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
Verne same issue "not recognizable" maybe you need glasses? I traced the base, I tried to make it exact to the base while alsp trying to make my OC off it. I'm TRYING to follow the rules but you're the one stopping me.
Well at least that's more of an explanation than most people get. They only receive a copy pasted "This does not match the base of the villager it overlays" and that's it XD
But yeah I'm with you, Verne . As far as the rules go, your base is still recognizeable and all major edits were within the guideline that the spooky costume does not exist for the type of animal you want to see in it.
I've seen PLENTY of painties with completely altered faces, including--wait for it--my own Verne. Right there, in my avatar. I reworked his entire skull shape, not just his beak, repositioned things, changed his feet, his tail, and even the number of primary feathers he has, and he was literally accepted the SECOND I submitted him and proceeded to sit as most recent for several hours.
All I ask is a little consistency. That's what's so frustrating.
Rip Furvilla. With all 10 of my villages now painted I don't have anymore goals?? I'm already starting to get bored, same with FR also with FR, making skins is like 200% more expensive than here.
It looks normal to me! I'm a bit distracted, though, admittedly!
"the ears and tail need to come back for this to be recognizable and passable." is what I was told about my non-cat, by the way--you can't seriously tell me she's not recognisable in the exact same pose with the exact same scarf placement and the exact same proportions. I feel almost insulted, in a way...
Sooo they swapped the Monster Knife Damage for the Monster Axe Damage. Guess who'd sold all their axes because knives were doing more damage... (And the knives were grindier to make, so...)
Verne don't blame you, if my v5 of Ishia had gotten rejected I planned on submitting the shittiest recolour in the history of shitty recolours. I already submitted memes and that got rejected for "copyright" (though i assume they said that just cause they didn't want it through etc)
Gwennafran
Savings! Savings everywhere! I'll keep this in mind, thank you for the tip :)
And as for painties, I come from FR where the original lineart and shadows must BOTH be preserved, and edits to the base cannot exceed the boundaries of the base itself... so many awkward looking clothes. FurVilla is overly generous by comparison. What they ask if to keep the face area largely unaltered, and that identifying anatomical features to be preserved.
Wait, nevermind. My bad. I was looking at all the symbols for the people they were pinging.
Whops.
WTF? Looks like there's a programmer playing with something right now. Everyone got the wrong region symbols next to them. XD