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
Seraph The rules have already specified that you cannot cut out parts of rare species. The only option is to draw them of your own or pay someone. In the end painties are a small luxury in the site, not a basic need. It's always good to try to see what you can come up with and practice!
Amber
I just think there's bigger issues then people not being able to put one specific set of wings onto their wolf.
Again, you can draw different wings/commission someone to, use a premade base or wings from a different animal.
Azzie Here's how: take the wings, erase the actual dragon, shrink them, place them under the horse. Done. A pair of wings that matches the site's style and is large enough for the horse to actually fly. Every single one of my painties are horses with DAD wings because their actual wings are that big. Gryphon wings are too small and don't look right on them.
Azzie Yes, let me just learn how to draw in a day, it's that simple, right! It's not that hard to look up a simple tutorial for PS or SAI. It doesn't take skill to copy a paste a body part from one base to another.
I suppose I should throw my two cents in.
The way I see it, if you use the Dutch AD wings on a wolf, it's still a wolf. That doesn't change. If you saw, in real life, a dog with dragon wings, it would still be a dog with dragon wings, not a dragon that looks like a dog except for the wings. The base species isn't changed. They're not claiming to be a Wickerbeast if they use the Wickerbeast tail. A basic wolf is not a rare species, no matter if you add wings on it. Even if you added raptor wings, it's a wolf with raptor wings.
For CSS, maybe it would be easier to allow a version where it's not enabled, so you can see the original page? That way people can disable what they want but it's still visible if you use a 'revert CSS' option/button that's the only mandatory button to have.
And besides, why were we allowed to disable them in the first place??
Seraph Idk, learn. If you can somehow make a pair of DAD wings on a horse look normal without any drawing skills then I'm surprised. I don't understand why people are so upset about it. I don't think you should be allowed to use anything from the other bases at all.
Thanks for clarifying and for responding to users feedback!
Gluttonace
I havnt been able to get to emails yet. I get working on them and process everything as soon as I can. Please be patient
Azzie And what about us who cannot draw or afford to pay others?
@MOD-Deinmaar I was referring to the amount of them that were on the site (if there are a lot of things, it isn't "rare" in quantity), not the 'rarity' of the potion. I understood that.