Species and players view suggestion Options

[Murphy T. Fox]

Hi Everyfur,

I have some suggestions, maybe not perfect

1) What about bear or Raccoon furres? Maybe this idea isn't new, but I'm wondering there were no bears or Raccoons. Or is there just no interest in playing or making such furres?

2) Another thing what I'm missing a bit is a more personalized Players view on Furcadia. I think about having a bigger belly or more than one tail or something like that.

Murphy T. Fox

[Cassiel]

Making new avatars is alot of work and that's why they're so slow in releasing new ones.

[Guest_Iced Stallion_*]

Yeps you can make your OWN custom avatar for you dream, only avatars are based on a one file species for all. If say you pick female, or male they work off the same fiel thats why they dont look different. You can only customize an ENTIRE species. As for custom ones on public maps thats a theory discussed more than once scroll threw the forums.

[Deedlit79]

Squirrel is coming soon!

[Talzhemir]

Dear Murphy,

That's Question #20 on my personal FAQ.

20. "Could you add [this new Race] to Furcadia?"

--Furcadia has so few Races because every new Race adds considerably to the size of the download. Every second longer it goes is a moment in which the download might fail. If that happens, the downloader is likely to give up on Furcadia forever.

The ones we have were chosen by going over FurryMUCK data. These six covers over 95% of FurryMUCK's population. If the Internet itself changes such that bandwidth is MUCH higher for even the slowest users, then we can consider adding others.

My list is topped Skunks (stretchable for squirrels, etc.), Cows, Deer, Bugges, and Avians ("Byrddes").

Although I normally appreciate input, your suggestion for what to add next will probably fall on deaf ears until all five of the above are completed and added.  

Yours truly,
Talzhemir

[Cave]

I think that list needs to be revised, Talz. Maybe put a poll on the main page after the squirrel/skunk is introduced or something? Judging by the number of requests on the Suggestions board bears are the next most popular species. Furcadia has been around for 8 years now, why are updates still based on data collected from a different community almost a decade ago?



This post has been edited by Cave: Apr 1 2000, 05:00 AM

[Cassiel]

I don't think a poll is really necesary.  DEP has more than enough people talking to them for all the clamoring over avatar requests to get back to them pretty easily.

AND WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH DIGGING UP BURIED THREADS, RECENTLY?!

[Talzhemir]

Checking recently, cows have become more popular than squirrels/skunks, but bears, despite the requests, haven't come up in the ranks.  The rest still matches what we've got planned.

    Although suggestions are helpful, what furres say they'd like to play, and what they actually play, are two different things.  What we would prefer to *see* around us, is a third thing altogether.

[Cassiel]

Well.. that's certainly a surprise.

[Camrynne]

I certainly would like the idea of having a raccoon (since i have a raccoon alt) but its just a matter of patience. For now, i use the musteline avatar, and in certain dreams it looks close enough (though the default pic is rather.....eww) But....cows can use horse, squirrel and skunk can use the same avatar, so that is good....
So, yeah, as much as i want a raccoon, i say bears should be next since they are dramatically different than any other race. That, or reptiians....

[Cassiel]

Giraffe.