New Guild Emblems: Self-design

[Afuldan]

It would be neat if mythic included a "design-your-emblem" tool. Instead of having to choose different colors ands pictures, make your own!

Now we all know the problem with this, it need not even be mentioned, but there are easy ways to solve it.

1) Mythic asks trusted, fairminded and experienced players to add themselves toa sort of "review list" whereas a prospective emblem is emailed to them for going over.

2) Mythic CSRs review emblems, it'll take a long time, but if you want a personalized emblem, it's worth the wait.

rules should be something along the line of: Nothing complicated, keep it simple, 2 colors, a simple symbol, a simple background. No lettering/text.

 

[living]

My comp is already crying over the 200 diffrent emblems in relic raids..

 

[cemi0]

My comp is already crying over the 200 diffrent emblems in relic raids..

Well with TOA stuff most people uses Shades of Mist, Healers Embrace and Cloudsong. Then we got some random toa drop cloaks and a few guys with emblems.

But dno if they making toa gfx emblemable? heard something of that once I believe.

 

[Archeon]

I don't think self-design should be somthing you get right off the proverbial bat. Maybe after your guilds gotten... just to give a figure: 200million RP's or somthing?

If you make it so every guild can get PE's then yeah. People's PC's will start crying. Mine included. But if you make it so you've got to have more than a 2 week wonder guild to get them, then yeah sure. Would be a nice addition to the guild system

 

[Melachi]

Do they have plans to make SoM & all those other arti cloaks dyeable/emblemable anytime soon? If not hardly a point in new emblems since most people these days have one of those cloaks, looks stupid imo

 

[Cyfr]

*draw cock*

 

[Kaj]

Bad idea really.

First of all, you would have kids and guys without girlfriends drawing dicks and naked girls on the emblem.

Second of all, if it was enabled, and you had to send it to GOA and get it approved. You would first wait everything between 1week and 18 months. And that would mean that GOA would actually have to WORK and do something.

Just leave it as it is, like that other guy said, we have over 200 different emblems, and most people use artifact cloaks. Not to mention all the different colours.

And while im whining, GOA fix the Market Explorer thingie. At prime-time they dont work!

 

[old.Whoodoo]

As the emblums are stored on the clients (our side), we would therefore have to download 300 new cock shaped emblums every week as ppl changed them or created new guilds...no ta

 

[Xplo]

ehm, if goa only would alow serious emblem there wouldnt be 300 cock shaped ones every week...
and let the emblem be permanent, non changeable..
and if thats not enough they could only let em download to clients every new patch.

 

[Escape]

The emblem 'skins' are smaller than 5kb. It wouldn't be hard to implement, as the host could add new emblems every week and you download them together. Aside from having 2000+ useless files in your emblem's directory, there's no problem with it imo.

 

[old.Whoodoo]

ehm, if goa only would alow serious emblem there wouldnt be 300 cock shaped ones every week...
and let the emblem be permanent, non changeable..
and if thats not enough they could only let em download to clients every new patch.

Not really feasable, as patches only come every couple of months, so there would be a lot of guilds running around without cloaks till patching.

Yes I understand Mythic - who would have to approve this and impliment it before GOA I would imagine, as basically you will be changing the source code - could do this, but with anything "custom" theres downfalls. I dont know how many guilds there are on all the US, EURO and other servers, but its a lot. Then you will also get people making more guilds just to have an emblum, more work for them.

Id rather see development in game play like player horses, animist nerfing, improved PvE and RvR, animist nerfing, revamping of the old maps, animist nerfing and other more benificial things to game play before asthetics. And for GOA more bug fixing, rightnow response and their custom storylining and events.

On the thing of "2000+ more files", think of those who are on 56k still, it hurts them enough to patch alone, I think they could do without the extra.

I like the idea, but I think its going to be one of those "we might get a round to it" kinda things.

 

[Escape]

Taking the figure of 2000 emblems, that would be ~10MB at the most.
Split into 2.5MB downloads over 4 weeks, even 56k users will cope just fine!

 

[Urme the Legend]

The guild has to be over 2 years old before you can have a custom made emblem imo

The biggest problem would be to make sure it is a GM that sends in the emblem... and not someone that just want to "joke".

But would probably never work anyway.

 

[Hawkwind]

Guild Emblems

How about making them available to large guilds only? Say more than 25 active members, not all alts.

 

[Sarnat]

IMO there should be an IN GAME tool that you could use to create your own emblem. This would be encoded in xml or whatever, and server would send that info, not the actual picture. Then the client would render the emblem based on the XML/whatever.

This would NOT give you TOTAL control over your emblem, you could modify it only with the given limitations of the editor, so creating offensive emblems would be hard/not possible. Also, turning off the emblems should be possible due to frame rate issues. Similar slash command as /effects would be nice, with options self/guild/none/all.

Examples of what kind of editing would be possible:
1) colors (RGB, maybe limit some to dissallow non-fitting colors. 256 enough?)
2) more complex pattern and pattern rotation
3) combining images to form the actual logo. For example, swords/axes etc you could rotate.

I don't know if it's possible to create something like this with the somewhat inflexible DAoC UI.

 

[Afuldan]

I already said we knew the big problem would be people, as Cyfr so eloquently put it, "drawing cocks". That's why i suggested they be proof-read first :/

 

[Xplo]

Or maybe mythic should add 200 more emblem combination possibilities to the game, like in Japan they have Ying and Yang emblems etc :x

Not like it would lag alot since everyone uses artifact cloacks.

 

[WiZe^]

The guild has to be over 2 years old before you can have a custom made emblem imo

The biggest problem would be to make sure it is a GM that sends in the emblem... and not someone that just want to "joke".

But would probably never work anyway.

So u whant a cloak that says " Urme pwns j00 all" ?

 

[Xeanor]

bad idea... you'd just get emblems of nude girls etc.... aka stuff that doesn't fit in the game