I'm thinking keep the gallery for those who want to choose but also allow users to upload their own custom avatar. I feel the time's¹ have moved on and such.

¹There should be an apostrophe in there somewhere, right?

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Terra Arcanum >> the World of Troika Games

Moo... Moo... I'm an Interplay Cow.

Complexity is only simplicity multiplied

Hmmm, I find myself in somewhat of a quandary over this, I would like to see the avatars opened up, (while keeping the gallery available), but, I do feel that custom avatars should be some sort of "reward" for loyallty or good behaviour etc... I guess my proposal would be to have the gallery available for all user's whether newbie or not, and then have some scipting which after, say, one year of membership have acess to be able to have your own choice of individual avatar.

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I want post count ranks, like it was when I came here.

Custom avatars, of course. It's what a lot of boards do and there's nothing wrong with it. An avatar should be something personal.

Well said.

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Lacy: How did I fall in love with such a jerk like him? Why can't I ever meet a nice man?
Tom: You've met lots of nice men, Lacy. I'm a nice man. The biggest lie all of you women tell yourselves is that you like nice men, when, in fact, we bore you silly.
The trouble is, you tell this lie out loud and so damned often that some of us more gullible types hear it growing up and work hard to become nice men.
Well, from all the nice men in the world, Lacy, fuck you very much.

I agree, but I really don't know what sort of avatar I'd want if it opened up. A custom avatar is such a difficult thing...

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I want it the way it is now. Getting a personal avatar is a really cool reward. If we'd have to change it though, I'll vote for the way it was before me.

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Indeed, Snowy's avatar is a quaint reminder of a more civilised time.

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So if the rank system wins in the poll will you actually bring it back, or were you just being a tease?

Lazy bastards hardly change.

I agree with Vyenna.

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Well, I threw it in as an option 'cause I knew a few people liked it. Though I do wonder if that wasn't because the forums were more active then and there's some kind of reminiscing / association thing happening.

But given it's winning the poll so far, I could do.

Another thing I've noticed is that for an Arcanum forum, we don't have any Arcanum protraits available in the gallery... Which I've now just stolen from the Codex and added in. So check 'em out in your profile if you want Arcanum piccy's.

... and why do we have Fallout images available? What's with that?

I've also added back in that "Anti-Paladin" one that keeps disappearing for some reason too. As well as a few others which have also, seemingly gone missing for some bizarre reason.

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RPG Codex - We're a bunch of angry cunts.
Tacticular Cancer # We'll have your balls #
Terra Arcanum >> the World of Troika Games

Moo... Moo... I'm an Interplay Cow.

Complexity is only simplicity multiplied

I'm back in business.

Thanks DU.

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What is it with you guys? Custom avatars are way better than some flaming sword thingy or whatever.
That said: I'm glad to see that one is now finally able to use an avatar from Arcanum itself. That's almost as good as a custom avatar. Thanks.

if a lot of other boards jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? saving custom avatars for those we find deserving is unique, and we should keep it. although, if you just HAVE to be nice, you could put an age limit on it... after a certain amount of time as a member, you can put your own custom avatar. just qualify it, like self-made customs can't make their own title, so it's still in your best interest to cultivate good relations with the forum as a whole.




wrong.

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'You should be kinder... You are somehow furious.'
I used to be kind. It didn't last long.

This is the only thing that bothers me about this website/forum. It's like people are being picked favorites, and I feel left out, especially as being a graphic designer, and can't share my Arcanum style stuff on here AS AN AVATAR.

But I'm not a staff member, I can't do anything about it. But I'm glad this post was made, so I could add my 2 cents to it. I voted YAY on it, because it's the only one suitable for my answer on this subject. Thanks.

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Done with this forum. I am not here, so it's pointless talking at me, because you will be talking to yourself. Thank you for the politeness some people have showed me. The others that can't be nice, you got yours coming. Believe me.

You also posted in an over three year old thread. And yes people are being picked favourites, the people who stay around for a long time. But not even those of us who have an avatar not in the gallery get to chose our own.

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The customs are chosen for you, its a tradition here and it helps make this place a little more unique. So people without a custom actually have more choice in what their avatar is (unless you are a power abusing admin).

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Personally, I'm still in favour of the old system. Times must go on I guess.

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Lacy: How did I fall in love with such a jerk like him? Why can't I ever meet a nice man?
Tom: You've met lots of nice men, Lacy. I'm a nice man. The biggest lie all of you women tell yourselves is that you like nice men, when, in fact, we bore you silly.
The trouble is, you tell this lie out loud and so damned often that some of us more gullible types hear it growing up and work hard to become nice men.
Well, from all the nice men in the world, Lacy, fuck you very much.

Yeah, I want the old rail road spike back...

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