Rule Clarifications and MOD Updates
Posted by Mat on 12 Jul 2016, 12:26 pm
We have been consolidating and reviewing a lot of feedback on various rules we have, and are happy to announce that all of the updated rules have been released.
1. The Terms of Service no longer forbids breasts, but instead focuses entirely on nipple exposure. Breasts are now allowed on Painties as well as artwork posted on Furvilla provided they follow the nipple rule. We feel this best represents a SFW environment while also not implying sexualization of people with that body shape.
2. The Terms of Service clarify our position on game asset trading with other browser games. The short answer is, we are fine with trading, however, we would like you to wait until the game is out of beta before doing so.
3. The Code of Conduct now indicates that CSS should not be used to cover or alter game stat information, including hiding or altering your or your villager's stats, or replacing your villager's image with CSS.
4. Our Forum Rules have now been updated to indicate that the phrase 'illegal drugs' refers to United States federal law, as there are discrepancies between the laws of different countries regarding what is an illegal drug, as well as individual states within the US.
5. Finally, after taking in all feedback with Painties and speaking with our Paintie moderators, we have completely revamped the Painties rule page in a way we hope clarifies everything regarding Paintie rules. We have been struggling with the inventive ways that players are creating some Painties, but unfortunately some are created in ways we did not intend for our bases to be used. We hope that this guide clarifies what we consider permissible for the use of our bases and helps clear confusion.
That now covers all the rules that have been changed thanks to your feedback. We also wanted to let you know that moderator applications are now closed. We received over a thousand applications and have hired our team. We do not yet have an ETA on releasing the forums as the moderators are occupied with ironing out issues with Painties. We will provide you an update when we have an idea of when the forums will be ready to re-release.
Last, here are a list of changes that have been implemented since Monday, the majority of them from suggestions e-mailed to us:
- grayed out Change Career button when idle
- destroy unwanted recipes from career page
- removed white gradient on long Private Messages
- Transfer Currency / Transfer Item on user page
- horizontal scrollbar appear in the message box when needed
- view all recipes/their reagents for reference: searching items in the museum now provides a list of reagents (for recipes), or a link to the recipe that crafts the item, or links to all recipes that use the item
- placed a button in the blacksmith career page that straight away takes you to repair requests
- Villagers page indicates which villagers are sick and with what
- item pages now include links to NPC shops if the item stocks there
- Paintie Removal button to strip a Paintie from a villager at the user's request
- the following items can now be used from the inventory on villagers who are not the active villager: medicines, pets, recipes, costumes, species potions, hp potions
Mononoke
DAD is a bit of a grey area because there are two bases with the only difference being the wing size (and/or colors, maybe?) But I have heard of someone morphing a naturally-occuring large-winged DAD. They've since traded it away and they're not sure who owns it now though.
Let me try asking a mod about it. I'll let you know if I find out anything.
NachtKatzchen ; huuh, i wonder what the heck i was reading about then.
i guess i just foolishly wasted my all my fc for nothing if we can still make large-winged painties. /laughs and cries at the same time
i'm not sure if i should contact staff through their email about this, but i noticed some of the downloadable bases on FA are out of date / unfinished?
specifically i'm trying to make a paintie for my pirate cat, but the base on FA isnt the cleaned up final base i see on here. mostly the eyes give it away compared to other bases, but the edges on some of the other unfinished costume types are extremely messy too :0
Kitty I am not a mod, but I created a painted for my husband's DAD and it wasn't rejected before or post rule change. His had the small wings, but the paintie had the large wings. This sort of change from what I have found is like the example they use in the first rule.
"For instance, for the cat species, the “basic” cat and the super-fluffy Pallas Cat have very different looking bases, as the Pallas Cat is far more fluffy, but you can still use any of the cat bases when submitting a Paintie for any of your cat villagers."
The two DAD bases are still the same species, just with varied wing size. You are still submitting a paintie for the DAD and as long as the character you are submitting it for is a DAD you should be good. Again, you can certainly have a mod confirm this, but I have found no issue so far with submitting a paintie as long as it is within the species and other applied items such as costumes.
The mystic and beast costumes are two different items which are applied where as the DAD is one item to apply to your villager.
From the changes, it seems they just don't want people to take portions of bases from items you haven't worked for ie putting DAD on a wolf.
Kitty : i know how the costumes work. i just recall reading about not being able to use the large-wing base unless you owned it and compared it to the costumes. i don't feel like going back through 40 pages of comments to re-read what the mods might have said or not, so who knows. i'm just saying.
Mononoke
Mythic/Beast bases? You can only modify/use those if your Villager is already wearing a Mythic/Beast costume. I'm not talking about the costumed bases though, I'm taking about the DAD basic base. To me large and small wings are variants of the same Species. Sort of like how Fawn bases have no horns but you can apply Antelope horns onto a Fawn base because they're both still Deer species. DAD wings = Deer horns = Wolf ears to me.
mystic or beast bases **for example
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Kitty ; even though i'm sure i read we're not allowed to... if you're right, doesn't that still go against the rules of not being able to create a paintie with the mystic or beast bases if you don't actually have the bases? because you don't actually have the large-winged dutch base?
Another suggestion: During a battle, the pop-up window should have some way of displaying the current durability of the Warrior's armor, similar to how you can currently mouse over the up to three weapons and see what theirs are.
Currently, if a player is worried about the state of their armor, there is a workaround, which is to click outside the window to return to the career display. They would then click Continue to return to the battle (at which point they can then decide whether to run or attack again).