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 probably from the same place the strip paintie option came from, since a paintie stays even when you change species/add a costume. I'd assume it's probably for those sorts of reasons
"Items in search are now ordered alphabetically."
I kinda liked them sorted by ID because that way at once glance you could see which pet colouration is rarer or which the rare seeds of a village are XD
Gwennafran but given how much work goes into getting a costume it still seems crazy to want to take the costume off to then make a paintie for the base form (and if that was the reason behind it there'd be no need to let villager colours be chosen since paintie is gonna override the looks anyways). I'm just wondering where this idea as a whole is coming from. Can we 'strip' species potions next? XD
I feel the costume bit is a tad bit unfair especially if someone would like to use different costumes. Like I am working on a reaper but I would like a were costume as well, sometimes I like to switch out things depending on the mood or if I am role playing. Like I can understand the buff bit but maybe have like a time thing added like with the jobs? You can't use the buffs on the costume after switching for 24 hours.
I hope I made sense cause my English is not all that great ;-;
As beta testers its our job to find the flaws of the system and theirs to fix them. And if power leveling with pots was not wanted, well then it got fixed ^^
Kijame
I think I've seen it said, that you can't put on a costume, and then make a paintie not on the costume base. So some might want to take it off for a paintie. I think...
yakerisu
I'd say we did something right. ;)
They are rebalancing the stats, after seeing how they work from all the active players using them.
"It is now possible to strip villager costumes from their profile. You will not be refunded the costume, and the villager will lose all costume buffs, but you will be allowed to select any natural color for the villager to replace the costume."
So what's the point of stripping a costume if you don't get it back XD I mean I get wanting to avoid abuse of costume buffs or or something, but... why XD Can costumes not be overriden with potions if for whatever reason you get tired of them? XD
Azzie
I agree, houses just take so long its gonna take forever to get back where I was
Ooooh, new costume updates.
Still would be really nice, if you could put a costume on a villager, even if there's no art for them yet. So you could get the bonuses, and then the art would show up, once it was done.