Stoopid noob question

[SMS Goeben]

I'm embarrassed to ask for help with my avatar, but I hope someone can give me an assist. I have read all the FAQs and written to forum support without any response.

When first got on this forum I whipped up an avatar in a few minutes and it appeared on my first posts with no problem. The next day it was missing from my posts. It still showed in the window in the edit avatar page, but not on the forum itself. I wanted to replace it anyway, so I clicked on the "Do not use an avatar" button and got rid of it, but I can not now find the link or selection that allows you to upload a custom avatar. The stock avatars will show, but I don't want a stock avatar. What happened to the option? Below is a portion of the page I am looking at, does your look the same? Where the heck can I select the custom avatar option and upload my image?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

http://blackhaze.0catch.com/editavatar.jpg

[Haida]

When I scroll all the way to the bottom of that page the option to upload a custom avatar is there:

[SMS Goeben]

When I scroll all the way to the bottom of that page the option to upload a custom avatar is there:


Well, I'll be........I had no trouble using this the first time I looked at it, and I swear I have been up and down that entire page multiple times, and that bottom section was not there.............but it is today..............:confused:

Maybe I have been listening to the voices again............:nuts:

Oh, well, I knew that I was going to end up feeling stoopid when I first posted this message. I'll have to add my avatar when I get home.

Thanks, Haida

[RMIrules]

Well, I'll be........I had no trouble using this the first time I looked at it, and I swear I have been up and down that entire page multiple times, and that bottom section was not there.............but it is today..............:confused:

Maybe I have been listening to the voices again............:nuts:

Oh, well, I knew that I was going to end up feeling stoopid when I first posted this message. I'll have to add my avatar when I get home.

Thanks, Haida

Well you know what? I was trying to upload an avatar for myself and can't in any way see that section at the bottom of the predefined avatars page! :mad:

Possibly some parameter wolud be needed when logging in?

[SMS Goeben]

Well you know what? I was trying to upload an avatar for myself and can't in any way see that section at the bottom of the predefined avatars page! :mad:

Possibly some parameter wolud be needed when logging in?

Thanks, man. I feel better about myself now. I considered using Homer Simpson as my avatar. DOAH! :laugh: Can't explain why, but the bottom of the edit avatar page is back for me. Perhaps someone in forum admin is REAL bored. :devious:

[TBR]

This thread just motivated to create my very first avatar! (Odd, eight years in forums and chatboards and this is the first one I post pictures and create an avatar in:)) Edtit: Now newly hand-edited avatar

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=67

[SMS Goeben]

This thread just motivated to create my very first avatar! (Odd, eight years in forums and chatboards and this is the first one I post pictures and create an avatar in:)) Edtit: Now newly hand-edited avatar

Cool....that alone makes the thread worth starting. :) The avatar looks great and thanks for posting the photo. It brings back some memories. Those DDGs had the balanced, classic lines of what a warship should look like.:cool:

[Bullethead]

This thread just motivated to create my very first avatar! (Odd, eight years in forums and chatboards and this is the first one I post pictures and create an avatar in:)) Edtit: Now newly hand-edited avatar

And very well done, both you and Goeben :).

Was your ship re-engined with gas turbines? That's what I think when I see the forked exhausts and big louvers on the funnels. Mine still had the 1200psi steam plant when she went to the breakers, AFAIK. Besides that, mine had the twin-arm main missile launcher and lacked the smaller launcher and big whip antennae on the quarterdeck. But otherwise, that could be my ship.

Except for one big difference.... Your ship is WAY higher in the water than mine. Mine's deck was usually awash from the waist to the fantail, at least on alternate rolls. Would that be a result of a lighter turbine plant vs. the original steam plant?

Oh yeah, and were all your crew officers or CPOs? How else did you have so many guys wearing khaki? :D

[RCNVR]

Back to the original question. The same thing is happening to me. My avatar is not showing up in my posts now and when I removed it to upload it again I do not get the option at the bottom of the page. Maybe I will wait a bit to see if it works in a couple of days.

[TBR]

And very well done, both you and Goeben :).

Was your ship re-engined with gas turbines? That's what I think when I see the forked exhausts and big louvers on the funnels. Mine still had the 1200psi steam plant when she went to the breakers, AFAIK. Besides that, mine had the twin-arm main missile launcher and lacked the smaller launcher and big whip antennae on the quarterdeck. But otherwise, that could be my ship.

Except for one big difference.... Your ship is WAY higher in the water than mine. Mine's deck was usually awash from the waist to the fantail, at least on alternate rolls. Would that be a result of a lighter turbine plant vs. the original steam plant?

Oh yeah, and were all your crew officers or CPOs? How else did you have so many guys wearing khaki? :D

No, the steam plant remained aboard and its cost was a major factor in prematurely decommissioning "Rommel". Until recently tropical BDU's were khaki for all ranks, so everyone from CO to E1 would wear khaki in southern waters.
In fact the destroyers had the highest percentage of non-NCO-enlisted (can't say unrated because in the German Navy everyone gets a rating and the relevant training before joining a ship) of all german ships.

The division between "chief" and "petty officer" in the German Navy is between ranks recognised in the NATO structure as E5 and E6, so some of our chiefs, even though they had chief's postings aboard and did chief's jobs and were reckonned chiefs in the German Navy, weren't accepted in USN chief's messes because their NATO-equivalent rank read "E6" and not "E7". But aboard "Mölders" all the old US markings as regards berthing were still visible and none of our chiefs slept in berthing originally marked "petty officer", so the internal rank structure shouldn't have been that different, only the way NATO translated it was off.

I don't know why your ship rode lower, by rights it should have been the German DDG's riding lower. They had all been heavily modified from the Charles F. Adams original
- central computing system and full Link capability (from 1966 on)
- modified and improved SATIR CIC
- modern sewage treatment plant
- upgraded 2D and 3D air search radars
- upgraded forward fire control radar to include CWI
- in the 1990's: two 21 cell RAM launchers
- ...

When the destroyers were in commission the cold war "50% rule" as regards minimum bunkerage was still in effect, so Mölders shouldn't be riding so high because of empty bunkers. She might have empty or near empty magazines and storerooms at the end of a shoot at Roosey Roads, but they are flying the NATO flag, implying that they are part of STANAVFORLANT or STANAVFORMED. That picture was taken some years after I was aboard though. I also remember it as riding a bit lower. During "man-over-board" exercises we usually fished the buoy per hand from the deck without using the ships boats. That required quite a feat of shiphandling in a steamship considering the "maximum 7 minutes at any speed" requirement.:D

Was your ship remodified to fire SM1's and Harpoons or did they decommision it beforehand?

[Bullethead]

I was wondering when you'd get around to answering my question here ;)

I don't know why your ship rode lower, by rights it should have been the German DDG's riding lower. They had all been heavily modified from the Charles F. Adams original
- central computing system and full Link capability (from 1966 on)
- modified and improved SATIR CIC
- modern sewage treatment plant
- upgraded 2D and 3D air search radars
- upgraded forward fire control radar to include CWI
- in the 1990's: two 21 cell RAM launchers

We had all that except the RAM launchers. We also had SM1 and Harpoon for the main launcher. We had chaff launchers but no dedicated CIWS. The quarterdeck was clear aft of the missile launcher and was marked off as a drop zone for vertical replenishment, although of course there wasn't room for the helo to land.

But we rode low, that's for sure. And the ship rolled her guts out--I remember many times standing watch as bridge talker on the CIC circuit, and having to hang onto the cable across the pilothouse overhead as the ship rolled. I'd look down between me feet out the bridge wing hatch and see nothing but foam below.

Most days, we were throwing spray over the compass platform all the time, like this:http://news.webshots.com/photo/1017373289030266956ZHWZVGNQrh?vhost=news

One time there was a hurricane down by Baja California and a rogue wave came up all the way from there and smacked us off San Diego. Enough green water came over the bow to break a couple of windows in the pilothouse.