Smilies.

[Parallo]

Don't tell them. They'll want in and then everyone'll know and it won't be funny.

[Under the moon]

* Under the moon to the rescue.

Code: [Select]

            <replace bad=":)" good="*smiles*" />
            <replace bad=":-)" good="*smiles*" />
            <replace bad=";)" good="*wink*" />
            <replace bad=":(" good="*frowns sadly*" />
That covers the basics, and the only ones that work right. Other emotes tend to get a little squirely for some reason. will not filter because of the D in caps. Don't know why. > comes out as >*smiles*.

Put that in you chat filter and...filter. Don't forget to turn it on. As of now, the outgoing filter only works if you type /say first.

[Parallo]

Take my first example though. It is inside the quotation marks

Culprit looks at X "Good to hear "

That would become

Culprit looks at X "Good to hear smiles"

That's almost worse. I'd almost take smilies in exchange for grammer.

[Idoru]

Would it not became:

Culprit looks at X "Good to hear *smiles*"

which alot of people do at the moment anyway.

[Parallo]

What is inside the quotation marks is what they are saying. If someone said to me, in rl, "Hi asterisk smiles asterisk" I'd think they were a bit loony. Granted a bit less loony than "Hi colon close bracket" but loony none the less.

[bilbous]

So just put the smilie outside the quotes, seems pretty simple.

[Parallo]

People don't do that.

[emeraldfool]

I'm not a big fan of the asterisks either.

I'd far perfer "/me smiles kindly. "That's good to hear."

To <person> says: ""Good to hear" *smiles*" 


For some reason the '*smiles*' bit always makes me think of both player and character as somewhat juvenile. As if they're just talking on MSN with their m8s and aren't a real character. At least that's my impression...

[LARAGORN]

At least that's my impression...

You need to work on it a little more...I couldnt even figure out who you were doing, maybe Impressions arent your thing   

[Thasa]

I sometimes use *smiles* after I say something but I never put it inside quotes. It makes perfect sense because you do not always smile in real life before you finish your sentence. Sometimes you start serious but smile in the middle or the end.

Actually, I have personally seen Parallo use -smiles- in the middle or end of a sentence, which is the same thing as *smiles*, except with "-" around it. I was at Jayose library with a test character a while ago, when some Klyros said "Hello" to Parallo in passing and turned away towards the books. His response was "Hello. -smiles- Can I help you?" or something very similar. Actually, I thought that it was kind of lame because when someone says hello to you in real life in a library and goes about their business, it doesn't mean they want any help from you, especially when you are not a librarian. Klyros' responses was "No, thanks."

Anyway, this wasn't an attack, especially when Parallo didn't really do anything horribly wrong and was probably trying to be nice. It's just an observation.

*smiles*

[ThomPhoenix]

I have used smilies in guild chat before, but only when nothing serious is going on. When stuff gets more serious I really tend to avoid them. I only use them because sometimes people can take jokes as something offensive, it's easier to add "" instead of (that was a joke!) sometimes.

By the way, it's funny to see Diaboli say "omg!" because it gets filtered to "By the gods!". Diaboli are atheist by nature.

[Parallo]

If I smile in the middle of a sentence I always try to use a /me at the sart so it would have been something ablong the lines of /me turns. "Hello." He smiles. "Can I help you?" I wouldn't use a hyphen in that way.

[emeraldfool]

I have used smilies in guild chat before, but only when nothing serious is going on. When stuff gets more serious I really tend to avoid them. I only use them because sometimes people can take jokes as something offensive, it's easier to add "" instead of (that was a joke!) sometimes.

Lol, I just got a sudden mental picture:


Assassin says: Actually, the ale you just drank contained a very potent snake venom. You will be dead in five minutes.

Victim says: What!? >:-(  You cannot hope to get away with this! I am an official of one of the greatest guilds in Ylaikum! >:-P

Assassin says: You nor your guild will get in the way of the Revolution.

Victim says: Revolution? :-? What revolution? /:-| I know nothing of this. My death will be of no aid to your cause. :-P

*shudder*

[Parallo]

I've seen stuff like that. That's why I made this thread.

[Under the moon]

*action* is a perfectly useable and correct midstatement change of expresstion or pause in action. I use it all the time.

/say I was only trying to help, *pauses and looks and the floor sadly*  but it did not turn out well.

I don't see the differance or point of /me "I was only trying to help, *pauses and looks and the floor sadly*  but it did not turn out well."

or /say I was only trying to help...

/ me pauses and looks and the floor sadly.

/say ...but it did not turn out well.

That would be most correct, but very combersome, and easily interupted.

As dedicated RP guru, I declare *action* as correct syntax in an MMORPG for midstatement actions. Emotes are not, but there is no way to stop folks from using them, so best to just filter them, or ignore it.