Linkshell crests

[northernsky]

Hello!
I would like to see implemented a system in which your linkshell crest gains emblems. The emblems won't alter the color of your crest, only add to it.

Emblems will be for achievements such as downing Ifrit, Moogle, Gaurda, HNMs, and completing dungeons or having a certain amount of members?

Not hoping for anytime soon but 2.0 would be great!

What do you guys think?

Yes i'm aware this will be an epeen type addition

Not sure if that's what you meant, but yeah, I think that visual that signs that acknowledge collective LS achievements would be great!

That would promote collaboration even more and provide collective goals.

Not sure personal achievements should have anything to do with LS icon tho

[Cthulhu]

I rather like the shape and heraldic aspects of this games Linkshell indicator. What bothers me most is our color selection. White or Yellow for a base color. Seriously SE, what I would do to a Roegadyn in a Ul'dah back alley for a black and green crest.

[Catapult]

I rather like the shape and heraldic aspects of this games Linkshell indicator. What bothers me most is our color selection. White or Yellow for a base color. Seriously SE, what I would do to a Roegadyn in a Ul'dah back alley for a black and green crest.

The colours and shapes available actually match medieval heraldry. You have two metals (gold/yellow/or and silver/white/argent) and five colours (black/sable, red/gules, green/vert, purple/purpure and blue/azure). Any tincture simmilar to one of these colours is considered to be that colour. For reasons of visibility and recognition, metals and colours are always placed one on top of the other to create contrast. So you can have gold on red, or blue on white, but not white on yellow or purple on blue. The whole point is that you would be able to recognise them from a long way away. And considering we're talking about small icons on potentially distant players, this principle can be considered to apply here as well and all the possible colour combinations are in fact available when considered within these rules.

Those are just some of the more simple examples.

On the topic of shapes, they are also all heraldic ones. A horizontal line is called a bar. A diagonal line is a bend. An arrow-shaped bar is called a chevron. If facing the "wrong" direction, it gets named accordingly, such as "a bend sinister" when the diagonal line is going from top right to bottom left (left handed = sinistral, as opposed to right handed = dextral, the implied norm) or "a chevron inverted" when the arrow is pointing down.

I could go on for hours.

[UmJammerSully]

I think it's pretty good as it is, there's no need to over-complicate it for such a small icon. I think all they need to do is add a bunch more colour and shape options. If we have more base shapes besides the 'shield' base then that would be cool too.

[JackDaniels]

I think it's pretty good as it is, there's no need to over-complicate it for such a small icon. I think all they need to do is add a bunch more colour and shape options. If we have more base shapes besides the 'shield' base then that would be cool too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms



I like the coat of arms consept, having too many shapes would be silly, but only having one doesn't make sence.

We should be able to pick our colors from a color wheel. I don't really see why we couldn't in the first place.

[DexterityJones]

Before they do ANYTHING, admin controls need to be implemented.

Also, I like the coat of arms concept as well.