[karajorma]

To be honest, I've never been a fan of the post count groups. I don't see any point in having them as ship classes cause that tells us very little about the user's contributions. We have people who only come here for Diaspora or TBP (and eventually FotG) who might not have ever even played FS2.  Add in the fact that post counts are manipulated by only counting in certain forums and you end up with an arbitrary ship based only partly on how much you post on here.

About the only time I ever liked them was on the old Volition Bulletin board where you told that you had given up increasingly difficult things for Volition. (I gave up eating / drinking / hygiene for )

Only on HLP do we have a thread discussing avatars and user titles and the result is post count titles changing.

Well to be fair, we've mostly put the issue of avatars to bed and are just waiting on the server move to actually turn it on now.

[General Battuta]

Ugh these ship names are clutter. Too many words on the screen!

[Droid803]

I liek my powers of 2.
FS ships is cool and all but I agree with the clutter statement.

[Luis Dias]

place post count as 2^n + x. Get rid of ship classes. Problem of clutter solved.

[jg18]

Another vote for putting back powers of 2 or at the very least removing the ship class clutter.

[Goober5000]

goober literally everyone who has expressed an opinion wants 2^n postcounts not ships what the hell are you doing

An experiment.

But you're right, so far most people who have commented have preferred 2^n.

With a bit of searching, it looks like the postcount-based groups were changed from Apollo, etc. to 2^n back in 2005.  So they've been that way for over 10 years.

[Colonol Dekker]

Is this a global switch? An experiment without warning?


Edit.....
HLP is my mistress? 

[Spoon]

An experiment that was destined to be a failure before it even started

[Goober5000]

Not rly.  The only failed experiment is the one not run.

[Spoon]

Let's do some gravity related experiments, like jumping off a high building. Maybe we'll fall upwards at some point.

[Goober5000]

Sounds like a plan.  Lead the way; I'll take notes.

[Spoon]

I-I changed my mind, let's do something else instead.

Like uh, lets get back to getting mad at each other over forum avatars

[Colonol Dekker]

I put forward that we agree a date and duration of an avatar trial. Possibly a week long with an option to move to a permanently implementation.

[Trivial Psychic]

I don't feel like going through all of the previous posts to see if anyone has suggested this before, but should the ship-class=rank thing get reinstated, perhaps there should be an option within each's profile whether he/she identifies as Terran, Vasudan, or Shivan.  There would then be an equivalent craft-rank for each species.  On top of that, anyone on the BP crew can chose UEF. 

[Phantom Hoover]

plz no

[Axem]

I made some sample admin avatars that conform to the 60px max height idea just to see how they would look. Mine and kara's aren't much different, but I had to get a little creative with Goober's since his is relatively taller and a straight crop didn't look that great. Also had to get that HLP logo in there somehow!



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[Droid803]

I see you've set it as your actual avatar. That actually looks very nice, lined up with the 5 badges.

[Axem]

Yep yep. Well it lined up horizontally before, but it was 100px high. I thought I'd try out the 60px high to see what it looks like out of a mockup.