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Posted by: Raviro.8612

Raviro.8612

I took some time reading posts and chatting with a few guildies and community members and I was surprised I hadn’t seen any post like this.

I’ll come on out and say I’m a player from Tarnished Coast, the unofficial role playing server for Guildwars 2. As a role player we run into many different scenarios, each scenario has it’s own challenges, partially from the immersion standpoint, and while GW2 is pretty to say the least, we think it’s animations and flexibility with how player characters interact with the world is limited.

So think of this thread as a wish list of sorts directed to Roleplayers. (And non-roleplayers who may think the same)

Disclaimer: Any other games mentioned are simply used in examples of the system in question, and are in no means me comparing GW2 to them directly.

1. Show me a woman who can wrestle a chair…

Tyria is inhabited by a curious race made of wood and cloth that can give roleplayers a real fight. Chairs (And their distant cousins couches and stools) have dislocated legs and arms, and even flipped asura, charr, and human alike head over heels. It’s amusing to see our characters turn contortionists, but doing the stool shuffle takes time out of continuing with the narrative so to speak.

Turning the chairs from static environmental items to entities (World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Starwars Galaxies) and allowing for a simple click to make alligning and a simple sitting animation/pose would alleviate the dreaded shuffle.

Another solution would be simply adding more sitting emotes to the game. (City of Heroes/Villains, Champions Online) and opening up the mesh for chairs and stools so more characters could find themselves seated comfortably on the chair’s surface, rather then floating a good foot above it.

2. She’s cute, I like the way she scowls.

Posing and mood play a big part of immersion, most of the time a roleplayer will detail exactly what a character is doing, how they look, a hint of what sort of mood they’re in, but that’s a split second, a single post in a stream of text that, occasionally needs to be re-posted or reinforced when new players enter the narrative.

That said, there are alot of existing animations and stances a character can take up, but they seem to be restricted to Non-Player Characters and cut scenes. Simple sustained poses and emotes (As in /kneel /sit) help in a way to summarize someone’s mood or condition. An extended pose/emote list would be a godsend.

If a character’s hurt or injured /wounded may have the character hold his/her side and hunch slightly, or maybe more dramatically assume the downed position already in game. /atattention may bring a characters hands to his sides and have them stand straight, for military oriented characters standing in line. /lean may be a more relaxed pose, leaning on a wall or even another player where they stand, arms crossed.

Facial expressions would be nice too, /sad /angry /happy /coy. All could be minor changes to the face or stance a player takes up when standing or walking.

Feel free to add your own suggestions, I’ll return often to add to the discussion as well.

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Posted by: Orpheal.8263

Orpheal.8263

In regard of roleplay theres is much much more to do…

1) Give this game official RP Servers with official RP rules

2) Increase massively the amount of Town Clothes & Toys

3) Increase the amount of Emotes by a multiplyer of 10.
So many emotes missing, which could be very helpful for roleplay so that we can show what our charscte does through an emote, instead of having to type it into the chat as off game chat between two ‘s *’shrug

4) Improve the Character Creator to be able to create also younger als olso older looking characters and not only such characters, that look like being between 20-25.
The age range for the character creator should go at least between 14-kitten that you could create also riper characters.
This should include also the option to choose the VOICE for your character out of various different voices…

I find it annoying that basically every 2nd to 3rd character around me has exactly the same voice, than my character.

5) Housing
Simply a must for anx kind of personal RP

6) Mounts

7) Other types of transportation vehicles like Ships, Airships, Trains, Flying Mounts or complete other methods, like consumeable Rune Stones that magically teleport you to anywhere where you want that has already been traveled to similar like the Gothic Games.

8) More Crafting Jobs and stuff like Fishing/ Digging

9) Improve Emotes, by giving us also Partner/Group Emotes

10) Racial specific Marriage Systems allowing for marriages between same races, which work for each race culturally different.

11) More Music Instruments like Guitars, Violins, Drums, Triangles, Xylophones ect.

12) Player Specific own Titles

13) Pets (Change the Term of Ranger Pets into Ranger Animal Companions)

14) Alot more Environmantal Interactions, like the sitting on chairs, getting drinks at a bar (so eating and drinking animations when you eat food – blade &soul has this, its also from NCSoft and got developed at the same time like GW2 just by an other dev team company(consumeables))

15) Taverns with tavern specific minigames.. where the heck is BAR BRAWLS finally !!!?
kitten it, we had even for quite some tiem the achievements of it in the game.
Could you finally clear us up ANet please whats going on with those minigames, that should have been from begin on in the game???

and alot more I could surely come up with …

In regard of RP and overall PvE, theres realyl alot of features, that could be improved within GW2.

Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside

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Posted by: Pandinus.9073

Pandinus.9073

Dueling in the PvE world.

What if my character got in a dispute or met his rival across a field and wanted to duke it out? This can’t possibly be that hard to code in right?

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Posted by: Frostfang.5109

Frostfang.5109

2) Increase massively the amount of Town Clothes & Toys

3) Increase the amount of Emotes

4) Improve the Character Creator to be able to create also younger als olso older looking characters and not only such characters, that look like being between 20-25.
The age range for the character creator should go at least between 14-kitten that you could create also riper characters.
This should include also the option to choose the VOICE for your character out of various different voices…

I find it annoying that basically every 2nd to 3rd character around me has exactly the same voice, than my character.

Plus a bunch of more Horns, faces, tattoos, etc…

5) Housing
Simply a must for anx kind of personal RP

10) Marriage Systems allowing for marriages…

13) Pets (Change the Term of Ranger Pets into Ranger Animal Companions)

Kima & Co

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Posted by: The Outsider.8630

The Outsider.8630

All this stuff sounds good! I agree, especially emotes.

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Posted by: Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

The sad thing is that Anet has no plans to actually read these lists…

Let alone use them.

That said, I like the list. +1.

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