Curse

RSGashapon · Feb 25, 2007, 01:39 AM // 01:39

Most people I play with on GW have the Emotes box in the chat panel unchecked, along with Local and Trade, to keep the amount of chat spam to a minimum. Unfortunately, the /roll command is considered an emote even though it is displayed exclusively outside of towns and outposts. For a while, I didn't even think it worked anymore until I just happened to uncheck the Emotes box and see that it did indeed.

While the "emote" isn't used that much anymore (more back when chests dropped only golds or only purples), I'd like to see it modified to display either as a Team or Local chat line, instead of the white Emotes line. It's still useful for some things like deciding which ranger in a group is the puller, who has to run back to fetch an AFK player, just to goof off with, etc.

Arkantos · Feb 25, 2007, 01:50 AM // 01:50

Emotes belong in the Emotes chat. Check it in explorable areas, uncheck in towns. Problem solved?

RSGashapon · Feb 25, 2007, 02:25 AM // 02:25

But it's not technically an emote, you don't actually see your character pull out a d20 and roll it on the ground (though that would be cool). It's just a line of text, akin to someone gaining a skill point or when an NPC takes an item or amount of gold from a player.

Knightsaber Sith · Feb 25, 2007, 04:49 AM // 04:49

/notsigned

I really don't see any reason it should be done, but do see a couple why it shouldn't. The reason people uncheck the emote channel is 'cause they don't need a notification of every time some moron does a string of random emotes because he's bored.

Whilst questing in a PUG; I could see this easily being used just for the sake of annoying people. When you get stuck with one of those obnoxious jerks who waits 'til you're too far out to want to go back and drop him. It would be their next favorite thing after drawing squiggly genitalia on the compass continuously.

Sentience · Feb 25, 2007, 05:05 AM // 05:05

Doesn't really matter what it technically is or isn't, the reasoning for putting it into local isn't that strong and it is still considered an emote since you have to type /roll #. It's just potentially extra clutter that you can't turn off without turning off an entire chat section, like how NPC speech often is in team chat in PvE.