06-12-2001 14:31									#1
	Why are avatars disabled??? Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

I was trying to set up an avatar for myself, but it says the administrator has disabled avatars. why is this? will they enabled again soon?

	06-12-2001 14:39									#2
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For some reason, they slow the server to a crawl during high usage.

	06-12-2001 15:02									#3
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so they only disabled it cause of high usage? you mean when the server is not busy i'll be able to set up an avatar?

	06-12-2001 17:21									#4
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quote: Originally posted by ElitePersian so they only disabled it cause of high usage? you mean when the server is not busy i'll be able to set up an avatar?

When is the server "not busy"?

But seriously, you can only get the avatar, when Mark or Dan enables them again...

	06-12-2001 20:52									#5
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if the last time they turned avatars off is any indication, it'l be january or febuary before they get turned on again.

but that probably won't happen, there should be less users on now than when civ3 came out

	06-12-2001 22:47									#6
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will they notify us when they are enabled again?

do you think that i should try to contact either mark or dan?

	06-12-2001 23:28									#7
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I don't think that's necessary. MarkG was probably the one who turned the avatars off.

	07-12-2001 00:17									#8
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ok so u think they'll notify us when they are enabled again?

	07-12-2001 02:08									#9
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quote: Originally posted by ElitePersian ok so u think they'll notify us when they are enabled again?

Yes. That's what happened before.

Of course, I suspect that the reason we lost the avatars was because an Infogrames lobby pushed MarkG to turn the avatars off since some users started to use an avatar saying "Infogreed"!

	07-12-2001 03:13									#10
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If the avatars are off to perk up performance, it doesn't seem to have helped much.

	07-12-2001 06:22									#11
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actually the sites been running pretty smoothly since avatars dissappeared.

the thing is, the site was running fine for a while even with avatars enabled. the reason it went bad, probably, was that all the people who have never had an avatar, got one, it was just too much work for the server.

therefore i propose, make avatars available only to warlords and up.

	07-12-2001 10:28									#12
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another incentive to go for extra post counts is the lastthing we need !!

	08-12-2001 18:58									#13
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quote: Originally posted by H Tower but that probably won't happen, there should be less users on now than when civ3 came out

I think the patch anouncement sparked another flood - that is around the time when they got disabled again, wasn't it?

	09-12-2001 12:54									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Zealot Yes. That's what happened before. Of course, I suspect that the reason we lost the avatars was because an Infogrames lobby pushed MarkG to turn the avatars off since some users started to use an avatar saying "Infogreed"!

now who would do something like that?

besides, isn't a C&DO more Infogreed's style?

	11-12-2001 01:13									#15
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quote: Originally posted by ColdWizard besides, isn't a C&DO more Infogreed's style?

A what?!? C&DO?!?
What does that mean?

	11-12-2001 00:05									#16
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Cease and Desist order, like the one infogreed sent to those people in germany who were making a patch for civ3 that made the language german

	11-12-2001 07:16									#17
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Avatars are nominally back on now - I chose one for myself, but it doesn't display with my messages (as you can probably see).