More Forum Avatars!

[Maldini]

I'm really getting sick of these old things.

Perhaps you can offer special avatars for people who have been registered over a year, and again after a year and a half.

Since you won't let us upload our own, I figured this would be some sort of a compromise.

[Merlask]

Yep, more avatars ftw. I don't even like the one I have, I just kinda went with it because it's a TEENSY bit like one of my chars. that and I got tired of being called a guy all the time ^^

[Maldini]

Yep, more avatars ftw. I don't even like the one I have, I just kinda went with it because it's a TEENSY bit like one of my chars. that and I got tired of being called a guy all the time ^^

Hahaha, poor Merlask.

[Rouge]

What would be really neat is if there was a way to make a forum icon from your character's Focus Orb in game..... click on yourself and activate something in game like the screen shot but not..... and then you have a personalized self character portrait. Each User name can have only one at any given time so if you do it again your old one goes away.

[MysticTheurge]

I made a bunch of Avatars for the Wizards boards from all the eberron artwork.

They're smaller (90x90), but if you guys worked it out with them so we could actually use them over here, I'd be happy to make bigger versions.

[Cowdenicus]

or maybe more quests.

uhm nevermind.

[MysticTheurge]

or maybe more quests.

uhm nevermind.

Entirely different people would work on these things.

[Maldini]

Entirely different people would work on these things.

It's amazing how people don't understand the concept of different departments in the computer gaming industry.

[Uska]

I dont belive it something we can agree on really getting bored with the choices we have for that and this is really something that would take almost no time to add.

[Maldini]

I dont belive it something we can agree on really getting bored with the choices we have for that and this is really something that would take almost no time to add.

Don't tell anyone we agreed on something okay? It's bad for my rep.

[Cowdenicus]

Entirely different people would work on these things.

True, but is this something that is going to improve the game, I could argue no to that.

Hey instead of cutsie little avatars, why dont they have a programmer add in content, ot global chat channels or crafting, or work on art for new races or I dunno, about a thousand things that would add VALUE to the game, as opposed to a pic by a name on the forums.

[Ziggy]

I like the idea codemasters has. You need to upload the avatar first, and someone needs to approve it, before you can use it.

[Cowdenicus]

I like the idea codemasters has. You need to upload the avatar first, and someone needs to approve it, before you can use it.

I could be cool with that. Not like that big green slimy thing has anything else to do.

P.S. Purple cubes > green cubes.

[MysticTheurge]

True, but is this something that is going to improve the game, I could argue no to that.

Hey instead of cutsie little avatars, why dont they have a programmer add in content, ot global chat channels or crafting, or work on art for new races or I dunno, about a thousand things that would add VALUE to the game, as opposed to a pic by a name on the forums.

Ok look. There are (at least) two groups of people being discussed here.

The first, the game devs, work on the game and do ALL the things you mention in the second paragraph except make avatars.

The other, CS and/or the website maintenance people/person, would be the person responsible for making avatars and CANNOT do any of the things you mention in your second paragraph except make avatars.

I said, "There are two different groups of people and the ones that can make avatars can't improve gameplay." You said, to paraphrase "True, but... the people in question shouldn't make avatars they should improve gameplay!!" I'm just not sure how that makes any sense.

[Uska]

True, but is this something that is going to improve the game, I could argue no to that.

Hey instead of cutsie little avatars, why dont they have a programmer add in content, ot global chat channels or crafting, or work on art for new races or I dunno, about a thousand things that would add VALUE to the game, as opposed to a pic by a name on the forums.

adding avatars would be the work of fourm moderaters which would be different people and would take like what just a few minutes? as opossed to content which takes much longer. Why cant we have both?

[Coldin]

Well, assuming that the same people who would be adding more avatars are the same people that are responsible for the Character Signatures and PvP leaderboard, I'd rather have them fix those 2 things before they add more avatars.

But considering how many problems they are having putting those features into working conditions, I suppose having a few new avatars would at least be something. Of course they should add some new ones for Founders as well, seeing how long we've been around.

[MysticTheurge]

Well, assuming that the same people who would be adding more avatars are the same people that are responsible for the Character Signatures and PvP leaderboard, I'd rather have them fix those 2 things before they add more avatars.

I think they're not. It's pretty clear that the forum half of those two things are/were working. It's the synching up with the actual game that's the problem (and was causing massive game and forum lag). I'd wager it's not something the website people can just sit down and do by themselves (which avatars would be).

[Merlask]

that and we USED to get avatars periodically... like when Drow came to town. Maybe some half-orc options? Something.

[Maldini]

True, but is this something that is going to improve the game, I could argue no to that.

Hey instead of cutsie little avatars, why dont they have a programmer add in content, ot global chat channels or crafting, or work on art for new races or I dunno, about a thousand things that would add VALUE to the game, as opposed to a pic by a name on the forums.

Doesn't matter if it improves the game or not. They have website people that are unrelated to what game devs do. You're comparing apples to oranges. It's a QoL thing.

[DaGSO]

It's amazing how people don't understand the concept of different departments in the computer gaming industry.

You mean a program that big has different people working on different parts......next thing you will say is there are people that wortking on billing systems, order entry, logistics, sales reporting systems in the real world....Hee hee hee I work in IT for a company and have worked on large MRP packages so I know.