[Forum FAQ] Informicons

[Hamma]

I have added a new FAQ entry which is entitled "Informicons" it explains all the nifty new icons that appear under almost everyone's names. You can check it out here:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/faq.php?faq=ranks_and_titles#faq_informicons

If anyone has some suggestions for additional Informicons please speak up in this thread :)

[Ivan]

I have a question, why is my name pea green, and I've notices certain other's are that why too.

[xmodum]

I'd say some different Icons that show how long you've been here, one for 1 year, 2, 3, under a year maybe.

Then some fun ones, like "tards" or "banned", "fuckface", you get the point.

[Peacemaker]

Testing

[Rbstr]

I want my modship back, however useless it may have been :(

:love: green name

I'd say some different Icons that show how long you've been here, one for 1 year, 2, 3, under a year maybe.

Then some fun ones, like "tards" or "banned", "fuckface", you get the point.


Hey you get all three!

EDIT: ups double post, and in the wrong order too, wierd.
EDIT2: Silly gryphon messing with my posts, and the icons, TBH I like them by the name better.

[OneManArmy]

I have a question, why is my name pea green, and I've notices certain other's are that why too.


yea! I was a hott gold... now im a vegetable

[Ghryphen]

I want my modship back, however useless it may have been :(

:love: green name




Hey you get all three!

EDIT: ups double post, and in the wrong order too, wierd.
EDIT2: Silly gryphon messing with my posts, and the icons, TBH I like them by the name better.
Still toying with their positioning.

[QuakCow]

mm...cool

[Hamma]

Thanks for the suggestions X - we have been playing around with the idea of distinguishing how long people have been here but haven't made a final decision.

I've reverted the Gold contributors (100$+) back to Gold. I was toying with the colors at work and got sidetracked by.. work. :p Gold seemed to bright to me but.. any other color seems odd ;)

[Ivan]

Gold is cool cause it reminds us that we did have money untill we contributed to PSU... hehe ;)


EDIT2: Silly gryphon messing with my posts, and the icons, TBH I like them by the name better.

I like them by the name too cause I didn't even notice them where they are now.

[Hamma]

At the top right you mean?

[Ghryphen]

New icon coming up, blindicon. :)

Give us a couple days to get things sorted out, they may be where they are for an hour, a day, forever, curse of working on too many things at once :)

[Hamma]

Yea there are alot of things floating through my head as well. I've always felt that the left user pane has looked cluttered so we may do something with that as well.

[Biohazzard56]

These informicons are awesome, especially the logged into Planetside in the last past 30 days is a really cool idea. It would be neat to get some of these for being a long time member or post counts.

[Ivan]

These informicons are awesome, especially the logged into Planetside in the last past 30 days is a really cool idea. It would be neat to get some of these for being a long time member or post counts.
We might not want a post count one. It tends to feed people's egos.

[xmodum]

Oh yea, I still remeber the ol' days of spamming to become a new rank. Don't need that again.

[Hamma]

Glad you guys like them :D

You already have user titles that semi show the post counts of users so we won't do any informicons for that. However I think we may be doing informicons for Veteran forum members.

[Rbstr]

I personaly liked the Post count bars

[Hamma]

The battle rank deals?

[Rbstr]

yeah

[Hamma]

Yea those are still around in the admin - they were quite a pain to maintain though. May bring them back will see ;)

[LesserShade]

Personally I kinda preferred the informicons under the username the way they were earlier today. That way all user info is contained in one specific area. When they moved I thought they were gone at first.

[Ivan]

Personally I kinda preferred the informicons under the username the way they were earlier today. That way all user info is contained in one specific area. When they moved I thought they were gone at first.
I felt that way too, but Hamma brought out a good point, that area does seem to get cluddered with everything.

EDIT: An other thing I noticed was the sigs are gone. I don't really care because I don't use a sig. I've become so used to recognizing everyone's sigs I hardly looked at the left area with the name and other info. I for one kind of like the idea of everyone with unique avatars to quickly identify who made the post rather than a sig.

[Ghryphen]

Sigs are not gone, are you sure you didn't turn them off in your user cp?

[OneManArmy]

much better.

[Lonehunter]

I don't see how the user area was cluttered, hell still had a nice large space under the main stuff to use.

See when you read a post (on damn near every forum) the poster's info is on the left, then their sig is at the bottom. I think having those icons off to the right is just like ignoring them.

I did like the idea of looking at an avatar, and seeing everything about the person, not checking multiple spots.

[Hamma]

The user area was cluttered until I removed a bunch of information that can be obtained by viewing someone's profile anyway yesterday. As Gryph said we will probably still tweak things - we have all been working on about 20 different projects at once recently :lol:

And Ivan the sigs aren't gone.. :huh:

[Boomer]

Try this to see how it looks.

Have everything in the user panel (avatar section) centered, including the avatar space, name, description, and Icons. I guarantee you it will look better.

[Ghryphen]

Hehe, everything centered is something you find on some GeoCities or MySpace website.

[Ivan]

Sigs are not gone, are you sure you didn't turn them off in your user cp?
And Ivan the sigs aren't gone.. :huh:

Oh snap! I didn�t turn them off though. Some one is hacking my account!! :D

[Hamma]

:rolleyes:

[OneManArmy]

...in my pants....:brow: :dance:

[Ivan]

Room for one more?!pimp:

[OneManArmy]

for you?.... Of course!!!

[Ghryphen]

Personally I kinda preferred the informicons under the username the way they were earlier today. That way all user info is contained in one specific area. When they moved I thought they were gone at first.You can now choose if you want them on the left or on the right in Thread Display Options (http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/profile.php?do=editoptions)

[Ivan]

I love you. But now I've gotten used to them where they are. :p

[Mag-Mower]

Oooh. I like the option :D

[Lonehunter]

I forgot all about these, being in upper right and all, where I never look...

[Hamma]

Well now you can put them on the left. :D