[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was: A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants)

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

On 4/3/07, Dana V. Baldwin <dbaldwin at playnet.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> > To roleplayers, acting tools (chat, emotion etc) is everything.
> >
> > To strategic players, its virtually nothing.
> >
> While I can't think of a good strategic use of an emote, having a "need
> ammo" emote that has an animation,

Whya  chat animation?

A chat animation requires that you

(a) be looking at the player and
(b) recognize the emote.

Seems to me, for purely strategic purposes, a chat line and sound are
utilitariain but an animated emote is not,. Actually what you'd like
instead is a little pop up box that says "Tacticsdewd needs ammo!"  or
something similar.