affected if you resized the template itself)
— make sure the background of the horse is transparent

I'm probably forgetting something, but hopefully one of these will help you

Okay, thank you so much! I'll make sure to try those things

Hi, is it normal if my drawing looks pixeled? :/ I tried everything but it always looks pixeled when im drawing at the template size. I had one that was bigger and i made it smaller but then it also became pixeled. Maybe im setting up the program wrong?

I will look at it. Thank You!

I'm wondering the same thing, no matter what I do, whether I draw within the template or draw at a larger size then scale down, my drawing looks incredibly pixelated, with no room for details or smooth lines :/ would love to know how others deal with this. I know that when you zoom in on GAs, they usually look a bit pixelated close up, but my drawing always seem to come out worse than that, and looking pixelated even when I'm not looking at them up close

The only way I manage to 'bring back' lost detail when resizing is by using Sharpen.

I always work at 300dpi and large canvas too. Idk if that makes a difference.
I can never keep it as great quality as the original but its as close to it as I can get when I use sharpen or sharpen edges.

(I do so after resizing, not before)
Like, get the image to fit into the template as you need it to and then sharpen image. Good luck.

Hello everyone! So, I'm new to the Black Peral and decided to upload my first GA coat! That being said, I am having some issues. The drawing I made is 300 dpi, the problem I am having is with the template format, which only has a 72 dpi allowance. Every time I resize my initial drawing to fit the formatting, it completely blurs and pixelates. Is there a way around the 72 dpi allowance to ensure my drawing retains its quality?

[quote=1403680175][author]WhiteTiger[/author]The only way I manage to 'bring back' lost detail when resizing is by using Sharpen.

I always work at 300dpi and large canvas too. Idk if that makes a difference.
I can never keep it as great quality as the original but its as close to it as I can get when I use sharpen or sharpen edges.[/quote:0]

Thank you!! I'll try that, really appreciate the tip

[quote=1403680187][author]Kota-Bear&nbsp;^.^[/author]Hello everyone! So, I'm new to the Black Peral and decided to upload my first GA coat! That being said, I am having some issues. The drawing I made is 300 dpi, the problem I am having is with the template format, which only has a 72 dpi allowance. Every time I resize my initial drawing to fit the formatting, it completely blurs and pixelates. Is there a way around the 72 dpi allowance to ensure my drawing retains its quality?[/quote:0]

I'm not sure why it would be blurring that badly, a little I'd understand - I also don't know how you are resizing. I never create art within the template, I make it 300dpi on its own canvas and then copy the final over on top of the template canvas. I then grab the corner of my GA drawing and shrink it down to fit the GA template then sharpen to bring back detail, save and submit.

I don't quite understand the 72dpi allowance... That's never been an issue for me. Sorry I can't help further.

No problem

@ WhiteTiger

So the 300 dpi version[spoiler][/spoiler] has much more detail and you're able to zoom in which is just a feature of having a high pixel-per-inch ratio compared to the 72 dpi version. If you zoom in on the 72 version all the detail is lost. The only conclusion I can seem to come up with is to redraw it to format a lower pixel ratio. Nothing else seems to help not even sharpening.

Is anyone else struggling to upload coats today?

last night it ate my passes and didnt upload my coat currently waiting for the support team to help me.