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
Kijame I was thinking that it might be useful if there were some kind of alert if a mod/admin posted but then I thought that might be difficult and also lead to cluttering if/when they became more active about answering directly.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not cut out for this beta business. I mean it's fun but all the changes can be a little exhausting. Ah well. I think it'll be worth it in the long run.
Gwennafran To be honest, due to the current costume limitations I pondered potioning my panther into a small cat just so she can wear a costume... I am as of yet undecided though.
Kijame
I really would want to put the diver bonus on my warrior/blacksmith raptor for that bonus. I like her species too much, though.
Gwennafran I find the Pirate Costume far more enticing than the Aquatic one myself, bonuses and looks.
Mutiny a compromise would be for the last page of comments to be displayed first so you can work your way up. But let's say staff had given us 'word of god' on any one topic in the comments, we'd have to go digging each time to find the new page it's on to show it to people (with the current).
Holone
I'm not personally too upset, as I honestly put the aquatic costume on two of my villagers because of "aquatic" rather than "bonus". In fact, the villager that really could have used the bonus, doesn't even have the costume, as I wan't him to be a pretty unicorn. ;)
But it probably did add to the aquatic costume's already huge popularity that it had such a nice bonus combo. So this is going to hit Oceandome overall on sales (I can almost hear all the other regions roll their eyes at that complain. Yes... I know. Oceandome lucked out on their Aquatic Costume. ;P ).
Kijame I like Newest to Oldest for convenience on checking for well, new posts. But when you're going through lots of pages it's not great because you either have to read in reverse or risk missing comments. Personally, what I'd like most is just being able to display more comments at once. Even just 20 per page would make things so much simpler.
My crafted items aren't worth jack now D: ... does anyone have a reliable FC-maker suggestion... I have QP construction worker & blacksmith...
Gwennafran That's...Very reasonable. Not everything I'd like but certainly better, thank you. I guess sometimes I don't think of more obvious answers. :P
WhatAmI Yeah I feel like it existing should have been a news post, since I only clicked on it initially because I was confused as to why there was a new floating button? Anyway, it's no problem. Being hopelessly confused is no fun, I can attest to that. It's good to share what knowledge you can/answer questions if you're able so that everyone can have more fun with the game. :)
Ohhh just logged in after a couple days and saw the nerf on Construction Worker botany pots...right in the gut, FV! (I mean yes it makes sense but it also causes me pain haha.)