The Energon Pub

Next up for discussion: subfaction icons!

Subfaction icons are awesome. End of discussion.

Burn wrote:Okay, so you don't like the idea of them being "badges of honour" so to speak.

We all create our own teams, is it so much to ask that we be allowed to display our own (sub-)faction symbols to signify we are our own fan created individual teams?

So try this.

The ability for a person to submit their own faction symbol for their own use.

Have a list of canon faction symbols a person can use, but if they have their own give them the ability to submit it so that they and only they can use it.

Submissions would have to meet certain guidelines and obviously not contain any offensive material.

How does that sound?

I think it sounds excellent.

That way I'd be the only one walking around here sporting the Toxicon logo.

I don't want any stinking Decepticons, Autobots, or Maximials tarnishing the Toxicon name

Original Sin wrote:I don't want any stinking Decepticons, Autobots, or Maximials tarnishing the Toxicon name

Of course not, they do fine all on their own.

Thunderscream wrote:

Original Sin wrote:I don't want any stinking Decepticons, Autobots, or Maximials tarnishing the Toxicon name

Of course not, they do fine all on their own.

Hey now, my team has come into its own.

Even if the commander has dropped down to the fifth spot on my team

How about the Sector Seven logo? It could double as an Allspark symbol.

Philcom wrote:How about the Sector Seven logo? It could double as an Allspark symbol.

I suggested the S7, GIJoe, and Cobra logos back in the planning forum, but now I can't find the post saying why not, so for my part I'd say we should have human symbols. I don't see it as being unreasonable for players to have human-piloted mechs or Earth-allied Transformers on their team.

I'd also still like to see emblems for the various combiner subgroups, like the Stunticons, Constructicons, and Protectobots just because I think they'd look cool. Also, Emblems for Transmetals and Transmetal IIs.

Finally, couldn't we vastly increase the range or options available by allowing players to edit the color of the emblem? That way even if we only had the half-dozen or so canon emblems, it would actually be like 64(?) times that amount.

Hmmm...
I seem to have misplaced my good copy of 'The Bloody Bun'

Could someone knock-up a icon of the Symbol shown on the sails of the ships in the last 2 panels of this comic stip

Please and Thanks

Mkall wrote:

Win!

Assaultbot:

Phasewing wrote:

Spiritimus Prime wrote:Since I don't know how to make a symbol of my own, can some make this for my Dragonbots. Just needs the Maximal symbol in the middle.

Uhm, wow... awfully detailed image there, dontcha think? Well, I tried to have a go at it, hope it's something to your liking, Spirit?

after looking at this i thought the Preds need a dragon one aswell,so i dug threw my 1 gig of pictures and found this one that could due the job. if someone wants to edit it up that is. i was thinking a black dragon and the pred sign,but i will leave the details up to the artists better judgement.

Hmmm...the Autobots could use a few more symbols. I've got a couple of ideas floating around in my head that I just need to get onto paper. When I have a spare moment tomorrow, I'll try to get them in here, m'kay?

Caelus wrote:

Philcom wrote:How about the Sector Seven logo? It could double as an Allspark symbol.

I suggested the S7, GIJoe, and Cobra logos back in the planning forum, but now I can't find the post saying why not, so for my part I'd say we should have human symbols. I don't see it as being unreasonable for players to have human-piloted mechs or Earth-allied Transformers on their team.

I'd also still like to see emblems for the various combiner subgroups, like the Stunticons, Constructicons, and Protectobots just because I think they'd look cool. Also, Emblems for Transmetals and Transmetal IIs.

Finally, couldn't we vastly increase the range or options available by allowing players to edit the color of the emblem? That way even if we only had the half-dozen or so canon emblems, it would actually be like 64(?) times that amount.

Like I said, since the Sector Seven logo is based on the Allspark cube it could double as a general Allspark logo.

Also if non-Transformer related or fan made symbols are going to be put in, there should be no reason GI Joe, Cobra, Sectro Seven, maybe even some human national images couldn't be used, unless they'll be in use elsewhere.

Things like The USAF logos

Philcom wrote:Also if non-Transformer related or fan made symbols are going to be put in, there should be no reason GI Joe, Cobra, Sectro Seven, maybe even some human national images couldn't be used, unless they'll be in use elsewhere.

Actually just ocurred to me that no one has made a Decepticon RAF logo yet...

i don't see any like this as well.

Waylander wrote:i don't see any like this as well.

lol, I was about to post these last night but never got around to.
It was made for all those who betray their faction.
Ex-Autobot

Ex-Decepticon

I might do a better version, because I dont like how these turned out.

GreenLantern of Cybertron wrote:

Waylander wrote:i don't see any like this as well.

lol, I was about to post these last night but never got around to.
It was made for all those who betray their faction.
Ex-Autobot

Ex-Decepticon

I might do a better version, because I dont like how these turned out.

nice stuff,but how can one betray their faction when it is a reset?

I'm not sure how to make emblems of the proper size, shape, etc, but if there's someone who'd be willing to convert these to the proper format, I'd greatly appreciate it:

Made In Canada Autobot



Made In Canada Decepticon



These aren't the original MIC symbols, as I only have a copy of the old 'Con symbol and it's too small to be legible, just something I whipped up quickly as a replacement.

Waylander wrote:

GreenLantern of Cybertron wrote:

Waylander wrote:i don't see any like this as well.

lol, I was about to post these last night but never got around to.
It was made for all those who betray their faction.
Ex-Autobot

Ex-Decepticon

I might do a better version, because I dont like how these turned out.

nice stuff,but how can one betray their faction when it is a reset?

They mean from a roleplaying perspective. For example, a large number of my current team are written up as exPredacons, a lot of Methusalen's Decepticons were exAutobots, etc.

Caelus wrote:I still think the icons should be selectable on a bot-by-bot basis.

If you want the icon to represent your entire squad - give everyone the same insignia.

If you want to divide your unit into two or three squads - differentiate them with 2 or 3 icons.

If you want to represent the origin of each of your characters - give them each a different symbol.

If it's tied to the whole team, you only get to exercise option #1. And at that rate, we could just transplant the emblem system from the boards into the game.

I agree with this idea. I like having the subfaction icons on a bot-by-bot basis. As for the idea of "special team" icons, why not just make it like the avatars, one slot per team for your team logo that you can upload as you wish?

MN12ShadowDragon wrote:As for the idea of "special team" icons, why not just make it like the avatars, one slot per team for your team logo that you can upload as you wish?

Not a bad idea if it can be done. Should be a small image though, no need to have anything much bigger than the cannon faction symbols.

yeah, 25px x 25px or something. Just have to see if all the extra DB calls are worth it or if it would just make pageloads a lot longer.

MN12ShadowDragon wrote:yeah, 25px x 25px or something. Just have to see if all the extra DB calls are worth it or if it would just make pageloads a lot longer.

Yeah that's the main reason I think it should be kept small.

Which is why I said it could be uploaded for submission and then approved by those in charge and incorporated manually by them.

MN12ShadowDragon wrote:As for the idea of "special team" icons, why not just make it like the avatars, one slot per team for your team logo that you can upload as you wish?

Can't do, for the same reason we couldn't allow pictures to be posted in the character profiles - too much risk of abuse.

If we were going to do something like that, it would have to be something that, as Burn suggested, players submitted and the mods authorized on an icon-by-icon basis.

I can't decide just how bad that would be in terms of time consumption - I guess it would depend on how efficient OS would make the system for mods uploading the icons to the players' accounts. As far as actually overviewing the submissions it wouldn't take long for us to skim a list of icons and make sure they don't have obscene material, especially if submissions were just posted in a thread. The tiresome part would be going on to each player's profile and adding the pic they want.

Caelus wrote:Can't do, for the same reason we couldn't allow pictures to be posted in the character profiles - too much risk of abuse.

I deal with abusers on a daily basis so I hear you on that. Are the avatars on here checked first? Maybe some sort of moderation queue like VBulletin has where the uploads are "pending" until allowed by a moderator. That way the mod only has to click accept/deny and then it is visible/deleted since it would already be attached to the profile, just "hidden".