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A Selfish Request from a Roleplayer

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Posted by: CaptainVanguard.4925

CaptainVanguard.4925

Lets talk about roleplay for a second.

Its definately got its place in guild wars 2, with two commited servers (TC America and Piken EU) being its primary capitals of attention.

But while it exists, it gets some, but not alot of love in the long term aside from outfits and cosmetics which dont really apply to roleplay alone but more a greater “fashion” fiesta kind of thing.

But for us roleplayers thare is a glaring issue that needs addressing and hopefully can find a way to be dealt with in the distant future, be it in a future episode, or a future expansion.

We need Sittable Seats!

I mean, when we got new emotes it was great, and we always look forwards to more, but theres one thing a roleplayer hates more than anything, not being able to sit in a chair.

Its a comical and whimpering frustration when your trying to adjust your character to fit into a seat that just doesnt blend for them especially when some sit emotes take up an entire double-bench (Human females, im looking at you).

So heres my suggestion:

Seat, 2.0!

Lets talk about how Seats could work in the future, this is my idea for such a thing:

Instead of a simple case of click on seat and get into seat, we could actually make this into something a bit deeper and more interesting. Basically, you can essentially get into a seat slot where a bench might have 2 slots, a single seat has one slot, and a row of seats might have… four slots.

You can select which slot you sit in, by right clicking on it in a sub-menu to the left, which also confers a small sub menu of its own.

This sub-menu features the following:

Postures
Actions
Expressions

This bit is a bit ambitious, but lets just go with Postures being possible for now.

Postures, would be your characters actual posture while sitting, are they sitting legs open, legs closed, one leg over the other, are they leaning back with an arm against the sofa, or with ther hands behind their back.

Actions

This is a bit more advanced, this one, is an emotive menu, allowing you to choose an emote and activate it, doing so causes your char to play an emote, you can also set it to loop if you wish, periodically continueing over time.

This could feature eating, drinking, talking, shouting, thrashing angrily and so on and so forth.

Expressions

The biggest stretch considering the models and how hard it would be, this would take alot of work and is unlikely to fit in, unlike the other two.

Expressions would allow you to literally change your characters facial posture while sitting in a seat, such as looking happy, sad, angry, shocked, surprised, etc.

What about leaving the Seat?

Leaving the seat is easy, the game simply adjusts you slightly so your spawned back at the nearest point next to a table if there is one to spawn at, such as a hidden spawn point next to a floor tile.

This allows people to easily mount and dismount seats without getting clipped into walls or unable to leave.

Conclusion:

I think this could work, at least the posturing could definatley work, and the actions, maybe as a bonus, expressions, I admit is a stretch.

But come on A-net, we’ve waited years, we need a seat we can actually sit in.

Also, new emotes are always welcome, including additional sit emotes in general.