Avatar Add-Ons, More stuff to pay for! Options

[Daenli]

If this has been suggested before, and you feel the need to get mad over something so trivial, by all means, flame to your hearts' content.

Anyway, the point I wanted to make is that, although phoenixes and dragons are nice, some of us prefer things a little more understated. I'd really like to be able to buy things to customise my avatar - and I think it would stop many people begging for new species options.

If I could pay for a bushy, squirrelly tail to add to my feline avatar, then I'd have my half-breed self looking just right. And wouldn't it be nice for equines to be able to purchase a horn and play all unicorny, or canines to get a brushier, foxier tail?
(I couldn't really come up with any more ideas, beyond wanting to add a fluffy tail to my own avatar.) Does anyone else have other ideas to build on this?

[Guest_Arcanus Novus_*]

Bondage gear for my vampire...
Shirtless for my buff puppy...
A nice pretty collar for my sexy kitty...
Longer claws for my demon...
A furrey beard for my old mage...
A shirt that says: I'm with stupid     for freeformers! (KIDDING! Don't kill me! I simply joke at Daenli with smiles!
Lets see...
Pretty dresses for my queen
Crowns for my king
Weapons for my brute
Nude for my feral
Tail-less for my manx
Antenna for Miss Mab and her freaky weirdness
A halo for my angel
Devil horns for my beezlebub
A cloak for my Rouge
a Staff for my sorceress
A jesus for my Fish
A darwin for my amphibian
A snapple for my Apple
A cute little bo-peep outfit for zabby to wear for me on thursday nights after our tea party... Hmm. What was I talking about?

Oh yeah. Cool idea. would be extra $$$ in the thin pockets of those Dragonz Eye hippies ^.^

[Daenli]

*rolls dice furiously* Can I retaliate, o dice of fate?  

[Leticia]

The problem with that in the CURRENT system is that a new avatar set would have to be made for each item.  If/when Furc ever gets modular avatars, it's a nice idea.  But for now, it'd terribly bloat the download.

You'd have to have your normal patch, your winged normal, winged with horn, unwinged with horn, all of the above with every other outfit, all the above with tails...

And a single species avatar patch is about 80k.  What you're talking about (setting aside the time to make them all) would go upwards of several M.  It'd be 4M more just to add for genders...  Which is to say, create two new versions of every existing avatar.  Every time you add a new item for an avatar, you basically double the number of avatars to download.

Current avatar files are a total of 2.20M

* horns, * bushy tails, * fox tails, etc...

2.20 * 2^3 = about 17.6 M.

Now, that's like twice as big as Furc's existing download file, and this would JUST be avatar patches.

Not to mention, again, the hell it would be to MAKE all those patches in the first place.  *shudders*

Eventually, I'm sure they'll go to a more modular avatar, which will mean we'll see all sorts of bugs in that, but, we can have horns and wings without having to double files each time...

But for now, it's just not feasible.

[Valkaria]

A jesus for my Fish
A darwin for my amphibian

Haha.  Nice.  

[Zaboo]

A cute little bo-peep outfit for zabby to wear for me on thursday nights after our tea party... Hmm. What was I talking about?

Ug... Zabby and sheep do not mix.  

I really like this idea Daenli, however it would make the download ghastly.  

Maybe sometime in the future... ah sweet dreamers dreaming dreamy dreams.

And Zaboo rambles on .. with only half an hour before she gets to go home ...

[Youlanda]

Similar to my "wings.fsh" pondering, the solution for downloads from doom is simply to make it possible to tack things onto avatars, be it wings or accesories.

This would cut the download time for avatars drastically, and open up avatar slots for more species that continuiously get asked for, all while lowering the overall download time for Furcadia.

I actually recall hearing that "tacking" things onto avatars will be around eventually, but I could be just thinking too hard...

Provided tacked on things can be made modular... the download time wouldn't be huge at all.

... but I imagine some yiffer would probably want to attach a large male sexual organ to the crotch area... *insert sweatdrop here*

[Aeronyth]

I think this could be done...

You would only download the avatar that you need.

So..

If you didn't own a bushy tail or a horn, you wouldn't need them.  

The download time would stay the same, and the game could download the avatars for you if needed.

[Nikolas Payne]

You  need them to see other players who have them, Aeronyth. If you only have the avatars of the ones you own, what's the point in other people having things you can't see?

So, thusly, the huge downloads still remains a valid point.

[Guest_Rapi No Baka_*]

i have an idea,instead of adding every avatar thingy(too much lag for s***ty modem like mine and looon download for s***ty modem like mine  

soo they should do like the portrait space but for animation,we could edit it or artist could for us ,

oh i just tought of something -_-
portrait space take like 3 second to load for me when i click on someone who have one,but it only load when you click on the person but for the avatar,they would automaticly load...lag    
so i start begging for species -_-; squirrel,bear birdy lezard!! =P poor me

[Youlanda]

People aren't listening.

An object tacked onto an avatar... or series of animated objects... would be no larger in download size than a portrait space.

Why?

Because I can take an avatar and fit in in the 95x95 pixel avatar space with room to spare, multiple times.

The literal tacking on and modularism would make downloads small. If the items were added to game space, it may add a few hundred kb in the initial download, as I have noted many times, also making wings modular would eliminate 600kb of download time from the game's download.

bleh.

[Valkaria]

You honestly expect anyone to listen?