New Species and More
Posted by Admin-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!
Well I guess the costume rule kinda seals the deal on not using costumes for me. o-o; The career bonuses they give are nice, but if I'm making painties based on my own OCs, it isn't fitting for them to be say warrior armored or steampunky, by looks alone. I'd only use the costume for the career perks, but now. Eh. Doesn't seem worth it.
This is great for those swimming in FurCash, but as one of the later joiners to the Beta (and one who sadly chose one of the worst places to start out because our weapons and pets largely stink, and our low population means medicines sell for FAR below what they cost to make), I am not. I look at 10,000 FC and think, "That's two costume recipes." That's at least a week of profits (especially with my 2 Animal Husbandry villagers failing 75% of the time), and not something I'll be able to get nearly as quickly as those in more lucrative villages.
I am totally happy!!
Yay for UNLIMITED VILLAGER CHILDREN!<33
i feel like itd make a lot more sense for any town to be able to make shiftys, and tigereye peak to get its specific species as something that suits the area, like the other towns have...? ive been looking forward to getting our own species since we were the only village who didnt have one and this is super underwhelming. :c the idea is cool, the implementation is just... iunno.
I get that tiger eye peak was lacking a species potion like this but it's really not fair for everyone else, especially that this creature can be ANYTHING. I wish it was a potion for everyone or was available for a default character creation option.
curious to see what kinds of things will be accepted with shifty painties...
I am still against the change to rule #1. When I talked to a mod before, he said it was fine to use the base of that species as long as I didnt cut parts out of the costume to put on it. And now I'm not going to be able to use him at all as long as he is wearing a costume? He is going to be taken away from me after all this time? There is literally -no conceivable reason- that a villager wearing a costume should not be able to make use of the original base. I already earned the outfit and I am paying for the paintie- it still says 'warrior' so it wouldn't trick people- and literally no one else would care that I chose to use the regular base instead of the costume base???
Yeah...I think I would add Shiftie potions to all villages. That's total crap that this potion that'll be clearly highly desired will only benefit one village.
I'm so happy tigereye is finally getting it's own rare species!
OH MY GOD THAT SHIFTY IDEA IS EXCELLENT!! I love it! May try it out some day!!