Custom Digos, Instant Sounds, Camera Buttons, And... Microwave, Warning e-e Options

[Chaser The Wolf]

Custom digos:
People are able to upload there own port, But what if they can upload there own avatar? it would be fun, it would probly be about $9.95 to upload, and it doent go away, and theres a button that says [My Digos], toggling there self made digos, it would work like ports too, lets say someone uploads a bad avatar(clothless avatar >.<), there would be a wait time, if your avatar is good, it goes in, if its bad, its rejected, and is not usable.
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Instent sounds:
What if a player could play a sound online? they hit alt+shift+s or click [play sound], then go pick a sound to play, if someone starts spamming, they are turned to a noob and then get reported to the guardians.
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Camera Button:
If someone owns a place, and they need to make sure that no one is misbehaving, or spamming, what if they could use a camera button, that will change to what ever the pos thats in the DS is set to for that 1 button
DS CODES:
(#:#) set Button # to be a camera button.
(#:#) set Camera Button # to be at pos (X,Y).
(#:#) set Camera button # to be a button.
(#:#) set Camera button to track {Name}.
(#:#) set any furre's present Button # to be a camera button.
(#:#) set any furre's present Camera Button # to be at pos (X,Y).
(#:#) set any furre's present Camera button # to be a button.
(#:#) set any furre's present Camera button to track {Name}.
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Microwave.....
Please do not cook your furre, he/she will burst into flames.
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This post has been edited by Chaser The Wolf: Oct 19 2008, 10:08 AM

[Kamose]

NOTE: The post name is Caps Per Text system o-o so the E-e is really e-e

I fixed your capitalization. (Most of the time, the system works well to prevent spammy titles in all caps.)


This popular suggestion has been rejected on the grounds that it would create massive lag and would give players too much control over the appearance of main maps. See Frequently Suggested Avatars for other threads that discuss this.

In 2004, Talzhemir wrote an excellent explanation of why we won't see custom avatars. Although it's an old post, most of her points are still relevant.

2. FURREALITY

I'm against patching individuals' avatars in Furcadia because that gives more main-map control away than I want to. Furcadia is, first and foremost... furries. I've got nothing against walking teapots or stormclouds, but we're advertising ourselves as a "furry" place, and, by Mickey, that's what patrons are gonna get.

I'm grateful that Furcadia players tend to upload mostly furry animal portraits. Every so often, though, there are some non-furry ones. As long as they're not R-rated, we just smile, and say Thank you VERY much.

Having custom walkabouts on the main maps would be much more disruptive, though. I say this because the games I've seen that permitted it (for example, http://www.thepalace.com/) were chaotic and "twinky." By that, I mean, the avatars that people tended to choose were as extremely god-like as they could find, and sometimes they weren't a character, they were just a big picture of a
face.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with an anything-goes kind of game like that but if done on Furcadia, it would have severely hurt the potential for Strict RP.

(While they're an almost tiny minority, Strict RPers tend to also be the furres who give the most of themselves. I strongly want to give them something back if we can.)

3. DOWNLOADS: THE DREADED N-SQUARED OVERHEAD PROBLEM

Bear in mind that Furcadia runs on ONE machine. Every portrait being viewed for the first time is being spewed out the same byte spiggot. A portrait is 10K. A small avatar such as the bunny is about 82K.

Viewing a portrait doesn't affect what you see when you move around the little scenery window. It takes a fast machine just a blink but a player on a slower connection (say dial-up) would be frozen for around 4 seconds each time a new walkabout was downloaded.

Now imagine what would happen to them if they walked into a Dream where 5 furres with custom walkabouts are standing there.

Bear in mind that, as this furre had to get 5 new downloads, at some point, all of those 5 also got sent copies of each other.

(If the number of furres is 5, then the number of downloads total is 5 to the second power, or, 25. N to the second power, or N-Squared. This is the dreaded N-Squared Overhead problem, where the resources needed for things you trade this way can skyrocket out of control fairly fast!)

When you buy a Port, you're partly paying for some DEP person to peek at it and okay it. But a bit of your moolah also went to defray the future bandwidth sapped by every time someone had to download it to look at it.

4. MUTUALNESS

For those who had limited bandwidth, I didn't think toggling Custom Walkabouts to "OFF" was a good idea. It solves the freezing problem but Furcadia is meant to have "mutualness", meaning, we all see the same thing. You could patch all your avatars to be fruits with big eyes and big feet but you have to go fairly out of your way to accomplish it.

Knowing that we are seeing the same thing brings a sense of unity with others in our virtual space. Experiencing different things drives us apart like a wall or wedge.

I wouldn't favor letting furres see the custom avatars but letting others turn them off. It kicks mutualness in the 'nads. Some furres seeing furres, and others seeing a giant talking apple, is confusing.

When someone turns their Music or Sound FX off, Mutuality has just been kicked in the shins. We didn't like adding it but we did see the point and we added the buttons.

[Seley]

The camera idea is interesting, though it does lead to ethics issues, monitoring people without letting them know about it, etc.

I second not microwaving furres, though. Ouch. o.o

[Dreamless Dancer]

Have a set of eyes appear on the watched furre's screen. O.O

[Emerald Flame]

The "watching" idea is like Felorin's Spectator mode, which would let you watch either a predetermined spot or follow a person around watching them. There'd be visial indicators on the screen for when you were being "viewed". You would get attention economy points if people were watching what you were doing. There'd, of course, be ways to opt out of all of this, but it would be a lot of fun to watch RP, plays, social areas and would cut down on the non-participating alts that sit around so that they don't miss anything.

[Stripes the Zebra]

Custom digos:
People are able to upload there own port, But what if they can upload there own avatar? it would be fun, it would probly be about $9.95 to upload, and it doent go away, and theres a button that says [My Digos], toggling there self made digos, it would work like ports too, lets say someone uploads a bad avatar(clothless avatar >.<), there would be a wait time, if your avatar is good, it goes in, if its bad, its rejected, and is not usable.

I had already suggested that xD
I like the camera idea, and also what Emmy said

[Dreamless Dancer]

Would it be part of the system where you could see who was watching you?

[Emerald Flame]

Would it be part of the system where you could see who was watching you?

Spectator Mode would tell you who was "viewing your channel" yes. And people you have on ignore would not be able to watch you. Your whispers wouldn't show either. I'm hoping it will allow for recording as well. It's an interesting concept and I hope he programs it in the not too distant future. It will add a new element to RP and other things like that. There'd be other ways to make attention economy points as well, of course.

[Tachs]

Spectator Mode would tell you who was "viewing your channel" yes. And people you have on ignore would not be able to watch you. Your whispers wouldn't show either. I'm hoping it will allow for recording as well. It's an interesting concept and I hope he programs it in the not too distant future. It will add a new element to RP and other things like that. There'd be other ways to make attention economy points as well, of course.

How about watch invites? You have to have your watch accepted to be able to watch (as a setting)?

[Emerald Flame]

How about watch invites? You have to have your watch accepted to be able to watch (as a setting)?

It is not totally designed yet but I'm sure Felorin will get it working well. He's been doing this a really long time now! Not planned for the next update..just something on the lists.

[Rat The Unloved]

A camera feature might be fun for instructional classes like dreamweaving or RP tutoring. Custom digos, i.e. FULLY custom ones... yeah, the problem has been discussed over and over.

[Justin StinCoy]

Quoth Chaser The Wolf:
Microwave.....
Please do not cook your furre, he/she will burst into flames.

Alas, I fear you are too late.

[Ocrina]

Owen alt when u been on furcadia for 5 years you get to pick ur digo that would be awsome!