Greet swap.

[Under the moon]

Some of the new animations for the female ynnwn seemed very annoying to me, such as the 'sneeze' for obvious reasons, and the 'greet' because it looks more like a rude gesture. After a few renames, and the problem looks much better to me.

What you have to do is switch the names of the fynnwn_idle_var1 and fynnwn_greet files. This gives the lady and occasional itch on her nose, and a full blown bow for a greeting.

This does not, however, help with the street corner hooker idle pose.

[lanser]

probably not the correct place to put this but as well as agreeing with UtM would it be possible for the greet message to be sent only to the targeted player instead of a general broadcast?
Whenever a newcomer joins a group of friends a whole stream of greet messages fill the chat window which for me is a minor disruption to following a conversation/rp

[Nikodemus]

I feel the opposite lanser

[bilbous]

I, for one, do not understand the greet command. When I walk up to people to talk to them, I don't wave at them, I just start talking. Perhaps I will stick out my hand to shake, although I am not big on that either, but the only time I will wave at people is if they are leaving( by ship or other vehicle) or if I see them from afar and have little intention of getting close enough to talk to them. If I see them from afar and I want to talk to them I will do more than a simple wave, gesticulating madly to get their attention. Some people like it so it is not a big deal to me but that is what I think.

[lanser]

I feel the opposite lanser

so do you meant that a whole stream of
x greets a
x greets b
x greets c
x greets d
a greets x
b greets x
c greets x
d greets x
is not a distraction?
 and for me its worse when one just happens to be near such a group but not part of it especially when it is as easy to  walk up and using a / me command
x bows in greeting to a, b ,c and d

but I feel that the easiest option is to send it to just the targeted player

[Nikodemus]

thats the whole my point, i want to see greetings of other people.

[Under the moon]

Hmmmmm.... This may be wandering into wishlist territory, but it seems as if there may be need of a momentary Greet text window in the chat tab that is separate from the normal chat.

[Karyuu]

No way. Overcomplicating much?

[lanser]

Sorry Nikodemus I can't see any reason why you would want to see the greets of people behind you, in the next room or as in the tavern upstairs

[Karyuu]

Then why bother hearing anything done by those people, and so rewrite the entire chat system?

I like seeing greets. They are more official /me's, and they're attached to an emote. Go into any game with emotes and you'll see the text. What we should be encouraging is just greeting everyone instead of ten individual people one after another.

[Seytra]

Sorry Nikodemus I can't see any reason why you would want to see the greets of people behind you, in the next room or as in the tavern upstairs

I regard /greet as a catch-all for any form of greeting, be it verbal or non-verbal. May even be OOC (in fact, I prefer to /me IC greetings), and I feel that /greet is less disruptive if used sparingly. I don't recall being particularly bothered by /greet storms, but I avoid the plaza, anyway. However, I think that a special tab, or temporary (pop-over) in the chat window would end up being more annoying than them. Also, greeting everyone if there are more than about three people to greet is a good idea, and will come naturally, since individually targetting people gets tiring fast.

Regarding the animations: to me it looked like puking, but sneezing fits even better. I think I know what it is meant to be, maybe it's just a bit overzealous. I'll check how the swapping changes things some time, anyway.

[Under the moon]

It does not matter. No code changes are asked for. It was just a simple thing to make something look better to me, and I thought I would share. No one has to use it or even consider it.

[lanser]

and I didn't suggest a rewrite of the chat system, just rerouting a personal greeting text only to the person targeted al la NPC conversations. so forget I mentioned it

[Nikodemus]

Sorry Nikodemus I can't see any reason why you would want to see the greets of people behind you, in the next room or as in the tavern upstairs

I'm thinking about poeple next to me.
Really, if you are going to propose something, you should come out with all its sides, advantages and disadvantages.
Right now it looks like you don't like something so you show how bad it is, while forgetting about the bright sides. Not that hard to come out with advantages, but you are avoiding them like fire^^. So don't be suprised if i go the other way.

[lanser]

@nikodemus  i made a suggestion and explained my reasoning behind it, you entire reasoning was "I like it" so unless you have something constructive to say Instead of having a dig at me then I have nothing more to add.