Faction Icons After merge

sylenthunder wrote: »

louieanne wrote: »

It is almost October and the faction Icons for the Heaven's Tear guilds (merged now called Etherblade) are still not appearing. If this is the wrong thread please direct me to the correct one, but this is what came up when I entered the search. The faction leader and director no longer play PWI to the guild I belong; so I can not resubmit the logo even if there was a way. However, this logo was created by my daughter who has since passed away and I would like to keep this guild and it's logo active in remembrance. PWI was her favorite game and if I am not mistaken, Heaven's Tear was one of the first servers when the game was offered in Beta to U.S. players (which she was an original Beta tester). It is very sad that PWI developers can not return the icons for that server to the game. Please direct me to a thread that will tell me the progress PWI is making towards fixing this problem. Thank you.

Your only option is to have the leader re-submit the icon.

If the leader and director no longer play, and have not logged in for a very long time, you may be able to submit a ticket to take ownership.

chchchchia wrote: »

banks4ds wrote: »

Hello GMs and CMs, when are we getting "any" feedback on our missing Faction Icons? It is 7 weeks and counting and still no Icons have been replaced and still not a word from PWI as to what is going on! Please let us know what is going on, thank you.

Yes, please tell us what is happening with this. I was surprised to get back after three weeks away and see that there has still been no communication about this issue.

We have no CM, and no one else cares about PWI. They don't even bother with maint threads or patch notes anymore.

HA... Ive taken that job for now.

Which Reminds me just about to post that info.

Thanks,​​

You can submit a ticket and they will manually submit it. I am still waiting for a maintenance to see my faction logo appear in the game.


Has anyone been able to get the transparency on a bmp file to work? I am having a difficult time getting this done.​​

I see no reason why they cannot use transparent ones. I'm currently of the belief that whoever is saying that is full of ****. It's not like the file format has changed. And all existing transparent icons still function.​​

My response was mainly to the comment "but if they can no longer use transparent ones (which is a problem I have been hearing about repeatedly)". Someone else posted earlier that they were told they could not use transparency, (support being indicated as source). Somewhere someone is either spreading rumors or misinformation, and it would not surprise me to hear it's from the support team.

If you want to post a link to the icon, and tell us what needs to be transparent, there are many of us that could fix that up for you. I could do it just off a good screenshot of your icon in the game.​​

tricksie wrote: »

everything that isnt red/black

That already had the transparency, so it was a pretty simple conversion.
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ok maybe it's on my end. If i save the image directly from forums, it's this weird disfigured v shaped thing.
If I save from the link of the file, the image correct. However, neither show transparency when I move to my desktop.​​

They are only accepting 24-bit BMP files now which cannot have transparency channel. They accepted my 32-bit BMP file before the merge and was perfect... Why not now? It is not fair that only some pre-merge factions may have this extra bonus.

As I said:

armoftheland wrote: »

Yes thats what makes me wonder. I havent seen any transparent icons enabled in the last few months. All are broken. Sure some of it could be a user issue, but pwi is requesting 24bit bmps for logos on their new page, whereas they used to accept 32bit bmp as referenced in this old post: http://pwi-forum.gdevtalk.net/showthreade3a8.html?t=843612

Im not computer savvy by any means so correct me if I'm wrong but 24 is non-transparent whereas 32bit is transparent correct?

If so, then resubmitted icons will lose their transparent properties and old factions should force the issue with pwe as resubmission will not yield the same results as if pwe transferred properly.

They are not accepting 32bit files and only implementing 24bit bmps.

I submitted a ticket with a 32bit bmp and it was rejected. I was told to go to the icon submission page which i "effed" around with until i got it to work, at which point my file type was rejected.

PWI is not accepting transparent icons at this time as far as I can tell. The transparent icons they have accepted are being implemented without transparency (reference: see chinatown's current icon in game.)

If anyone can disprove that theory, be my guest.

Here is a picture of Chinatowns icon now, vs two months ago:



AND, since for some reason it's being assumed that "someone" has been starting "rumours" here is the proof AGAIN that PWI USED TO ACCEPT 32BIT and now is requesting 24BIT:

Link to current icon page requesting 24bit BMP:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/my/pwifactionicon

Link to old forums post requesting 32BIT BMP:
pwi-forum.gdevtalk.net/showthreade3a8.html?t=843612​​

Not really seen anyone post ticket responses in the forums so not sure if allowed but I can quote two responses I received:

"We understand your situation. All players have the same privileges in terms of faction logos. Unfortunately, we can only upload a 24-bit file on our end at this time. However, some faction leaders were able to convert their transparent logo to 24-bit and we have successfully uploaded them on our end or via the website. With that being said, you may try to do this as well."

and

"As of the moment, we have yet to have any updates as to when the transparent logo will be available on our end. We highly suggest that you submit a temporary logo first [a regular one]. You may update this ticket with the chosen logo so we can upload it right away and submit it on queue."

Now that we have a new CM, I hope this issue will be looked at. I have attempted to submit via ticket the same file I used to get our original logo but since it has transparency (and is 32 bit) I'm not holding my breath on it. I will be very upset if they implement it without the transparency though. There is no possible reason that they cannot use 32 bit icons with transparency if they could in the past. And if they keep insisting that they cannot do it, they'd better find a way to get our icons back without us having to resubmit. Highly unfair if only some servers get to have transparent icons because they didn't figure out how to keep the icons before they committed to the merge.

Edit: Support just replied that they are unable to use my file, and asked me to edit it to make it 24 bit.

So, if they were able to use these files just fine in the past, I guess that means everyone working there now is completely inept?​​

chchchchia said:

Now that we have a new CM, I hope this issue will be looked at. I have attempted to submit via ticket the same file I used to get our original logo but since it has transparency (and is 32 bit) I'm not holding my breath on it. I will be very upset if they implement it without the transparency though. There is no possible reason that they cannot use 32 bit icons with transparency if they could in the past. And if they keep insisting that they cannot do it, they'd better find a way to get our icons back without us having to resubmit. Highly unfair if only some servers get to have transparent icons because they didn't figure out how to keep the icons before they committed to the merge.



Edit: Support just replied that they are unable to use my file, and asked me to edit it to make it 24 bit.



So, if they were able to use these files just fine in the past, I guess that means everyone working there now is completely inept?​​

I've had the same response, so I sent in an icon with 24 bit and non transparent. I look at it this way...Its better than no faction icon. If they ever fix it so we can have a transparent background, I will submit a new one.

johndoe069 said:

so they are accepting faction icons again via the ticket system? ​

They do. In my case I only recieved server errors (500 and 502) when trying to upload my icon except for FireFox which only gave me an empty page. A few hours ago my ticket was closed so hoping to get my icon back later this month or should I say later this year. Normally we should be able to just upload the icon via our page here in Arc but if you want support you also have to send screenshots to show customer-service that you are the leader and do have a level 3 faction.

This is what I've done:
1. Send a ticket with all info that is asked by the support page including my 'old' icon.
2. After a reply send my icon again and a screenshot taken in my base with base-info opened so they can actually read my factionlevel. Never knew level 1 or 2 factions can have a base
3. I had to send another ticket with screenshots of my member list which also includes the base level.
4. closed my ticket after the reply that my icon will be manually submitted.


EDIT: the support website shows a 32bit image can be uploaded but that info is wrong now. Only 24bit images are supported. Hope PWE change the text soon.

sjampie wrote: »

This is what I've done:
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2. After a reply send my icon again and a screenshot taken in my base with base-info opened so they can actually read my factionlevel. Never knew level 1 or 2 factions can have a base
3. I had to send another ticket with screenshots of my member list which also includes the base level.
4. closed my ticket after the reply that my icon will be manually submitted.

gotta have a base now to get a logo or was that just a coincidence that you had it open?​​

I'm pretty irate.
Clearly 32-bit bmp's function just fine as half the population's guilds still use them.
It isn't just an issue of new guilds being denied either, this is an issue of long-standing guilds having their 1/2 a decade old identities taken from them.

My guild has been here since the beginning, created in 2008. Our faction logo is/was 5 years old. 1/2 the population of every newly merged server had their icons removed. This needs to be resolved and the correct icons allowed back to us.

I am all for resubmitting mine to them. I for one am not asking them to locate it themselves. I'm willing to pitch in, but they need to allow back the icons that they mistakenly removed, not require we change them to a lesser format than that of those who already have theirs.

daymond wrote: »

I'm pretty irate.
Clearly 32-bit bmp's function just fine as half the population's guilds still use them.
It isn't just an issue of new guilds being denied either, this is an issue of long-standing guilds having their 1/2 a decade old identities taken from them.

My guild has been here since the beginning, created in 2008. Our faction logo is/was 5 years old. 1/2 the population of every newly merged server had their icons removed. This needs to be resolved and the correct icons allowed back to us.

I am all for resubmitting mine to them. I for one am not asking them to locate it themselves. I'm willing to pitch in, but they need to allow back the icons that they mistakenly removed, not require we change them to a lesser format than that of those who already have theirs.

Exactly! I stated this exact thing in response to the ticket reply they gave me saying they couldn't use my 32 bit icon but of course they just replied back to that asking me again to change it. But it is extremely unfair that half the population of each server gets to keep their icons and we are not allowed to have back the ones we have had for years.

I really hope Domino can look into this for us. I find it very upsetting that it has gone on for this long with no communication.​​