emotes Options

[Fuinelen]

Which body-emotes would you like to see? Any ideas about emotes in general you would like to see implemented?

bbye,
Fuinelen

[Troodon]

Beyond animated emotes and the need for a player to be able to write their own text based ones (i.e. /em, /pose, /me etc). One "emote" I really would like to see is an advance on the typical AFK flag.

While some interface status indicator or prefix to a characters name is serviceable enough why limit it so in a graphical environment?

Rather than having AFK characters just standing about, cluttering up locations like zombies, why not have specific AFK animation cycles, a visual metaphor for AFK status e.g. a character dozing, reading a newspaper, or picking his fingernails with a dagger.

Expanding upon this idea it might be possible to have a set of AFK animations from which a particular animation is picked. It could just be random, but it might be interesting to weight the animations for appropriateness in the environment e.g. a sleeping AFK animation is more likely to occur during the night, or if multiple AFK flagged characters are within a certain radius, they could appear to chat.

[Troodon]

But anyway, to answer your question, heres a few Ive thought of so far:


Pointing in a direction (/offering directions)

Waving

Bowing

Jeering (angry/insulting gesture)

Refusing (a shake of the hands or of the head)

Agreeing

Debating (character appearing to make hand gestures as if arguing some point/bargaining with another)

Saluting

Kneeling upon one knee (/swearing fealty/submitting)

[Troodon]

Here are a few more ideas, Im sure you can probably combine a few:

Exhaustion (slump of the shoulders, obvious weariness)

Encouraging (rallying of allies, inspiring followers)

Crafting (an appropriate animation for each of the crafting skills)

Cheering (victorious troops/people inspired by a speaker)

Idle (default idle animation)

Interest (showing some particular interest in some direction/reading a notice)

[jammac]

Think emotes would add a lot to the game also a flag system used with the name. This would show:

If the player is looking to join a group. :D
If the player is away from the computer. :?
If the player want to be alone. :(

This would add a lot for gamers.

Thanks Jammac

[Fuinelen]

yep .. an AFK anim (or a few) would be nice.
Just had a thought (happens from time to time) : a few player death-anims would be fun too, just to add some diversity to being killed.

bbye,
Fuinelen

[Jerky]

I very much like the AFK idea. I can picture it in my head and it is great. A screen saver of sorts. I like the death animation too.

[Hankellin]

I am tired: What is AFK?

[khrag]

eyboard

Think emotes would add a lot to the game also a flag system used with the name. This would show:

If the player is looking to join a group.
If the player is away from the computer.
If the player want to be alone.

Sounds a little unrealistic to me.I've never walked down the street and a saw a guy with a flag over his head saying "Looking for directions" The whole point of Wish is to make people interact. If we want someplace for people to hook up for groups, we could do a chat channel.

[Troodon]

Away From Keyboard

[Azgaroth]

one thing bout emotes, how will tehy be displayed, just a animation like in Anarchy Online, or a animation and a bubble above the head saying what i does as "Azgaroth curses Strangerr" as in Star Wars Galaxies.... :wink: (sorry strangerr :D )

and then, another important question, will the chat go thru the chanel only, or will it be bubbles and channel, or just bubbles?

(when i say bubbles i mean like in the Comics, you know)

some emotes

Dances(diffretn kinds)
sit (as in the *ss on the ground)
lay down
kneel

[Strangerr]

hehe no offence taken but I do hope they make a "knife stab" emote so that I can stab you all the time when I see you :)

[jammac]

Sounds a little unrealistic to me.I've never walked down the street and a saw a guy with a flag over his head saying "Looking for directions" The whole point of Wish is to make people interact. If we want someplace for people to hook up for groups, we could do a chat channel.

There would be the normal chat channels for people to interact within but this would be a visual clue to what people are doing it could be as simple as changing the colour of their name. People would still need to interact but would just give each player better identification. Imagine trying to chat to someone in a spacial channel or chat channel when they are AFK, could be quite annoying.

If you have not seen this implimented it was used in AC2, Horizons and Star Wars Galaxies

Thanks Jammac

[dezwo]

Heya,

actually I'd like to see hundreds of emots implemented, as they can enhance roleplay a lot in graphical MMOs. If I had to chose but a few, I'd like to see:

- a complete set of dancing emotes (for festivals and balls)
- sitting on chairs
- a MUSH-like chat system to allow me to do my own emotes and emits without any graphics to accompany them to make up for the missing animations ;)

Later,

dezwo