Unlockable forum banners tied to achievements or amount of time spent in tf2 servers or something

[Pat]

yea basically what the title says would be cool IMO if the forum had some banners tied to HLstats or amount of forum posts or years your account has been active, just more badges in general. I think it would encourage people to become more involved and to post more or be more active in servers and overall be pretty neat i have no idea what they would look like if someone wants to add some pics below feel free

 

[KillerZebra]

I don't know why Drum is making his own custom banners when there are roughly 15 different banners built into xenforo. All completely customizable to say whatever you want.

Making you own custom banners isn't really that hard. That isn't the problem. The problem is it really isn't worth Bottigers time. It doesn't help out Skial in any way. Not to mention we have to make sure it is compatible with the dark theme, and if it isn't he would have to do a custom edit for that as well.

I wouldn't have an issue creating new titles/trophoes/banners.

No offense, but when did you come into this? As I previously said, making banners, trophies and titles are just a few clicks away. It doesn't really require any effort or expertise, just time.I appreciate you wanting to help, but Bottiger really does everything on his own.

The only thing we can bring from HLstats are the ranks or playtime.

I know it might be cool and all, but personally I think our forum titles and current banners are enough.

 

[Drum]

I don't know why Drum is making his own custom banners when there are roughly 15 different banners built into xenforo. All completely customizable to say whatever you want.

Making you own custom banners isn't really that hard. That isn't the problem. The problem is it really isn't worth Bottigers time. It doesn't help out Skial in any way. Not to mention we have to make sure it is compatible with the dark theme, and if it isn't he would have to do a custom edit for that as well.



No offense, but when did you come into this? As I previously said, making banners, trophies and titles are just a few clicks away. It doesn't really require any effort or expertise, just time.I appreciate you wanting to help, but Bottiger really does everything on his own.

The only thing we can bring from HLstats are the ranks or playtime.

I know it might be cool and all, but personally I think our forum titles and current banners are enough.

Because the current ones don't look the best. Compare:

vs

Creating a custom banner with custom CSS serves two purposes:
a) It's extremely customizable
b) It's fast to set up
c) It's faster to change across multiple groups.
Let's say 3 groups had the same banner assigned. In xenforo, you could either manually click on each group, change it, save it, and repeat the process, or you can tweak the color code assigned in the extra.css file.

Let's say you wanted to change the the staff member banner to something else.
You can either
a) Assign something to every group that has it, or
b) assign them each the same custom css banner, userBanner staffexample.
What is the difference?
If you decide you need to change the banner, changing the custom css banner is much faster if they have the same one. Xenforo's UI isn't the greatest.

All you need to set up a banner in CSS is this in extra.css.

.userBanner.staff {
   color:#ffffff;
   background-color:#062A78;
}

And removing the gradient is a simple removal of this line of code from user_banners.css:

background:url("styles/default/xenforo/gradients/form-button-white-25px.png") repeat-x scroll center top transparent;

Setting it up for the dark theme would be trivial, it would just be different colors. Xenforo splits up themes anyways, so it's not like they would get mixed.
And maybe it doesn't create a tangible benefit for skial like something else might. However, it's a pretty simple thing that will go a long way.

 

[KillerZebra]

The time it takes to change a banner is less than a minute. It really isn't easier or faster to make a custom banner and change it in CSS. It pretty much takes the same amount of time. The current banners look fine to me, I see nothing wrong with them.

 

[Drum]

The time it takes to change a banner is less than a minute. It really isn't easier or faster to make a custom banner and change it in CSS. It pretty much takes the same amount of time. The current banners look fine to me, I see nothing wrong with them.

I made them custom because I prefer the flat look to the gradient look. I'm not saying the current ones are bad or broken by any means, I just personally think flat ones look a bit nicer.
And if 3 or more groups share the same banner, tweaking the css is faster than using the xenforo UI and editing each group's banner.

 

[KillerZebra]

Yes but we don't have three groups sharing the same banner.

 

[Drum]

Yes but we don't have three groups sharing the same banner.

You would if you had Forum Admin, Moderator, and TF2 Admins sharing a staff banner (ideally). True, you can just check the staff member option in xenforo for each group, but assigning them a custom banner would be easier if you wanted something different than the current silver / blue text one.

 

[KillerZebra]

But we don't. Only Mods have staff banner because they can moderate the whole forum. Even if we added all of them to the banner, we would never need to change the banner.

 

[Drum]

But we don't. Only Mods have staff banner because they can moderate the whole forum. Even if we added all of them to the banner, we would never need to change the banner.

It would be nice for tf2 admins to have the banner as well. We are staff.
This is getting into semantics now, however. You're right, custom css isn't really necessary at this point. I would only advocate it if Bottiger ever plans on doing 'flat' banners, as it's easier to specify exactly what color.

 

[Maddo]

There's room for a little bit of info as pictured below, what would go in there is another story.

 

[Drum]

There's room for a little bit of info as pictured below, what would go in there is another story.

Alternatively, we could also center the icons there.