Many Ideas For Future Avatars, Lots and lots of ideas Options

[Dark Howler]

I was talking with a beekin and she and I came up with ideas for furcadia.

1. I was thinking, furcadia should have free feral versions of default free avatars. Like there would be a dropdown menu that lets you choose between feral/normal.
2. Rotate around the screen ( Other games do it )
3. Apes, such as gorilla ferian, chimp free avatar. Also, avians, reptiles ( komodo dragon ferian ), and default frogs.
4. Customize character ( Every other game I play can do this except for furcadia see www.roblox.com and go to catalog for examples. ) YES ITS BEEN POSTED 9097987987 TIMES I KNOW

Q: When's the 32 bit update coming out, and what will be some features of it?


Note to furcadia staff: People say it would be to hard to do, so why don't you get off your butts and do it.

[Justin StinCoy]

Quoth Dark Howler:
1. I was thinking, furcadia should have free feral versions of default free avatars. Like there would be a dropdown menu that lets you choose between feral/normal.

Unlikely. You might say the Digo Market sells four feet.

2. Rotate around the screen ( Other games do it )

One reason against is that this would require 3D graphics, which are a lot harder for individual artists to patch in than Furcadia's present setup. Another is that DEP wants to maintain a constant mutuality between players -- everyone in the same area sees, more or less, the same thing thus encouraging players to interact with each other. And, of course, they haven't the money or manpower to go that far in any case.

[3. Apes, such as gorilla ferian, chimp free avatar. Also, avians, reptiles ( komodo dragon ferian ), and default frogs.

Ferians are not likely to be free. Primates are still a bone of contention covered to a head-whirling degree in other threads (and may become a moot concern in the future with Tail Digos and the coming of attachments).

Avians, reptiles, and frogs are good ideas.

4. Customize character ( Every other game I play can do this except for furcadia see www.roblox.com and go to catalog for examples. )

Custom avatars players can upload to the game aren't going to happen because of server issues and the issue of a loss of control over how the main maps look. Think of the main maps as being DEP's dreams. You wouldn't accept some unknown player uploading a block of pixels to your dream and neither should DEP.

On the other hand, if you want a number of premade attachments you can mix and match to make your avatar, that will be possible whenever attachments are programmed in.

Q: When's the 32 bit update coming out, and what will be some features of it?

I'm not a member of DEP, but I do know what their answer will be -- when it gets done.

As for features, the ability to fiddle with a heck of a lot more colors for your patches and transparency are both expected.

Note to furcadia staff: People say it would be to hard to do, so why don't you get off your butts and do it.

What makes you think they aren't? It takes time, money, and manpower to get anything done and DEP tends to be short on the last two.

[Lysanda]

Note to furcadia staff: People say it would be to hard to do, so why don't you get off your butts and do it.

Just a word of advice...being insulting rarely endears people to your cause. It would sound just as silly for me to suggest that you get off your tail and pull all those magical fat wads of cash out of your pockets and send it along.

Justin quite thoroughly covered most of your thoughts, but I also direct you to the frequently suggested avatar sticky at the top of this forum.

If you would like to see Furcadia's development proceed at a quicker pace, you can help by buying lots and lots of Digos and spending more money on the game.

In order to run/support/develop Furcadia, the staff consists of several full-time employees, contractors, several part-timers, and lots and lots of volunteers. Furcadia is not a huge staffed company with a ton of resources or employees at their disposal, such as say, Blizzard or Turbine. There are lots of posts that go into depth about the costs associated with running the game, supporting the staff, and continuing said development. They are quite easy to find with the search function if you take a couple minutes to browse, if you are interested further. The cost of servers and bandwidth can be quite hefty, let alone the cost of continuing to develop the game.

Things don't just magically happen or come out of nowhere. If things are THAT easy, you'd have already done it yourself, right?

[Kamose]

4. Customize character ( Every other game I play can do this except for furcadia see www.roblox.com and go to catalog for examples. ) YES ITS BEEN POSTED 9097987987 TIMES I KNOW

Because Furcadia treats each species and frame of animation as a whole picture (and not as a combination of parts), this is not currently feasible. However, avatars will be handled differently after the 32-bit graphics update, so customization will be possible. There will be body and clothing options, and not all of them will cost money.

Emerald|Flame: Talz decides most of the avatars we will add. Add it to the avatar list. I will say that it is likely that instead of us adding more avatars, we may just give you avatar parts that when combined with other avatars make new things. Like new muzzles and tails and ears and such.
Emerald|Flame: Keeping body types the same will make it so that more clothing fits on more avatars! #SA
Emerald|Flame: Yes, the first version of that is planned for the attachments update #SA
Emerald|Flame: More will follow later. We are starting with tails, wings (maybe ears)...them masks, hats,
Emerald|Flame: SS will be able to use the parts of all the current avatars that they own. So you can take off the Kirin wings and not wear them or replace them with dragon wings, etc.
Emerald|Flame: Very good question. We are actually breaking the avatars up into those sizes. We have tiny, small, med, large and XL avatars. Most attachments will have three versions made so that they work with *most* avatars. The tiny (kiwi and small kitter) and the XL (werewolf) may have to use one that doesn't fit so well. It's kind of cute though in our tests. #SA Some attachments may only work for certain sizes or even only for certain avatars!

[Narnia]

Note to furcadia staff: People say it would be to hard to do, so why don't you get off your butts and do it.

By reading this 'I want more things for free' post I have only one question to ask, how many digos have you purchased to help with development?

My guess, none.