well, since noone made it, here it is.THE ICON POLL

[SmurfKinG]

Yes i know its a gimmick thing and it doesnt do anything on actual game.. but we doing nothing with em

Without going into details about rules and earning , just a poll if you are in favor of having a free custom icon on ur aka.. or you want them only earned.

Comments, thoughts.
Why yes or why only earned...

ill start.

I think everyone should have a free icon

I proposed this:

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i really think everyone should deserve a custom icon

with a few restrictions.

- only 1 icon, period, no multiple icons on multiple akas, or the same icon on multiple akas.
just ONE icon on ONE aka.

- user must be either 2 years old playing ru or reach a certain amount of wins, (500? 1000?)
(aka not necesarily be installed on the aka with the wins)

- icon must be designed and submitted by user

- icon transfer aka to another aka only once a year. (to avoid further hassle to icon admin)

- alloewd icon change maybe every 6months?

- caught hackers = no more icons until further notice.

war2 ru lives because of the players commited and actual play. its like a small aesthetic gift. and its in our hands to give it.

Claw proposes this:

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1. Amount of wins / amounts of losses / amount of total games played - self explanatory. we could add more icons for these, or create separate icons for wins and seprate for losses...
2. Ladder - ABCDF (+ / -) iconz for ~~top200 ladder awarded by a parsing bot
3. amount of wins in the tournament - how i see this is like with the axes and first 10 wins, but simplified. For example 1 2 3 4 blue stripes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th win in a tournament. Later on i'd say red or green stripes, then purple, or stars, or more complex thingies or even skulls. Idk, but this could make unique, interesting icons for the tournament winners. This may encourage people to participate in various tourneys. Tournament directors responsibility would be to report the tournament win to some icon admin or in a dedicated thread. I'd add a rule of 8-player-minimum to this as well... my personal favourite

it's possible to mix these ideas, but i'd prefer having #3 exclusively. I never cared for sware and profi TBH. however, 5k wins or 5k losses icons would be rather rare and maybe attractive too...

which proposal best describes your position on this

[I hate naggers]

claws proposal

[Delete mine too]

Must have 500 plus wins for an icon of choice. Besides tourney icons or championships... You must also make it yourself or choose from the icons available. Only request once a year for change or whatever.

[Teron-Gorefiend]

Must have 500 plus wins for an icon of choice. Besides tourney icons or championships... You must also make it yourself or choose from the icons available. Only request once a year for change or whatever.

At least 8k games (wins + losses) for a customised icons.
500 wins is a joke.

[EviL~Ryu]

All icons earned. Some should be customizable.

[Teron-Gorefiend]

There needs to be an incentive to earn an icon. Mods should veto this poll!

[I hate naggers]

they cant veto, theres no "veto" in direct democracy!

[Teron-Gorefiend]

It's not direct democracy afaik....

[I hate naggers]

anyway im sick of these worthless polls. Some admin should just create the new icons (or state that its a bad/useless idea), make the master tag policy clear and THEN, only then (when something actually gets done) take the feedback from community. Jesus christ, we got a bunch of forum nerd retards (me included) arguing about something which will probably never get done anyway. And for what? A couple of lousy icons... mousetopher got them up and working on her server through the night, and we're just running around like headless chickens starting shitty polls and creating shitty threads.

mousetopher, do you have the necessary access to the server for the new icons? ;p

[mousEtopher]

+1 to Smurfking's idea.

- Awarded based on account age or number of wins/games played. (500 seems low, 8000 seems high, it's okay maybe for people who have played here for ten years but prohibitive to new players.)
- User-submitted icons subject to approval by myself or someone with half a modicum of design sense, so people don't upload just any old ugly/blurry/mspaint bs.
- Certain tags that can only be acquired by winning tournies.

mousetopher, do you have the necessary access to the server for the new icons? ;p

Noo, but fine, I'll email the boss about it since it doesn't look like it's happening otherwise. Also, if I'm going to the trouble of adding/making/uploading custom icons all the time then I want some genuine community participation and assurance that this whole affair isn't going to fizzle and die in two weeks. You use your mad skills to create a stealthbot script that allows users to self-assign icons based on Smurfking parameters or similar. Agreed?

[SmurfKinG]

I ask that you at least add....

the proposals i quoted (myself and claws) were meant to be taken as a reference. Not a straight follow rule by rule guideline.

(the restrictions in either proposals may be settled/modified later...)
the main aim of thread is to know people's feels and stance about the subject

[Rit]

I ask that you at least add....

the proposals i quoted (myself and claws) were to be meant to be taken as a reference. Not a straight follow rule by rule guideline.

(the restrictions in either proposals may be settled later...)
the main aim of thread is to know people's feels and stance about the subject

I removed my post after a reconsideration.  I see some problems here (some I didn't even list), but I think it's better that I stay out of it and let it run it's course.

[SmurfKinG]

yeah i noticed but i decided to... let  my reply stay (not delete), for future references

but yes lets see how it goes.

[RipE[Eur0]]

ofc icons for ppl.

why arent admins saying anything ? too much work? lol...

[I hate naggers]

why arent admins saying anything ? too much work? 

well apparently too much work for YOU to state your opinion. Is:

ofc icons for ppl.

the ONLY thing you have to say about this matter? "ofc icons for ppl."? And youre calling others lazy? LOL