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Ander
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:38 |
Createure wrote:
Yep. I don't know about everyone else... but I only signed up to Illy cos I heard how awesome the emoticons were. 
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Createure wrote:
tbh if I actually make a less silly post on this topic: I'd say it is nice to have personal touches in Illy like their own set of emoticons. Just copying the mundane widespread ones from yahoo or wherever is frankly just lame - regardless of copyright issues or whatever.
Ok so now we have Illy's own personal emoticon set. I'll admit that they perhaps need some work to make them more distinguishable and interesting but honestly with something as subjective as this you can't expect it to be perfect the first try - small steps people.
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Bonaparta
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:15 |
Createure wrote:
tbh if I actually make a less silly post on this topic: I'd say it is nice to have personal touches in Illy like their own set of emoticons. Just copying the mundane widespread ones from yahoo or wherever is frankly just lame - regardless of copyright issues or whatever.
Ok so now we have Illy's own personal emoticon set. I'll admit that they perhaps need some work to make them more distinguishable and interesting but honestly with something as subjective as this you can't expect it to be perfect the first try - small steps people.
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Kumomoto
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:12 |
Createure wrote:
tbh if I actually make a less silly post on this topic: I'd say it is nice to have personal touches in Illy like their own set of emoticons. Just copying the mundane widespread ones from yahoo or wherever is frankly just lame - regardless of copyright issues or whatever.
Ok so now we have Illy's own personal emoticon set. I'll admit that they perhaps need some work to make them more distinguishable and interesting but honestly with something as subjective as this you can't expect it to be perfect the first try - small steps people.
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Createure
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:09 |
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tbh if I actually make a less silly post on this topic: I'd say it is nice to have personal touches in Illy like their own set of emoticons. Just copying the mundane widespread ones from yahoo or wherever is frankly just lame - regardless of copyright issues or whatever.
Ok so now we have Illy's own personal emoticon set. I'll admit that they perhaps need some work to make them more distinguishable and interesting but honestly with something as subjective as this you can't expect it to be perfect the first try - small steps people.
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Sister Nikki
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:04 |
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Tora your coffee cup is great :) I dont know if you could make a whole set of emoticons??? (If you want you may contact me in game).
lol Creature i know that you have signed in for the emoticons :)
I do understand you Beri and in some cases i agree with you. I do not understand people saying "if you do not like the style of the game then Leave" either they responce personally or they dont care about the game.
Now i do not understand how the emoticons have a copyright but i can understand the reason which made you to take off the yahoo emoticons still what Tora is saying is right. It seems our whole life will be copyrighted :(
Edited by Sister Nikki - 23 Apr 2012 at 14:05
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HonoredMule
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 14:04 |
Beriadanwen wrote:
GM Luna wrote:
Hello all,
Thanks for your feedback on the new emotes. While I think they are immensely clever and add so much more flavor to chat, I can understand if you don't agree. That said...
First, the old generic yahoo emoticons are not going to return. I'm sorry.
In the meantime (as what I hope will be a workable compromise) we are looking to add the option to the new upcoming chat system overhaul to uncheck a "use racial emotes" option. So that if you do not like them, you can turn them off and only see the traditional text emotes like :) for example.
I hope this helps, but again, this is something that will come with the new chat system and is understandably lower priority than some other things going into that chat upgrade.
Until that time, I'm sorry if you don't like the new emotes. This is certainly a touchy subject and is a matter of personal opinion and taste that it would be impossible for us all to agree upon.
Thanks for your patience.
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Not only do I not like the emoticons - I think I've pretty much decided I don't like -THE GAME- as a whole.
It seems every time I turn around, the Devs are fixing something that isn't broken (meaning the function, and no one's complaining about it. I go away for a couple of days and come back to find, basically, an entirely different game. One that doesn't WORK, either. Just changing pages from one screen of the research tree to the next is resulting in a 10-second loading delay. Chat lags. I can't get the world map to move from one city to the other. It's now hard for me, with my visual impairment, to tell an animal NPC from parked neutral army. And on and on and on. And there's little doubt that all these "little" changes, these "new bells and whistles" that aren't -necessary- for the game to work are to blame.
Oh, and for whatever reason? Half the forum posts that are new don't have new post stars. I regret having EVER paid ANY money to play this game right now. |
Beri, are you by chance using Opera for your browser? I have noticed that Illyriad's interface is non-functional in a lot of small ways in Opera since well before the latest update. The resource bar doesn't update, world map city centering doesn't work, random delays and sometimes a page doesn't switch, etc. And on the forum it is necessary to "mark all posts read" from time to time or it will stop tracking unread posts correctly (probably an issue with the limited amount of info that can be stored in a cookie, which is just one reason why storing it in cookies instead of database sessions is a terrible idea--the other major reason is that every time you clear cookies or switch browsers or computers the info is lost or left in an incorrect/incoherent state between browsers).
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"Apparently, quoting me is a 'thing' now." - HonoredMule
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Createure
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 11:48 |
Yep. I don't know about everyone else... but I only signed up to Illy cos I heard how awesome the emoticons were.
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Gilthoniel
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 11:32 |
Look TC and Luna. You might as well admit defeat and accept that the old emoticons were a major selling point for the game. They were fun. People loved them. So stop playing "head in the sand" and restore them.
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Tora
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 10:20 |
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lol
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Createure
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 09:20 |
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RAAAAAAGGGGEEE!!!!!!!11111
Ok not really, they're only emoticons.
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