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Emotes 2.0
User	Tennessee Ernie Ford
Categories	Player interaction → Emote system

Emotes 2.0

The current emote system is underutilized. It could logically extend its fun commands to some silly extremes; it also could do with some additional functional commands.

^§ denotes changes to existing emotes.

Status emotes

• /afk — character sits and resets status to away^§; /sit — character sits
• /dnd — character sits and resets status to do not disturb
• /back = /here = /online — character comes to attention and resets status to online
• /sleep = /offline — character lies on ground to sleep and resets status to offline
• /ignore [name] — puts [name] in ignore list (probably requires increasing the capacity of the ignore list)

Generic command

• /me [text] — as in IRC, "[player] [text]", e.g. /me had this idea first yields "CK43 had this idea first", if CK43 is the active player.

Functional commands

• /emote = /emotes — lists 5 emotes (presumably from help file); pressing down arrow lists the next 5, etc.
• /help — brings up wiki (same as default [F10])
  • /help [topic] — searches wiki for named topic

Ease-of-repeat commands

• /seppuku — "[player] atones for shameful mistakes by /resigning" (also: functions as /resign)
• /map — "[player] is mapping party" (then brings up World Map)

• /gz — congratulates player who had last drop in window: "[player] congratulates [teammate-receiving-last-drop] on awesome drop!"
  • if easy, applies only to gold or green drops
  • if easy, applies to selected party member

Silly and/or missing emotes

• /fist — same as /fistshake (fist shake is unintuitive)

• /banjo — "plays the banjo happily"
• /kazoo — "plays the kazoo with a silly grin"

• /sheepish — "grins sheepishly"

• /go [player] — "Go, [player]! Go, [player]! Go, [player]!"
  • if easy, /go applies to selected party member
• /Cry — character rubs eyes with both fists (thanks to Rose of Kali for this emote)
• /QQ (same as /Cry, except that mistyping the synonym results in an error message: Dude: there's no crying in Guild Wars!)

Trade emotes

• /wtb [item] @[price]; /wts [item] @[price]; /wtt [item] @[item2] #[ratio]
  • creates message, "WTB [item] @[price]", "WTS [item] @[price]", or "WTT [item] (me) for [item2] @[ratio]" respectively
  • sends message into trade channel only
  • setups message in party window under category=Trade
  • if easy, resends the message every 3 minutes or until player does any of the following: uses another /wtX emote; sends a message in the trade channel; makes changes in the party window

Might be funny to at least 2 people

• /dude — "[player] abides"

Some players strongly object to these ideas

• /omg — "[player] says, oh my gosh! "
  • if easy, if chat restrictions are limited, says, oh my god!!

• /gag — "like, totally, gag me with a spoon! gross! grotie to the max! "

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