On many MMO's there is a community that keeps so many games alive, even when content is lacking, even when there's controversy, even when it feels like almost everyone else is gone.
The roleplay community can be one of the most loyal communities, treat them right and they'll practically stick through anything. When WoW was between Expacs, almost everyone was gone: the PVPers, the Contenters, The regular folks, but the Roleplayers were logging on every day because they happily created their own content and interaction.
It's the same on FF14, Guild Wars, and many other games. So, I come to you dormamu- I mean, Devs of Ashes, to request one thing.
Please add in 'custom emotes' for us roleplayers! In WoW or FF14, if you type /e or /em then a whole post like, "/e raises a brow at what you're doing." It would appear in /say as an emote, Remibyte raises a brow at what you're doing.
It's the most simplest thing to have, but yet the bare minimum needed for most communities and I already know there's a budding roleplay community on Ashes as they've already made their own website and Discord!
If that could be implemented, you'll start getting more and more players just wanting to hang out for the sake of hanging out.
And, if it's appropriate to suggest, another feature that is simple is taken from WoW's playbook. Not every emote needs an animation, at least not starting out.
You can add /facepalm and it can just be text that goes into say, Remibyte facepalms.
You can add /snort and it can be just text, Remibyte lets out a loud snort.
It's simple, but yet allows us to have just a bit more character to our.. Well, character. It doesn't need to be animated, it doesn't need to be voice acted or even given sfx, just a simple line popping up in Chat tends to make most people happy!
