Could we please carry on not having signatures, many forums have them, and I think aesthetically they clutter up the forum discussions, and are valueless to any discussion by definition as they say the same thing under every post regardless of content.
Agreed. Same with additional information in profiles - Countries and Websites - no need to add these. I would also suggest to use fantasy-only avatars (pictures) for better immersion
I'm unfussed by portraits, I don't think immersion is an issue on an external forum, and it also sounds hard/silly to police. Does @Kore 's portrait count as fantasy, who is to say it is not a werepig.
Of course it's a werepig. Would a normal pig wear boots?!
I agree that immersion should not be an issue in the forums unless there is a specific forum dedicated to roleplaying where you are not allowed out of character.
On the note of signatures, I can't really think of a reason to have them for this forum for now. That said, people often like to display a couple of links or other lines. I wouldn't mind if we were allowed a restricted sig (I probably wouldn't use it though) as long as pictures couldn't be large and as long as Vanilla has the option to allow members to ignore all sigs.
I agree that signatures on other forums have often led to unnecessary clutter, but I would like to bring up the point that sometimes signatures can be useful, particularly when there is player-made content involved. I know on the Neverwinter Nights forums that owners of Persistent Worlds or mod creators would leave a link to their creations in their siggy, which can make finding quality work easy for some. Plus, I occasionally like reading witty, snarky one-liners that my favorite posters sometimes put in!
I never liked signatures that included images, but I'll be sad that I can't use the Dragonlance quote in my sig that I've been using online for almost a decade now.
No signatures!? But that means I can't have "So I kicked him in the head till he was dead, nyahahahah!" at the bottom of every sentence.
!!!~ So I kicked him in the head till he was dead, nyahahahah!" ~!!!
Such unbridled insolence to quote such a thing on the BGEE forum! I would be fine with a couple lines for a signature myself, keeping it short and thus poignant and not distracting, but I wouldn't use it for such banalities. Huh!
_____________________________________________________ *fart* "Woh, that was a stinker!" - BG Voiced Personnel
At first I wanted larger avatars also, but actually I like the cute widoo biddy pictures now and find they keep the discussion more interesting than avatars. The best part is that the avatar is a good size if you click on the member name, so it's not as if you're always restricted to it... though this post probably would earn an off-topic rating if that still existed... >:-)
No signatures!? But that means I can't have "So I kicked him in the head till he was dead, nyahahahah!" at the bottom of every sentence.
!!!~ So I kicked him in the head till he was dead, nyahahahah!" ~!!!
Such unbridled insolence to quote such a thing on the BGEE forum! I would be fine with a couple lines for a signature myself, keeping it short and thus poignant and not distracting, but I wouldn't use it for such banalities. Huh!
_____________________________________________________ *fart* "Woh, that was a stinker!" - BG Voiced Personnel
I don't know what a baanlities is but it sounds damn awesome sir. As for inappropiately quoting sadistic teenage bandits and my equally sadistic carving of their scalps, I just can't think of anything more entertaining than a Californian surfer dude voicing a bandit in a faux-medieval fantasy game.
P.S. I read somewhere that if you play as a monk, you can kick the bandit in the head until he's dead, nyahahahah!!!
@Ward lol... At least as good as finding rural American hicks playing clueless killers of the tree of a dryad.
_______________________________________________________________ CHARNAME: "I'll not let you harm a branch of this tree. You'll have to go through me first!" Caldo: "That's OK. We probable go through you sometime anyway."
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I would also suggest to use fantasy-only avatars (pictures) for better immersion
I agree that immersion should not be an issue in the forums unless there is a specific forum dedicated to roleplaying where you are not allowed out of character.
On the note of signatures, I can't really think of a reason to have them for this forum for now. That said, people often like to display a couple of links or other lines. I wouldn't mind if we were allowed a restricted sig (I probably wouldn't use it though) as long as pictures couldn't be large and as long as Vanilla has the option to allow members to ignore all sigs.
!!!~ So I kicked him in the head till he was dead, nyahahahah!" ~!!!
!!!~ "I'd rather we skipped the small talk and got right t' the killing." ~!!!
!!!~ "Sorry friend, but you've got a date. Down under!" ~!!!
I do however mind having our avatar pics be so tiny... Need to triple in dimension IMO.
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*fart* "Woh, that was a stinker!" - BG Voiced Personnel
P.S. I read somewhere that if you play as a monk, you can kick the bandit in the head until he's dead, nyahahahah!!!
_______________________________________________________________
CHARNAME: "I'll not let you harm a branch of this tree. You'll have to go through me first!"
Caldo: "That's OK. We probable go through you sometime anyway."