Admin Custom Skins

[maynard]

meh...

[Joker]

meh...

don't meh me.....you have got to be fair. unless you just have a universal skin for all admins, or eles have a skin for each rank/position in the community

[maynard]

don't meh me.....you have got to be fair. unless you just have a universal skin for all admins, or eles have a skin for each rank/position in the community

upper lvl admins are the same as admins lol... all it means is you've been an admin for a certain amount of time, and we're 2 trust your judgement and give you a bit of extra power, hardly requires somoene 2 create a custom skin given there's A only 5 upper lvl admins and B they are still just admins, with a bit more power... also given zero's going 2 be paying for those so it's done good, I hardly think we need 2 spend extra money for 5 specific ppl lol...

this community equals 3 things. community members, admin and clan, nothing more. the upper lvl admins is a special priv granted, and if you don't feel special enough for having it, maybe you don't deserve it?... even though you don't have it.

[maynard]

don't meh me.....you have got to be fair. unless you just have a universal skin for all admins, or eles have a skin for each rank/position in the community

upper lvl admins are the same as admins lol... all it means is you've been an admin for a certain amount of time, and we're going 2 trust your judgement and give you a bit of extra power, hardly requires someone 2 create a custom skin given there's A only 5 upper lvl admins and B they are still just admins, with a bit more power... also given zero's going 2 be paying for this out of community funds, it's hardly important lol...

this community equals 3 things. community members, admins and clan, nothing more. the upper lvl admins is a special priv granted, and if you don't feel special enough for having it, maybe you don't deserve it?... even though no 1 has it yet.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

admins shouldn't have special skins. it's a gimmick. nothing more. they want to look pretty, then they can install their own client side skins. clan, sure. i can see those having special skins. but not admins.

[ZERO]

How many levels of skins there are would be totally dependent on the download size of one individual skin. My first concern is to ensure that there is no impact on client download times by having anything like this that is not actually required for the game. Last thing I want is to be slowing down users ability to connect by downloading things that are not required for them to be able to play anyways.

Logically the clan would get any custom skins first to ensure that they get the coolest/best ones that exist. One of the following will be what to expect within the next year:

1. No custom skins
2. Custom skins for clan members
3. Custom skins for clan and admins
4. Custom skins for clan, upper level, regular admins and reserved slot users

Note that for instances where there would be more than 1 group getting skins the higher the group the better the sinks. If reserved slot users ever got skins it would just look like a normal player model but with enhanced quality and would not say anything on it. If upper level ever had one it would still say <ibis.a> like the normal admin one it would just be a different skin.

Ideally for each level starting with the clan I would like for there to be 3 skins per team that would load automatically depending on the map. For example you would only download and use the desert one on desert maps. While the clan may get X versions it is likely and possible that others may only get x-y versions. Once again it will be dependent on download times, complexity and costs.

I plan to personally create the automated system that handles the assignment of the skins if I ever do it. Note that I will never release skins unless there is a way to disable them when you join the server so that admins ect can still play incognito if they want. Or in the event they do not like or want to use the special skin.

[Joker]

. Note that I will never release skins unless there is a way to disable them when you join the server so that admins ect can still play incognito if they want. Or in the event they do not like or want to use the special skin.

see now this is the statement I was looking for. I don't always like playing as a admin because some time It's just nice to play and not be an admin.

P.S. maynard I was just making a statement about fairness, but honestly I don't care about special skins. All it would be is an added little perk of the position.

[Dj panda]

Ive seen this done on jailbreak servers, You can pick a special Skin or just use normal and its only once per map unless you type !skins to change it It was really neat, since they had batman as ct joker as T and all that good fun. BUT The only downside that it took a shitload long time to download

[Steamer]

this community equals 3 things. community members, admins and clan, nothing more. the upper lvl admins is a special priv granted, and if you don't feel special enough for having it, maybe you don't deserve it?... even though no 1 has it yet.

But..., couldn't Zero himself be a 4th? Yea.. yea.. technically goes with clan...

Also I hope its option 1.

[maynard]

Zero's clan. just as upper lvl admins are admins. it's really a matter of if you wana split hairs or not lol.