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[Dukarriope]

Ooo-kay, right now, I am getting a bit more confused than I have to (I admit I really could just take the effort to not be, but...), I'm sure someone would've asked before.

Can we have custom, linked-to-off-site avatars some time? I mean, having an allegiance icon is nice, but maybe if we shrunk that and the founders' icon we could make some space for a 100x100 user-customizable avatar. People like me tend to get confused when a lot of people have, well, the same icons.

Edited by SaLaNoS, 06 September 2012 - 09:47 PM.

[Tardstrong]

Why don't you pay attention to the message rather than the picture of the messenger?
I don't want a bunch of **** pics for avatars. Unless it were the devs doing it...then it would be phenominal!

[Dukarriope]

Tardstrong, on 06 September 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:

Why don't you pay attention to the message rather than the picture of the messenger? I don't want a bunch of **** pics for avatars. Unless it were the devs doing it...then it would be phenominal!

I read the message before I look to the left, but I tend to only glance at the poster's identity and tend to gloss over their name whereas everyone being able to have their own avatars helps me differentiate individuals at a glance much faster. So sometimes I think two different people saying similar things are the same person, because I was only mentally noting down their allegiance icon. Yes yes yes, there's a counter-argument that I can just spend more time paying attention, but almost every average forum out there has a custom avatar option available.

Edited by SaLaNoS, 07 September 2012 - 03:41 AM.

[Tardstrong]

You have a very valid argument and indeed a good suggestion. Does paying attention to Sigs help? A little more time consuming than avatars but almost everyone has some type of sig.
However as this is a relatively minor to miniscule problem; International Forum Law dictates that I must rage at you (Rule 14: Flow of Languages Affecting Minor Effects; FLAME).
What a noob.
Just messing with you...

[Exilyth]

People who don't set a custom avatar will still look the same.

[Dukarriope]

Tardstrong, on 07 September 2012 - 08:45 AM, said:

You have a very valid argument and indeed a good suggestion. Does paying attention to Sigs help? A little more time consuming than avatars but almost everyone has some type of sig. However as this is a relatively minor to miniscule problem; International Forum Law dictates that I must rage at you (Rule 14: Flow of Languages Affecting Minor Effects; FLAME). What a noob. Just messing with you...

Not everyone has sigs and most of them are text (which I tend to gloss over more than actual pictures, because I pay more attention to post-material). And then there's those use clan/merc-corp/guild/group/some-other-kind-of-team sigs, which look the same, so having two simultaneous differentiating factors would help.

Exilyth, on 07 September 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

People who don't set a custom avatar will still look the same.

Still, gives the people who do an identity.

[alfalfasprossen]

i'm totally on your side here. i am so used to avatars, its so much faster and easier to identify people based on an image (the way the humand brain works). i tend to associate names to avatars eventually, but i only go on and learn the names of those people who really post a lot of stuff that interests me... so most threads are just all-the-same-new-guy for me. avatars give a clear visual structure of who said what.

but yeah, maybe we should just put our avatar in our sig. would help a lot i think.

[OptiMist]

Voting Yes.