I can see the pics now, too.
Oof, did they take out the sunrise background? If that first pic shows our banner as it is now, they CHANGED the background. I don't like the sun at the top, and it's brighter, too. :mad:
I love dragons. I don't like any of THESE dragons, though. With all due respect, the one Hawk prefers looks like a dodo bird to me. I'm getting flashbacks from that episode of original series Star Trek that they produced as a Halloween special, where those dodo-bird like aliens... Well, if you are a fan, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I don't like the dark blue background, either, because... it's too dark. All that is going to show up is the emblem, and NONE of these emblems are good enough in my book to deserve that kind of pedestel. Plus at a distance, which is how I'll mostly be viewing them, it will just be a blur.
I'd prefer a bright color. Problem with that is, when I messed with the colors myself, I didn't find many bright options. Pastel != bright.
There are really only three options in terms of brightness:
A. Dark color, bright emblem.
B. Bright color, dark emblem.
C. Bright color, brighter emblem.
Option A sucks because the emblems suck. Option B isn't much better. I went with Option C originally because I found an emblem that would work with it, and then I chose a bright color.
I'm one of those people who loathes fanciness at the expense of visibility and functionality. When I installed WinXP, my first pitstop was Internet Explorer to disable ALL of the stupid gadgets that slow performance and hurt visibility.
Substance over style, please.
With the cape shapes, the only viable looking ones for me are C and F. All those pointy ones -- A, B, D, G -- those are "ornamental armor" if you catch my drift. Those points wouldn't last in the field. Too flimsy. The torn look of D or "I" seem interesting at first glance, but when you realize that we will ALL be sporting the exact same pattern of wear and tear, all it's going to do for me is remind me of how the game is programmed. That is the LAST thing you want to do to me, because it is the first thing that will begin to grate on my nerves and put me into ever-more-sour frames of mind. Once you start me down that path, my mind will be going on that path, and I'll pick up on all sorts of other frayed ends and pieces in the game code. Very bad mojo. The squared cape end that Hawk likes... Cloth doesn't do right angles very well. Need stitching on the end, and the more "circumference" on the stitching, the more likely the thing will unravel.
C and F are the only sensible shapes for adventurers. In my view. And of those two, I prefer F.
So here are my votes:
Emblem: Crossed Swords. (Least of the evils we're forced to choose from).
Cape shape: F
Background: Anything that doesn't overlap the emblem with white. 24 would be OK, for example.
Main color: Bright
Emblem color: Brighter (white, probably)
- Sirian
Oof, did they take out the sunrise background? If that first pic shows our banner as it is now, they CHANGED the background. I don't like the sun at the top, and it's brighter, too. :mad:
I love dragons. I don't like any of THESE dragons, though. With all due respect, the one Hawk prefers looks like a dodo bird to me. I'm getting flashbacks from that episode of original series Star Trek that they produced as a Halloween special, where those dodo-bird like aliens... Well, if you are a fan, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I don't like the dark blue background, either, because... it's too dark. All that is going to show up is the emblem, and NONE of these emblems are good enough in my book to deserve that kind of pedestel. Plus at a distance, which is how I'll mostly be viewing them, it will just be a blur.
I'd prefer a bright color. Problem with that is, when I messed with the colors myself, I didn't find many bright options. Pastel != bright.
There are really only three options in terms of brightness:
A. Dark color, bright emblem.
B. Bright color, dark emblem.
C. Bright color, brighter emblem.
Option A sucks because the emblems suck. Option B isn't much better. I went with Option C originally because I found an emblem that would work with it, and then I chose a bright color.
I'm one of those people who loathes fanciness at the expense of visibility and functionality. When I installed WinXP, my first pitstop was Internet Explorer to disable ALL of the stupid gadgets that slow performance and hurt visibility.
Substance over style, please.
With the cape shapes, the only viable looking ones for me are C and F. All those pointy ones -- A, B, D, G -- those are "ornamental armor" if you catch my drift. Those points wouldn't last in the field. Too flimsy. The torn look of D or "I" seem interesting at first glance, but when you realize that we will ALL be sporting the exact same pattern of wear and tear, all it's going to do for me is remind me of how the game is programmed. That is the LAST thing you want to do to me, because it is the first thing that will begin to grate on my nerves and put me into ever-more-sour frames of mind. Once you start me down that path, my mind will be going on that path, and I'll pick up on all sorts of other frayed ends and pieces in the game code. Very bad mojo. The squared cape end that Hawk likes... Cloth doesn't do right angles very well. Need stitching on the end, and the more "circumference" on the stitching, the more likely the thing will unravel.
C and F are the only sensible shapes for adventurers. In my view. And of those two, I prefer F.
So here are my votes:
Emblem: Crossed Swords. (Least of the evils we're forced to choose from).
Cape shape: F
Background: Anything that doesn't overlap the emblem with white. 24 would be OK, for example.
Main color: Bright
Emblem color: Brighter (white, probably)
- Sirian
Fortune favors the bold.
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