Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch => Bugs/Suggestions => MM8BDM Discussion => Rejected => Topic started by: Gumballtoid on February 09, 2014, 07:39:38 PM
Title: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Gumballtoid on February 09, 2014, 07:39:38 PM
As is, the base skin is Mega Man. As is, whenever you're missing a custom skin, players using it default to Mega Man. As is, you'll typically find 80 Mega Men in a non-classes server.
I think that's sorta silly. And I expect I'm not the only one.
I think it would be vastly more apt to change the base skin to Sniper Joe. This shield-toting fellow, unlike Mega Man, is mass-produced and a common sight in any Mega Man game. Seeing several of them in this environment would be a lot less noticeable because they canonically come in numbers, unlike Mega Man. Not only that, but if someone wants to actually use the Mega Man skin, they can do so and it won't be mistaken for a custom skin. With Sniper Joe, a skin used so rarely, it should be obvious who is using a custom skin.
I propose this because the whole "custom skin" dealie then won't be a deterrent for using the Mega Man skin. You want to use a skin that makes you stand out, but that can't happen if 80 others are also using it, whether or not they mean to.
If there's a method of making Sniper Joe the "custom skin skin" without making him the base skin, that'd be better, but as far as I know, this is the only way.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: chuggaafan1 on February 09, 2014, 07:40:53 PM
+1
I like the Mega Man skin and I rarely use custom skins anymore, so this would work
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Thunderono on February 09, 2014, 07:43:40 PM
whoa here's a thing
I don't know I really like this because seeing megaman is cool and all but oh there's another one And another one And another one
I feel like it would flow a bit better if it were sniper joe, and as Gumball said, there are typically more
+vote up
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Hallan Parva on February 09, 2014, 07:54:09 PM
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Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: SmashTheEchidna on February 09, 2014, 07:59:24 PM
I'm all for it. In fact I could swear someone brought this up before, but it never got anywhere.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Ceridran on February 09, 2014, 08:09:12 PM
I approve of this in every way. If I recall correctly, I asked for this in the past.
Megaman just looks so dorky.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Solar Equinox on February 09, 2014, 08:11:06 PM
I approve, someone make this a thing.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Laggy Blazko on February 09, 2014, 08:54:40 PM
I'd love if that happened, but I really doubt it because of that "consistency" thing. OK, I admit it, I don't know what that word means.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Jatea on February 09, 2014, 09:11:20 PM
why not make a met the base skin
but yeah megaman is a dork
something more easily explainable for stock skin is better
woo
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Korby on February 09, 2014, 09:46:00 PM
I remember when this was suggested years ago.
I'm not really against it, but you could technically just use Megaman? instead if you wanted to use a megaman skin >_> <_<
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: ZeStopper on February 09, 2014, 09:54:57 PM
Up vote.
Common sense.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Knux on February 09, 2014, 10:10:36 PM
This makes sense. I'm all for it!
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Zard1084 on February 09, 2014, 10:13:07 PM
+1 for Sniper joe being the base skin!
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: CutmanMike on February 09, 2014, 10:15:09 PM
I think it would be better to just change the default skin via the default ini file to Sniper Joe (or whatever) as changing all the names and sprites for the base class etc will probably be more troublesome than it's worth. Either way if we do this we'll just be alienating a different skin other than megaman.
Edit: Come to think of it, doing this is just passing the default torch to another character and not actually solving the issue. What about changing your default skin to a random one when you first install mm8bdm?
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Magnet Dood on February 09, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I agree with this suggestion.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Zard1084 on February 09, 2014, 10:42:29 PM
yea that sounds much much better cutmanmike! i'm all for it!
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: SmashTheEchidna on February 09, 2014, 10:44:51 PM
A random skin? If that's possible then sure thing.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: ZeStopper on February 09, 2014, 11:35:44 PM
Actually, that works out a lot better so that everyone is likely to be different!
Cutman Mike-Innovating since a long time.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Gumballtoid on February 09, 2014, 11:36:39 PM
Go for it, that sounds great! If it could be changed by the player on a whim, then even better.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Laggy Blazko on February 09, 2014, 11:38:23 PM
How do we do that, again?
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: Ukiyama on February 09, 2014, 11:53:54 PM
The random skin initially actually sounds pretty good to get some diversity into the new playerbase. That idea sounds better than just flipping the base skin to another base skin that people are gonna hate a month down the line.
Title: Re: [Suggestion] Change Base Skin to Sniper Joe
Post by: CutmanMike on May 17, 2014, 01:58:20 PM
I'm moving this to rejected because the random skin thing I suggested doesn't actually solve the problem of people downloading the game and jumping into a server. Since they won't enter lightlabs they'll still be whatever the default skin is. I don't want to change it to sniper joe for the reasons I already posted above. This may be something we'll tackle in the future but not right now.