LOTGD AVATARS

[lonestrider]

What do you think about this concept? Would you want small avatars in chat? I might start testing an avatar system on SypELITE in the next couple of days.

[Sneakabout]

The problem would be that the text-only interface is one of the brilliant features of LotGD... *nostalgia* but if it would be done with a toggle it'd be good...

[MightyE]

They'd have to be *very* small avatars to work well (16x16 would be the biggest I think), any larger would present a problem for reading the comment areas.

I don't think I'd be interested in turning this on for lotgd.net, but if you created this, I'd certainly be willing to roll it in to distribution with an admin flag to control it, given that I was confident in the code after a review (no uploading exe's or somehow getting an xss vulnerability, etc).

[neXus]

Personally, I'd hate to see avatars in lotgd, it's not a forum, it's a heavily text based game...
A variation on the idea might be to allow bigger avatars and display these only and only in the bio page, but still, I think it's against the concept of the game.
Technically, a static gallery of avatars controlled by the server admin might be feasible... I'm not aware of the db size normally used by lotgd, but avatars of more than 16x16 size are bound to generate some size problems eventually since they'll probably take up more space than most other ingame things.


Just noticed this, why is this topic in "Bugs" ? it should be moved to Feature requests.

[Mitsuko]

What if they weren't in text, but in the bios? And how they have the bullet-type arrows in the chat areas, what if it was an icon that could only be that big? There wouldn't be much you could do in such a small space, but icons would give them some variety, like symbols of some sort, or even a small clan-crest or something. Just ideas flying around. (Things for icons would be like little blade, stars, moons, different colored gems, etc.)

[lonestrider]

That does sound like the best way to go about it m'lady.

What if they weren't in text, but in the bios? And how they have the bullet-type arrows in the chat areas, what if it was an icon that could only be that big? There wouldn't be much you could do in such a small space, but icons would give them some variety, like symbols of some sort, or even a small clan-crest or something. Just ideas flying around. (Things for icons would be like little blade, stars, moons, different colored gems, etc.)

[Sneakabout]

Especially the fact that you could control which clans have crests - there aren't enough clans to be mush of a storage problem...

[lonestrider]

Especially the fact that you could control which clans have crests - there aren't enough clans to be mush of a storage problem...

Well, storage really isn't that big of a deal to me. 1000 people at 10k max... no problem. More worried about page load times of 1000k, which also isn't horrid but might start to bog down.

We're already playing with graphics and such on one of my test sites, but I'm trying to balance things that won't distract too much before I add it to LegendGard.

Small Clan icons would be a great idea!

[Mitsuko]

Clan crests would also give more room for contests, like a contest of who makes the best crest, or one of the leaders can just make it if they don't have the means for a prize or they don't like the ideas of others.

I'm an avatar freak so anything that let's me show a little picture makes me happy.