Suggestions wanted: Graphical Forum Sigs (was forum=10) (waFollow

Like I recently did on our World of Warcraft site, I'd like to add the ability to link graphical sigs which automatically update from your character to the forums here.

This is an example of the world of warcraft character based sig:
[wowsig]1926[/wowsig]

So, I'd like to make one for our Final Fantasy XI users. It'll base itself off your character, and update as your character does. You'll be able to link it in posts here, or from other sites. It will be a feature restricted to premium members.

What I'd like feedback on is: are there any particular elements you'd like to see represented on the sig? For WOW it was easy to pick pvp stats and go with it. I'm less sure for ffxi.

Any suggestions for image textures or elements would be welcome as well.

Thanks,



Edited, Fri Dec 16 11:57:29 2005 by Illia

I'm totally against graphical signatures. They fill up the screen and give me information I completely don't care about. If you want me to know your levels, just use a single line of text. So you know I'm not being a hypocrite, I don't even have a signature! Not even one line of text.

Maybe add a method to select which face and race you have so it shows a pic of what your character looks like.

Race = Letter
Face = Number

Elvaan Old Man = A9


Display A9.gif


That would totally rock.

The other stuff I can just type.



Edit: Heres a directory with all the face icons in it.

http://www.jadedsociety.net/memberlist/faces/

Just add a screen where premium members can select which one they have.

Edited, Fri Dec 16 12:09:40 2005 by President

Edited, Fri Dec 16 12:12:21 2005 by President

if you do add it for FFXI make a selection in the filter area to be able to turn them off...

don't need something like Killing Ifrit where the graphics are so huge that it takes 20 minutes to DL everything only to notice that the pictures are so repeatitive...

but like how you have the Sergeant symbol... make it Rank

the symbol on the side, the person's Nation.

as far as the job n crafts n skills n such...

is that really needed when there are area's for that which can be linked to, which 90% of ffxi alla uses... Use?

EDIT: Dur, {} Hide Images THERE IS ONE!1 I R A GENIUSER!! :B

but would be better to have one just for the sig images >.>

Edited, Fri Dec 16 12:08:57 2005 by GaugeChambers

not sure i'd use it, but if you would include it i think the possible things to put in are:

name

race

server

nation

job

rank

crafting skills

i actually adblocked the wow sigs, mainly because they didn't relate to me and were distracting. FFXI sigs i might keep, just depends if they're done cleanly and relevent.

Edited, Fri Dec 16 12:22:22 2005 by Cooterbrown

Great idea Illia!

Have it set up similar as the WoW ones, nations flag on right, Character name, level, job race and Linkshell.

Looking forward to it!

Suggestions:

- about 25% shorter than the current WOW signatures
- about 25% longer than the current WOW signatures
- a handy checkbox to filter the things so we don't have to look at them


When it comes to any signature, short and sweet is best. My opinion is that a signature should contain neither more lines nor more information than the post it is attached to.

Hmm, well, I know you would never replicated something like what I have graphically, there just are not enough people with lots of crafting mules to bother.

Nationality can determine the primary color
Rank
COP stage
ZM stage
ToAU stage (How ever that one works)
one set of cafting levels
Misc line created by user.

Not sure that I would use it though.

Something like KI but with a much more restrictive image size, when it can be player submited would be ok, but could possibly require moderator attention.

While I'd love to have a signature with all my job and craft levels, my current title, which Promathia mission I'm on, whether I've gotten Carby Mitts yet, etc. etc., there is only so much room in a graphical signature. I vote for keeping things simple and just include the basics -- name, race, world, nation, rank, a job, and a craft. For example:

Nupinu, Tarutaru of Phoenix
Windurst Rank 5
Summoner 36
Clothcraft 63

...that, and the nation logo.

Smaller is better! (Tarutaru are proof of that!)

-- Nup! <(^.^)>/

Like others have said the ability to disable them would be fairly important. Things I'd like to see.

Current Rank
Job levels
Craft Levels
Character name


Different people have different priorities in this game. For some crafts are the end all of importance. Being able to choose what goes in the sig (even if only allowed to select a few at a time) are what I think would make or break this feature. Also don't enforce the crafting leveling scheme into the sig if crafts are allowed to be entered. That way if someone has 4 crafts at 100 across 4 mules, than they should be able to display that.

Regarding nation and color, maybe you could do it one of three ways:

If the person only has missions in one nation (like most people do), make the picture that color (red/blue/green).

If the person has missions in two nations, make the sig a gradient change between the two colors (Red to Blue, Blue to Green, or whatnot).

If the person has missions in all three nations, make the sig a gradient change between all three colors.


As for length, I would imagine the FFXI sig will be the same size (give or take) as the WoW sig, right?

I think this is a great idea! My suggestion:

 __________________________________________ 
|Character Name, Race Sex          | Nation| 
|Nation, Rank                      | Emblem| 
|3 Highest Jobs                    | Here  | 
|3 Highest Crafts__________________|_______| 

Make the Backround the same color as the nation Alignment-
Bastok: Blue
San d'Oria: Red
Windurst: Green

And perhaps have an option to display Zilart or Promathia missions with a matching theme instead of the nation ranks-

Zilart: Off white with Jeuno Emblem
Promathia: Black with Tavnazian Emblem

Instead of a rank number for these 2, display the current mission name instead, such as (I know its not gonna line up right, but you get the idea):

 ______________________________________________________________ 
|Etain, Tarutaru Female                                      | Nation| 
|Promathia Mission, Garden of Antiquity                      | Emblem| 
|75 BRD-59WHM-37RDM                                          | Here  | 
|60 Bone-30 Cooking-21 Leather_______________________________|_______| 

Edited, Fri Dec 16 14:07:45 2005 by Etain

Sweeeeeet, yeah something like that is what I would like.

Edited, Fri Dec 16 14:59:30 2005 by pnummi