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« on: April 23, 2008, 03:52:43 PM »

I just thought of a suggestion that could be useful for tech support and quest help posts.

In every thread, next to every post, there is already user information for whoever makes a post on the site. Part of that information involves tiny icons that tell you which instant messengers they have. I would like to suggest that we add 3-5 more tiny icons like that to let everyone know which version(s) of Oblivion each user has. If you have the game for PC AND Xbox, you'll have an icon for each. This information would be useful for answering people's questions about how to solve in-game bugs. If the person asking the question only has Oblivion for X-Box, there's no use telling them about console commands, which they can't use. It might also be helpful to know which official plugins/expansions people have.

So, if anyone is interested in implementing this, we could have the following new icons:
 - PC (Oblivion for PC - white text on black background)
 - X (Oblivion for X-Box 360 - green X on black OR grey/green sphere logo on white)
 - PS3 (Oblivion for Play Station 3 - white text on black background OR PS logo on white)
 - KotN (Knights of the Nine expansion - black text on red diamond & tan background OR just the red diamond & tan background)
 - SI (Shivering Isles expansion - black text on tan background OR the Sheogorath 3-headed portal logo)

You can only fit so much info in such a small icon, so we'd only have 1-4 letters to represent each, or a simple, appropriate logo. Instead of the links that are associated with the IM and email icons, we'd only need some mouse-over text to say exactly what each one means. I could make each logo easily enough... but I want to wait and see if there's even any interest in this. I also don't know how much extra work this would be for Igiss to program. It might be as simple as using the IM icons as a template and choosing the icon... or as detailed as writing a complicated program/code from scratch. It might turn out not to be worth the effort... but I'm interested in hearing everyone's opinion on the topic.

Also, I was thinking of adding an icon for GotY (Game of the year) but that could be confusing for newer users so I'd suggest that if you check that box on your profile editing menu, that it automatically adds the icons for KotN and SI, along with which system icon you have, since that's essentially what comes with GOTY.
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2008, 09:21:50 PM »

I love that idea. Smiley
From the ones you seemed indecisive about, I support...
X-box – green X on black
PS3 – PS logo on white
If y'all really wanted to go wild, you could have more icons for the older Elder Scrolls games. But that's not at all necessary, just something to throw out there if Igiss got bored... Grin
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