Emotes

agrady

I feel the need to play with my emotes quite often; using them to entertain myself or others, interact with a scene, etc. Having played the game for awhile now, I often browse my emotes with a pouty face, soft sigh, or contemplative frown. I'm irked terribly that it is not clear to me, the player, when or if I will ever get the emotes that are grayed out. And I want them. BAD.

I've seen the Air Guitar and Bear Dance (+1 Epic) emotes active and if you get rid of them, I'll kill you with my brain. But seriously, don't get rid of these awesome emotes (including the Fan Dance or "Tipsy / Dizzy"). But PLEASE make them accessible now or later to our Cs. And make it clear if one of my characters is not able to use it, and which kind of character might be able to, if that's an issue. And if it's an emote not available any more, and we all still see it somehow, somewhere in game, then make it active and obtainable again. Having more emotes is a good thing.

I will pay for special emotes if I have to, but please don't make me. I will work hard for them too, and that's fine with me. So please, make it clearer to players why they can't have, or can't access, an emote that's grayed out or only visible in certain Foundry missions. These emotes are fun! Mysteries are only fun if they have answers that we know you will let us seek out and find. Emotes promote more social interaction and even just good ol' fashioned smiles.

I want new emotes too! I wanna make my characters do wacky or cool things! -

Let me flip out my phaser and switch the settings.
Let me do a boxer stance with a few air jabs and a fake.
Let me do the cabbage page, an islander dance, the charleston, a breakdance spin, a flip...
Let me start a congo line!
Let me throw a peace sign with both hands.
Let me twirk. (just kidding)
Let me hold my drink for awhile and occasionally sip it or raise it a bit.
Let me brush off some dirt.
So many ideas...

Thank you,

Adrianne Grady
@agrady


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futurepastnow

Air Guitar and the other missing emotes were sold in two C-Store emote packs in 2010-11. They were removed from the store, ostensibly because they sold too poorly. Even if they sold poorly, I don't see the harm to leaving them in the store.

The game is different than it was when they were removed. It's since gone F2P and now has a larger and broader playerbase. Time to sell more little things like emote packs, not less.

bberge1701

I also play Lord of the Rings Online, and they have some special "mood" emotes, which change your character's expression -- happy, sad, sleepy, frightened, and so forth. I'd love to see that sort of thing here in STO.

I think the technology to do this exists, at least to some degree. It's been a while since I've played with the Foundry, but I recall there being some sort of "mood" type setting you could use for contact messages. So I'm assuming it's possible to animate character expressions. How about an "emotions" pack* in the C-Store?

* Vulcan raised eyebrow sold separately

agrady

I agree, futurepastnow. There's no harm in bringing them back. People love those and sometimes ask me how they can also do the Bear Dance, or Air Guitar, and I'd love to have a good answer for them. I'd have a blast doing those any time I feel the urge.


~ Adrianne Grady
@agrady


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bendalek

Two words ...

... SAFETYDANCE Emote! ...

I can then die happy on Risa, when the Dance Instructor calls out ... "Do the Safety Dance".

agrady

YES! Safety Dance! Love it! I don't even know what it's supposed to look like, but Cryptic can have fun making that up.


Adrianne Grady
@agrady


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bendalek

agrady wrote: »

YES! Safety Dance! Love it! I don't even know what it's supposed to look like, but Cryptic can have fun making that up.

Oh you didn't! ... You didn't just give me an excuse to post this link did you? ... To inaugurate another into this wonderful brotherhood/Sisterhood?

Here ya go ... All you need to know ...

I truly wanna see that clip recreated on Risa!

futurepastnow

Even if they sell very poorly, even if only a few people a day buy them, the work to create them has been done. Removing them from the store results in zero sales. Leaving them in the store may result in a few bucks.

talonxv

I vote for Mambo #5

feiqa

Giving a +1 vote to leaving small things in the c-store.
We do buy things eventually.

nunoespadinha

I definetly want the Air Guitar back!!! come on.. it's silly for me to use any other dance emote cos i' a MetalHead for more than 30 years now!! Or create a Headbanging one!​​

risian4

Whoah zombies!

Now that I'm thinking of it, a zombie emote would be fun too.

bergins

Yes, Thriller Dance. Can we have a white glove while we do it?

evilmark444

Before they add new ones I'd like to see them fix the attention emote myself. What's currently in game is actually parade rest, not the position of attention.

captainkenny1

Yes more emotes please!!

bloodyriz

Wow almost 2 years in the grave. This zombie took a while to rise up.​​

evilmark444

bloodyriz wrote: »

Wow almost 2 years in the grave. This zombie took a while to rise up.​​

Didn't realize BOTH emote threads were zombies, yikes. Someone get Rick Grimes in here, fast!

nunoespadinha

They were zombies, but they continue actual nowadays.
It doesn't make sense to have Hortas (for example) on sale at the EC store and not some actions that people use to interact with eachother... specially when these emotes are done already and will not take anyone's working hours to develop them from scratch..​​

storules

agrady wrote: »

I feel the need to play with my emotes quite often; using them to entertain myself or others, interact with a scene, etc. Having played the game for awhile now, I often browse my emotes with a pouty face, soft sigh, or contemplative frown. I'm irked terribly that it is not clear to me, the player, when or if I will ever get the emotes that are grayed out. And I want them. BAD.

I've seen the Air Guitar and Bear Dance (+1 Epic) emotes active and if you get rid of them, I'll kill you with my brain. But seriously, don't get rid of these awesome emotes (including the Fan Dance or "Tipsy / Dizzy"). But PLEASE make them accessible now or later to our Cs. And make it clear if one of my characters is not able to use it, and which kind of character might be able to, if that's an issue. And if it's an emote not available any more, and we all still see it somehow, somewhere in game, then make it active and obtainable again. Having more emotes is a good thing.

I will pay for special emotes if I have to, but please don't make me. I will work hard for them too, and that's fine with me. So please, make it clearer to players why they can't have, or can't access, an emote that's grayed out or only visible in certain Foundry missions. These emotes are fun! Mysteries are only fun if they have answers that we know you will let us seek out and find. Emotes promote more social interaction and even just good ol' fashioned smiles.

I want new emotes too! I wanna make my characters do wacky or cool things! -

Let me flip out my phaser and switch the settings.
Let me do a boxer stance with a few air jabs and a fake.
Let me do the cabbage page, an islander dance, the charleston, a breakdance spin, a flip...
Let me start a congo line!
Let me throw a peace sign with both hands.
Let me twirk. (just kidding)
Let me hold my drink for awhile and occasionally sip it or raise it a bit.
Let me brush off some dirt.
So many ideas...

Thank you,

Adrianne Grady
@agrady


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Cryptic VO, Priority One Podcast, USS Starfinder, Gates of Stovokor, ST:Continues, ST:Renegades, ST:Axanar, ST: Reunion, Cryptic VO, G&T Show, Trek Radio w/ DJ Deyvid, Subspace Radio w/ DJ Grom, Tribbles in Ecstasy, Trek News & Views, Ferengi Alliance Cosplay, LARP Alliance

I second this...would be great to have more emotes​​

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bubblegirl2015

agrady wrote: »

I feel the need to play with my emotes quite often; using them to entertain myself or others, interact with a scene, etc. Having played the game for awhile now, I often browse my emotes with a pouty face, soft sigh, or contemplative frown. I'm irked terribly that it is not clear to me, the player, when or if I will ever get the emotes that are grayed out. And I want them. BAD.

I've seen the Air Guitar and Bear Dance (+1 Epic) emotes active and if you get rid of them, I'll kill you with my brain. But seriously, don't get rid of these awesome emotes (including the Fan Dance or "Tipsy / Dizzy"). But PLEASE make them accessible now or later to our Cs. And make it clear if one of my characters is not able to use it, and which kind of character might be able to, if that's an issue. And if it's an emote not available any more, and we all still see it somehow, somewhere in game, then make it active and obtainable again. Having more emotes is a good thing.

I will pay for special emotes if I have to, but please don't make me. I will work hard for them too, and that's fine with me. So please, make it clearer to players why they can't have, or can't access, an emote that's grayed out or only visible in certain Foundry missions. These emotes are fun! Mysteries are only fun if they have answers that we know you will let us seek out and find. Emotes promote more social interaction and even just good ol' fashioned smiles.

I want new emotes too! I wanna make my characters do wacky or cool things! -

Let me flip out my phaser and switch the settings.
Let me do a boxer stance with a few air jabs and a fake.
Let me do the cabbage page, an islander dance, the charleston, a breakdance spin, a flip...
Let me start a congo line!
Let me throw a peace sign with both hands.
Let me twirk. (just kidding)
Let me hold my drink for awhile and occasionally sip it or raise it a bit.
Let me brush off some dirt.
So many ideas...

Thank you,

Adrianne Grady
@agrady


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Cryptic VO, Priority One Podcast, USS Starfinder, Gates of Stovokor, ST:Continues, ST:Renegades, ST:Axanar, ST: Reunion, Cryptic VO, G&T Show, Trek Radio w/ DJ Deyvid, Subspace Radio w/ DJ Grom, Tribbles in Ecstasy, Trek News & Views, Ferengi Alliance Cosplay, LARP Alliance

We need more emotes and support this...Signed +​​

pwlaughingtrendy

crashdragon wrote: »

Need a Twirling Leek emote.

Hnnnnggggg.

shadowfirefly00

Indeed, more emotes are always welcome, and some good suggestions have been offered; I'd like to put in my own .02cr. For example, maybe the 'Tholian_scan' can come with any of the 'mini-Tholian' pets (they actually do this sometimes), or be one of the rewards from T5 Nukara.

And from the we-can-dream department, this one.

Sort of related: whatever became of the vanity drones that used to be available from the Nukara rep, anyway? Is there any good reason they're not available as permanent noncombat pets?

markhawkman

shadowfirefly00 wrote: »

Indeed, more emotes are always welcome, and some good suggestions have been offered; I'd like to put in my own .02cr. For example, maybe the 'Tholian_scan' can come with any of the 'mini-Tholian' pets (they actually do this sometimes), or be one of the rewards from T5 Nukara.

And from the we-can-dream department, this one.

Sort of related: whatever became of the vanity drones that used to be available from the Nukara rep, anyway? Is there any good reason they're not available as permanent noncombat pets?

I don't think that's a scan.... I think it's actually the animation they use for webbing people.

nunoespadinha

A lot of people is not even asking for new ones.. just to have the old ones back again..​​

dareau

In before "the emotes did not meet our quality standards..."

nunoespadinha

what??... right now there are some there that not even working properly.. just put them all there and let us choose which ones to use or not..​​

rattler2

dareau wrote: »

In before "the emotes did not meet our quality standards..."

If that was the case, then why can we air guitar in Neverwinter with the EXACT SAME animations as the emote in STO that used to be in the C-Store?

dracounguis

2yr necro'd thread... guess we've not gotten any emote love for quite a while...

nunoespadinha

dracounguis wrote: »

2yr necro'd thread... guess we've not gotten any emote love for quite a while...

There is new people to the game, gladly.. people that just started now to interact with others, etc.... so it's normal that these things arise again..​​