I agree that it would be nice if the emotes could show up in the chat log. But I like the selection they have - its a little limited but the ones that are there have some wonderful animations (I especially loved the popori's emotes).

One other thing I could add though, and its mainly only an issue for role-players, but I didn't see any way to have our characters role-play things directly in the chat box (I'm not sure what the actual term would be). For example in other games you can type /e or /me followed by some text and whatever you type comes up in the text log in the same way the emote text does. For example:

"/e peers around the corner suspiciously" would come out as "Kestrel peers around the corner suspiciously"

As it is now when you type into the chat box it comes out with "Kestrel says: peers around the corner suspiciously" or "Kestrel: peers around the corner suspiciously" which I know isn't a major issue, but would be a nice quality of life improvement for us role-players.

I know its not a biggie, but I thought I would share my thoughts. I agree with some of the other posters though that this sort of cosmetic fluffy stuff should probably be left until they sort out any of the bugs with the gameplay (of which I found none during my weekend but there's got to be something somewhere). But it would be nice if we could see something in the future for us pain in the neck RPers. :)

Quote: bygeorge on 2012-02-13 17:39:41 UTC

/shy
/hi

Emotes don't have a text display, because there's no emote channel, no custom emotes.

It's something that the RP forums are full of requests for, I'm really glad that it's on the general discussion section as well, hopefully EME will pay attention :)

Quote: Ainilome on 2012-02-13 17:43:18 UTC

This has be discussed before and I'm sure EME has let BHS know about this. Hell at one point there wasn't even a sit.

Simply pressing H and scrolling down to the last option will show you a list of all emotes. I believe you can also click on them to activate them...

Quit tripping. They'll probably add more later, damn rpers.

I would love to be able to see emotes in the chat box. Especially to be able to have a way to target the player or NPC you are emoting. For example, when pointing you would do the slash command followed by the name of the person you are pointing at and it would post the emote action in the chat box.

Plus, I like being able to emote actions as stated above by Kestrel36. For those times when a single emote action isn't enough to convey a thought. ^_^

Quote: Destian on 2012-02-13 16:55:32 UTC - view

So they didn't do this like real life?

Is this real life?

No this is fantasy.

However... I'd rather it NOT spam the chat log.

I like emotes showing up in chat. I might be pre-occupied with enchanting my gear or changing crystals or something and miss a guildie waving hello.