I think the characters should be changed.

[jewpinthethird]

Haha...spook...always thinking with his head....eeeeeeee...that is disgusting. Why did you make me think that?

[Arch0wl]

SpookG, you're retarded.

How many girls have established themselves in this community?

That's right, next to none, idiot. I had 2 girls in there, that have actually made a name for themselves.

Also, think about this. How many girls go to video or computer game sites?

Think before you try to be a wannabe sexist.

[Sinjin]

I was very close to putting plasmix and sinjin on that list as well.

Awesome, I feel special.

[SpookG]

That isn't the point, lint trap.

Just because they aren't "established" in this community, that doesn't mean they don't play the game. With over a 100,000 registered users for the game, gee, shit Arch, what, you think only guys play this?

[Arch0wl]

Oh yes, so I'm supposed to pick some random AzN_RaVur_GurRrL683 as a character. Please.

And yes Spook, that's pretty much the point. Guys are usually the majority in almost every single video game.

[SpookG]

I'll speak in a language you can understand, then.

Arch, u R dUm!!!1!1!1!

[Arch0wl]

I'll speak in a language you can understand, then.

Arch, u R dUm!!!1!1!1!

Wow, that made no sense at all, since I could perfectly understand the "language" you were speaking in before. Hey, you know what, do something productive instead of purposely trying to start an argument with me. Moron.

[Cleone]

Yey, I'm one of the few females around! I aspire to have a character too!-- oh.. wait.. my avatar is already based on an existing FFR character. Oh well..

In any case though, I personally think that having characters for forum users would be interesting, but not too useful as it'd be including a character that only that forum person will really use. Then again, I could be wrong, maybe the thousands of non-forum peoples would enjoy having the same character as a random 'famous' established forum user.

A better idea, as has already been mentioned, would be to customise your avatar to suit you. Maybe something like those paper doll things, where you can choose a face, hairstyle, eyes etc. to get the character you want. Maybe you could unlock more pieces of random character 'objects', just because it's more of a novelty that way? If not, I think that at least the characters themselves should be unlocked.

[Arch0wl]

Or the default ones could be kept, and the forum user ones could be unlocked, or something.

But that's basically what you said anyways.

[plasmix]

I've been thinking about taking a picture of myself. But my stupid sister keeps telling me not to waste the digi cam's memory.

[Moogy]

Then kill your sister.

[Cleone]

Another random idea I just came up with from seeing my avatar too much..

How about colour edits of the original characters?

[User6773]

We can't get everyone. The plus side to this though is that people would aspire to continue to use the forums, make intelligent posts, and make names for themselves so they could hopefully have a character one day.

Arch this is the best rationale you mentioned. It would be so cool to see more intelligent posts on here and less flame-warring. Another neat aspect of this is this: no one sees the avatar you pick except you, unless you post a screen shot. So it would be cool to see who respects you when people place SS's.

The only real thumbs-down I can think of is that you'd have scores upon scores of newbies asking "Can you put my picture in it?" But I think it's a very good idea, and I hope it gets implemented soon.

[Arch0wl]

Well first we'd need to get the same artist who did all those characters to do replicas of all the posters on that list which would take a few months...

[User6773]

Yeah. We're talking 7 per person (assuming it's AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, fail - I'm not sure exactly how many pics per character are in the game now) x 18 people in your list = 126 drawings. And we'd need an artist who would be willing to do more after new ones get appointed.