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
Gwennafran For Verne, Alvadera. and Mango, I worked from the original base, yeah, but style matching especially on fluff and feathers turned out to be really, really tedious, so starting with Navy I opted to trace instead, matching as closely as possible to the style without having to actually blend into existing shading. Millie I redrew only because all those mouths and stitches seemed like royal heck to blend out, and I wanted her shading to have a higher contrast.
Dunno what I'll do with the rest, assuming I do them. They're started, but I've lost all will to continue them for now.
Kitty
I'll get you a schema and send you a spare spear so you don't have to wait for the first one.
To bring in a German saying, mayhaps that is where the spirits part. Some mods instantly reject redraws because they clearly do not use the base file provided and are instead 'from scratch' while others accept it, provided the original species and pose are still visibly there.
SeaSnek
Gah, you're right! This solves all my problems. No more running from common mobs, why did I never use these before... Would anyone be kind enough to buy the Narwhal Spear Schema for me? I'll send over the FC needed :)
Kitty
Unless they've changed it, Narwhal Horn is approximately 2 steel and 2 minutes to repair per durability point.
This means you can make a basic Narwhal Spear at 100/100 for 1200 FC, if you get everything at lowest value. But it'd be 2000 FC worth of steel to repair it with your own blacksmith.
Charien "But on the other side Furvilla is making tons of money with painties so if they want to keep shoving the money, they would need to allow more freedom with the painties."
Until this happened, I honestly had the gold FD trophy as a goal to achieve buying FD whenever I ran out. Right now? I'm not buying any more, period. If this is rectified? Cool, everything can go back to where it was.
If not? FV will keep losing users, and it's sad that it has to be over something this silly. I really hope it doesn't come to that, because I do like this site and want to stay.
The majority of problems I've seen so far has been with total repaints, though. If you work from the original base digitally, you seem to be a lot more safe. Definitively something to keep in mind.
But then, I'm from Aywas. The fact that Furvilla even allow repaints that doesn't 100% follow the original lines - for the same price as a basic recolour - are pretty mind blowing for me. XD
Appeals would be helpful. I'm really getting sick of the sentence 'This does not match the base of the villager it overlays.' The first time it happened I actually cried a little because I was not expecting it in the slightest after my more heavily edited hippocampus got accepted the same night. I figured if she got through (and I was worried even though I'd gotten approval before ever lining her), then Millie would be accepted without a doubt because she's such a close match. Now I'm mostly frustrated, but still very upset, yeah.
Honestly? This does make me consider quitting, because the Painties are the main draw of the site for me, and if Verne can't have his mom as a fellow Villager, what's the point?
Jsjfjjdjd mobile furvilla sucks. Itd be 100% better if mods actually told you what was wrong rather than "This does not fit the default villager base" or w/e
Isn´t it 2 steel per durability point or something to repair?