How it's in the OP is still true. The only difference is, that there is a upper limit on how much can be in the bank. Which is calculated your post amount times ten and then plus 1000.
So with your 12 messages you sould be able to store 1120 coins.
Also there is a vault now which is just to store and hide your coins, so they don't show up in your wallet.
What is the Credit System and how does it work? The numbers are not up to date because it recently changed and might change soon again. Still waiting for things to get finalized before I actually update this, sorry. NOTE: If you read something about "minimum post count" or "meaningful posts" or "time online" these are from the previous system and OUTDATED!
TL;DR: What is this System? You have to earn Credits (Activity Coins (former named LC coins)) by participating in the forum and then unlock the Members+ Rank in the shop to access the Games+ section.
The numbers and names might change slightly, but I'll update this site to the new names and screenshots as soon as this is final. Also as there are several different styles, the screenshots may look different than yours.
How to earn these Credits (Activity Coins)?
You have to do certain activities as listed below, all of which are normal forum activities. New: You will get different amounts of credits depending on in which area you post or got the reactions.
gives -10 credits if in General Discussion and Off-Topic
gives +10 credits if everywhere else
gives +65 credits if it is a game thread
Make a Post:
gives 3 credits in the public area (Areas accessible without any rank)
gives 5 credits in the Members+ area
gives 7 credits in the Prestige 1 (VIP) area
gives 9 credits in the Prestige 4 area
Receive Reactions:
gives 5 credits in the public area (Areas accessible without any rank)
gives 6 credits in the Members+ area
gives 8 credits in the Prestige 1 (VIP) area
gives 10 credits in the Prestige 4 area
Upload an Avatar:
gives 8 credits and only works once
Notes: Threads: Don't bother doing that for credits, it's simply not worth it. Mods are very keen and detect if your thread is a low effort or a farm thread and you are not only risking the deletion of the thread, but also losing credits as a punishment. Also if your topic already exists, your thread gets deleted too.
Furthermore you don't earn coins from posting in your own thread. Posts: Be careful not to spam or do meaningles posts. While some areas are a bit more lenient, your posts in Game Threads are under much closer scrutiny. Reactions: Any reaction you recive counts, no matter if positive, negative or neutral. Also don't ask or beg for likes, nobody likes that.
About the different areas:
It depents where your post is made and in which area your post got the reaction. For these earnings, it doesn't matter which rank you have; you will always receive credits according to the posted area.
Things that doesn't give credits:
Giving reactions and writing reviews won't earn credits. Those two should be done because you want to, not because need credits.
Attention! There are anti-spam measures, read about them further below.
The Bank Bank got reworked and there is now a maximum amount of coins that can be in the bank at once.
Read -> here <- to find out how it is calculated.
There is one other method of earning coins: the Bank, click the arrow next to Shop to visit it.
The Bank is pretty straight forward. You deposit coins and after 24h you can collect 2% interests. So if you put 500 coins into it, you'll get 10 coins per day.
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1. First you have to deposit coins. You need at least 50 coins to make it worthwhile (50 coins = 1 coin per day).
2. Then you have to wait full 24h. Attention: The countdown (re)starts whenever you do one of the transactions of the bank window.
3. After that, it will be show that you can collect the coins, so click on "Collect interest", the coins will be automatically put into the bank.
4. Withdraw coins if needed.
Notes:
Every time you deposit, withdraw or collect interests the timer will be reset and the 24h starts anew. So if you want to be efficient, deposit new coins only right after you collected the interests.
- This means you'll lose every interest, if you deposit or withdraw coins before collecting interests.
- So don't deposit every coin you freshly earned, wait until you collected the interests and then deposit the coins.
Interests will NOT accumulate, there will only ever be 24h worth of interests, so collect them every day.
If something is displayed wrong, for example if you should be able to collect interests but it isn't showing, reload the page it should work afterwards.
Having less than 50 coins will work too, but you'll get decimal numbers as interests. So 25 coins in the bank will get you 0.5 coins interests. They will be displayed as a rounded up number while still being a decimal number. You can test the true deposited worth by trying to withdraw more than there is in the bank. The true amount will be shown then.
While you'll get the most out of the bank if you are meticulously about the timing of collecting and depositing, don't worry about this too much. Collecting an hour later is not so bad.
It doesn't look like much, but every coin helps.
But what to do with these credits (Activity Coins)? As above, those values are not correct anymore, but how it works still stands.
But attention, only Members+ will be purchasable with AC, everything else (reworked ranks and items) will need real money.
Once you have enough coins you can permanently purchase the Members+ Rank at the shop for 450 credits. -> Link to the Shop <-
With it you have access to the Games+ section that have all the sweet sweet sm*ls!
Members+ is all you need to get everything LC is supposed to offer. If you've already unlocked the Members+ Rank during the previous system, YOU WILL STILL HAVE IT!
There are also Prestige-Ranks, they are optional and for community engagement only.
They all grand customization options for your account (like all the colorful ones you've seen all over the place) and the cooldown for every action is removed.
Note: The ranks and their names might change, I will update if this happens.
Here the links to their shop entries where you can read in detail what they are doing: ->Members + (450 AC (reduced from 750) - Needed to access Games+, Animations+ and Comics+) ->Prestige 1 (2500 AC (reduced from 4000) - Access to P1 area; grands customizion options and removes cooldowns for giving likes and getting coins from posts) ->Prestige 4 (9000 AC (reduced from 40,000) - AI Art area) ->Prestige 5 (30,000 AC (reduced from 120,000) - external AI Art area )
Appart from P5 has every higher Rank has the same benefits as the previous one. So if you can afford to buy Prestige 4, you won't need Prestige 1 or even Members+.
Therefore, it is not necessary to buy them in order or even buy lower ones (unless you want the banners).
Unfortunately, there is no price reduction if you already own one of the lower rank and just want to "upgrade".
How to buy Ranks:
Go into the Shop at the top of the screen
Click on the Rank you want to buy
Click on Purchase
Add to cart
Go back to the Shop page and click on Checkout
And Finally click on Purchase
Members+ costs here 750 LC Coin, but that is the old price with the old name of the coins.
You might be overwhelmed by all the rank options, don't worry, that's completely understandable.
So what are all those different but same ranks for?
As you can see, there are 3 currencies. AC, DC and PC.
Activity coins (AC) are gained by the methods mentioned above (Forum Activity).
Donation Coins (DC) are gained via donations and are used to buy temporary ranks ($1 = 1 DC).
Platinum Coins (PC) are also gained via donations and are used to buy permanent ranks ($50 = 1 PC). Important: All Ranks are purchable with AC, you don't need to spend real money! You might not find it at first glace, but keep looking.
If you are unsure if a rank is truly permanent, click on it an you can see on the right site a "Duration: Permanent" or "Duration: [Timeunit]"
Discounts (deactivated)
There are no discounts anymore, if you read anything about that, it's outdated information.
Anti-Spam Measures
Cooldown
To prevent spam and maintain the forum’s integrity, a cooldown timer is in place:
This means you have to wait 90 seconds until you get credits for another post or thread, but you can still post without getting credits.
Also you can't give likes (or any other reaction) more than once every 90 seconds.
In addition, there is a limit on receiving likes for credits, only 3 likes per minute per user will earn you credits.
Penalties
If you make several consecutive posts in the same thread, it can be considered spam. This can happen quickly if you reply to several people. To prevent this, use the multi-quote function, here is a guide on how to use it: ->How to Multi-Quote
Attention: Abusing the system with bots, alt-accounts or by using scipts will get you in trouble!
FAQ: Q: What is the point of this shit?
A: Fucktards keep reporting the sm*ls and hate that they can play here. So this measurement is to make it a bit harder to fuck everything up.
Q: Is the Resticted/Sinners section gone?
A: The smols are now playing in the Games+ section.
Q: Where is this Games+ section?
On the starting page:
The Latest Updates have them now mixed in, but your can filter to only show them:
This is the Latest Updates (old)
On the right site
This is for the Latest Update
On the right site
Q: Is there something else unlocked with Members+?
A: Yes, there is also Animations+, Comics & Stills+ and Off-Topic+, you can find them in via the main page.
Q: What is the difference between LC Coins, AC and Credits?
A: There is none, it's the same thing. Some also call them Lolicoins. LC is the old name.
Q: What is the difference between a Posts, a Reply and a Comment? A: There is none, it's the same thing, just different terms used for different situations.
Q: Where can I see my AC Coins?
Below your Avatar:
In your profile (click on your name):
In the Shop (on the top):
Q: Where can I see my AC Coin income?
A: On the top-right click on Credits-Symbol ->
Q: Is there a limit how many Coins I can get per day?
A: No, there is no such limit, appart from the 90 seconds cooldown.
Q: Is there a limit how many posts per thread count?
A: No, there is no such limit, appart from the 90 seconds cooldown.
Q: Are posts and likes retroactive?
A: Sadly no.
Q: My english is not so good, I don't know if my posts will be any good.
A: Don't worry. Even with broken english it will work. But if you are still unsure, you can always use a translator like DeepL, it's pretty good with every language and even understand contextual phrases (much better than the google translator). ->
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Just copy&paste the translated text into LC after you are done.
Q: How do I know if someone has the Members+ Rank?
A: Anyone who has this postbit banner (also called badge) below their avatar:
Q: What do the other banners mean?
Banners averiable for all members:
Regular Member -> Members+ -> Prestige 1 -> Prestige 4 -> Prestige 5
And if you can't behave, you'll get this Banned-Banner:
If you donate at least $50, you get this banner:
Staff banners:
And the owner of LC (Kavinsky/Crowley):
Game und upload related banners:
Old and unused Banners:
Old Rank Banners:
There are also the 5 retired donation badges, but they aren't handed out anymore, so if you see someone with those, they are the OG supporters.
This is was the old planned Prestige 5 Banner:
Good Luck at getting the Member+, the sm*ls are waiting for you to play with them in a cute and innocent way. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask them!
But it's not too difficult to earn enough coins by being active in the forum, even if you are not very comfortable with posting.
There are plenty of question/poll threads where you can state your opinion. Yes it can seem pointless, but that's how the system works. And you might even get some likes that way.
If you are lucky you can get into a small conversation which will help too.
If you dare you can go into the Lurker thread. It can be intimidating tho.
But it's not too difficult to earn enough coins by being active in the forum, even if you are not very comfortable with posting.
There are plenty of question/poll threads where you can state your opinion. Yes it can seem pointless, but that's how the system works. And you might even get some likes that way.
If you are lucky you can get into a small conversation which will help too.
If you dare you can go into the Lurker thread. It can be intimidating tho.
No idea what can be done about it. You could of course try via Paypal, hard to get worse than not getting the payment trough.
Best to contact Jack of Blades, I'm sure he could help you better than I could.
Hi there. Earlier today I paid for Members+ via the donation page but I have yet to get premium access to restricted games. Instead I was gifted donation coins. Is there something I'm missing here or did I misinterpret the rules/process?
Hi there. Earlier today I paid for Members+ via the donation page but I have yet to get premium access to restricted games. Instead I was gifted donation coins. Is there something I'm missing here or did I misinterpret the rules/process?
Why hasn't this been added to the join message? It just sends you to a guide that it incorrectly states will give you 150 coins and the numbers it provides are completely wrong unless you click through 2 different redirects. And as a bonus the original numbers are like ~4x what they are now, how was this not worth updating?
Why hasn't this been added to the join message? It just sends you to a guide that it incorrectly states will give you 150 coins and the numbers it provides are completely wrong unless you click through 2 different redirects. And as a bonus the original numbers are like ~4x what they are now, how was this not worth updating?
Join message? You mean the one you get when you join the forum?
I don't think the message has been updated for some time now and the site you being directed to is probably the Coin Hustler University? The owner and former admin of the thread has left LC before the changes, that's the reason it's not getting updated anymore.
The income got reduced, but the price of the Members+ got reduced too, it was 750 before that.
Join message? You mean the one you get when you join the forum?
I don't think the message has been updated for some time now and the site you being directed to is probably the Coin Hustler University? The owner and former admin of the thread has left LC before the changes, that's the reason it's not getting updated anymore.
The income got reduced, but the price of the Members+ got reduced too, it was 750 before that.