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
Azzie No one ignored your posts. If there was a "rule" that was written down, then no one can be held for it. If the staff wanted to enforce the rule early on, they should have rejected all the painties that infringed on that rule, informed everyone, and updated the rules right then and there. Instead of accepting thousands of painities then changing weeks later. It's like a huge kick in the gut lol.
I won't comment on this anymore as it is making me a bit nervous. But I understand everyone's concern and although I do think it's somewhat unfair to the people who already submitted, the staff is trying their best to solve out concerns by allowing free edits. Changing rules is what happens in a beta version, and everyone signed up for that the moment they joined. If you still have concerns about this I think it's better to redirect them directly to the mods.
Seraph While I agree it would be easier to leave them as they are, if the admins/mods want to go through the painties like that, that's their prerogative and it's just something we'll have to deal with.
Azzie You'd get upset if that happened to you, too? Well this is exactly why we're upset! Some of us spent literal HOURS editing painties that are now suddenly illegal. We have honestly the right to be sad/angry over something like this?
To anyone who wants wings on their paintie and is annoyed at the no-splicing-from-AD rule - I may be able to help you put wings on a paintie for cheap. I don't have any paintie examples yet, but I am working on them, and a simple addition like wings won't take much time for me.
Nonstop sorry but if I was commissioned as an artist I wouldn't have used clipped parts in the first place. However if the person did end up using them I'm sure the buyer can talk with them about the new rule and they would be understanding. Otherwise I'm not sure what could be done.
It's a huge inconvince yes and I understand why people are upset about it. I would be too if I had to go and re-hire an artist to fix something that wasn't even on the rulelist.
@TheWibble I think the rules should be left to how they were, instead of combing through thousands of painties and forcing them to be re-done/refunding.
Again guys, let me restate what I just said and most of you ignored.
They had a rule that wasn't on the rulelist. Some people who didn't know that rule existed, which makes perfect sense as it was never mentioned at all, got their painties through. The staff realized they screwed up and no longer will be allowing people to use parts from "rare" species because people had to pay to use those bases, unlike the free ones which anyone is allowed to take parts from. To fix this, they updated the rulelist and clarified what they left out. So now it is against the rules. They are to my knowledge letting people freely resubmit a design that does not break the rules. You didn't lose any money, and this is a risk you took for signing up on a site that does, as Naify I believe said state in the TOS that things will be changed.
Naify I'm sure people who bought paintie commissions are going to love having to track down the makers and possibly have to buy another slot to get their paintie edited.