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
Xalix No one is taking away your rights. No one is trying to make you miserable. As far as I can tell, the painties aren't being deleted either. They are attempting to address issues they have while still allowing you creative freedom and opportunity. Does this change suck for some people? Yes. But that doesn't mean they're doing anything cruel or unusual to anyone here.
Verne Yeah, all six of my painties have DAD wings. I'm really not looking forward to redoing them, because I deleted the original files with the layers (I don't have room on my iPad, which I draw on, to save every file layer) and it's going to be a p a i n to change. Eh.
I'm also worried about what newbies will think if they see grandfathered-in painties. I don't want something like the sprite drama from FR to happen - "why do you get a paintie with rare parts!?" "I was here first!" "it doesn't matter, I deserve one too!" and so on.
Mutiny I feel like this is beating a deadhorse, and I've repeated myself a good ten times already.
Nonstop Yeah, hindsight is 20/20...I'm glad I asked, or I might have been in the same boat! Although, the Paintie in question isn't actually done yet, so it wouldn't be as hard to fix at this point than if it had already been accepted.
I pretty fully agree with Mutiny on this: it would be good to grandfather in the previously accepted illegal Painties, and it's a huge headache that they have to be changed, but at the same time, it's understandable that they'd want it done for consistency's sake. We still have buttloads of freedom with these and it's honestly the main reason I joined the beta! And it is a beta, so things are expected to change...and this might well change, too. Who knows? They've already proven they're exceptionally open to feedback--really, I've not seen a site run this responsively...maybe ever. Maybe years back...but either way, I'm impressed so far, even if there are hiccups here and there. It's a beta, after all, not a polished product! o: I want to believe they'll find a way to make most users happy in the end <3
Seraph Some people have acted very outraged at this change. I agree, it is fine to complain about rule changes.
And actually, no it's not. It's even in the terms of Service that the rules may be changed at any time, with or without warning. This is their site, this is a beta. It has been open to the public for about a week. There will be changes, there have already been many, there will be more. You are allowed to be upset about them, you are encouraged to offer feedback on them, but you do not have any kind of right to say they should not be changing them in the first place.
This update wasn't really full with good news, but simply "HEY GUYS! GUESS WHAT? WERE DELETING ALL OF YOUR PAINTIES AND TAKING YOUR RIGHTS! HOW FUN!" Is anyone seeing this? They are basically telling us that. They obviously tried thinking of some reasonable rules, failed, and decided to make us all miserable by taking away our paintie rights. How wonderful?
Bless all of this!
Xalix Great idea! I agree completely on that~
I'm now just confused as to whether or not Cato's dragon paintie is acceptable with these new rules, because I did change a LOT of the base.
I removed feathers and horns, made his nose rounder, removed and replaced tail, removed wings, I did however keep the dragon's overall face and eye shapes, arms, upper legs, and feet. I stuck with Dragon despite Cato's design completely lacking most of the dragon's characteristic's because Cato's "unknown species" could most accurately being descriped as a "type of goo dragon" and because the face matched his the most.
I'm now entirely uncertain just how much can be changed.
I would be most comfortable if you could include examples. Visual examples for the rule about base redrawing. A few examples of the most edited a base can be, or to be given a "percentage" rule. For example: you can redraw up to "80 ~ 85%" of the base.
That sounds really wonderful, Xalix