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Subject: Here's a Suggestion for Custom Avatars.

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.

As most of you know, the original Xbox LIVE has been shut down, meaning you can no longer play Halo 2 online. So prematurely, I decided to edit my Halo 2 emblem one last time to make it as acceptable for the bungie forums as possible, as the Halo 2 emblem settings differ from any other Halo game.

So I applied the changes to my profile here on bungie.net, and am currently using my Halo 2 emblem as my avatar. But over time, I've grown to dislike it and wish to alter it dramatically.

Which brings me to my conclusion, that should we or should we not be allowed to alter our game emblems here on bungie.net, and possibly apply the emblems as our avatars.

There has been some controversy involving people using their own personal custom avatars, and how that would be wildly inappropriate as the internet is a dark place, dark enough for you to have some freedoms limited on certain sites.
But seeing as Bungie -or 343i- controls the emblems and have not implemented anything too grotesque in the alteration of your symbol, I wouldn't see the problem here.

  • 12.19.2011 8:17 AM PDT

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Good idea. Your saying have a build your own avatar option using what was avaiable for Halo 2, but here on the site?

  • 12.19.2011 8:21 AM PDT

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Customizing an emblem through the Halo 2/3 system could be a viable option. Remember, the urls for the emblems are:

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/emblem.ashx?s=90&0=6&1=4& amp;2=15&3=4&fi=42&bi=0&fl=0&m=0

That's the OP's emblem, but you can alter it by changing the values of the numbers after the = sign (after the first "=90" part, because that's the size). Try it out.

I think it's perfectly possible and a good idea.

[Edited on 12.19.2011 8:34 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2011 8:25 AM PDT


Posted by: EAGLES5
Good idea. Your saying have a build your own avatar option using what was avaiable for Halo 2, but here on the site?

This.

  • 12.19.2011 8:25 AM PDT

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.


Posted by: The Epic Cheese

[quote]Posted by: EAGLES5
Good idea. Your saying have a build your own avatar option using what was avaiable for Halo 2, but here on the site?

Exactly. And perhaps we could maybe add in some symbols or backgrounds.

  • 12.19.2011 9:09 AM PDT

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Adding something like this would be great.

  • 12.19.2011 9:30 AM PDT


Posted by: The Epic Cheese

Posted by: EAGLES5
Good idea. Your saying have a build your own avatar option using what was avaiable for Halo 2, but here on the site?


I think in theory it could work, but it seems a little doubtful considering Bungie no longer controls halo.

  • 12.19.2011 10:13 AM PDT
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Sounds like a grand idea, but the implementation may be touch, if not impossible. If you edited it on the site, wouldn't you think Bungie would want it to update online as well? Halo 2's emblems don't really matter, but what about Halo 3, ODST, and Reach? Can a feature like that even be added? Me thinks no.
Posted by: Dropship dude
Customizing an emblem through the Halo 2/3 system could be a viable option. Remember, the urls for the emblems are:

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/emblem.ashx?s=90&0=6&1=4& amp;2=15&3=4&fi=42&bi=0&fl=0&m=0

That's the OP's emblem, but you can alter it by changing the values of the numbers after the = sign (after the first "=90" part, because that's the size). Try it out.

I think it's perfectly possible and a good idea.

  • 12.19.2011 10:19 AM PDT


Posted by: Duardo
Sounds like a grand idea, but the implementation may be touch, if not impossible. If you edited it on the site, wouldn't you think Bungie would want it to update online as well? Halo 2's emblems don't really matter, but what about Halo 3, ODST, and Reach? Can a feature like that even be added? Me thinks no.
Posted by: Dropship dude
Customizing an emblem through the Halo 2/3 system could be a viable option. Remember, the urls for the emblems are:

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/emblem.ashx?s=90&0=6&1=4& amp;2=15&3=4&fi=42&bi=0&fl=0&m=0

That's the OP's emblem, but you can alter it by changing the values of the numbers after the = sign (after the first "=90" part, because that's the size). Try it out.

I think it's perfectly possible and a good idea.
Why would it have to be tied to a game, couldn't they just make a system called the "Bungie.net emblem editor, and allow you to customize your avatar using emblems from all of their games, and possibly even add some more?

I think that would be a very cool addition to the site.

  • 12.19.2011 10:22 AM PDT
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It will Always be big fat NO to custom avatars here.
Be honest, you only read the title, didn't you?

  • 12.19.2011 10:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Duardo
If you edited it on the site, wouldn't you think Bungie would want it to update online as well? Halo 2's emblems don't really matter, but what about Halo 3, ODST, and Reach? Can a feature like that even be added?
If the site can be made to draw from the game, then can the game not be made to draw from the site? After all, I can do things to my LIVE account through xbox.com.
*shrug*
I'll leave that to someone who likes the inner workings of computers.

  • 12.19.2011 11:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: HC Swat Is Back
It will Always be big fat NO to custom avatars here.
If you get coup you can have a custom avatar. That's your only hope.

  • 12.19.2011 11:35 AM PDT