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Rorgash
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:49 |
Horns, fangs, elf ears  us orcs dont wear fancy metals, we wear trophies
Great idea all the same, good work
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HonoredMule
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:48 |
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In a past life (and game), Harmless' forums had an award system which we had put to good use, and it's a feature we miss (and will eventually revive after some systems consolidation). We had campaign participation medals with a contextual iconic shape over a standard background, military-styled medals for great sacrifices or losses in defense of another, ribbon graphics for special contributions or exceptional performance, etc.. This would make a great addition to the game.
Let me be the first to request (in case it's not already planned) that information about player medals be made public through the xml feeds or at least accessible as an alliance-private feed so we can sync the information to all the places where an alliance congregates (which I'm sure frequently ends up being off-site). Second and equally important is allowing alliances to upload their own medal graphics. It doesn't take much accumulation before generic or formulaic graphics with no topical or contextual components become a meaningless jumble.
If either of these features are not supported, we'll probably still end up not using the system but sticking entirely with something we roll ourselves.
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Rill
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:46 |
And crows! we want crows! I'm guessing the Eagles will want Eagles and that H? will want ...
Question marks?
I'm just tossing it out as an idea for the standard icon set, I think Crow, Eagle and/or a generic bird might get heavy use.
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Rorgash
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:45 |
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well i will wait and see how good it is, and hope that they have race specific designs aswell :)
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bansisdead
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:43 |
GM Luna wrote:
In the interest of being super-duper clear, players do not draw or create their own artwork to use in these.
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but you will have cows...
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abstractdream
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:42 |
Cow Medals? YES!
Edit: So there's gotta be a cow in the template, right?
Edited by abstractdream - 21 May 2012 at 20:44
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Bonfyr Verboo
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GM Luna
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:42 |
In the interest of being super-duper clear, players do not draw or create their own artwork to use in these. You'll create a medal out of pre-designed pieces put together within the designer. You choose color, shapes, layers, gems, etc. :)
Luna
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bansisdead
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:39 |
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"With this new option players will be able to design a medal and award it to a player (or players) within their Alliance."...form the blog, cow medals are on rill...
*edit* or crow medals even...
Edited by bansisdead - 21 May 2012 at 20:40
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Rorgash
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:34 |
Edit again since with more info it was not redundant
im sure they will allow alliances to make their own medals :P if not then im for a improved system :D
((Edit to state that my post was redundant ))
Edited by Rorgash - 21 May 2012 at 20:44
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Rill
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 20:33 |
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/me begins campaign to have a Crow icon added to the range of choices.
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