Nationality Flags

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Flame
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Re: Nationality Flags

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At the end, have some flag is nice, we could just create some new flag, live the BoarNation or the Deer Legacy or what you want. I whould use it XD
If you want, i could try to think some flags. XD
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Re: Nationality Flags

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Thijssnl wrote:Sure you can, except everyone will prolly kill you.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.
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Re: Nationality Flags

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The only thing I really see this adding is annother way for trolls to spam confederate and nazi flags. What real game use would they have?
Surprise.
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Re: Nationality Flags

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Peter wrote:trolls [...] spam confederate [...] flags.
Whoah! Control yourself, sonny lad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfK_aSGZFwo

'tis but states' rights and liberty we ask! :)

(Or, almost better still: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWB7_o6x6DA )
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Re: Nationality Flags

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I want a custom flags system with all the basic heraldic elements (tincture, division, charge).
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Re: Nationality Flags

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Peter wrote:The only thing I really see this adding is annother way for trolls to spam confederate and nazi flags. What real game use would they have?
Off-topic: It's funny how what I see as cultural identity others seem to see as being exclusively racially supremacist. I know it's a symbol used by some pretty nasty people but that ties back into Onionfighter's comment on offensive expression.

On-topic: Flags would have the same use in-game as they have in real life, pretty much. Whether we have use for that at the moment or not is up for debate, probably, but I'm sure people would like to see a standard of say, Bottleneck, or a Goons Here flag. Dragging all the baggage of real-life flags into the game probably isn't worth it, though.

Potjeh's comment reminds me of how it was done in Guild Wars where you had two or three elements for guild capes/symbols, which I believe was cape shape, background pattern, and foreground symbol. Something mix-and-match like that would be neat (possibly with a bit more customization in terms of layers and where the elements appear on the flag)
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Re: Nationality Flags

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Lightning2 wrote:
Thijssnl wrote:Sure you can, except everyone will prolly kill you.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.
I'm pretty sure you will never stop being an ass.
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Re: Nationality Flags

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Thijssnl wrote:
Lightning2 wrote:
Thijssnl wrote:Sure you can, except everyone will prolly kill you.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.
I'm pretty sure you will never stop being an ass.
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Post by Ferinex »

Nightsway wrote:
ThirdEmperor wrote:Actually the natzis stole the swastika from the buddhists, it was originally a budhist prayer wheel.
They inverted it though, right?
no. and they didn't 'steal' it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#A ... _of_Nazism

also, custom flags would be cool.
i guess they never miss huh
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Ferinex wrote:
Nightsway wrote:
ThirdEmperor wrote:Actually the natzis stole the swastika from the buddhists, it was originally a budhist prayer wheel.
They inverted it though, right?
no. and they didn't 'steal' it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#A ... _of_Nazism

also, custom flags would be cool.
Bold use of the word 'no' since no one truly knows the origin of the swastika, so my comment was the only semi-correct one. It's such a basic and common design that for all we know it was just a pretty pattern they decided to doodle on a napkin one day at a conference.

I agree with your last point, though. Custom flags would be pretty fun to play around with.
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