Skin Doubles

[Ethereal]

It's come to my attention that with the growing number of skins, we don't need doubles of essentially the same thing. I'd like to hear your opinion on the matter so if you don't mind please vote above ^

[Puppet]

I like Mothim SG, but like the background to the other Mothim better. :S

[Jay]

=/ why can't we just keep them all?

[Ethereal]

We can, it just kind of clutters things and it's a waste of space to have two of the same pokemon-based skins.

[Admiral Striker General]

You're looking at it in terms of "It's based on the same Pokemon" instead of "it uses X color scheme" though.

I readily agree in the case of Suicune, we really only need one. They use the same color scheme in slightly different shades/hues/whatever. Personally, I like the nice duller one, as it's a little easier to read, especially where the cbox is concerned (though both are a bit difficult), though I suppose whichever provides the greater contrast to Vaporeon and Glaceon is the more logical choice. I'd have to take screenshots of all four and test to give a professional answer.

In the case of Mothim, however, the skins are vastly different. Where Jay went the route of playing almost solely on the wings, I- as with all my skins- based it on the full body, with the primary main-body color as the background, an accent as text, and so on. The results are incredibly different, and to make members choose is like asking them to compare apples to bananas. Some are gonna like one, and some are gonna like another, but it's far more personal taste than any actual "which is 'better'" comparison.


Alternatively, if it still makes you uncomfortable, there's a much simpler and more friendly solution than deletion: rename Jay's Mothim "Fiery" or "Summer" or the like. ^^ Likewise, I just made a new Gardevoir skin; Jay's is very dark and mine is very light. If you don't like having two despite the differences, we can take one, alter the shading just slightly, slap on a new banner and call it "Gallade" instead. ^__^ Finally, I had been planning an Absol skin for some time, which if I can get it working just right will be very different indeed from the current. :3 Instead of "Absol 2" though, I'll just rename it "Black and White", which is equally accurate, Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and well-timed with the games of the same name releasing next month at last. ^^


So yar~

[Ethereal]

*grabs onto the second suicune skin* MINE! lol. Ok I think I'd like to do that. Renaming them but keeping the color schemes sounds like a good idea.

Also, light skins don't look very good with the forum graphics as they are white and difficult to see against a lighter background.

[Admiral Striker General]

Light skins are highly preferred by many members, infinitely by some. I know a fair handful of friends who will not use a board or at minimum can't bring themselves to stay long if they find its skin too dark. The reverse is also true, of course, but yeah.

^_^ As to the title graphics, I can fix that in a matter of minutes (okay probably like an hour or two because SG works slow and failz, but still quickly enough); all we have to do is add a pixel or two border in a moderately dark gray (or black, though gray would be a little less harsh) around the letters. It'll even make it pop more in general, and look at least just as good if not better in some opinions overall in addition to working on more skins. :3 Should I?

[Koráki]

Voted to delete them all.

[Ethereal]

I put that there for you.

Yes, SG. That'd be great.

[Admiral Striker General]

ROFL. x3 Etha knows trollz when she sees them~<3

(Because obviously the fact one person dislikes something means no one should get it, even if the others do like it. ^^)

"; AND IT'S NOW ALMOST 1AM, which wouldn't be a problem any other night, but I have to walk out my door at 8am in the morning to GO HANG OUT ALL DAY WITH FLORAMEI SQUEEEEE<3 (x3 No, we're not being irresponsible. My husband and I are going to meet my online friend and her mom at some extremely busy public locations, aka the zoo and mall in the middle of DFW, fourth largest metro area in the US~ :3 Responsible meetings FTW<<33 8'D SOEXCITEDSQUEE.)

^^ So I'll mess with all the title images once I get home tomorrow night; should be done no later than Wednesday morning to mid-day at the VERY latest. ^^~<3 It really is the most basic alteration, so if anyone else gets to it beforehand that's cool. :3 And if anyone else would do it but doesn't want to mess with coding they can just put the 2-pixel "aura" around the letters and post links here or PM them to me and I'll dig through code to find. ^^ And again, if not, I'll have it all done soon enough anyway. So yar. SGAWAY~ (Prolly not really.) *FWOOSH~*

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EDIT:

' What have we learned? NEVER listen to SG say "Should be done by" if its POSSIBLE for her to do it later! 8'D Well, first two categories are done... 'xD; And now I'm burnt out so I'll do the others later tonight or TOMORROW morning... << >> << D: WhatThursdayisTOTALLYthenewWednesdaydidn'tyouhear? *SHOT* x'3