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SUPPORTER COLORS

Aquacorde

Aquacorde

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    I've decided I don't like having four different colors for supporters and would rather go back to a uniform color. Not blue purple orange or red though. Well maybe crystal blue. I like goldtier color. Or a green thats not hella bright. Or light pink haha. idk I just don't like how many colors are floating around anymore. While it makes for a colorful place, I do think it's mildly confusing and the non-necessity outweighs the fun of it.
     
    I'd be OK with this if it were platinum or crystal color that everyone changed to. Though with the newly improved tiered system I am not sure how that would work without reverting back to the 1-6 tiers which IMO were slightly confusing as well. I'm on the fence honestly D:
     
    idk just change to whatever color and use tier 1-4 bars or something. or theme the ranks to something pokemon idk like stages of evolution or badges. something cute that conveys a tiered system without specifically putting it in ranks?

    i dunno im just done with so many colors
     
    I have some pros and cons with both the old and new systems. While I am enjoying the current system (even if we still don't have new userbars yet) the uniformity of the previous system was also good, even if I had to endure a stint being a green Grass-type (lol) whose color did not match so well with most of my themes.

    I can understand why some don't like the uniformity, but it won't be bad if everyone has a color that's appealing and doesn't look like an eyesore. That's why if we ever had to go back to a uniform format and keep one of the current colors, I'd definitely keep my crystal blue because we had blue supporters a few years ago but the color back then was far too similar to the mods, but this one's a bit more distinctive and easier to separate from mods so I wouldn't mind it.
     
    flight said:
    But...why would you want the tiered system back? To be completely honest, it was fairly unpleasant to have. 6 tiers, with very little difference between one another...even if you reduced it to 4, the same problem would persist. If your wish is to theme the supporter ranks into something entirely different, then yeah, I'd have no problem with that, but it's going to be a mountainous task in and out of itself to decide on things like which Pokemon represents which supporter tier, and which evolutionary line appeases most to the majority of supporters.

    At the end of the day, you can't satisfy everyone, this much is obvious. But time and time again having uniformity in colors in the past has proven that people have consistently changed to either their regular user usergroup or basically asked an admin to remove both the userbar and the color and display completely as a regular user. This was especially frustrating for people like myself, who had the supporter bar display at the bottom despite appearing as a regular user, and it'd made for a really ugly postbit.

    PC has had a long history of giving people a lot of presentable options and customizations. Now that supporters finally have a chance to pick their own colors, so to speak, why would we change or deviate from that? I personally don't mind the difference in colors, because people would pick what they like at the end of the day and donate that specific amount for it. It's simple, and pisses less people off, bluntly speaking.
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    So we donate for name color? that's honestly the last thing on my list of desirable perks lmao.
    At this point we have four tiers with very little difference between one another. Why does there even have to be a difference identifiable at a glance?
    Themeing the ranks would be fun. Not with a specific evo but like "Basic Stage Supporter", "Second Stage Supporter" "Final Stage Supporter" "Mega-Evolved Supporter" or something more clever. Or based on badges, regions, trainer classes, I don't know. Something cute. I think splitting us up so dramatically, as name colors have made it, is weird. And I just straight up dislike how many name colors PC uses.

    Like ya said, not everyone's gonna be pleased. And that's why I'm talking about this. Because currently I'm not pleased with the arrangement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and it could be more fun. why not brainstorm? even if it comes to nothing, it aint a reason to shut it down.
     
    I've certainly been around for the majority of the changes. And it's true that there's people wanting something different every time. It's going to happen every time, you continue to say. And hey, look, it's happening now. Like... what is your point here? Whether uniform colors or the variety of colors is the thing, there's gonna be someone who ain't happy. Right now it's me. I don't like seeing this many damn colors all over the place. I prefer one identifiable supporter color, maybe two if Platinums want to have their own lil set of things because that would make enough sense given the amount they've donated. But to differentiate between, what is it, increments of $10 or $15? seems a little frivolous.

    BBCode usertitles have been the best perk by far imo. Varied colors of usernames? idk man. I like Silver and Gold colors more than my Crystal half the time. I'm not gonna ask to switch down, what a hassle. But I donated up to this tier long before the changes were introduced. And like, if people like the gold username why would they donate up to crystal? If a thing that's stopping them is that their name won't look as nice, that's money that could have gone to PC... not going to PC. That's not desirable, is it?

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    I've italicized the major things I think people would donate for. And I think they're significant enough for people to donate for them alone? The tiers we have laid out right now do give a reasonable division between them and reason to move up, well beyond the name color. And if we do a themed ranking system, it would probably replace the colored name as the way to show how much you've donated. If it's about the showing, idk.
     
    Through my time as a supporter I've been through three different changes to the system now. When I first became a Tier 4 (now part of the Gold rank) supporter back in 2012, I had to learn quite a bit of the perks such as the profile stuff and also taking my first step in this secret forum, and then a while after that I was upgraded to a Tier 5 (now Crystal) and to be honest, the only thing I gained from that tier was a email that I never even bothered to use.

    I was happy with this new color-based system, especially because of the huge significant difference with perks between ranks compared to the old "uniform color" system. I really enjoy the customizable usertitles, and to have that taken away would be sad because before this change it was a staff-exclusive perk.

    The one thing that's really missing with the current system is the userbars, which I hope new ones get made soon. But the downside with uniformity is that not everyone will like the chosen color, such as how I wasn't quite a fan of that old green given it didn't go well with most of my avatars/sigs. It's like how Syd mentioned that she had trouble finding good avatars/sigs that would fit with her smod orange.

    Also, as Anna stated the perk differences are to serve as an incentive to encourage you to donate more if you want the good stuff. It's all part of doing your bit to help keep this forum running.
     
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    The thing is, I don't think everyone should be appeased all the time. PC doesn't need this many options and toggles. I think uniformity and clarity is more useful than a myriad of random colors.

    The perks would not change. The tiers would not be merged. All I'm sayin' is at least silver, gold, and crystal could be one color.
    also I dislike userbars buuuut whatevs. I would just put a section in postbit above join date and w/e saying what donation tier people are.
     
    Was there ever like true dissatisfaction tho? iirc it was always like maaan weve had this color forever and this other color would be cool and then hstaff was like ok guys vote on it and it changed. this happened like. four times? ever? and it was just... hey guys this would be cool, not supporter color is awful. because there was the option to turn it off.
     
    Yeah but I'm saying that the toggle could be like, one or two colors max, plus a regular member appearance option. My stance is purely that so many colors is crazy. I dont care how many times we've changed or how that compares. And I've always wanted some cute themed tier system. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
    The reason for all ranks having different colours is... having the username symbolize the supporter level so everybody can recognize it at a simple glance. Merging all colours into one would be a mere aesthetic change with no actual meaning that would, in fact, obscure the easy recognition all ranks have now. I don't see any reasons to go for it other than "I don't like having different colours for each rank" :\
     
    I get it with mod ranks, but why do supporter ranks need to be easily recognized and differentiated?
     
    Rika's got my point. Like I said earlier, there's like a difference of $10 donation increments. I feel like T6/Plat certainly deserves their own colors because they have supported the community in a huge way, really, but for so little? What's the point? For differentiation to make sense, I would suggest alternate name colors be a perk of like, $5, $25, $50, and $100 but that would cause another reshuffle of perks which is like the worst thing ever. So I'm just sayin drop the differentiation between little tiny classes.
     
    adventure said:
    I get it with mod ranks, but why do supporter ranks need to be easily recognized and differentiated?
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    And what problems are caused why this current system?

    If it's all going to come down to aesthetic preferences, the branding nerd inside me would rather have different colours that actually fit the rank names than a random colour for all. If your only argument (@Anna) is "why not", then my question is "why so".
     
    Went said:
    The reason for all ranks having different colours is... having the username symbolize the supporter level so everybody can recognize it at a simple glance. Merging all colours into one would be a mere aesthetic change with no actual meaning that would, in fact, obscure the easy recognition all ranks have now. I don't see any reasons to go for it other than "I don't like having different colours for each rank" :\
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    It's true. I like this system (in fact we're fast approaching one year since the changeover) not just because I like this shade of blue, but it's for pretty much all the reasons stated here. Uniformity would look well, kinda boring when you consider the previous system had like very little differences with the perks between tiers.
     
    But I'm saying if we rework colors, we would also rework rank names? Like I said there are a few cute thematic things we could do to differentiate. I just don't think the color chaos I see every day on here is worth that idk there's just so much going on. five staff ranks and four supporter ranks all with their own colors is just. a ton.
     
    No, what I mean is, do we need to differentiate between supporter tiers with colors as an incentive to donate, or? Because otherwise we could just let all supporters choose (at any point, with a toggle yes) between a few well chosen colors (like pink!) and don't let colors be a thing that separates ranks there.

    The "color chaos" doesn't bother me. I like colors.
     
    Well thats an option as well. A bright color, a neutral color, and an option for no color would be my ideal I suppose. But let's not have so many like shouldnt a few options be enough?
     
    Team Fail said:
    Not this crap again...

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    I've gone through two color changes. Isn't that enough?
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