New Species and More
Posted by Mat on 20 Jul 2016, 3:59 pm
Greetings, villagers! Furvilla has been joined by a new species: the Shifty! This is a new rare species that can be crafted out of Tigereye Peak, and brings with it a large change to the Paintie System. Because canonically the Shifty can mimic the appearance of anything it sees, Painties for the Shifty have a large range of artist freedom and do not require the use of a Furvilla base.
The full rules for the Shifty can be read by visiting the Paintie Rules page.
We have released Morphing Potions for the entirety of species available on Furvilla. The recipes for these potions are stocking in their respective village shops, as all potions have been split up among the villages In addition, an option has been added to the Potions Shop of your village that permits you to pay the shopkeeper to obtain a specific result out of a species potion. For those of you who have been asking for a way around the randomness of a potion, especially as we release new colors for our species, this should definitely help!
In addition, some Paintie Rules have been clarified or amended by the Paintie Admins:
- Rule 1 Amendment: When creating a Paintie for a costume, the Paintie must match the base of the costume.
- Rule 2 Amendment: Species changes allowed on a Furvilla base involve subgroups of animals that are similar to each other, such as deer and goats.
- Rule 2 Amendment (2): Masks are permitted as a head edit.
- Rule 3 Amendment: Players are allowed to use base artwork of Costumes that match the Costume they are designing a Paintie for. For instance, when designing an Aquatic Wolf, players are permitted to use body parts from other Aquatic Costumes, provided they are not a costume for a rare species (which does not exist yet).
- Rule 6 Amendment: Rule Six was changed to "Painties May Not Include Prohibited Content" and also clarify that our rules regarding alcohol and drug use apply to Painties as well.
- Rule 6 Amendment (2): Indicates that the Paintie Team reserves the right to reject a Paintie for sexual content even if the specific item is not listed, if the Paintie comes off as sexual.
- Rule 8 Amendment: Players may shrink the base slightly to accommodate edits to the head area of the base, provided that the base is not made smaller than 3/4ths its original size.
Last among the major changes is that we have uncapped the ability to create villagers, though the Villagers page has a steep cost to adding additional villagers. We know that you have wanted to add additional characters to your accounts and hope that this change gives you the freedom to do so, while also providing a good sink for FurCash. We are currently working on capping all careers to a reasonable level so that the unlimited villagers option does not have a detrimental effect on the economy.
Have a great day!
Wendigo thank you
Wendigo
Do not need, but ar allowed to use. so if you have a paintie for a regular base..that is getting rejected. You could change them into a shifty, then they will probably pass, as shifty rules are MUCH more loose.
abbacchio
It allows painties like this.
http://www.furvilla.com/villager/147782
and this
http://www.furvilla.com/villager/9515
and this
http://www.furvilla.com/villager/140185
It also lets you have regular villager painties in unique and unusual poses you wouldn't otherwise get by with.
I'm going to be honest I don't really see the point in the Shiftys? I was hoping Tigereye would get its own special species but this feels a bit.....bandaid-y.
I'm sorry I really don't want to come across as whiny or ungrateful but there was already VERY few limitations on painties so a creature whose only feature is "you can make it what you want!" when we already had tons of wiggle room to "make what we want" seems redundant and honestly not that much of a perk?
Again I'm sorry if I'm sounding spoiled or something this just feels a bit off.
For rule ten, the shifty paintie rules, it says "TIP: If your Paintie is rejected for not having followed the base close enough, and you would rather not edit your Paintie to trace our bases closer, you have complete freedom to use this species to upload your Paintie (provided it follows Rule 3, 5, 6, and 7)", yet it's claimed that shifties do not need a base? I am very confused.
PS: I would pay through the nose for custom forum vistas. Just sayin'.
Not entirely sure how I feel about Shifty. It seems like a quick fix for more than a few issues, and while total artistic freedom is something I'd normally be excited about, it kind of defeats the purpose of rare species/costumes. Why bother with any of that when you can make a pet that's literally anything you want it to be? At that point, aren't you essentially done with the game?
That being said, I'm loving how Furvilla's turned out so far. I really appreciate what you've done with the site and I'm interested to see how this turns out!
I have a question about paintie rules! Would I be aloud to have a mommy bunny holding a little baby bunny, or would having two beings in one image be against a rule?
This is all so cool :D YAY No villager limit! Time to work towards getting more of them ^^
FRiv
Actually it seems to be based on the head? Splices are allowed and I've seen some (like I believe a horse lower body on a gryphon base).
i really find this unfair for alchemists in olde foxbury. wickerbeasts, manokits, and DA dragons were made sort of "exclusive" to dragonsmaw manor, oceandome, and quetzal palace, respectively. now, the shifty is made "exclusive" to tigereye peak. i know that olde foxbury alchemists can also make those potions (my alchemist knows how to make wickerbeast potions), but i think to make it fair, olde foxbury should also have its own "exclusive" morphing potion (aside from the fox, red panda, etc.)