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
Wait... why can't we hide the "Gender" option on profiles?
It doesn't do anything. It's just there for decoration.
And you can leave it "unspecified," so if that's an option, why can't we hide it, or better turn it off?
I would prefer it not to show than to have "Unspecified."
It is not like join date, user ID or village, it does not effect the game.
I @ the wrong person gosh darnit. I meant Seraph oops.
Sneakadink
Glad to see I'm not the only one wondering about this, though I think my comment was drowned out by the debate, lol
Naify I will say I completely think FD should be refunded rather than having us submit a new one in place of the old paintie. I dunno what you can do about commissioned painties, though.
JamesEatsPlayDoh I am aware that it affects many users who have submited their painties with clipped parts. However in my opinion it was bound to happen on a beta version and the re-edits are completely free for the people affected. That's all I am aware the staff is doing for now, sorry if I in anyway dismissed anyone.
Naify I think voicing my opinion right here is just as fine. If you don't know what's going on, why did you message me about my comments in the first place...? And thanks, I guess.
Ahh thanks for the update on the breasts as a majority of my characters are female and have obvious breasts but are never made in a fetishy way so I was kinda miffed when I figured out bare breasts in general weren't allowed before. Also the updates in general are nice glad to see this site improving so quick^^
Seraph I think in this part you should voice your opinion directly to the mods, as I am honestly clueless to what's going on with the number of comments in the news. I apologize if I seemed rude in anyway, I tend to get really nervous and I don't mean to start fights, just trying to help out. I hope your concerns are solved by the staff soon!
Naify The problem is that they've already accepted dozens (hundreds?) of painties that had rare parts spliced one. These painties were PAID FOR with REAL LIFE currency. It isn't okay to make people pay for something, and then say it's against the rules a few days later.
ShaunDreclin That's true too lmao