New member, just joined, yadda yadda.

Couple of things.

I'm a regular over on nexusmods and on dA. So this isn't my first forum rodeo. With that in mind, I have several bits of feedback (that may or may not have hitherto-unknown solutions).

1. Wasn't happy to find that I couldn't alter my profile immediately. Instead, I keep winding back up on the page that tells me I have to post five times. Really? Just to have an avatar? I fail to see how that would prevent spam or abuse.

"Oh, no, he changed his avatar!"
"How will we ever find that dastardly spammer again!?"

So I guess this is post numero uno, then. I get the idea behind wanting to keep the mouth-breathing sock-monkeys from spamming up the site and all, but I don't think that's a related issue--spammers don't waste time with avatars and tweaking their profiles.

2. The Captcha system. Omg, the Captcha. And the worst part is, it's not even your fault. But is there a way to permanently disable the captcha requirement for every single post? A paywall of some kind, perhaps? Nexus has a one-time, $2 paywall, and I'm hoping there's something similar here to turn off ads/disable captcha as a registered member.

That aside, I'm just getting back into fantasy cartography after a several year hiatus, and my ProFantasy Campaign Cartographer software is sitting there collecting dust because it's very unwieldy and non-inuitive. A disappointment all around. I prefer drawing/drafting by hand, and have this expensive, ginormous light table sitting here going to waste, and it's high-time to put it to use.

Ideally, I'd like to find some icon images that are as open-platform as possible so that I can scan maps, and just drag and drop stuff on top of the scanned image (it's a lot easier to lay out a map by hand, not to mention faster, than using CC). Was getting pretty good at doing extrapolations/floor plans from the Star Wars Cross-Sections book before I stopped.

So, cheers, I guess, to my first post. I just have to find four more topics to post in so I can alter my profile finally.