Niemands "Automatic Signature-Banners"

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

Yoh.

First of all, I will not make you signature banners. This is just a suggestion.

I am also sure devs may be planning this already. I also used the search but didnt find something except three threads about "hey, add a line to separate post from signature!". So sorry, if I did not see it.

The idea is to make people be able to have their stats on images that they can show off in forums. It shows their time alive, their Zed-kills and their player-kills. The graphics are automatically made and renewed by the database every 2* hours.

[Edit:] People maybe could also choose their backgrounds. If you want samples for that, tell me, I can easily provide some.

As an example-graphic:

My Sources:

DayZ-Logo/Banner on top of the website

Background-Image from the slidegallery on the website

Fonts: "Floydian" and "Gautami"

Program: Photoshop CS5.1

Feel free to rate this suggestion and discuss it. ;)

stay alive!

--Niemand

*example-time. It's, as usual, up to the devs to find the right digit.

Edit 30.07.2012 - Updated the Logo-Source-URL.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Niemand

[elchauvet@gmail.com 2]

I like this idea a lot. Plus it would allow you to keep track of things without having to log into the game.

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

Thanks. And yupp. Also it would be some kind of advertisement for the mod. maybe provide the bbcode for players with the link to their playerprofile on the website (if that will be implemented somewhen in the future).

Maybe fill up their HP by 1 for each unique click. (Just kidding. :D)

[shiromikan 217]

I adore this idea simply because I had the same one. In a previous game, I did this with PHP scripts. If Signatures returned with the new forum, I was actually going to offer this (provided the leaderboards and other statistics are made accessible again.)

Edit; Actually, I don't think it should be a thing that the Dev team should focus on simply because we're able to do it ourselves.

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

Sorry, I do not know how to do stuff like that. All I am able to is doing some photoshop-work. But I sadly got no idea about databases and what is possible with PHP, so I just wrote down the idea. ;)

[shiromikan 217]

The new forum system we're going to be getting will have character-integration. But, the extent of that integration isn't known. This might not even be necessary.

[El Barto 227 25]

my fvourite MineCraft server has something like this, and i'm pretty sure that this could be implemented easily.

here is my banner showing my stats on the server:

(the actual stats are a lot higher, playtime should be way higher because the badges are relatively new, but you probably get the point)

[Max Planck 7174]

I must say I'm against this, and then some. I think the 'kill-stats' are turning the game away from being a survival simulator and towards being a deathmatch with beans.

DayZ is about surviving in a hostile environment, no? I would just hate if it ended up being a "Hey,-look-at-my-killratio-dudebro" kind of game.

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

But still you would have the "DayZ alive" and the "killed Zeds" lines. Maybe for anti-pvpers you could add a line "eaten beans" instead of "killed Players".

[Max Planck 7174]

But still you would have the "DayZ alive" and the "killed Zeds" lines. Maybe for anti-pvpers you could add a line "eaten beans" instead of "killed Players".

I'd rather have those lines removed, actually. I don't think the debug monitor will stick around after alpha anyway, might as well get rid of them now.

Also, I'm not against killing players. I just think the kill-stats puts the focus on killing, not survival.

[Dreganius (DayZ) 55]

I like the idea, but the font is a little hard to read. If I was to use one of these (and I'd probably make my own if I did, no offense) I would want it to be very easy to read.

That's just my two cents.

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

Yah Dreganius. I just tried to find some font that kinda fits to the game. Maybe its not easy to read but that doesnt matter.

Its just a sample of how it could look.

So: No worries, no offense taken at all. ;)