Guild Wars 2

I have noticed that, when you write emotes “/me does something”, it can be read by people who are very far away from you. I believe that /me is used mainly for roleplaying, as I can’t think of any other situation where it could be used. Therefore I think it should be modified so the distance from which the chat displays other player’s /me text is the same as in /s text.

This way roleplayers won’t be ashamed of other people reading their actions from all across the zone, and it will reduce the “noise” both for normal players and roleplayers, as roleplayers from two different groups that aren’t in the same place won’t have to read the emotes of the other group

Ashamed? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ashamed because I’m a roleplayer.

This sounds like a personal problem, not something that needs changed.

It’s not a shame thing at all, actually. At least not for me. But emotes carry far further than one could actually see the action or “hear” the spoken part. I have a ledge I like to use in DR at times. Emotes from people on another ledge way the heck over the other side of the ramp carry perfectly when says do not. It makes it harder to follow the flow of the local RP.

Sometimes you want the distance, for coordinating a large gathering. Most of the time the say range is plenty fine. I’d be happy if /e and /say had the same range, to wit, /say’s current range. And also if emote text had a visible color! /rant vs. grey.

I do dream of an MMO where /say and /e take heed of intervening windowless walls so that if you couldn’t hear the chat were you physically in the world, it won’t render for you. That’s a high level of programming complexity, though.

Informer.5213:

Ashamed? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ashamed because I’m a roleplayer.

This sounds like a personal problem, not something that needs changed.

I don’t know about you, but I have seen many people doing this:

[NAME]: (asterisk) Name does a barrel roll (asterisk)

(Who in Hell decided that the text command for bold is this * instead of something like [b]?))

instead of this:

“Name does a barrel roll” with /me

Especially during ERP, which can be rather embarrasing if anyone can read your spicy actions.