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
@MOD-Lupin Thanks for letting me know! O: There was nothing that said you could not use HP potions if you where not set to active! They only just loaded forever so I though it was a bug!
"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"
*'Are You Ready For A Miracle' starts playing.*
But seriously though I've noticed these small little updates when they popped up and have been absolutely happy with each one. Keep up the good work m8s.
Awesome, the paintie rules update clears up a few things I was wondering about! Although I find the resizing rule somewhat stiffling (that it must be resized from the base download size w/o height alterations) because it makes adding horns or antlers on painties a lot more difficult. Not much space for elk antlers on the ferret base, for example. And putting horns on critters that don't usually have them is a pretty popular modification.
Thanks for making the game 20% cooler... and cuter :3
When beta is over, what will get reset? Will dollars roll-over?
Thank you for all the hard work you're doing! I checked through the new paintie rules before submitting a paintie just now and they look very good indeed. Also, thank you so much for allowing us to use potions and other stuff on non-active villagers, it's a super-appreciated change~
Can we get a button to take back our items that were sent in for repair but the user is ignoring?
I have a villager called Scarecrow; would I be allowed to give him a paintie that resembles someone dressing as a scarecrow (sack on head, pointy hat, etc) or would that be too much like the Batman character Scarecrow? Can Hatter wear a hat with 10/6 on it or is that against the rules? (Alice In Wonderland might be in public domain, I need to check...)
I'm glad that they're fixed the flipping rule. It was infuriating to get a paintie rejected then watch as a dozen others got accepted that were also flipped. A little piffed that I lost 100FD when I decided to submit GIl unflipped only for the rules to be fixed right after THAT one was accepted though. Shouldn't have had to spend 200FD because the mods couldn't get on the same page.
One quick question about paintie rules: what if we are editing rare breed traits onto another rare breed? Like if I were to put something from the gembond base onto a Dutch Angel. Would that be okay because they are both classified as rare breeds?
Awesome updates! Thanks FV staff for being on the ball~