Poll: Vote for the COH Forums Reskin
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Posted on: 2012-05-01 13:40 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Oh. Bloody marvellous. Nice to see that this matters not one smegging bit.
How do I turn off the forum banner, please? Because I HATE that picture. I voted for #1 because it didn't look so ruddy awful.
While we're at it, how do I get the older loading screens back? Because they didn't suck either.
If you're going to force us to have too look at something despite feedback, at least make an option where we DON'T have to look at it 
And yes, I am kinda pissed, because asking and then not delivering is worse than doing nothing in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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So should they have ignored all the feedback from players concerned about the original 2 options being too wide for smaller monitors?
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
And yes, I am kinda pissed, because asking and then not delivering is worse than doing nothing in my opinion.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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No, they should have made a workaround to fit Option 1 onto smaller monitors. That's this little super power called 'Common Sense'. You may not have heard of it.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
So should they have ignored all the feedback from players concerned about the original 2 options being too wide for smaller monitors?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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How?
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
No, they should have made a workaround to fit Option 1 onto smaller monitors.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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I don't know? Resize it? You can work wonders with this little thing called photoshop.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
How?
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I assume the web team have the kno-
Ha. Haha. Oh, who the hell am I kidding? Web team is made up of vaguely trained monkeys, judging by their track record with pretty much everything.
Either way, someone is paid to deal with problems like that. I would assume they would find a way to do it that DIDN'T totally invalidate the player poll opinion found here.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Adblock the image? (Requires extra software, yes, but something you should already have just for general browsing.) That's what I've done.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
How do I turn off the forum banner, please?
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My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City
I can't, apparently. In fact, doing that blocks everything...EXCEPT the bloody image.
Waffles' sakes. This is why forcing change on stuff like this is a really bloody BAD idea, guys!
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Go ahead then.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I don't know? Resize it? You can work wonders with this little thing called photoshop.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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You're doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I can't, apparently. In fact, doing that blocks everything...EXCEPT the bloody image.
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Because I can obviously do that without 1) the image file, 2) the list of possible resolutions, 3) no pay, obviously. Smart alec.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Go ahead then.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Yes. Helpful.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
You're doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Just a rough idea might be enough to help them come up with a "better" forum skin.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Because I can obviously do that without 1) the image file, 2) the list of possible resolutions, 3) no pay, obviously. Smart alec.
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Don't forget that you already said that they're totally incompetent, so your effort wouldn't really need to be that good to be better than theirs.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
All I did was install AdBlock Plus.
I then added a custom filter to block boards.cityofheroes.com/styles/CoH/misc/*
If it is blocking everything except the background image, you are doing it wrong.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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They already have the image that should have been used, i.e. Option 1.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Just a rough idea might be enough to help them come up with a "better" forum skin.
Don't forget that you already said that they're totally incompetent, so your effort wouldn't really need to be that good to be better than theirs. |
You already know what it looks like. Except refitted to fit like Option 2 was.
If they could do it for Option 2, i.e. the one that LOST...why can they somehow not manage it for the one people WANTED, i.e. Option 1?
And I still can't do anything without the original image, otherwise I would have a crack at it.
(Btw, Zwil, this isn't aimed at you. Just wanted that clear. You're the cool(?) Hat Guy
Sadly, that doesn't change that the current situation sucks...)
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Also, you can just install AdBlock Plus then right-click the image and select AdBlock Plus: Block Image ... from the dropdown menu.
It's not rocket surgery.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Except, even with ABP installed, I don't get that option when right clicking on the image. In fact, ABP only shows up when I right click on the CoH logo, and even then it only says 'Block Element' twice.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Also, you can just install AdBlock Plus then right-click the image and select AdBlock Plus: Block Image ... from the dropdown menu.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Becasue option 1 was created just to be a forum skin with the 2 characters downt he sides - option 2 was a more flexible image designed for the loading screen, the offical homepage skin, the Facebook banner and so on, just like the previous one of Statesman and the BCU - once the option of having the 2 characters down the side was abandoned because of player feedback about the width of the image on smaller monitors, that skin was pretty much dead and burried, as it wasn't nearly as flexible as the other one.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
They already have the image that should have been used, i.e. Option 1.
You already know what it looks like. Except refitted to fit like Option 2 was. If they could do it for Option 2, i.e. the one that LOST...why can they somehow not manage it for the one people WANTED, i.e. Option 1? |
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Which is not what people voted for.
They should have either;
1) Re-made the Option 1 skin to fit on more resolutions
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2) Let people pick which banner they wanted, including past ones.
Rather than slapping TrollFace Penny on everything.
Yes, it's a minor thing. I might even be petty for daring to have an opinion on it. And, frankly, I don't much care. Different strokes, different folks, etc.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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LOL. This is my primary issue with the skin/banner/homepage/loading screen/etc. Penny looks terrible in the image used. Shadowhunter looks good in both, but Penny's face is just messed up. The "Escher Girl" pose doesn't help either.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
TrollFace Penny
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What browser are you using? What version of the browser? Is it the most recent version of ABP?
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Except, even with ABP installed, I don't get that option when right clicking on the image. In fact, ABP only shows up when I right click on the CoH logo, and even then it only says 'Block Element' twice.
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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If you go to ABP's options, under the customize tab (at least in Chrome), manually edit your filters and add:|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Except, even with ABP installed, I don't get that option when right clicking on the image. In fact, ABP only shows up when I right click on the CoH logo, and even then it only says 'Block Element' twice.
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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/style...background.jpg
For the villain skin.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/style...background.jpg
For the hero skin.
Since I'm at home now and looking at my Desktop computer it seems that I may be blocking it at home due to using Stylish and Zombie Man's Hero Skin or at least I'm guessing it is the Hero Skin doing it since I don't have anything listed in ABP for the background image, even in the Blockable items listing.
It's possible that it's one of my GreaseMonkey scripts doing it, but I think it's the Zombie Man Hero Skin that's doing it. Of course, you may prefer the Zombie Man Villain Skin instead.
I highly recommend using one of those skins as well as several of the GreaseMonkey scripts mentioned in that thread such as the Forum Signature Tamer and the Sticky Fix. I also use City of Heroes vBulletin Font Stripper script to remove colors from posts. I found it listed in a thread on the forums but can't recall where it was.
EDIT: D'oh. I found a way to verify that it is the Zombie Man Hero Skin that is removing the background image. I went into the Add-ons Manager to the User Scripts and Disabled the HeroSkin entry. Immediately my eyes were assaulted with the new background image. I quickly Enabled the HeroSkin entry again.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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You may want to put those inside noparse tags so that the entire address is visible.|
Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
If you go to ABP's options, under the customize tab (at least in Chrome), manually edit your filters and add:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/style...background.jpg For the villain skin. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/style...background.jpg For the hero skin. |
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/styles/CoV/misc/background.jpg
For the villain skin.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/styles/CoH/misc/background.jpg
For the hero skin.
Like that.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
I'm not sure how to accuratly describe it, but the new background makes the two logos (Paragon/NCsoft) look 'weird'. It's kinda like a poorly photoshopped image that has the top layer using jagged edges.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork