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Poll: Which avatar ideas do you like? (14 member(s) have cast votes)

Which avatar ideas do you like?

  1. Avatar changer only (1 votes [6.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.67%

  2. Avatar banner only (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. mini-Avatar only (2 votes [13.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.33%

  4. BOTH the changer and banner! (5 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  5. BOTH the changer and mini-Avatar! (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. NONE.. this is ridiculous.. the player page looks fine as it is! (7 votes [46.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 46.67%

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#1 fs_giggsy

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Posted 11 July 2008 - 15:29

I have some ideas that would work as gold/fsp sinks for the game and let avatar dorks have some more fun. I have 3 ideas in all that are related. Each of these would cost users gold and/or fsp to add these upgrades.

1) automatic AVATAR CHANGER allowing mutliple avatars that get rotated. Allow users to buy the ability to have a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th avatar to display in the normal 200x200 avatar spot. Basically, if they had more than 1 avatar, they would automatically rotate allowing a player to use more than 1. There may be a way to code this is a way it wouldn't have a performance impact and could show a different avatar each click/refresh of the page. Each refresh would go to a different URL to get the photo perhaps. If this isn't easily achievable, then the players avatar could rotate less often, perhaps on each log on, or at the same time their bank resets.

Ideas 2 and 3 are kinda mutually exclusive.. implementing one would make the other not make much sense due to room on the page.

2) a player AVATAR BANNER. A player could make a banner that is 600 or 500 pixels wide and 100 or 80 tall. It would still be a graphic, but players could add text to make a nice advertisement for buff prices or something. Lots of creative users, I'm sure it would get used by some, and as an upgrade would help sink fsp or gold.

3) add a mini-Avatar. If the banner seems too big, just allow a second avatar for players, with the dimensions of 100x100 pixels. Would look good on the right of the player name above their bio.

Also, you could extend these ideas as a guild upgrade too, to allow a guild to have a banner or have an avatar changer, but I'd rather see it for players first.

And here are some graphics to demonstrate how the sizing would fit on the page.



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#2 fs_zman22180

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Posted 11 July 2008 - 21:42

CHYEA!!! More of my avis to show!!

#3 fs_thristle

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Posted 11 July 2008 - 22:11

no option for all? :cry:

#4 fs_badjoe

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Posted 11 July 2008 - 22:13

i want both idea :( !!

#5 fs_thristle

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Posted 11 July 2008 - 22:15

i want all the ideas :( !!

*fixed* :wink:

#6 fs_angiefc

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 03:06

I like the idea but I'm curiouse the bandwidth and data load that will add to the servers. How much more memory will be needed to store all those image and what about player page load times. I know it's not much if you have cable but considering the number of players ... who knows.

#7 Willoughby

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 10:13

To be honest this is very, very, unlikely to happen, mostly for the reasons that AngieFC has raised.

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That's how long I've been waiting for this game.


#8 fs_evillove

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 18:49

It's a nice idea.

Though I don't want game-playing to run slower, if you change your avatar more often, then you can let people see more of your avatars.

Other than that, I think there doesn't need to be any change, besides there may be some people with Dial-up, and won't be happy if the load is greater than normal.

#9 fs_giggsy

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 20:11

To be honest this is very, very, unlikely to happen, mostly for the reasons that AngieFC has raised.


I think the avatar changer idea is the best, but don't you think there could be a way to code it without adding to server load? just find a way to rotate the link that the current avatar points to. For instance the link to my current avatar is http://66.7.192.165/....jpg?1216757197

214188 is my player number.. is the other a sequence number? so that if I were to upload a new image, it would have a different number at the end? Then you'd just need to rotate the link, perhaps once a day at a given time, or when banks reset, so that it would change and point to another link if the user had spent fsp on this upgrade.

The main reason I think this would be great is that I know users that have 20 avatars or so, and they manually rotate them.. so perhaps there is even extra server load from people constantly changing them, and this way they wouldn't have to do that

#10 fs_evillove

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 20:18

In all honesty Giggsy I don't know how much of a server load this would cause.

What I do know is that if it does cause extra Server load this wouldn't be very good, however what I do know is that I don't need this. But it is a nice idea if there aren't any consequences, though in the end you can manually change them....I doubt you would be changing them very often.

Possibly at the very most two or three times a day, if you're testing out different avatars, likely that would only happen once in a while. Plus, I haven;'t changed mine in a couple of weeks lmao. O.o

#11 fs_onemember

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 20:31

1. No
2. No
3. No

#12 fs_evillove

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 21:05

1. No
2. No
3. No


I think that'll be my choice really....O.o Lol.

Yush, nope/

#13 cyrus7

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 23:10

No, especially not with the "Banner Ad" because that would look too much like well... banner ads! I like this site being ad-free!

I say no to all.

#14 fs_angiefc

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 23:38

the ONLY "ads" I would like to see on this sight might be rather comical ones, like on the main page ... things to do with the game that come up at random...

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Ad for Mercs

[picture image of several well armed people]
[Text in picture]
"Having trouble with a monster, guild too weak to go it alone. Let one of our mercs help you. Available under Guild Management screen."
[below picture]
Results may very. This ad in no way guarantees that the merc you find may indeed be able to help you in any way shape or form

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Ad for the AH

[Picture image 1 ... random low level items]
[Text]
Ready to get rid of your old gear?
[Picture image 2 ... generic 'player' holding items near a trash can like thing]
[Text]
Too valuable to just throw away?
[Picture Image 1 again]
Fade to
[Picture Image 3 ... Gold coins & FSP]
[text]
Visit the Auction House

Turn those items into gold

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Ad for Guilds

[Picture 1 ... generic player surrounded by monsters]
[text]
Tired of going it alone?

Monsters lurking Everywhere?

Maybe you need some help?
[Picture 2 ... two or three more generic players with weapons drawn]
Guilds might just be that help.

(okay that one is kinda lame)

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Anyway there's some random laughs from me. I know they are all a bit silly, but eh, sometimes good ideas come from silly notions.


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