Posts made by cazantyl

I agree Tedivm, the answer really would be two fold: A function to change the RGB values of the 3 colors in the player generated badges (which I would hope would be easier), and a separate function to change the shapes as well (with the myriad of options, both inverted, sizing, and just choices in general would obviously make this one more complex). 

K-C yeah we've got a few trolls in our area that are taking the badges of other players and pretending to be them to try to incite wars. It's a bit frustrating.

From a newer player experience, I will say that it's extremely frustrating at times to see new areas pop up in an area that myself or my alliance just worked hard to clear out. The "reserve the room if you want it to not turn into a newbie zone thing" works great for players at higher GCL that can sacrifice a lower RCL room, or dedicate a few rooms to specifically handle the reservations, but for players like myself who are still under 10 GCL, I can't honestly dedicate that time, energy or CPU to stopping an area from being blocked off.

Here's the big issue for me:

I would be better off leaving my area with all players currently occupying it alone then risk killing them and having them be replaced by someone I can't attack for 14 to 30+ days. At that point, there's little reason for me to fight anyone in any room since if I'm not able to immediately occupy it I run this risk. 

Again, that may not be something that higher GCL players do or worry themselves with, but for me, I'm better off leaving the zombies in my backyards then risk an unknown player being able to set up camp there while I can't do anything about it (including expand). 

I do agree the `allow every tick` thing would probably bring out the trolls unfortunately. Once an hour would be ideal in my book, since war can start or stop regularly. 

Proposal:

It would be a neat feature to allow users to manipulate their player icon in game via code. This would allow users to change their icons depending on many different scenarios:

Economy state, war time, holidays, etc

Unknowns and concerns:

Are player icons rendered on the servers or via some other means through the browser (CSS)? 

How much impact could this make on the server performance, and if it's significant can/should it be limited to a icon changing cooldown (still allowing users to change it manually).

Extreme End Feature:

Someone can change their icon every tick, so they could implement quasi animated player icons

Lowest End Feature:

Allow a user to programmatically change their icon once per day to reduce server impact. Can still use this to change to a war-time icon.