No one smiles anymore ;)

I heard, they're only clientside now. I asked some people 'can you see this?' and they all said no.

 

Are you kidding me? That's sad :(.

 

You know those one word posts are going to get deleted right?

 

Is that good? >.<

Edited by Shadlington: Deleted your posts, don't be a smart ass. Rules are rules.

 

No, I guess you didn't know that you can edit your posts.

edit: see?
*cough* doublepost *cough*

 

I think a menu might be too slow. Even pressing one button is a bit of a hassle, more than that might be too much for a purely communicative mechanic. Speed is imperative for this sort of thing.

edit: i love talking seriously with this avatar

 

Yeah like contrary said that would be to slow you should just stick to the 1-9 thing and if your going to make more emotes like commands or whatever have another key thats near them to cycle through like emotes or commands that would be splendid.

 

If they don't get brought back in the next build I will hook up MM, tie him into a chair and play his best games all week along while he's crying and watching me in despair.

 

What I personally think should happen, is make loads and loads of emoticons for every situation possible. Add them to a massive list, and let people choose the ones they want to use for the hotkeys. Make the hotkeys f1,f2,f3 rather than 123 and make 123 builder blocks.

EDIT: Me and monsteri tested it in a server. Emoticons are now only clientside, they don't work anymore :(

 

I like the ideas. Team emoticons would be great so you don't tell everybody that you're in need of a ladder or sth. Maybe it would be good if the players could change the settings in a menue to their own needs.

Offtopic: Why does everyone have that face as profile picture?

 

For the issue of "More Emotes" have each key have a cyclable set of emotes.

For example :

Press 1 once for :)
Press 1 twice for :S
Press 1 thrice for :(

 

Current system works good imo, even thought I frown when I mean to smile sometimes. Also people are smiling back finally and its awesome.

 

Just make it optional. If they want the current setup then its fine, if they don't then they can use the menu option. Forcing a new menu onto players used to the old key press emoticons will turn some people off. Nonetheless if you want to implement an emoticon menu for the new players into the game you can make that the default.

 

How to make smilies used: change all of them to Shadlington's face.

Bam. Problem solved.

 

Multiple key presses is essentially a menu, however by assigning that menus controls to keypresses you'll have less gui clutter and less need to move the mouse for it.

It also means you could have any combination of 000 to 999 for smilies (which is ridiculous tbh) and the common smilies would be easier remembered as a three digit combination instead of a "screen position", unless this is ofc what you meant by a menu. When I read menu I thought it was implying a mouse menu (like the builders).

 

Personally I loved the lack of smileys. Nothing pisses me off more than seeing a knight hacking away at our wall and flashing that stupid smile just as it collapses.