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
I'm glad you're trying to make the rules clearer. It's really frustrating to have your paintie rejected for something that isn't/wasn't even listed in the rules, especially when there are others onsite that do. It must be even more frustrating to have it removed after the fact, but I'd rather that everyone has to follow the same rules.
since I cant figure out how to reply like you did i'll do it this way. Yes I do think it's stupid and is a bad one. What if the person, like me doesn't want the entire costume or to waste the fc to get the costume? and it says feel free to add what ever you like. no where in the "what can I do to the base" does it say I can't use the shield base/rare items. I can see if I was using something from the pirate/beast and warrior but I'm not I just the shield. Now I have to go fix something that took me hours to do because of a reason not listed in the "what can I do". If that's the case there should be a section or some fine print that says " don't add this/that/ or that other thing because you'll have to change it
My sidebar just changed into the alphabetical one. No! Please no.
The sidebar should be arranged in the same way I chose to arrange them on the Villager page.
That's only logical, right?
I had a paintie rejected because it was mirrored. I flipped it back and got accepted, but I really wanted it facing the other direction. Is it possible to get this changed? If not, it's no big deal. Thanks for all the clarification though! (:
Thank goodness now that we can use medicine without having to change our active villager ._.'
VampAllana
The shield being a reason for rejection is actually not a bad one. It's an item that's rather specific to one of the costume types. That said, I don't think there's any rule about activating a costume on the villager then using one of the default bases for the species with the costume's items added to it. (So in your case, the paintie you already have designed on the basic base, but put on a dressed up villager)
People are losing it over this but I didn't even know it WASN'T always against the rules to use rare species or costumes for painties if your villager wasn't that species or costume... It just seemed obvious, if you didn't work for it you don't get to use it.
Angel dragon wings look god awful when pasted onto other bases anyway. Most splicing does, honestly.
Once the forums are back up or if you're willing to spend real money, just commission someone? The site has been out for only a couple weeks and is still in beta, of course stuff is going to get changed and reworded. If you're that worried, just hold off on getting a paintie until the site is actually out of beta.
Congrats to the new mods!
your uploading paintie system sucks. "rejected because of the shield. Its a freaking shield. You can only have so many freaking shapes the fact that you cant use the base shape, when 9 times out of 10 that is what a shield looks like is really freaking stupid
Someone said to just contact the staff on a private/personal level about the complaints and junk.
My reply to this is that I have sent two messages to staff via the email and contact form and have yet to hear a single thing back from either issue. Twitter is currently being ignored or not updated due to the flood of spam from the fursuit head contest. Tumblr seems abandonded last I checked. So how in the name of sanity are we supposed to bring it directly to staff if they are ignoring all ways of contact that are shared around the site?
I am still waiting for an answer to my paintie question because it makes me uncomfortable to own a character that someone abandoned but still claims rights to. (which I don't claim to understand) but at the same time, I don't want to remove the paintie completely because I like the design and did a paintie of a similar design,,, But I need a reply from them before I can do anything.
So from where I stand, the only place to talk about the negative impact of the changes, where anyone can actually read and input on it, is right here. After all, better to get the opinion out there rather than throw it straight into the garbage bin,