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
Angelic-Horror
So no direct copy/paste, but making your own in the style is ok! Thanks for answering!
Azzie ahh okay I misunderstood, I thought the rule was you're not allowed to use that style of wings/other parts lol
ShaunDreclin
You could literally redraw DAD wings and be fine. All they want is for people not to copy and paste the site's DAD wings onto their base.
Azzie
Go ahead, a lot of people want wings so it's good to have multiple artists doing it.
Violetpool
From what I can make sense of, I think you would have to draw your own ram-like horns, and not copy from the Wickerbeast base. The shape is okay, you just can't use anything on the Wickerbeast image.
Yeah a big issue I'm seeing here especially when they add more "rare" species is the list of forbidden body parts is going to get longer and longer until all you're allowed to do is recolor bases :P
I will admit I'm a bit conflicted about this. Personally, I don't see the harm in folks using, as I have, AD wings on their painties or Wickerbeast tails, because other than the position of the parts they are indiscernable from features on basic painties. These I feel should be allowed. However, distinguishing parts like a Gembound's gem, Wickerbeast paws, or Manokit fins are not found on any other species. If they're going to limit parts, I feel that these are the ones that should be limited.
So if I use wickerbeast horns on a fox and edited them to have ridges, would that be ok? or can no-one have that specific style of horns???
Zihette I completely agree with you.
Angelic-Horror y'know what, I think I'm going to do that too if that's okay. Cheap wing removal/additions.
I'll refer people to you first though since you thought of the idea.
Naify Are you kidding? I bought painties before I made my own and both were from different people and they both used wings clipped from other painties. Painties aren't some masterful work of art. It was encouraged to splice parts together from other painties. It's hard to draw and mimic the painterly style and level of detail that the site uses, and I frankly would've been annoyed if I'd gotten back a paintie with wings that didn't match the site's style. Clipping wings isn't unheard of at all.
Naify But can you, as a a commissioned artist, make wings that match the style of the site, and are the size and shape that the commissioner wants? It's hard to find someone who can match another persons style.