Before I played CoX I was a long-time Guild Wars player. One of the things that I always found fascinating in GW was the phenomena of massive group dances. Since each class had a dance "routine" they could do and you could use a / command to sync them to the next tick, you could get huge groups doing dances together in perfect unison.
It was something I missed in CoX. Not the idea of dances per class, but dance routines.
I'd like to request that in addition to the various simple dance emotes we are used to in CoX that we also have a few extended sequences that could be synced. Maybe some line dancing (Electric Slide anyone?) or some Tai Chi
Actually, that would be a cool thing to see NPCs doing. A group of them in a park doing Tai Chi. Or some B-boys dancing on the sidewalk.
I loved all the dances in GW, it was a fun, simple social mechanic.
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Till this day i think SWG had thee most dances of any game mainly because they have an actual Dance Class and not just dance emotes. I would love to see lots of dancing emotes and singing and instrument emotes. But good ones though. The dance emotes in CO and TSW are rather bleh. -.- The ones in WoW are better cept they are class specific. Maybe even in some Co-op dance stuff. Like in MxO you had some interactive emotes that you would preform while targeting a player and they had to accept and then the two toons would preform the emote together. Was fun. Till it got weird with all the people running around using the kiss emote. ^^;;;;
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Being able to sync up dances would be nice as well... Tis a feature that Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2 has.
Ok...I like emotes, even dance emotes, as well as the next guy. However I think that one of the things I often railed about in CoX was the plethora of emotes while other parts of the game were not working correctly.
Fly emotes were cool. The various interaction emotes were great for RP. However you seemed to have a new emote every release while some MAJOR things were still broken.
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I'd like to add something about dance and interaction emotes, as well, and hopefully, the devs will see it. I like that the animations for the characters in CoX were just that. No added text that automatically comes with it. Please, whatever you do, don't tie text to the emote, just let it be a visual.
Why? Because 50 people dancing, and each one is an automated line of text, gets spammy and laggy. To see this in action, make a F2P account on LoTRo, make a character on Landroval server, go to Bree and look for a concert.
I don't get that. You're talking bout major bugs in the game - is your expectation that the head *animator* wakes up one day and says "Hmm... should I make an emote or solve several major bugs in the game during the same time period?"
I would imagine that would be a separate person working on the bugs than emotes.
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SWG also had contextual emotes. If you walked up and said "Hi" to someone, your toon would automatically wave. If you said anything that indicated you were happy or sad, your face would reflect it. It did create some hilarity if you had a lot to say and your toon would be doing all kinds of crazy stuff trying to emote it but added loads to the immersion
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