should fans have avatars?

[Lenric]

I do call it spam when it isnt kept in a certain setting off topic or a single thread. I make sigs I love it .But i dont spam everytime I make one.
The things with the stars Nu sham is simple to understand if someone tells you about it. But what about new arrivals they can see the stars but do they know what they mean.
People with a high amount of posts look important to new people its one of the reasons spammers spam.

[Nu Sham]

well i agree new arrivals wont know exactly what the starts mean, and large amount of messages per person will make them look important, but what does have to do with avatars?

and about the avatar spam - u said it yourself, if its not in the right place, its spam.. well i agree, there should be an off-topic forum where people can talk about what ever, and avatars too, and when this off-topic forum is avilable, then all players who want to should have avatars..
on second thoght, maybe they shouldnt have avatars, i would like to see avatars included but its not really necasery and important..

[Lenric]

My point about the avatars is only that.

1.New arrivals wont be able to tell the difference right away.
2.Last time I checked this isnt a gaming board yet.Meaning its for the development of planeshift.
3.The avatars are nice ,but i feel that the ones making the game so great for us others should be seen.
4.If we keep adding more and more color and brightness in the future as we get more and more people coming in and looking around.Talking spamming whatever.
It will be harder for anyone to see those that are in charge of certain area\'s.
Also the people are doing it for free at this time dont you feel they deserve a little reward?
5.There are no levels no ranking system at this time except for spammers now .Why should we allow it to get more out of hand?
I agree with an off-topic forum. And dont know when all this spamming started why they didnt make one.I remeber when people came in and had to change thier names because they were not in a roleplay setting.
Look at all the funny names out there now.If this continues and is allowed in the game .You wont be able to pay me to play.....

[Nu Sham]

Lenric im sorry i\'ve been sitting here for the last 30  minutes trying to figure out what u wrote =)

1. new commers wont be able to tell the diffrence... <-- WHAT? what diffrence? between what things.. ?

anyways ill just respond to what i understood..
Avatars are not like spam, because no matter how much u spam, your avatar doesnt change.. its just a picture, like a signature.. if we put some limit on it, like max size 80X80 , then it wont cause problems..
look at Kada\'s forum.. there people can have their own avatar, and no one is spamming, there is no chaos there.. people can easly spot Kada or BinaryRejected, for their big starts next to their sig...
maybe we can have the messages of the Dev Team have a small yellow star next to their name , (not on the left side), if spotting the Dev team is so important to you..

personally, i dont think the avatar is what the Dev team people wish for and feel they will quit the team or whatever if they dont have this small little usless avatar. . .

hmm.. *reads lenric\'s message again.. what havent i responded to yet.. *

4.If we keep adding more and more color and brightness in the future as we get more and more people coming in and looking around.Talking spamming whatever.

hmm dont u think the reason for this forum is to attract people? and i dont quite understand how adding avatars will cause people to spam more..

ok i hope i\'ve answered everything..

[Lenric]

I just got back on . Sorry if you dont understand it but im not gonna go over it again and again.

Its simple the new arrivals will have a hard enough time going through the threads as they are.


1.Spotting the dev team is not to be mean more important to me .Than talking to people here.If i wanna talk or roleplay.I can go to a roleplaying message board with thousands of people or a chat site...or even a game.

2.The main reason for this message board is to help the game.Not for people to chat.Thats one of the reasons im sure there is no off-topic board.


3.The forum is here to get people interested in helping the team.And that is what the Pr team is for.

4.Nobody ever said an avatar is spam.You really should read a bit closer and think on what you read perhaps.I\'ll explain it once since i havent yet .

If for one people were granted avatars.Based on either earning or amount of posts.People are just going to start pestering devs.You know the people whos time can be better spent making the game.

5.Avatars are really no big deal like you say.Why do you keep pushing for it.Twisting my words around to try and make some point.Like you say there a picture its not so big.
But hey think of this everyone that comes here.Has stars and whatever under thier name.With some sort of title.true or false...for some newbie to come in it would be hard for them to tell the difference between this person and that.
The avatars I think are a very good way of showing who is who on status.Instead of just blue stars they get a little picture.Unlike everyone else whos status changes for the amount of posts thiers doesnt.
  It also is a sure way of grabbing anyones attention.If you for one feel like you need an avatar. Why dont you try out for the team?
 I think people need to start understanding.This board has some fun to it here and there but the main goal is to develop the game itself.later when it gets farther in the stages of development.Is when the board changes to suit the needs of the players more.
  When was the last time you saw someone like talad post? Alot of the game Dev\'s dont anymore and its really sad.

[Kiern]

i really dont get why avatars are so important to you people.....its just a little picture, not like your gonna die if ya dont get it

[Cyonamie]

avatars and sigs, its like having peanut butter without hte jelly, if ya cant have one, dont give us the other...(you can probably tell I\'m very bored right now)

and kiern, I didnt kill alandar, it was an accident he slipped ;(  8o

[Nu Sham]

Cynomine made me think..
why are signatures ok and avatars are not?

[ninkwi njadro]

i really dont get why avatars are so important to you people.....its just a little picture, not like your gonna die if ya dont get it

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF!!

any whoo it doesn\'t really matter avatars or no avatars! people will spam anywhoo. so just stfu and let us people have our avatars!!! and all of U people who don\'t want them just don\'t use them when they are avalable!!

[Lenric]

That really makes sense Ninja turtle (not) nobody is saying they dont want avatars.Only that they should be for the devs only or for people that earn them. Cyonamie are you saying we should get rid of signatures as well because thats what it sounds like or should the devs get to make signatures and the rest of us get avatars.
You know perfectly well what the difference makes.
All Ive seen from people supporting avatars is me me me.
Funny I kinda thought more people would like to support the devs and all the hard work they do.

[ninkwi njadro]

earning them is stupid!

F*CK THE AVATARS WHO NEEDS \'em ANYWAY!! I DON\"T

there problem solved only mods get avatars!! and the other people should be happy with a sig!!! and mods ur doin a great job keep up the good work. the reward is a avatar!!! wow aren\'t U happy!!!

so NO avatars except for mods!!! so people let\'s quit this useless conversation. it\'s just like the post

\"whaa mods I am gonna waist ur precious time cause i don\'t like the lil\' black line above my sig!!!\" or something was the subject!!

[Kiern]

lol ninkwi its not a useless post or im pretty sure kendaro wouldn\'t have posted it.....i didnt mean that avatar dont make a difference  i just meant its nothing to go berserk about (like you are doing right now) im also sure that no one likes to hear you yell out stuff like that all the time

[cmhitman]

this messageboard has made me wanna help the team.
and the fact that people conversate on this message board is what made me wanna get on the team. the chatroom is really good for talking with devs and stuff.
I wasn\'t excpted but i still would help out with anything if it would mean a better PlaneShift.

[Conaire]

Its not like avatars are a big thing :]