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N1ghtstalker · Jun 30, 2008, 11:57 AM // 11:57

Hi,

so i thought about this and there is actually no warning when one of your chars had his birthday
my friend found out about his char's birthday after a few month's (he didn't play it anymore)
so i propose a small pop up screen when one of your char's is having his birthday so you can check out your present

Kattar · Jun 30, 2008, 12:23 PM // 12:23

Isn't the present a pop-up that you've had you're birthday?

Something on the login screen would be nice. But I don't know how it would work, the programming involved and how difficult it would be or anything.

Arduin · Jun 30, 2008, 12:28 PM // 12:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by N1ghtstalker

my friend found out about his char's birthday after a few month's (he didn't play it anymore)

If you play your character, you'll notice a present in his/her inventory on his/her birthday.

If you aren't playing, you won't notice, but since you are not playing, why bother?

Write down the birthdays of your characters if you can't learn them by heart, or just cycle through them all once in a month.

I see no need for this update, /unsigned

N1ghtstalker · Jun 30, 2008, 12:30 PM // 12:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arduinna

If you play your character, you'll notice a present in his/her inventory on his/her birthday.

If you aren't playing, you won't notice, but since you are not playing, why bother?

Write down the birthdays of your characters if you can't learn them by heart, or just cycle through them all once in a month.

I see no need for this update, /unsigned

well yes but he has about 18 character slots and full and he has a wide variety of characters to play with

Rainbow Ftw · Jun 30, 2008, 12:54 PM // 12:54

/age works; and yh if you aren't playing it you probs won't care about the b-day anyway xD.

lilraceangel3 · Jun 30, 2008, 01:27 PM // 13:27

/unsigned
If your not playing a char enough to know when their b-day is, IMO you shouldnt get a present...mini leeching FTL

theonetheonlybruce · Jun 30, 2008, 01:48 PM // 13:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilraceangel3

/unsigned
If your not playing a char enough to know when their b-day is, IMO you shouldnt get a present...mini leeching FTL

/signed i have a char for every profession but i only play on my monk and i dont have them sitting leecing birthday minis most are storgae now but some time i might jump on one time to time but not usually anywayssome like little thing on the character selection screen be cool like little thing over your charater saying happy birthday till you go on them

MithranArkanere · Jun 30, 2008, 03:36 PM // 15:36

Won't be just easier to show the birth date in the login screen under the character name?

**cosyfiep** · Jun 30, 2008, 05:44 PM // 17:44

yes birthDATE on the log in would be nice----instead of me going to a character that is close everyday for most of the final month before it POPS!
I did try to keep a spreadsheet with this info (and lots of other stuff as well) but my mules creation dates arent very close (like one I remember doing sometime during the summer----which I got down to sometime in july....she will be popping soon----I hope---I have been checking daily----).
yes I am one of those with LOTS of characters 15 I play and just about as many mules.....its gets hard to remember more than 20 birthdays!

Div · Jun 30, 2008, 07:08 PM // 19:08

If you actually cared about the minipet, wouldn't you log on to check? Using "he has too many chars" or "he forgot" is just an excuse for carelessness, and Anet shouldn't have to do extra work if even the players themselves don't care much.

Orange Milk · Jun 30, 2008, 08:11 PM // 20:11

Of all the things GW needs this goes right to the bottom of the stack, no wait, this goes in the trash can next to that stack.

I agree with Divine 100% if you don't bother checking why should ANet bother to tell you, stop being lazy.

Nex you'll say "I'm too lazy to do the quests to get FoW so the forgemaster should just stay unlocked after doing the quest once, after all I did all that work spamming that I was buying ecto, why should I have to play the game and earn the forgemaster?"

gtfo

Thanks,

OM

Twonaiver · Jun 30, 2008, 08:16 PM // 20:16

id be much happyer with a status screen of my char, of what i did when i did stuff i kill most birthdate chance of hitting target, dmg, range, specialities and other cool strange data i couldnt count, perhaps even a artwork of me, im so preatty in pics lol.

so no cookie for bday popup

Arduin · Jun 30, 2008, 08:27 PM // 20:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

Won't be just easier to show the birth date in the login screen under the character name?

I'll sign on this one.

Omnidragon42 · Jun 30, 2008, 11:04 PM // 23:04

It seriously takes 5 minutes once a month to scroll through all of your characters and /age them. I have 14 in-use slots.

pamelf · Jul 01, 2008, 03:44 AM // 03:44

/unsigned for that, but /signed for being more specific in the /age command. I'd like to know how many days...

Tender Wolf · Jul 01, 2008, 03:47 AM // 03:47

I do see your point, but it's really not that big of a hassle to just type /age or check your inventory for a present. It would be nice to know the exact date of a character's birthday, but as was previously mentioned, just write it down. That's what I've been doing and it's worked fine. But I'll go ahead and /sign.

HawkofStorms · Jul 01, 2008, 04:14 AM // 04:14

/signed
For people with slower systems/connections... it can take a long time to check all your characters... and just a little indicator on the character select screen wouldn't be THAT hard to program.