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
Kitty They're lower than the weapons I'm using right now, which take about 100 steel and 100 minutes per item. Given the new recipe it may just be cheaper and less time consuming to construct a bunch of spares and go to town on monsters.
So someone just showed me a screenie from their paintie rejections and it seems it literally got rejected the minute it was uploaded? Either that rejection timestamp is bugged or the mods didn't waste any time looking at it XD
Gwennafran Can you tell me how difficult it is to repair Narwhal Spears? I just discovered their use to get rid of common mobs (I don't have to run and get diseases again, yay!) but their durability is going to be hell to restore, right? :/
I guess its a small path between being too strict and too liberal with those painties. I can understand that the orginal artist of the pets here want to keep some of their original work and not have that changed too much. 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.
Would be nice if you could appeal rejected painties instead of mindlessly resubmitting but I guess the only way would be to screenie and file a ticket?
The Painties ARE the main attraction on the site and if they're going to be really strict about it so people are unable to make their OCs or Sonas, then people are just going to leave. I'm sure people already have after he painties removal phase.
Gwennafran The issue with the face is that this particular character literally has no face--it's rotted away. Thus, the mask, which is meant to be creepy and is set in its design. I knew this about faces, however--that's why I specifically chose the Spooky Cat and spent a day grinding for the costume, selling all my items, and even spending FD for Toothy Tokens, That way, I figured, I wouldn't have to change much at all as the Spooky Cat has a hooded outfit similar to Millie's canon outfit, thus raising my chances of Paintie approval. All I changed was the removal of cat parts, the addition of a bird, and the alteration of the detailing on the fabric. Beyond that, she is an exact trace of the original base.
The game's flaws can be explained and rectified for it being beta and they have been great about listening to feedback, but I'm honestly afraid to commission painties now if it means I pay for something that isn't allowed to be used because someone had a bad day at the paintie line-up. I really want a few painties. ;w;
I mean I'm sure a lot of the mods are doing a great job but lately the paintie sea is getting super salty from what I can see and it seems like it might become an explosive subject to boot. D: Even though painties are part of what would make FV more awesome than most pet collection sites due to the option to express yourself freely. Or so I thought.
On painties, as far as I can tell, especially for remakes making everything from scratch, it's super important to keep a large part of the original face.
And I saw a gourgeuos featherless velocireptor repaint, that got rejected because they change the arm pose (very obviously). While this can be done on base edits, it looks like it's a big no no on repaints where most of the lines doesn't quite follow the original.
Kijame I saw that, yeah! Makes me want to put my last three on hold because I really don't want to deal with this again. My dragon is based on a hybrid character and I'm sure I'll have issues with him even though his current progress really only alters the face and tail... My gryphon likely wouldn't give me trouble, but then...I thought the same about Milagros, so...here we are.