The discussion of image signatures for FFXI has come up several times in the past and last night the topic came up once more. Below you will find three versions of the banners, one for each nation with different formatting for all of them. I did these on my own so quit laughing, they're drafts and better than notin'.
[img]http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/races/FFXI-Banner-Windurst.jpg[/img]
[img]http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/races/FFXI-Banner-Sandy.jpg[/img]
[img]http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/races/FFXI-Banner-Bastok.jpg[/img]
Several problems came up but the biggest one was that there's a lot of information to display depending on the type of player. Some people care more about crafts than missions, some have all crafts maxed out while others don't do crafting at all. I wasn't sure if people were interested at all in having their title displayed or what would happen when there is a player with no linkshell. (though I guess that would be rare)
Windurst sample
This one has the linkshell name and server next to the name, but I don't think we can do it this way simply because people can have long names + long linkshell name + long server name and the text would go too long. Which means one of the lines has to be eliminated like how the other two are displayed.
San d'Oria sample
This one displays only the mission information. It would get messy after further expansions, however.
Bastok sample
this one displays only the crafting information. I chose crafts with long names to see how many would fit and Fishing isn't that long, so it may end up being that we can include either two crafts in general or Fishing + two others.
I need feedback on what people think should be displayed and on the images in general. I realize the background is a bit plain, but having a distracting background makes the text harder to read.
The information would be taken from your primary character Profile, so you would be able to maintain it by setting the stats there.
Edited, Jan 15th 2007 3:33am by Pikko
Edited, Jan 15th 2007 4:14am by Pikko
Edited, Jun 6th 2007 10:53am by Nizdaar