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
Congrats to all the new mods!
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sidfishes
Also Gavin looks really nice :0
Thank the lord for the recipe changes <3
sidfishes
Your paintie is fine as long as they don't use the ever so sacred "rare" parts and you can still tell its a cat
Meant to write fourth, not fifth lol Nipples definitely have no place on here.
I had a friend who changed the head of the horse base to fit their character (tail as well) and it looked wonderful. According to the rules, this is allowed as long as you could tell what the body is ("Please note that this does not mean you cannot edit the face of a villager to resemble something unusual or non-animal. However, editing the face as well as adding a lot of parts from other bases will most likely result in a rejection. If you edit the face, please keep the body easily distinguishable.") and I could tell it was on a horse base yet it got rejected because they changed the face. Contradictory to this rule is it not?
Which is why I personally feel like they should have just left the rules alone because I saw nothing wrong with them before, there are too many contradicting rules, and the change caused too much unnecessary backlash for no reason.
I'm glad that the rules for painties have been qualified a little more, but I think there's still a lot of gray space. Harvesting parts from other species naturally changes the base of the species they're overlaying... as well as where do you draw the line? Take my paintie for my character Gavin here who's a cat. I used the cat base, however I did harvest arms from the wolf base because I didn't want it to look like my asexual character was hiding their breasts. The crossed arm pose made it difficult to showcase my character's wardrobe which is pretty important to their overall design.
I used and replaced parts from another base, just like if someone swapped out paws with hooves, but by doing so it technically changes the species base even if that's literally the only assets I've used. So is Gav illegal now or do they fall into the safe category?
I wonder if the first, fifth, and ninth rule are sort of arbitrary? I can understand the merit in them, in theory, but outside of "uniformity across the site" are they really adding that much or are they just in place for the sake of being in place?
While I understand why changing the size of the base could be a problem, it's a little frustrating for people who have characters they want to make into panties who have traits that would go off the canvas. Like a character with tall horns, ears, head crests, ect. would not be able to be made into a paintie since there's very little room at the top of most of the bases. The width is more than flexible enough to work with, but height is a different story for some characters. Most of the painties, or at least what I've seen, are made after preexisting characters, not the other way around.
Other than that I have no objections to any of the rules.
charmeleon
I do agree that people are allowed to be sore- I definitely know the feeling of a ton of work being ripped away and that is a level of shittiness that is just...barely comparable to anything else when it comes to creative endeavors.
But, there were reactions and levels of immaturity in this thread as well as last night in certain spaces that were.... overblown to the point of ridiculousness. People need to realize that even though it sucks that they spent a ton of time on something and even though that something is no longer on the site in a tangible way, that treating people like they are the devil or immediately jumping to attack something or act like someone had something against them in particular is Too Much and that the gut impulse to rip someone or something down shouldn't necessarily be what people do.
Soreness is one thing but there has been a lot more than soreness going on.