Key Word Activated Emotes

[Orcish]

SO... I was thinking it would be nice to be able to have a feature where a person could type a particular word, which would trigger an emote animation. Example: Player 1 says to Player 2, "Hey have you heard this one?" Player 2 responds, "What's that?" Player 1 says, "What is the most disliked giant?" Player 2 says, "What"? Player 1 replies, "Easy, a gas giant!" Player 2 types, "lol" -Player 2 automatically activates the "LOL!" emote. I know, I know, bad example but you get the idea. I'm not into the whole typing a "/", then a "E", then the emote name (which seems like a big waste of time). I'm pretty sure this could easily implemented. There's already a word filter that keeps track of certain key words anyways, we're merely adding onto it. Any thoughts?

And yes I already know about the 2 & 3 finger swipe emotes

[Register]

I like this but what if you dont want to do the lol emote but wanna say lol? And the swiping emote thing doesnt work too well with me lol...

[Ellyidol]

Interesting.

Totally guessing here, apologies if it offends you in any way, not the intention at all.

But you do know there is the emoticon slideout menu right?

I find it much easier to tap the emoticon icon, then tap the emoticon I want to do. Wouldn't it require less tapping than typing it out?

[Orcish]

That's why there would be a on/off feature in the options

[Orcish]

For some it would be good to keep it the way it is, but how many of us already type out lol and then hit the "LOL!" emote for example? I do this a lot, to me it just saves me from hitting the emote tray, then the wave emote everytime I say "Hi" or "bye".

[Silentarrow]

I like how if you say lol your person starts to laugh though. +1

[Ebalere]

Yeah or say hello or hi, and wave is cool too. I use that combo more than lol and "lol" emote.

[Mrknockers]

Yea that's a great idea and I know WoW uses lol as a trigger for laughing as well as other emotes like /rude and /cry with the appropriate text. Probably many other mmo's that use it as well. It'd be great for STS to use it more as a way to emerse you in the world since they already have shortcuts.

[PatsoeGamer]

I really like this idea, but agree with others on the switch button on/off in the menu.
It could be used instead of the slide emote menu, and you could programme more emotes easier that way like bow, salute etc

[superglut2]

woukd br cool but we need a disable feature