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11 years ago
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Color-coded chevrons ftw.

+1

Even the old dudes remained a mystery to me. Trying to stack even more meaning into those poor 256 pixels is a bad, bad idea.
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btw, the dudes they dont look like the have a crown... they look like they are destinctly missing the crown a la hanibal lecter.

except this time he thought that it would be prettier if he cut it open in a zig zag

but licho... to horiffy people is so much more fun!
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11 years ago
So basically we could get:

shevron:
- experience (marking)
- ELO rating (color or some part of marking)

dude:
- randomly assigned basic dude just like forum avatars
- self mark (teal/cyan glow/background)
- friend mark (pink glow/background)
- admin restricted dudes - police hat or markings
- donator restricted dudes - ubercool customize pictures, ninjas or custom self-made icons

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11 years ago
yea dat works ^.^

my guy should look like this
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11 years ago
That sounds about perfect actually licho.
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Skasi
11 years ago
There's a flea of pink on your nose, ddaba. Tell pink to selfD it.
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11 years ago
Ok so what we need now is new rank icons.

They should come in about 10 shapes (reflecting levels)
and each shape in about 4-5 colors (reflecting elo band/league)
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11 years ago
Chevron proposal:



Colors are easy to add then.
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11 years ago
Looks good :)
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I figured out imagemagick enough to colorize in batch, so tweaking or adding new colors is minimal work. My rankings here don't need to be official yet.

Copper:


Bronze:


Silver:


Gold:


Diamond:
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11 years ago
yay!
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11 years ago
Nice, nice.

Gold could be more yellow for a more shiny feel.
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11 years ago
Maybe add green for the lowest ELO(new players) because 5 colours is a bot few to split up by ELO since ELO is more important then lvl in my opinion
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11 years ago
For "pretty" reasons i would swapp copper and bronze. Bronze looks like less nice to me.
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11 years ago
Do you think some dots would fit into that icon to actually map every level to icon?
up to 100
Or is there no room?

(problem would be used to generate them probably or combine from two pieces)
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Brilliant.

I think the symbols from bronze to diamond should get progressively glossier in order to look more unambiguously 'better'.
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11 years ago
They look nice in this overview. Try how they look in the lobby. White background and the colors/ranks shuffled. Makes big difference in my experience.

I dont like only 5 leagues. I wonder how you plan to distribute them between the lowest and highest elo. With even distrubution it will be around 200 elo for next league which is very noticable skill difference in 1 league.
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11 years ago
Copper 0 - 1300
Bronze 1300 - 1500
Silver 1500 - 1700
Gold 1700 - 1900
Diamon 1900 - infinity
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11 years ago
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They look nice in this overview. Try how they look in the lobby. White background and the colors/ranks shuffled. Makes big difference in my experience.


This is an excellent observation, although I am operating on an assumption that the lobby will be de-wpf-ified for multi-platform capability, and then themed properly with a dark consistent theme.
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11 years ago
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Do you think some dots would fit into that icon to actually map every level to icon?
up to 100
Or is there no room?

(problem would be used to generate them probably or combine from two pieces)

That isn't a problem so much. I already tried to tackle this before; I can make the parts as inkscape layers and then export in batch mode.

The real trick is to make anything comprehensible at 16x16, and still look 'good' in a way that immerses the player. The most efficient way would be to just literally use small numbers, but that isn't as fun.

I can give it another look though.

Thanks all for the feedback. I have been using this page as a baseline: http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/wiki/LevelRankBadge
(Where the idea originated from anyway)

So the next step is to also have faction-based banners behind insignia for the website. Kind of like it currently is now, except instead of red for everyone it will be your faction color. So I'll be tweaking colors as suggested, but also in a way that nothing clashes too terribly with banners also.
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