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!
Whoopee! Thanks so much Furvilla! <3
I legit do enjoy the shifty option, since peopl can start making their own closed species/making bases for ones that already exist, but with how powerful it is....it almost feels like it should be something in the FD marketplace. I'm legit losing my wording here, sorry, otherwise I would explain more into it.
To add more since I'm still thinking, this does feel a bit weird to be unique to one village when it's such a strong potion. The others are limited to one species, and this is an anything and everything potion. I've got friends in TigerEye who can make it for me, sure, but for people who don't these are probably going to stay awfully expensive and higher than other potions.
But don't get me wrong, I definitely think the villages without a unique species need something! And something cool, since they haven't had one for a while. But maybe not something this powerful.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Hunh, personally I would've added the ability to make a character whatever you want as a cash option but hey, this way it's very accessible!
I am a little thrown off now though, since I was going to edit a rare species base to try and make it into my species as they were the closest to my own, but was worried that my species would be too different and be rejected. But now with the shifty I do not have to worry about too many changes, but does this mean I will have to use a regular species base instead of a rare species base? Since I don't plan on having the painties made from scratch.
I cant believe tigereye asks for a cool species like everyone else and you give us a freaking Ditto.
On Rule #1, does this mean the outfit can't be modified at all? :( I wanted to give some of mine costumes (for effects or certain under things), but wanted to give them new outfits...
On Rule 2, that wasn't there before and the painties are already uploaded... They should at least get their money back since they didn't know about that and wouldn't have wasted their time and their money.
But Everything else I believe I am okay with :) I am very happy about the new morphing potions.
Are those of us who bought a Gembound potion going to get a "free" color reset at the Alchemist? ("Free" as in "still costs 5k FC, but you don't need to spend another $20 worth of FD just to get the color you want.") Don't get me wrong, I love my Gembound villager, but I was hoping for a different color when I grabbed the potion.
I'm glad to see a special potion for Tigereye Peak, but tbh, I don't think the shifty is the right option. The other villages have special species that match the thematic feel of their village, and we get a blob.