Kashemia Wrote:I know a lot of roleplayers think that the lack of an implemented custom emote system are a big deal, but I never really understood it. It usually works almost as good to just type *does xx*, or as Asyria descriped, write the emote in general and then add the speach in "". Sure, it's easier to see if the emotes are a different color, but that's about it, it's not a bigger deal than that. It's not like it's impossible to rp without the custom emotes
WAR was horrible for roleplay (you couldn't even sit or walk), and I still had some of the most fun in rp there.
So I'm sure creative people like roleplayers can find away around it
^^; In fairness, ah ... my focus was less on the custom emotes, and more on whether or not already pre-existing emotes with accompanying, visual actions by the characters are going to get the proper command strings they have gotten in XI, as well as other MMOs, since they currently lack them a month before release.
I was just mentioning how they were pretty spiffy when I threw them out there in my post, and how it basically showed a lot more friendliness to people who wished to roleplay than other MMORPGs nowadays. Only game I even remember allowing for "/em" was EverQuest, and that was quite a while ago (I'm sure I'm totally forgetting ones made after EQ, or perhaps even before, but I don't exactly claim to be a walking MMO thesaurus ... heh).
Honestly, looking back on that passing mention of mine about "/em", if I wished for anything to come back from XI, I'd be much more interested in "motion", so that visual expressions by characters could be done sans the automatic description when one does a "/laugh" or a "/wave" as well, ensuring no repeating what one has already written (or will be writing if the expression is done before the writing) in their action.
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I walk through the sea, swim through the sands.
To the edges of the earth, to your rescue when you hurt,
Only thing I learnt is I'm not Superman.
~Giant Panda - Strings
