Just two ideas...

[jupider]

Okay, neither of these are *important* by any means, but they came across my mind and I just needed to put them out there.

One, I have no need for this, but someone may: Sorting pMails by sender (and maybe subject as well) as well as date received.

Two, to go along with avatars, the ability to change the icon by your name in the chat window. I know a lot of prominent paracites have them, but us lowly folk may feel jealous or unworthy. Again, I have no *need* for this, but it would be nice. Of course, they would still need to be approved by the proper people so everyone just doesn't change their icon to a red shirt or Homer Simpson or something. Maybe after an icon is submitted a required red or green dot could be superimposed in a corner of the image.

That's all for now.

[Gobberwart]

1. It's already on the to-do list, for inclusion when there are more people (along with the ability to display n messages per page etc.).

2. We considered that a while back and decided it would just get too confusing. At 16x16 pixels, distinguishing between ranks would get awfully difficult, and managing the images would be a nightmare for us. Not something we want to look at right now. Besides, we really *like* being the only people allowed to have custom chat icons. Makes us feel speshul

[LGOD]

I strongly support these ideas.

[Gobberwart]

LG did you miss the part where I said no? If you REALLY want us to reconsider, someone's going to have to come up with some pretty compelling reasons.

[LGOD]

LG did you miss the part where I said no? If you REALLY want us to reconsider, someone's going to have to come up with some pretty compelling reasons.

Yes, I honestly did.

Don't hurt me.

[SportGuy]

How about if he gives you a Klondike bar?

[heliosa10]

Sheep enjoy advertising. Like, for example giving heliosa10 a sheep chat icon. Which would maybe convince them to support your re-election campaign. We know how much being governor of paradox means to you, and you would get a lot of votes on a pro sheep platform, Mr. Gobberwart. And on that subject, you have a very nice campaign there. Wouldn't want something to happen to it, like, for say, someone "loses" all your votes. Of course, that will never happen. Right... Mr. Gobberwart?

[DrWolf]

Votes? When did this become a democracy?=op

[SportGuy]

I thought this was a dictatorship where Gob was dictator and other leaders were family....it worked for Saddam for a long time after all.

But in all seriousness, let's keep this thread on track...did anyone actually have compelling reasons for gob to do either of the points discussed?

[LGOD]

If I am totally getting the idea wrong, kick me.

The ability to change your own chat icon may be only introduced as a donation gift and/or as a token item. This, in my point of view, might increase token sales. As for ranking confusion, I agree with green/red/violet/black dots at the corner of the image. And as for making you guys feel 'speshul' (which sadly I had to look up in the dictionary before giving myself a facepalm), you always are. You can play with the game... that's more speshul than a 16x16 picture.

Okay, kick me now.

[Right2Wrong2000]

I agree Dev's should be the only people allowed to have a chat avatar. Its just easier that way. a dot in the corner of a 16x16 image would be ridiculous. No custom chat avatar. Character avatar's are good enough.

[invisible]

just a thought here but maybe when there are character classes there could then be a new chat Icon for each class.... which then could make everyone feel Speshul..... this would also be cool for players looking to hire skills from certain classes... and trade will not be full of... " Is there any pastamancers available to cook for me" just a thought

[heliosa10]

just a thought here but maybe when there are character classes there could then be a new chat Icon for each class.... which then could make everyone feel Speshul..... this would also be cool for players looking to hire skills from certain classes... and trade will not be full of... " Is there any pastamancers available to cook for me" just a thought

Interesting Idea. We should see what a dev thinks

[Gobberwart]

I think the idea has merit and, if we can find a way to do something like that without making the chat userlist ridiculously messy, we'll probably do something like that. Right now, it's not relevant to what we're currently working on, so we'll look at it again at an appropriate time.