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
Oh this is good! I like the changes that you've brought in, they only continue to improve the website further! Just looking forward to getting the forum and chat back now.
Looks pretty straightforward to me. And pretty fair from my point of view.
To the person/people who were upset about the "no frankendolling rares to regulars" think about this... Say you'd worked your tail off for a super rare special limited edition creature, and then saw somebody else with the same thing only They hadn't done anything to earn it... Would You be happy with the people that Allowed it to happen? No. You wouldn't, if you were being honest with yourself. You'd be super p.o.'ed that the admins had allowed that person to just trot off with something you spent hard earned Real money and effort on to get.
So, yes, it Does undermine things to allow it.
Long term, entire game community verses what a single or small group of players want. That's what this is about. We're in Beta. Which means this is Exactly what the people making this have to watch out for and make Sensible decisions to adjust for.
To the powers that be: Glad to see you're still being consistent about getting things sorted quickly and fairly efficiently. That bodes well for your site's future. I know it's exhausting keeping up such a pace, but it will pay off in the long run if you can manage it. Good luck.
@MOD-Poltergeist Seeing as the side bar has to stay, can it be moved or does it have to stay strictly on the right side? For example, I like to have my profiles centered so I would need to move the side bar to, most likely, the bottom.
@MOD-Deinmaar
wait so...does that mean the three markings Mama Telephone has been fighting to keep sacred/closed are allowed on here despite the ring around the nose being an important part of the Dutch AD lore?
I'm making a paintie for a fennec fox, is it okay to use the open paw from the mystic fox base? (It's just the paw that i'd be borrowing, no clothing or anything)
and what about slight differences in poses? Am I allowed to edit that fennec fox base so one arm is outstretched?
BlueRocketMouse
I have the exact same question about the costume bit. I love the costumes but I may wanna use some of the default base, so I'm hoping that it could be accepted wheeze
But good to know that the new rules are up and going, and have been more clarified. Seems like a wild west sorta situation with the rejections :u
bummer... I hope there will be official support for tiny characters in the future! I don't think I will bother with a paintie for my tiny dragon until then.
I like all the changes you made!!!! You are doing an awesome job!!!!! :)
@MOD-Deinmaar
Ah, thank you for the clarification! I wasn't sure if we still had to follow species rules or not.
Hawkfeather
Oh I like that idea! Could even be player-submitted if our artist is too busy to create multiple arts for each set? We have plenty of talented artists here