I guess I could've put this in the emote suggestions thread, but this is more than just an emote system so I thought I'd post it in it's own thread. A few years back there was a social-focused RPG called Lucent Heart that I played for a bit that had a pretty unique system involving custom dance emotes and pvp dance battles. A video detailing the system can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluFg7nmJ0s
Also, there's this video here with a player created demo for it. There was actually a better one I remember seeing back when I first played the game, but I can't find it anywhere so I assume it got removed or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrk60k9gbEk
Anyway, I sort of doubt a system like this could ever be implemented before launch. The original version of this system didn't even make it into this game until an expansion and it might not quite fit with a superhero mmo anyway. Still being able to create your own dances in-game by stringing together a series of premade dance moves was a really cool idea to me and I thought people around here might still find it interesting. And maybe it might provide inspiration for something? What do guys think?
I think it's a neat idea but I'm finding it hard to think of how it might ever directly apply to CoT. Maybe if the concept was expanded out to some kind of generic "custom emote designer/editor" where people could string together [b]any[/b] series of emotes and/or chat phrases (instead of -just- being limited to dance emotes) then it might have some better use for superhero RPers.
Regardless this would definitely be yet another idea to be saved for the "after launch" timeframe.
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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I'm not a programmer but this might fit more in the COT modding community. (the game will allow for mods)
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Mods in an mmo would have to be limited to client side changes since the game experience is shared with others. Any art, sound, animation, etc changed by a mod wouldn't be seen by other players. Unless MWM is going to be running some kind of system where they have servers that run popular mods players can vote on or something? That would be a first for an mmo. It would also be a lot of work for little payoff, at that point you might as well just hire the mod maker and absorb the work into the game. Which a lot of game companies have done with popular mods, certainly, even major game companies with major games. Valve built their empire off modders. It is a smart move.