no more custom forum pic

krapmyself · March 2014

In your profile you were able to put in a custom picture. Why was it removed? Just because I'm ugly....

Inversus · March 2014

Eh, I guess they thought people abused it - although I didn't notice anyone abusing it during the beta.

I'm still pretty happy with my betty netch.

Greydog · March 2014

That's too bad, mine was a great pic. Tiny little 18,5kb crop of a Don Maitz print. Ima miss the little guy

On another more serious note ..it seems the ability to choose a new avatar is broken.

k9mouse · March 2014

I miss my "default" Skyrim Khajiit pic for fourms

Wish ZOS did not remove that ability to add player's own pic.

Myrdreth · March 2014

I rather like the avatars we can choose from.

k9mouse · March 2014

Myrdreth wrote: »

I rather like the avatars we can choose from.

They are not bad, but I just like my own pic better....

Greydog · March 2014

I can't get it to work. Won't let me choose one.

Are the pics greyed out for you guys?

Inversus · March 2014

Mine works fine, always a betty netch.

GrimCyclone · March 2014

Aww, that's no fun. I can understand why they did it, but ya know what? I think if we post for a while and show we're good little bears that they should give us the right to have a custom one again! At least that way it should filter out some of the silly heads that put up the obscene ones.

Greydog · March 2014

Wonder if it's a forum rank thing?

Inversus · March 2014

Greydog wrote: »

Wonder if it's a forum rank thing?

@Greydog
I have 5 stars, I can't upload a proper profile pic.
Unless they added a 6th star and nobody has noticed yet, it's nothin to do with forum ranks.

If you mean that only people with higher forum ranks get a saved pic, then I doubt it. It's almost certainly a bug if your pic needs to be added each time you log on - it wouldn't make sense to only allow higher ranked forumers to save their pic.

Rosveen · March 2014

I recognize people by avatars... Now that everyone has a bunch of identical avatars, don't expect me to remember your names, because I probably won't.

I'd like my cat back. Pretty please, ZOS?

tallenn · March 2014

I miss mine, too

It was a Skyrim screen shot of an open elder scroll.

Inversus · March 2014

Rosveen wrote: »

I recognize people by avatars... Now that everyone has a bunch of identical avatars, don't expect me to remember your names, because I probably won't.

I'd like my cat back. Pretty please, ZOS?

Yeah, me too; it gets annoying/confusing.
ZOS said they're still working/adding to the forums, so hopefully we'll see an update in the future.

Or they can just make sure nobody but me is a neon betty netch, I'd be happy if they did that too :P

Greydog · March 2014

@Inversus I was suggesting that the ability to choose from the stock avatars may be a rank thing.

Were you able to choose that pic, was it assigned to you or did you have it already?

Inversus · March 2014

Greydog wrote: »

@Inversus I was suggesting that the ability to choose from the stock avatars may be a rank thing.

Were you able to choose that pic, was it assigned to you or did you have it already?

I was able to choose a pick out of the list.
I've seen many people using similar pictures, I've even seen a lower ranked betty netch, so I'm pretty certain it's not to do with ranks.
Even 1 stars have been able to choose their pic from the list.

Greydog · March 2014

Ok, just trying to ferret this out. Guess I'll contact support then.

Thanks

Myrdreth · March 2014

k9mouse wrote: »

Myrdreth wrote: »

I rather like the avatars we can choose from.

They are not bad, but I just like my own pic better....

I can understand that. I didn't mean to say adding own avatars is bad. I hope they will add this option for everyone who wants an own picture.

ZiRM · March 2014

I wish we could have custom Avatar pictures.

Hawke · March 2014

I wish I could use my avatar... Oh how I miss thee...

krapmyself · April 2014

Beagle wrote: »

krapmyself wrote: »

In your profile you were able to put in a custom picture. Why was it removed? Just because I'm ugly....

Well, with a forum name like that, I really don't even want to imagine what your picture would have been!

I promise my previous pic wasn't bad.

http://i.imgur.com/TGA6E9p.jpg

Looks better than the sweet roll... which kinda looks like poo.

Severia · April 2014

These new forums are pants. It doesn't bode well.

ZurinArctus · April 2014

Abuse would be my guess. Or prevention of it, as you've more people and a lot more activity than before. That much more effort to moderate.

Battlemancer · April 2014

They also removed custom signatures as well. While for the most part the avatars were not a big deal, some of the signatures were WAY out of hand in terms of physical size, a post of one sentence wound up taking up half the screen because of a monstrous signature.

I do miss my monkey avatar, but at least I still have him in game.

Frosthawk · April 2014

Maybe its better that there is only pre-made avatars than upload own, for example bugfield4 tag "art" makes understandable to not have custom image chance.