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 thought I might add that a way to customise your villager with out making it a paintie would be nice for users who don't want to buy things yet I.E A shop in the town hall where you can buy daft things like bows ooor hats. Little items that you don't need to create or buy with rl money. I just thought that was a nice idea and as the forums are closed I thought I would put it here.
Another thing that would be nice is a way to move areas? Being stuck in the one place and not being able to make another account to explore the other areas is really irritating. Even if it was restricted to moving once every 3 months or something? I suppose that's the point of the game... but I think it's something that should be looked into?
Apart from that I am really loving the site so far. Like I said, more basic customising options would be really great but I love the idea around the game! I think it will do really brilliantly <3
I'm not upset about any of this just still mildly confused about just HOW MUCH can be edited.
In the meantime I'll deal with this by just refusing to do any Paintie commissions or make any Painties for myself that will require me to make a LOT of edits to the shape of bases. I'll stick to doing Simple and Mid-Level edit Painties and Paintie commissions until I understand the full extent to which a Paintie can be modified.
Again, I vote for examples for that specific rule. A way for those of us who are Paintie Artists to full understand the full scope in which we can work. All the other rules make perfect sense to me.
It doesn't really bother me that we cannot use parts from rare species, since I have only spliced one base-- added bear arms and horse hooves to a bat--, though I sympathize with some of the others grief about it,
Also, I think we should be able to go and trade our furcoins for furdollars, 1000 for 1. I think it would make more people more happy about this update, that at least its a bit easier to obtain furdollars, and since this update would take place, you could buy 1000 furcoins for $1.
Mutiny Okay seriously, give me the link. I need to vote right now /'o'/
I agree that it might be a good idea about perhaps having a potion if you want to use parts from a rarer species. So say you want AD wings, you turn in your 100FD and then a potion. Is it more expensive for those cute wings? Yeah. But this way you aren't limited parts wise and you can have that creative freedom. Like say you want parts from a Manokit, Wickerbeast, and AD: hand in all 3 potions, and then for common species just be able to grab parts from them. So if you don't wanna works towards or buy the potion, you use wings from a different species (using wings as an example because I've seen a lot of AD talk.)
This being said though, the site is in beta. Things were most likely going to change. Some changes we might like, some we might not. I'm just thankful that we even get to keep anything, to be honest.
Please let people supply the potions/costumes if they want to splice parts from rare species. This is the only solution I can think of that will not hurt both the people who paid other artists and artists themselves. (especially if there is nothing being Grandfathered in)
This helps the economy by giving people to buy these potions/costumes who may not otherwise want them. (Especially for species that do not have costumes yet)
Mutiny Now it makes a bit more sense with that explanation, but I still admit, is it a bit unfair.
Spiritburn your right. It was unnecessary.
Xalix They're currently taking a poll on what species people would like implemented next. They can only have so many species at once, they're not trying to say that your character doesn't deserve to be here unless they're very specifically like something that already exists, they're just asking that you do not copy and paste anything from a rare base onto your paintie when you make it. You are allowed to create similar art, they just ask that it is indeed a creation, not a copy/paste.
Mutiny True, I actually meant more of their painties lives getting ruined because they are in "the deletion void" because their "unoriginal"
Again, I think that completely removing the ability to use the rare parts was not the way to go about this.
Granfathered painties sounds nice until it drags up more drama.
Being able to make an unofficial 'rare' species on a common species isn't right either.
The issue is trying to find a way to fix this, and I honestly think that the option to either pay to use the restricted parts or use the potions/costumes when submitting the paintie would be best. That or have a new costume added to the site specifically for painties so that they can utilize the rare species parts within reason.
There are other ways to try and fix this rather than removing painties that were already approved and completely banning all access to the alternate parts from other bases.