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

[Hudson, Thomas C.]

> Richard A. Bartle writes:
>     This may well be the case. The point is that they don't spend 100%
> of their communication time on game-related data. Furthermore, tiny though
> that percentage may be in terms of time spent doing it, it punches above
> its weight. If people want to express something subtly, even if it's
> only once a week, they'll know when they can't do it and notice when they
> can.

This doesn't obviously follow to me. If they only want to do it once a
week, I'd expect that they'd never learn how.

>From my personal experience (anecdote time), it only punches above its
weight in the most hardcore of RP guilds. Many players I've interacted
with (closely; guildmates/regular party members/neighbors in worlds with
persistent building) showed no sign of emoting even once a week.