Free scripting dead?

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Yeah talk about that elsewhere, Faptap does not resolve the free scripting problem on ES. Advertise elsewhere please.

Just to show what the site is missing out since my last published script:

Rosalina Rose Popcorn Trap roa.funscript
Safira Yakkuza Hot Content roa rescript.funscript
Shalina Devine Boobed Star roa rescript.funscript
Alya Little Spoil Her Little Brat roa rescript.funscript
Shalina Devine WelCum Sexy Architect rescript roa .funscript
Britney Blew Cableguysex roa.funscript

All of them full length 30-40 minutes. Flawless quality of course. Rescript means AI scripts were garbage and had to be redone completely. Why on earth should I post 60+ hours of scripting free if I can not even access to the few paid scripts on this site I am interested in?

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my bad G, i’m super guilty of releasing a lot of blender/sfm content because I fw fictional animated women lmao.

I will say the reason you see a lot of the same ‘style’ is for a few reasons. Not just because it’s popular and easier than irl scripting but also because the animator community is large, but the modeling community is small.

Most animators don’t make their own models, they use public releases from well known modelers like DAB_Neko. This is why you’ll see the same characters repeated through animations even if the movement quality itself will vary widely.

Multi-Axis scripting is daunting and time consuming, but it might be worth for you to pick up if you really want to see certain content MA scripted.

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I somewhat agree with the OP.
I also used to make only free scripts in the past.

I did it because I enjoyed seeing the machine move according to my script and bringing pleasure to people.

But after purchasing a terrible paid script, I felt really disappointed.
I spent a lot of time making scripts for free, yet seeing someone throw together a low-effort script and still charge money for it left me feeling empty.

I was confident that I could make better scripts than them, so I also started making some paid scripts little by little.
Thankfully, many people now support me financially, so I’m earning a fairly satisfying income.

In my opinion, the large number of low-quality paid scripts will eventually bury the free scripts.
As a result, free script creators may start to feel relatively discouraged, and over time there will probably be even fewer free scripts than there are now.

I think the ability to post in the paid scripts category should only be given to ES supporters, and the number of posts there should be limited to a few per month.

People who constantly spam the paid scripts category are not people who truly value this community.
This place is not eBay or some other commercial marketplace.

What I mean is that we should at least keep things within reasonable limits.

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Yeah it comes down to script quality. The site will have to swallow the problem and work of checking the quality. We spend 10 hours on a script. Checking if its ok takes not even a minute with OFS. Sync following action, exaggeration, fully scripted or not.

well, actually your last one script with Judy i downloaded)
that animation style is completely fine by me, like “realistic style” you can call it
also fine with classi japan animation style, like hentai-style

but that animation style i often see in genshin animations short scripts - idk how do i call it, but it gives me uncanny valley vibes

so i’m not against any animations, not at all, just some styles not liked by me, and it’s a lot of content in this styles happening

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I’ve been scripting for less than 6 months, but I wanted to share my perspective. I’m using an AI translator, so if anything is unclear, please feel free to ask for clarification.

I started scripting because I wanted to create scripts for the videos I personally liked, and I began sharing them for free because it felt like a waste to keep them to myself. It was fun seeing people download and react to my work, which motivated me to keep making scripts.

However, even when I post a free script, most people just download the file and leave, aside from a few ‘likes.’ There’s almost no feedback on whether the script is actually good or bad. Even when comments are posted, besides the occasional ‘thanks,’ most are just complaints about the video source: ‘The link is expired,’ ‘I can’t access Iwara, please upload to Pixeldrain,’ etc. From a free scripter’s perspective, it makes you lose motivation quickly.

That said, I firmly believe that rewards for free scripts should never be money or tokens that can be exchanged for paid scripts. First, if the reward for a free script becomes material, can we truly call it a ‘free script’ anymore? While there are many high-quality scripters who share their work out of goodwill—and I am deeply grateful to them and continue to produce free work myself—we also need a solution to prevent people from uploading ‘garbage’ scripts just to farm tokens. How would we even monitor or verify all those junk scripts? I don’t think anyone wants to give their own paid scripts to someone churning out low-quality work.

As for the current issue of low-quality AI-generated paid scripts, I don’t have a perfect answer. Resources are limited, and I’m not sure if there’s a ‘silver bullet’ for verification. A radical change in site policy might help, but it would inevitably cause backlash. So, rather than focusing solely on the over-uploading of paid scripts, I believe we need something to motivate free scripters.

While visible rewards like badges or marks are important, I personally think the best motivation is a culture of leaving comments and likes. In my experience, the most enjoyable part was knowing others were using my script and receiving feedback—hearing which parts were good or which parts needed improvement. Engaging with people through feedback is what gave me the motivation to fix, share, and create more.

I know that the atmosphere of a community’s comment section won’t change overnight. However, I wanted to emphasize that instead of seeking material rewards or abruptly changing rules, it’s more important to provide emotional motivation and ‘honor’ in a way that aligns with the true essence of what a ‘free script’ should be.

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Nothing much to add really, great discussion to read. Hope a solution can be made.
There are few paid scripts I’ve been drooling over, hoping they become free / easier /cheaper to acquire. Like others I don’t script much because for one, I actually don’t mind most Ai scripts of which there are plenty to keep me entertained! And two my collection has reached 92tb! Novelty reduced = usage has gone down.

How do you tell if script is created with AI?

HJ are badly scripted, AI does not know depth and hand and mouth in sync it can not choose or combine. Areas are scripted where there is no contact at all a depth problem again. Regular action is off by two or three frames. Over and underexaggeration. Some few are OK, some need just need correction in some areas, some have to be redone completely as so bad overall.

Ssluts ssss snake roa.funscript (made this frame by frame as only exists as beat based)

another one I will not publish

I agree about half way. Coming from the RealTouchScripts days, we have miles more free release content than we ever did on that site. I just wish there was a better script marketplace for everyone instead of just relying on patreon subs. If you want to see more free funscripts, why not try making them? Even I’ve posted a few with little to no experience

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I can understand what the original poster is saying. Nowadays, more and more authors are becoming profit-driven, and that might include myself as well. However, I haven’t forgotten my original intention. Before I switched from free to paid content, I spent nearly a year doing unpaid work, sharing scriptwriting techniques that I liked and had researched in depth. Although my output wasn’t high at the time, when I decided to go paid, it was really just to give it a try. But once you truly become a paid author, you feel a responsibility toward the users who pay you. I started producing more content and focused on creating what my customers wanted. This, however, brought up other issues. So until now, I’ve been trying to balance the quantity, quality, and type of content between free and paid offerings.

My final solution is that after a certain period in the paid section, I will convert the content into free scripts. This is also in line with my original intention: I hope more people can play the content I create. At the same time, I don’t want my paying customers to feel like they wasted their money. In fact, I know there are many people pirating my content, but I don’t pay much attention to it because I believe my real customers are willing to support me. I think what I’m doing is a healthy, positive model.

Of course, in recent months, I’ve also noticed that the number of authors has started to increase significantly. Many of them haven’t built up any foundation through passion or long-term dedication—they jump straight into making paid content. This makes me quite worried about the overall decline in script quality across the community, and the facts do show that this is happening. But fortunately, there are still quite a few people who are seriously creating content, and their income and recognition are much higher than those who are purely profit-driven. Customers aren’t stupid; they will choose better content. Poor authors will eventually be eliminated. So I think there’s no need to worry too much.

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You are not talking to me, right?

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Now that we identified the problems and heard the opinions and reasons from all sides, we should work on a solution. Instead of repeating the same reasons every second post, we could find a solution to the problem.

We have a classic imbalance of:

  • Effort (high) vs. Feedback (low) → burnout
  • Effort (high) vs. Money (guaranteed) → motivation

Creators feel not appreciated, because many feel they waste their time. They get no reactions, no comments, their thread may drowns by newer threads. Something you spent hours creating, lost in not even a day.

We have to overcompensate with recognition, interaction and meaning.

Possible solutions - some of these are brainstormed with the help of ChatGPT:

  1. Discourse has a react plugin, where people can put reaction to a post. Like you see on social media, Discord etc. I personally brought this up several times and I think it could be worth testing out. Yes, we already have some form of reaction with the :heart:, but it could als be fun to have more reactions to a post. And maybe it encourages creators to post something. There is maybe a need to curate what reactions can be used (if possible). Abuse has to be prevented and we don’t want users to add bad emojis to posts, just because they may don’t like the content. If this plugin would get added, I would suggest to try it without curating and see how it goes. People who don’t write, maybe will click.

  2. When somebody creates a post under any script section, there is already a template. In the template add something like: “Even a short comment helps creators a lot :heart:”, “If you enjoyed this, drop a quick :+1:” and so on. Small thing, but maybe encourages people to react more, comment more.

  3. Some kind of creator visibility and recognition. For example: “Creator of the Month”, “Most Active Creator”, “Top Rated Script This Month”, “Newcomer of the Month”. This would be doable. Need some kind of moderation of course. Post needs to get tracked etc. It does involve some work. Could be split around more who would help with that, not just one. People love recognition. Maybe there could be a plugin created for this? Something where all posts of a month get automatically listed into a sheet. No idea if that could work, just some ideas.

  4. Monthly / bi-monthly themes: Think of mini events. But without a winner, without a rating, without prices, no “The Cycle” lore (I know, it would be sad to not have The Cycle there ^^). No competition at all, just people gather, script content for a theme. It would be completely community driven. Everybody can suggest themes, we put them all into a vote, winner theme gets chosen for the next month. Then, repeat. Also, once the themed month is live, why not let every user suggest fitting content for that theme? No “only trust level 2 and above can suggest” – everybody. Creators can pick something from these suggestions, if they find something interesting. This could create cool content, maybe discussion, we could find new models / actresses, new kind of content etc.

  5. Micro-Events: I love making big events, but they are exhausting to organise, to manage, to moderate. Script Game took at least 200 hours in total. Bigger events can be hold like 2 - 4 per year. Mini-Events could be hold more often. Think of “Weekly challenge”, “Mini theme week” etc.

  6. Creating a feedback culture: That is nothing that can be or should be forced. Instead, everybody, users and creators, have to start to engage more by themselves. Drop a comment in a thread, where you think the script or / and the video is great. Say something if somebody scripted something new, unique, something we may haven’t seen before. Drop a comment, when somebody scripted something that took a lot of effort to make, like a complex VR script. Maybe over time, people adapt and copy that behavior.

I welcome you to discuss my points, challenge them, bring in new ideas, bring in your opinion. Whatever you think, let us now. Whatever your ideas are, let us now.

Thank you for reading!

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I like these ideas.
Some of these can definitely be done.

“Creator of the Month”, “Most Active Creator”, “Top Rated Script This Month”

This could actually be done now with little effort. Discourse has a leaderboard feature. I turned it on shortly but some users found it annoying. We can re-enable it, give it a bit more TLC this time around and get it properly functional.

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Thank you!

Definitely worth imo to re-enable it and test the feature out more. Then every month, highlight creators in a dedicated thread in different categories. Link their threads they created in this month as well. Brings more visibility to the creators work.

That has a little bit of competition factor in it. But I think in a healthy way. Maybe some will say “I want to have the shout-out this month” and they bring out extra content.

If the community likes some of the ideas or bring up other ideas, I’d be happy to help in some way and bring them to life.

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I did 2 things to get this closer to what we may want.

  1. I setup the reactions plugin to have more options namely the numbers 1-5 so users can “rate” a post. It’s not perfect, but it’s a little closer to what we’d like for rating posts. At some point I need to look into the rating plugin.

  2. The leaderboard plugin was enabled and configured to utilize the reactions plugin. The scores are being recalculated now. This can be improved / iterated over time.

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Based off some comments in this post. I’m here to just say theres plenty of great discussions happening here!

It may be a farfetched idea and I’m not sure how it would work

  • maybe have a paid section on this site. The section can have a subscription base. Creators would get paid by the subsriptions (i do not know how i.e. percentages or how to moderate so theres not just slop in there? )

Before investing too much time into the idea, is that something that would wven get thought about?

maybe have a paid section on this site.

That would even divide paid and free even more I think, it would raise the paywall higher.

It is all about scripts here right? High quality scripts make alot of fun and low quality scripts are just disconnected random movements, you can set MFP to do that with any movie. Free reaches the whole community. So free quality scripts is what you want to push to make ES better. Keep the free scripters, they leave or leave into paid we read that above, make them stay and make them stay scripting free. Compensate them. They script for free so its not the money what do you think you can compensate them with the best? Yes, it is quality scripts.

The main problem I see is the free scripter shares his work with the whole community but at the same time he is paywalled. So I am quite advocating compensation of free scripting by paid script. No money involved no transaction.

I my opinion the way to push free scripting and connect paid and free, is Vlad to have his own selling platform, only allow that single platform and take a percentage of the sales. That way ES can buy paid scripts for free scripters by token system and paid and free would be connected.
Paid scripters would be pulled back to ES from Patreon. I dont think they do not care where they sell it just has to be a stable system where their content is not deleted and they get paid. Vlad could also do a Patreon like subscription system for scripters.

The leaderboard is nice thank you. If you want to climb the leaderboard script alot of 1 Minute scripts. Also script a niche. First time I see alot of them scripters as their videos are on my hidden list. It does not solve the paid and free disconnection. Climbing the leaderboard and climbing against futa shorts is no motivation.

Example:

  • I finish April Love Identity Thief and post it at free. As it is quality and has 10 minutes of scripting time, I get 10 token. (movie has 20 minutes but alot of no action.
  • I would like
    https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/milfvr-chantal-danielle-tease-is-for-tits/275197
    but it has 30 minutes of scripting time so its worth 30 token so I am 20 token down.
  • I can now script 20 one minute futa scripts to earn those 20 token. Each worth 1 token.
  • I now have 30 token and I give them to ES
  • ES buys me the Chantal Script (ES has money from its percentage platform) and sends me the script.

One single paid script copy for scripting hundreds of copies to the community of a free script of the same length. I think that would be more then fair. A very low but enough compensation for free scripting.

Also thank you for a very civilised discussion thread, I am quite shocked. Also shows to me keeping free alive is important to you all.

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At first, I also planned to debut as a free author, but later I found that my works were used by others as a tool for making money, I have changed my idea of being a free author. At present, the works I publish are only divided into free and paid according to the difficulty of production. For example, the video content of love activities usually cannot have a uniform frame rate like MMD. It will be more troublesome to make it. But recently, I also feel that writing funscripts is like a job. Every time I finish work, I go home and continue to write funscripts, which makes me very tired. Most of the time, I need a cup of green tea, coffee, and cigarettes to keep me focused. So the purpose of charging is only to buy coffee, cigarettes, and green tea to relieve anxiety and fatigue caused by long working hours, and if someone does not want to subscribe to patreon members, I will usually send him a paid member gift through private messages. I still love writing fun scripts, I just hope that when someone likes my work, they can publish more suggestions for improvement and encouragement. I also think that adding a rating system to the script can help me better understand the quality of my work.

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