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
If a Paintie gets rejected, does it still spend the furdollars?
I seriously just spent HOURS giving my WIP paintie edited in Wickerbeast paws as they most closely match his big ol' monster paws.
And now I can't submit it because it breaches paintie rules....
I don't have the skill to draw those paws onto a paintie base to get the same effect
Has anyone received a reply from Furvilla Support yet? I sent an email to them about a concern and they haven't responded. I figured that it was because they got a lot of emails, but this article implies that they have been reading emails.
I don't want to rush them, I just would like to know if they even got it or acknowledged it...
Choromatsu they were all offered the chance to simply replace their Paintie by emailing me at [email protected] for no extra fee. Also, we did not put a warning on any of the "rare species/costume parts" "violations" since this hadn't been posted yet. We simply sent a message.
I almost accidentally unlearned several medicines because the button was right under the craft recipe button. Noticed last night that issue was fixed and the buttons got spaced far apart. Thank you for that! Also regarding doctors/illnesses can we maybe have vaccines added to their recipe lists? So we can try to avoid illnesses to begin with instead of dealing with them after getting sick. Potency can determine how effective it is and how long it works.
- 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
Thank you so much for this!
will people who had painties removed before these rules were clarified be able to get a refund of FD? itd be kinda nice considering it was very vague until now and im kinda bummed to lose $2 for something that really wasnt my fault >_____>;
Ahhh! Thank you for the update on the rules, and I love all the little QoL changes you guys are making. This is one of the best staff teams I have ever seen!
So if the galaxy costume is a thing, can we still upload painties of galaxy styles/colored villagers that DON'T use the galaxy costume parts? Cause I have a galaxy bat that's awaiting approval, but there currently isn't a galaxy costume for bats!
Hooray for updates! Is there an ETA for when the forums will return? :)