by Thothor on Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:12 pm
As someone who's done a lot of user content already (I've got a number of generic british, spanish and pirate flags and sails... I'm not touching the damned french!) I thought I'd throw what I know about the stuff into this thread before doing something different in the pirates area.
Anyway, your flag design:
In itself a very solid design. There's nothing too modern about it but I'd say be careful about the font choice in this as it fills a lot of the flag. Equally, don't use the weathering that you've done on the colour, that's the sort of weathering that looks dangerously fake at times and increases the chances of it being rejected.
The best bet if you wish to personalise a flag more is to either use textures or the more recognised wind weathering.
In your case, I've done simple texture overlays, however you'd be better to do these yourself on the larger original that I'm sure you've got.

Textures can be found
here for the different colours and also
here for main flag colour levels
Plus, to give you an idea of a weathered flag, I'll show you a very simple existing pirate one that I made and is now in the game:
