To Devs about Adventurer Plates

[Minali]

Apart from not wanting to look at tons of crotch pictures during roulettes or farming or so either, I would be against waiting for a pop-up to fully load, click on buttons, close it again and then get out of the dungeon. Would be especially strange if people for whom it loads faster or who decide faster would already start leaving... Also I agree with the point, that visually tying commendations to another feature (= the plates) would make people base their decision based on this feature. Yes, people give coms for the best puns, for glam, for "I didn't die, so I guess the healer did good" or "the only other person who hasn't left the duty yet". That's not really the point of coms. But that doesn't mean we have to make this even worse or even give the implication that this is the point of coms or whatever. Not every person is creative. Not every person is interested in plates. Not every person likes to set it on public when they prefer it to stay private. Not every person set one up.

Make it an optional feature? Sure, go ahead, you can turn it on, I can turn it off, we both are fine.
Make it mandatory? Lolnope, because of what I just said.

Also, I know it's hard, it's the internet, but maybe it would help the discussion if "doesn't want to see revealing pictures" wouldn't be understood as "okay let's just have blank faces in boxes", or "(insert any sort of criticism)" not as "you naysayers just hate fun". There is space inbetween these takes. Just a suggestion.

[DPZ2]

The major problem with OP's idea is that the amount of time to provide a commendation at this point is fairly small. I've been finding that multiple party members are gone by the time I get the chance to provide a commendation. Looking at plates with blanks for missing members of the party (perhaps all of them except yourself) would be a waste. It's hard enough to catch party members before they exit an instance as it is.

[Ath192]

The major problem with OP's idea is that the amount of time to provide a commendation at this point is fairly small. I've been finding that multiple party members are gone by the time I get the chance to provide a commendation. Looking at plates with blanks for missing members of the party (perhaps all of them except yourself) would be a waste. It's hard enough to catch party members before they exit an instance as it is.

I don’t believe it would work that way. This method would allow you to comm even after they’ve gone.

[Alleo]

I like the idea. Sometimes in content with more people like the 24 man raid, I remember the character more than the name which means that I am a bit confused which name I should give my com. For example I got rezzed and saved quite a few times by a certain healer and I knew that he was a male elezen but I dont remember his character name..so there is a chance that I give it to the wrong healer.

With this, it might at least help.

At the same time I am not 100% sure if it should show customized plates...seeing how some are already using them for quite "interesting" shots.

[Ath192]

I like the idea. Sometimes in content with more people like the 24 man raid, I remember the character more than the name which means that I am a bit confused which name I should give my com. For example I got rezzed and saved quite a few times by a certain healer and I knew that he was a male elezen but I dont remember his character name..so there is a chance that I give it to the wrong healer.

With this, it might at least help.

At the same time I am not 100% sure if it should show customized plates...seeing how some are already using them for quite "interesting" shots.

Yes I disagree with people being trashy about it. However this probably has a fix. There is a built in protection already as you have to have the characters gaze showing. Maybe it could be expanded so that the breast/butt region cant be occupying more than 25% of the portrait space or some other method of portrait zone control.

After that making an explicit TOS amendment clarifying it is reportable and the community would have to do their part.

I am sure we can make it go away. We will always find reasons not to do things however when care and thought is put in to them we can enjoy new features instead of no longer innovating. If you can opt out of the commendation system and provide an option to skip a screen that would take 1 second it gives an out to players who don't want to enjoy it. But overall I think that would be the minority of players and none of the "What if" scenarios given here really give me pause that this would be a change for the better yet.

[Raim]

I say a good compromise would be: Make this screen appear when you click Commendations. Don't make it automatically come up if you just exit a instance. If someone exits a dungeon without commending, they don't want to commend.

[Ath192]

I say a good compromise would be: Make this screen appear when you click Commendations. Don't make it automatically come up if you just exit a instance. If someone exits a dungeon without commending, they don't want to commend.

This could work

[Avatre]

I say a good compromise would be: Make this screen appear when you click Commendations. Don't make it automatically come up if you just exit a instance. If someone exits a dungeon without commending, they don't want to commend.

The only way this would be widely accepted, since some people still like giving out commendations where applicable(let's face it, there are always duties where people under perform so badly you just leave without giving out a commendation), is to have the toggle that was suggested where you either opt in to have the plates show, or keep it as is. If it's forced to see the adventure plates, then there will be a lot more complaint threads about that when what we have works perfectly fine.

I would be fine if the plates showed up at the start of a duty, and automatically got put away once the gate drops. That would be a better "introduction"(as stated as a reason for wanting the commendation window changed to include the plates) than changing the current commendation method.

[kaynide]

I would only be for this if the commendation portrait system was limited to a select few preset poses; decorate all you want with your gear and stickers, but I agree I don't want to finish a dungeon and be blasted by some idiot's attempt at trolling me.

Alternatively just use our headshots like we have here on the forum.

Actually I'd rather not pictures at all, but just a list of names post dungeon to commend since the good guys typically leave fast.

[Nyxs]

I support this idea!