All your emoji are belong to us

This is great, but it doesn’t match the look and atmosphere of the game. (most of these images)
I am terrified of how much somebody will can abuse these “emojis”…
It’s a pity that we can’t have our own images, emoticons, symbols that will display the game world. :pensive:

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It’d be neat if we could just put screenshots on signs

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You will find :cookie: s everywere on Houches I just saying Mwahahaha

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I can imagine how… a big emoji like this :japanese_ogre: plastered next to a beautiful castle :face_with_hand_over_mouth:
I hope the devs could take down those kind of abuse if an instance like this been reported

I really don’t want to be in a situation where i need to report someone.
This is unpleasant and sad
Everyone is free to do what they want, but it is not always possible to think about everyone :disappointed:

let’s look at the bright side. signs fade at a closer distance than blocks, and it is limited to GC the purchasing of which often means that the player is a bit ‘more serious’ about the game.

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In fact, there are a lot of cool emoji that can be successfully used! I really hope that in future the list will be updated by some ingame things :relaxed:

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Don’t think it will be that bad in the end, perhaps in the beginning some people might go overboard but in the end they will temper it am sure.

And if there’s real abuse being done then we just report the sign as being offensive in some way.

I would love this too, a webpage on the boundless website where we can upload our own vector images that we can use on signs (and stickers in the future), but also would love all the knowledge tab icons for all in-game items as well!

But, this can even be abused way more actually :wink:

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But why would anyone do such a thing? And the people who do such things will without these emojis do other troll like behaviour, nothing to do with the emojis…

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For exactly the reason you stated. They want to encourage the player next to them to move and this is a way to do it within the rules. They are doing it just to create drama for other players, but again a sign with an emoji on my ownplots. How would that ever be against the rules? If you use an offensive emoji then sure, but a smilely face, or an apple or a knife or a gun?

I hope you are right and there is a temporary rush and then it tempers down, but based on what I have seen before, I doubt it.

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It is simply one possible instance which could easily happen.
We perhaps should know to address it before it actually happen

Every new thing they add that we can use in our builds can be used in a negative way. All the things that are there now can also be used in such a way. Perhaps we should remove the build ability? Solves a lot of issues don’t you think?

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I’m not against adding emojis.
Im sorry if I sounded otherwise :pray:
In fact I love them.
Im simply stating only a possiblity

I like the ‘toned down’ versions on the wood and stone signs and they’ll be really cool for building and a bit of decoration that’s sorely needed but I kinda hate the bright gleam ones. It would also be nice if emojis of some objects that don’t exist in the boundless universe weren’t available.
Just my early opinion though. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong

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This really similar as the old settlement system, you just build higher prestige and you get the ability to force them to lost their settlement name. This why Devs has to release guild system. I don’t even need to point out how many victims who quit because of losing their settlement name, and how many drama caused by that. Unless they have solution to make sure everything in control, otherwise they should be more careful on this emoji system. For now I really feel they are playing fire again.

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I think this is maybe too much of a blanket statement. How can you use prestige plants in a negative way?

I do agree the emojis are just another tool to in a builders kit and should not be excluded because of some edge cases for trolling. I will say they are generally ugly and could have been more custom to Boundless.

Also, I think pixel art is horrendous in Boundless, even as I can appreciate the creativity and work. I am interested in seeing the creativity people use in incorporating the emojis.

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By planting them next to my plots and let them die, they then look ugly…

Everything can be used in a negative way, especially if people keep saying that they do not like how it looks blablabla, then someone can say something similar about anything else as well…

Not a fan of those either but people are free to do what they want to build as long as it is not done to purposely grief others…

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Yep, settlement system and prestige stuff is on the same exact level as emojis, totally agree!

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Maybe reaching a little on the prestige plants but I will chalk that up to pet peeves.

I know lol, but that’s the thing, some comments here say that the emojis are ugly and they do not want to see them near them and see that as griefing blabla, hence why I used this exaggeration here too :wink:

We will have to wait and see, I think it will be ok, if not, ah well, more work for the devs I suppose but nothing for us to worry about. I sure as heck do not see people quitting the game because someone had the gall to put up a sign with an emoji!

This update needs to be released and quickly too because we are starting to see negative things everywhere. We haven’t had an update (besides some hotfixes) in more than 2 months, it’s time don’t you think?

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