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
At this point it looks like we just need to get forums up so people can do commissions/freebies. For being so new, I've seen too much drama on this site already, by gosh I feel sorry for staff and everyone. Day 1 up til now.
I'm done checking up on this though, it'd be awesome if mentioning actually notified those but it doesn't.
And may I add to everything I said, why not just let the community of FurVilla help vote on certain rules? You can obviously tell that everyone is unhappy with the new paintie rules.
I honestly just liked the pose of the Galaxy wolf more than the pose of the Mythic and the bland pose of the normal wolf.
It fit my character's personality better is all.
So I used the Galaxy wolf body on my Mythic wolf's head.
I don't really understand why it's not allowed for something so simple..I mean, all I technically did was change the pose.
It's still a wolf.
charmeleon Yeah, we're breaking the rules for something we did before a rule was implemented. That's what I'm upset about. If this rule had been put forth when painties were first accepted, I would've been a-okay with it and not used the DAD wings at all. But I've made six painties already with them, and it's frustrating that staff didn't think to tell us this rule beforehand.
charmeleon Oi, who is getting mad? Everyone keeps responding to mine and his comments with the same argument over and over. That is why I'm repeating myself.
I highly appreciate the new additions to the TOS and rules, and for the most part the Paintie rules are all good. Though, I think if the players where given personalized messages to tell them exactly how to fix the Paintie, that would be cool.
Mutiny No one is acting like their rights were violated??? People are allowed to complain about rule changes, I don't ??? And it IS unreasonable to say something is totally fine then turn around the next day and go "jk guys!!! it's not acceptable now and all the thousands of you are now shit out of luck, sorry goodbye!"
Can you guys please undo the absolutely unnecessary alphabetization of villagers in the sidebar, or allow us to customize the order ourselves? I made my villagers in a specific order for a reason and having them ordered that way was important. Its thrown me off to have them all out of order.
Well this update was awesome! Thank you for not having us change our "Main" villagers in order to do things~ (And all the other small things, they're a big help in the long run.)
I was really surprised at how much you can get away with on Painties, so I'm glad the do's and don'ts have been clarified. :)
Also, to point out, if we seriously have to buy a potion to just get the part. I'm out. That's not only me loosing 20,000 fur coins of hard work, that's also me loosing $5 just to achieve 500 furdollars, and not only just to be able to get my paintie declined because "its the wrong base". I don't know about you, but I would seriously quit the game.