Era I Tags Poll

[Kolonialbeamter]

Fellow subjects and citizens of the Brick Seas, listen up!

You might have come across the recent discussion regarding the distribution of tags for Era I.

Leadership would now like to know what you think about this idea, so we can come up with a timely solution that suits all - or at least most.

Please participate in this poll here, which will run until Saturday, October 7th, 23:59. It should close automatically, so you'd see your vote was too late when it was actually too late 

Here are the designs in question:

If you got a better idea/design, post it in here or shoot anyone in leadership a PM.

The rules for awarding tags will be decided by leadership, but should run along the lines of what's already been discussed.

 

Thanks for your participation 

[Bregir]

voted

[Capt Wolf]

voted.

[Legostone]

Voted. 

[Kai NRG]

Voted.

It's too difficult IMO to tell the difference between the gold and the bronze... obvious enough next to each other, but probably pretty difficult in isolation.

Edited October 3, 2017 by Kai NRG

[SilentWolf]

Voted 

[Mesabi]

Voted! Man people are really split over this.

[Darnok]

1 minute ago, Mesabi said:

Voted! Man people are really split over this.

 

True. Maybe this needs a solution in truly pirate style? Free rum for everybody, last man standing wins!

[Kolonialbeamter]

2 minutes ago, Drunknok said:

Maybe this needs a solution in truly pirate style? Free rum for everybody, last man standing wins!

Or... or we do the bribery thing - square faction thumbnails for your signatures if the round tags win!

[Darnok]

That is not the pirate way. Fight!

Edited October 3, 2017 by Drunknok

[Ayrlego]

Voted!

4 hours ago, Kai NRG said:

It's too difficult IMO to tell the difference between the gold and the bronze... obvious enough next to each other, but probably pretty difficult in isolation.

Totally agree with this!

[Tezclatipoca]

Voted !

5 hours ago, Kai NRG said:

It's too difficult IMO to tell the difference between the gold and the bronze... obvious enough next to each other, but probably pretty difficult in isolation.

Exactly ! I agree with you and Ayrlego.

[Maxim I]

4 hours ago, Kolonialbeamter said:

Or... or we do the bribery thing - square faction thumbnails for your signatures if the round tags win!

I voted for the round tags, can I have the one above now? :D these are really sweet!

[Professor Thaum]

Voted... for the tie !

Edited October 3, 2017 by Professor Thaum

[Elostirion]

5 hours ago, Kolonialbeamter said:

I really don't like the numbers (I or then II) inside the tags. So I voted "We need a different way to make a distinction!"

I was about to post, then I saw the suggestion above: PERFECT!

If the distinction between gold and silver is important, just make the border a bit bolder.

[Bodi]

7 hours ago, Kolonialbeamter said:

Or... or we do the bribery thing - square faction thumbnails for your signatures if the round tags win!

I voted, but I prefer this too.

[Kolonialbeamter]

Hoi, what a mess I created here  

Thing about the new bunch of tags/icons is that they only show the faction and a ranking level, but nothing in relation to Era I, so they could ultimately just be sort of faction rank tags. But what we wanted to award you BoBS'ers for are your efforts and achievements in Era I (and building up on this for future eras II, III, etc.), hence the numbers. And having both era and faction tags looks a bit redundant and would take up two 'tag slots' - not sure that's something the higher-ups would like... 

What can easily be done is to use the faction icons as faction rank icons, handed out by the factions - Gold for leaders, Silver for veterans, Bronze for newbies, or just use two tiers, or it could be entirely up to the factions themselves - to be used in your signatures. Make them clickable to link back to your faction's intro page, and voilà, bypassed the 'official' EB tag system, got what's effectively a second BoBS tag, and promote BoBS beyond this forum - if anybody reads signatures, that is. 

[Kai NRG]

1 hour ago, Kolonialbeamter said:

What can easily be done is to use the faction icons as faction rank icons, handed out by the factions - Gold for leaders, Silver for veterans, Bronze for newbies, or just use two tiers, or it could be entirely up to the factions themselves - to be used in your signatures. Make them clickable to link back to your faction's intro page, and voilà, bypassed the 'official' EB tag system, got what's effectively a second BoBS tag, and promote BoBS beyond this forum - if anybody reads signatures, that is. 

I like this idea.  I prefer the numbers for the actual tags.  And as far as it goes, I voted squares, but I'd be quite content if we ended up going rounds (not looking that way atm, though, but it's fairly close still).

[Kwatchi]

4 hours ago, Bodi said:

I voted, but I prefer this too.

Add me to this camp.  I liked these far more than the presented design.  With the faction logos in the square, it is so much clearer that it is a faction icon rather than some random pattern of colour.  The border in the metallic to denote participation works better too as it is not the central focus.  I care to know which faction you played for more than how much free time you had.  As for differentiating ERAs, it could be as simple as changing the shape or adding a second border band.

One last thing to add is if the original design sticks, the silver "I" needs an outline imho, because it washes out particularly in the Oleon option.

 

 

[Sir Stig]

4 hours ago, Bodi said:

I voted, but I prefer this too.

I don't know what to vote, since I also prefer the latest suggestion.

@Kolonialbeamter: Wherever there is mess, I thrive (that's why I never get done with sorting before I need more mess). I have a new suggestion (to add more confusion):

Winning a challenge takes a tremendous skill level, and as more eras pass it will fill up slots anyway. I want to echo @Kwatchi that a clear faction tag is preferable. What about having the latest suggestions in bronze for one era, silver for two, gold for three. And use the Era specific tags in the signature (since we have a lot more room in the signature)? It will still look impressive and carry a bit of weight, but the exclusiveness should not be so intimidating that it goes on the expense of inclusiveness (for new and evolving players).

Edited October 3, 2017 by Sir Stig

[Kolonialbeamter]

If this suggestion finds its echo among you BoBS'ers, I'm sure we can start a second poll once this here has decided whether we go with round or square era tags.

In a second poll we could then decide what we want shown where, as I'm guessing we'll only get one official 'tag slot'.

The decision would then be to either make general/ranked faction tags the official thing, and use era specific reward icons for the signatures (this way each of us could decide to use them or not, and how many to 'store' over the years), or present the era tags below our avatar 'faces', and have the faction markers shine in our signatures.

Whaddaya think of this?

[Bodi]

2 hours ago, Kolonialbeamter said:

Whaddaya think of this?

If there will be only one official tag slot, I think we can skip the where option and vote to choice between the initial design and the suggested design, since this poll should give us the result between round and square.

[Bregir]

I'd say leadership can take a decision based on what has been said so far, but I'll leave that up to KB to decide.

There is such a thing as too much democracy :P

[Kolonialbeamter]

Ach, this discussion hasn't been derailing or anything so far, so let's keep trying to find out what the majority here wants

A different question for later is what of this we can sell to the higher ups and tag overlords

 

3 hours ago, Bregir said:

There is such a thing as too much democracy :P

So you did rethink your Era II priorities after all - goooooooood 

[Spud The Viking]

Voted.

Squares > Circles, always