Business Card

[Oklahoman]

As has been pointed out by others, the forums really have become ugly - this suggestions forum doubly so, in my opinion. But I had an idea sparked by the 2 now-closed threads regarding memorials, so I thought I'd throw it out against my better judgement.

 

Basically, everyone can get 2 temp powers: Give Business Card, and Business Cards.

 

Give Business Card is a temp power you get by visiting an Icon tailor. You select which costume slot you want to appear on your business card and whatever quote you want associated with the card. For example mine might use my 1st costume slot and have the quote "Be Excellent To Each Other." When you select a player and click your Give Business Card temp power, that card gets added to the other players list of Business Cards.

 

A player can then click their Business Cards temp power and get a list of all the cards they have received. When they select a card from that list they place a hologram generator on the ground that displays the business card. Sort of like a pet, I guess. It doesn't do anything other than just show the business card.

 

It's not a permanent fixture in the game, which I know is what some would like. But, I could see where it would be useful beyond just memorials. And it would give you, as a player, discretion over who you wanted to give a business card to. I could see it creating a more social aspect, too, as players look to collect business cards from other players.

 

From there, maybe, we could someday make an option to give your business card to a supergroup, for them to use in a base in a more permanent fashion. That's a Phase 2 sort of thing that I don't have thought out too much.

[lemming]

Not entirely sure on the hologram, but maybe?   I like the idea of business cards.   And could be semi-attached to notes, though those are client side.

[biostem]

I can't imagine that they'd ever allow players to write in their own text to be associated with a temp power that granted an item with said text to other players.  Maybe make use of the various titles we can select, along with badges, that character's origin, AT, and powersets...

Edited December 18 by biostem

[kelika2]

i dont read many posts in full these days but i read this twice

and what?

[biostem]

13 minutes ago, kelika2 said:

i dont read many posts in full these days but i read this twice

and what?

My interpretation is that it'd be a neat "collect them all" sort of thing...

[Ghost]

7 hours ago, biostem said:

My interpretation is that it'd be a neat "collect them all" sort of thing...

But why?

Wouldn’t people start annoying you for your card?

 

Isnt this something that could be profited off of in the future?

 

Edited December 18 by Ghost

[Snarky]

maybe have it be a global thing?

 

[Ghost]

50 minutes ago, Snarky said:

maybe have it be a global thing?

 

Again, why?

I am honestly really confused by this whole suggestion.

 

 

[Snarky]

4 hours ago, Ghost said:

Again, why?

I am honestly really confused by this whole suggestion.

 

 

Well, if it was per toon and you get a card from someone rare… but are on a toon you will never play again…

 

or are you asking why even have the entire business card?   I have no idea. I am pretty anti social really.  But Okie leads great stuff and gets me badges. What have you done for me lately?

[Ghost]

33 minutes ago, Snarky said:

Well, if it was per toon and you get a card from someone rare… but are on a toon you will never play again…

 

or are you asking why even have the entire business card?   I have no idea. I am pretty anti social really.  But Okie leads great stuff and gets me badges. What have you done for me lately?

Yes, I don’t understand the purpose of the card.

When I first started reading it, I thought it would like an instant “call me if you need help” card.  
Something that when invoked, would automatically put you on their team (if you were online).

But then….it wasn’t.

 

Okie is a great member of the community, and I am certainly very grateful for his contributions…..but a strange and confusing idea is still a strange and confusing idea.

Edited December 18 by Ghost

[kelika2]

like a friend summons that uses their avatar and powersets?

[Snarky]

7 minutes ago, kelika2 said:

like a friend summons that uses their avatar and powersets?

No, just pull them from wherever they are (not a TF, but yes a team!) and just yoink them to you.  That would be hilarious.  

[laudwic]

14 minutes ago, Snarky said:

No, just pull them from wherever they are (not a TF, but yes a team!) and just yoink them to you.  That would be hilarious.  

 

Especially if it allows you to pull them from their nice, dark, safe and secure coffin to the middle of a treeless park that has no shade, at noon, in full sunlight.

 

It would need to work in those circumstances, for, ah, reasons.

[biostem]

11 minutes ago, laudwic said:

Especially if it allows you to pull them from their nice, dark, safe and secure coffin to the middle of a treeless park that has no shade, at noon, in full sunlight.

Then you'd find out @Snarky's darkest secret...

[OEM61]

I don't see any harm in this, though I think that maybe rather than holograms they could just open up a full-screen image of the character in question, like clicking the I.D. option for your own character, and then rather than the personal information it could have the quote (possibly with a fair bit of room, like the character background) along with the character name, origin, and AT.

The hologram angle, where players could project the character into the game, could create some very crowded spaces.  Even if the holograms couldn't be clicked on, they could still create a lot of unnecessary visual clutter.

And not to derail the topic, but I am opposed to any individual memorials going forward.

Create a single memorial for fallen heroes and another for villains, or make a single memorial and put it in Kalisti Wharf.  Let people that want to pay respects to a departed player gather there to pay respects.

Like I said, I don't want to derail things, so that's all I am going to say about that.


Oh, and rather than just giving the card to players I think that players should be able to click on a character and "request business card" so they could get one that way.
In case they wanted to know more about some hero they teamed with or even just saw on the street.

It wouldn't be a literal request.  You click, you request the card, you get the card.  I wouldn't want to actually bother people, but I might want their card for whatever reason.

Hopefully it wouldn't be used for evil.

 

[Oklahoman]

This thread went a little better than I expected. It may be best to think of the whole concept as "Collectable Cards" rather than "Business Cards" - people get hung up on words sometimes. And the quote part of that can go if we fear people being juvenile with it, though they're still going to be juvenile in their bio, character name, and chat.

 

So, you know all those untouchable things you can summon right now that do nothing, like mini-pets? I'm suggesting a temp power sorta like that. When you click it, you get a popup selection for all the "business cards" you've received from other characters. You select one, and that card is displayed in front of you - your character does the same animation as though you were summoning a mini-pet, and poof - a hologram of that player appears with the costume they selected and probably just their name (since the quote part seems to be a problem). As for the "card" - think of an Oscars statue (that's your character in the costume you selected for your card), with the character name circling around the midsection like the Universal logo circles around the equator. That's sort of what I had in mind, but again people smarter and more artistic than me might have some better ideas.

 

That's it. If you move, the business card goes away. You can't interact with it, it doesn't do anything for you. It just sits there and looks pretty. It's just to look at.

 

As for the why? Well, we've have 2 locked threads now on how to do a memorial for fallen heroes, and that's what sparked this idea. Maybe I don't want @Snarky in charge of creating my memorial in AE or whatever else, for... reasons. I love Snarky, but come on. 😄But, I can give him (and others) my business card and when there's a bunch of people /e torch'ing in Ouro one or more of them can summon my business card so we know why they are all /e torch'ing to begin with.

 

Or, it can be just a fun thing to show off. While waiting for an MSR to start, maybe I summon Snarky's business card to show off how cool I am because in a moment of poor decision making Snarky gave me their business card.

 

And, yeah, people may bug you for your business card. That could get annoying. Maybe someone smarter than me can come up with a way to fix that. I can't imagine it being more annoying than someone hounding you to be global friends - at some point maybe you just put them on /gignore, I guess.

[Ghost]

Thanks for taking the time to better explain the idea @Oklahoman

 

I think just being able to type your own message could lead to issues.  Other than that, I wouldnt be upset if they implemented something like this.

Edited Friday at 05:10 PM by Ghost

[lemming]

45 minutes ago, Oklahoman said:

And, yeah, people may bug you for your business card. That could get annoying. Maybe someone smarter than me can come up with a way to fix that.

Could do the way Fortunes are done,  "Always Ask, Always Grant, Always Deny" for options.  (Maybe categories for SG,  League, & Teams)