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Ander 
Postmaster General
Joined: 24 Apr 2011
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Points: 1269
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 Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 17:03 |
Those that love the old emoticons can use them again using the javascript page, what is the complaint about? (except that you cant force others to see it the way you wish?)
let those of us who like the supposedly ugly new icons enjoy them.  |
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Captain Kindly
Forum Warrior
Joined: 19 Aug 2011
Location: Fremorn
Status: Offline
Points: 276
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:43 |
 GM Luna wrote:
Hello all,
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.
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Thank you Luna. :)
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invictusa
Forum Warrior
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
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Points: 488
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:20 |
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This thread is hilarious. +1
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...and miles to go before I sleep.
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Sister Nikki
Greenhorn
Joined: 16 Nov 2010
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Points: 76
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:16 |
nightfury wrote:
When majority are unhappy about new emotes one need to think a rollback. I am sad with you using your authoritativeness to reject a just demand. |
I agree Nightfury and such behaviors brings me other things in my mind .:(
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Silverlake
Forum Warrior
Joined: 15 Oct 2011
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Points: 417
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:08 |
You just can't differentiate between them... is that a smile? Contrast is too severe and too much detail... I appreciate the effort, but they do not enhance my enjoyment of the game.
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nightfury
Greenhorn
Joined: 23 Jun 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 86
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:07 |
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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When majority are unhappy about new emotes one need to think a rollback. I am sad with you using your authoritativeness to reject a just demand.
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nightfury
Greenhorn
Joined: 23 Jun 2011
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Points: 86
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 16:03 |
I cant imagine using new emotes they are ugly and not recognizable by most.
I loved using emotes and they were fun. Chatting without them is plain boring.
Without old emotes i may just go and shut myself up.
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Sister Nikki
Greenhorn
Joined: 16 Nov 2010
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Points: 76
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 15:51 |
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The update as most of the previous updates seems to be untested which surely characterizes the game :(
However the update as an update finaly came up after a very long period and the Devs made a great effort.
Altough the most update is about technical issues i do not underastand the way that the developers are looking their own game. What i mean about that is that previous we had the donkey image for vans and the pigeons for diplo units, That was a trademark of Illyriad which has been vanquished, Now we face a new minor change with much resonance, something which was making us happier playing Illyriad during our real life problems the smilleys or emoticons which were so happy and lovelly and instead of add more you have vanquished the old ones by adding these a bit "ugly" emoticons. Sorry but i can't understand your philoshophy :(
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Casombra
New Poster
Joined: 10 Jan 2012
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 23
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 15:47 |
Starry wrote:
No we aren't happy, I use FF and I'm extremely annoyed, however, given the level of bugs this update has created, the emoticon fix is low on the list. :( (It really would be nice if updates were extensively tested before release)
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If you use Firefox Starry just download Greasemonkey and then you can use it as well. I use FF too and with using Greasemonkey you can see them too! Our alliance too have many members that love to chat, joke, and have alot of chat fun while waiting on builds and such. We used the emoticons as our way to express how we felt.. it was part of our everyday fun with each other! We can now STILL enjoy it and those that like the new ugly things can enjoy those as well!
I do agree the ones that did the emote spam should get heavier hammers. Many that did not do this and were respectful are now paying a heavy price.
Edited by Casombra - 22 Apr 2012 at 15:49
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GM Luna
New Poster
Community Manager
Joined: 22 Oct 2011
Location: Illyriad
Status: Offline
Points: 2042
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 15:43 |
Just to clarify, GM Cerberus (our art director) made the new emoticons. He is not the same person that would address technical issues for the update. So literally, no time was taken away from other issues in order to change the emotes.
Luna
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