I think that, along with the already-existing armatars, we should be able to upload pictures onto our computers and use them for our armatar image. And if not that, I think we should be able to take pictures off of the internet and use them instead.
Am I the only one who thinks that, or do you people reading this think the same thing?
Before I even write the rest, let me tell you the answer to your question: No. And the reasons are most likely of following:
1. Uploaded armatars take a lot of space and spped of the server(If you had a 5 mb armatar, even with compression and making it smaller it would slow server speed). The storage is for mostly games.
2. People may abuse the feature. Check other sites who use this feature, and you will most likely see that many people may put sexist or inappropriate pictures)
3. The pictures may disturb someone who sees them and break their concentration(Especially those flashing .Gif pictures)
4. Armatars are called so because they are from Armorgames, are Medieval based and can be used as avatars.
5. Unlocking armatars would be no more point: You could simply find someone who has the armatar and upload it for yourself.
6. It helps prevent anything that could break a copyright law. Makes life easier.
There may be others the administrators could tell you but I think these reasons are already enough.
Not most people, but just spammers and "things" like that.
Some people might keep to the rules, but many(Like very low profile users) will not.
Sure, would be nice, but the armatars we have already are great too!
Only level I could see it at is 17500, where people are gold kings/queens. To few of them to do anything and if they post inappropriate pictures they're easy to track.
Still, breaks the theme of the site. So that's a negative.
1. Uploaded armatars take a lot of space and spped of the server(If you had a 5 mb armatar, even with compression and making it smaller it would slow server speed). The storage is for mostly games.
2. People may abuse the feature. Check other sites who use this feature, and you will most likely see that many people may put sexist or inappropriate pictures)
3. The pictures may disturb someone who sees them and break their concentration(Especially those flashing .Gif pictures)
4. Armatars are called so because they are from Armorgames, are Medieval based and can be used as avatars.
5. Unlocking armatars would be no more point: You could simply find someone who has the armatar and upload it for yourself.
6. It helps prevent anything that could break a copyright law. Makes life easier.
Well unlimitedpower to be fair while you do make some good points here, and while I do agree that we should not have customizable armatars there are a few I do want to point out that could be easily preventable.
1. Uploaded armatars take a lot of space and spped of the server(If you had a 5 mb armatar, even with compression and making it smaller it would slow server speed). The storage is for mostly games.
OK look first off lets look at what your talking about. The images would be no larger then 100 x 100 pixels large, and for my old Spring Armatar that was in .png format that only summed up to around 20 KB. In .jpg format it was 30 KB. Neither of those number comes close to 5 MB, and they could do what Con Artists did with his forum, making it necessary to have size of the image in both memory and pixels to be at a certain perimeter. He required the images to be exactly a certain amount of pixels, and less then 20 KB. So this would not be a problem if they put that into place.
3. The pictures may disturb someone who sees them and break their concentration(Especially those flashing .Gif pictures)
Now I only half-disagree with this one because while I do understand that pictures can be distracting on these forums, the idea of them using .GIF's is another thing, because it can be implemented to where only certain formats(such as just .PNG, and .JPG) are allowed to become the avatar.
Now everything else I do agree on, and that is mainly why I would not want custom armatars, but I just wanted to clear some things up out of a small tendency to not lead people to believing things blindly.
