General game settings?

[Afflict]

This thread was inspired by something rick J said in another forum...

- Scaling of the character sprites: I'm thinking something like 1/3 of the screen height at the chosen resolution... Too big bloats the game size; too small means possibly scaling UP a character which is usually ugly.

You are qyuite rught about scaling up characters IMHO.  In the past I have used the following pixel scaling of characters:

• 640x400 - 40 pixels/ft
  
• 320x200 - 20 piexls/ft
  
  I am quite certain that everyone has their own preferences, these are mine. 
  

Well what is your favourite settings? And if possible show us the Background with the character...