What is a legacy star eater?
Legacy Star eaters are simply Star Eaters that have been created during the deviantArt Era of the species before the revamp and the website happened. These old Star Eater designs often do not follow the species rules or have different trait classifications.
Legacy Star Eaters come with certain gameplay limitations, notably they will not be able to be bread because of their trait classifications and cannot be majorly revamped or have traits added/removed unless updated to the new version, however they can be used in official events such as art prompts and most everything else on the website! You do NOT have to update a legacy star eater in order to use them on the star eater website!
How do I know if my Star Eater is a legacy?
On the masterlist, the Star Eater will have LEG as the prefix of their character code instead of STAR!
If I update them can I revert them?
No. Updating a Legacy Star Eater is a permanent action and cannot be undone by you nor any possible future owners of the star eater. Do not update them if you are unsure about updating them!
The steps to update a Star Eater
- If your Legacy Star Eater needs tweaks to their design to follow the design rules found in the design guide: Create a new Master List image, either draw your own or commission an artist in the community to draw you one!
- submit a design update request, upload your new masterlist image here [or if edits were not needed simply reupload the old one!] and update the traits to the best of your ability
- if you are unsure about which traits to select you can ask in our discord! Or simply let the admins do it for you.
- Admins will look over your design and either accept or deny.
- if your design gets denied the admin will make a comment telling you what needs to be fixed on the design in order for it to follow the Star Eater's design guide! if this happens, don't be discouraged! Simply fix the aspects that need it and resubmit!
Legacy traits
If your star eater had traits that changed rarity when updating your legacy star eater read this!
- The trait on my star eater got rarer!
- You can keep the trait with no extra cost OR change the trait to a different one of the original rarity. this is up to you!
- The trait on my Star Eater got more common!
- You will be allowed to upgrade any trait on your star eater to the same rarity as the downgraded trait OR if your downgraded trait is rare+ you can opt to keep the trait as is and recieve a trait modifier item of the former rarity as compensation.
you can browse all of the traits here. Any trait marked with [legacy] will have a counterpart with the updated rarity.