Experience Emote

General Typhus

General Typhus

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2005

Behind the bush once again

Guillotine Tactics [GanK] ~ Leader

W/E

Gross. As if a rank emote isn't bad enough.

/signed if the minimum experience needed is over 5 mil

QuixotesGhost

QuixotesGhost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Why not make it something useful, like an emote for having all mission bonuses (an actual accomplishment) and put in a bunch of really challenging things that are difficult to do in the game, and give emotes for those.
I could definatley live with an emote as a reward for completing all the Titan's Quests, or clearing UW, or the FoW. Anything that encourages the cool, challenging PvE play as opposed to the boring, mind-numbing "let's farm for drops" crap.

Adding as a reward for Exp will hurt PvE.

Adding it as a reward for difficult quests will help PvE.

It's that simple.

drowningfish999

drowningfish999

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Awakened Tempest [aT]

The last thing we need is discrimination in PvE, its bad enough in PvP as it is.

RuPee

RuPee

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Los Angeles, CA

[RoD]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by drowningfish999
The last thing we need is discrimination in PvE, its bad enough in PvP as it is.
agreed. with PvE rank emotes it will be even harder for people with less experience points to find PUGs. for example, people will be spamming "LF r9+ warrior for UW" or "starting r6+ oro farm emote next to storage" its hard enough to get into a PUG in HoH when you're unranked, why bring that into the PvE side of the game.

Chev of Hardass

Chev of Hardass

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2005

Under a rock

zP

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by RuPee
agreed. with PvE rank emotes it will be even harder for people with less experience points to find PUGs. for example, people will be spamming "LF r9+ warrior for UW" or "starting r6+ oro farm emote next to storage" its hard enough to get into a PUG in HoH when you're unranked, why bring that into the PvE side of the game.
I guess, but I see it another way. I gave up on PUGs long ago. They are filled with people that generally have no idea about how the game works and how skills and creatures interact with each other. I would like to be able to join PUGs again. I find them more fun but, without any way to distinguish a player that is on his or her fifth or sixth character and someone who bought the game yesterday and bought some gold on E-bay and managed to get run to all the "cool" places with "sweet" loot, or "elite" skills, I just tend to end up in groups full of people that do not realize that missions can take over an hour.

In my opinion anyone on their first character is new to the game. You do not get a real sense on what is happening on the field until you have some experience at different roles.

Granted, farmers will have exadurated numbers, but if you meet someone with 1 million experience, from "playing" the game, they will more than likely be able to be trusted. 1 million experience on an account is truly easy to get. I deleted my Ranger that had about 500,000 exp from playing the game PvE and PvP. My Necro had over 600,000 exp when I deleted it. I have three other characters. So, a million experience is not much to ask in my opinion.

Some may think I am brash, but I think that this could help reunite the experienced players with PUGs. This would not guarantee that higher ranked players will be better, but the chances of enjoying your PvE experience would be greater.

I do not think that the new players would loose much. Most of the people familiar with the game do not play in PUGs at this point anyway.

I would like it to be better than the rank system, though. If there are 12 PvE ranks, I would like there to be some way to distinguish a rank 5 from a rank 3. Maybe not a new emote, but some way to tell the difference. Somehow in tombs gaining rank 5 means nothing except that your poor little rank 3 emote is really a poor showing on the amount of fame you have collected.

meh

art_

art_

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Lol. Emotes for everything.

How about an emote to prove that you've graduated from pre-searing on 3 different characters =O

Almighty Zi

Almighty Zi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Cheltenham, England

Servants Of Fortuna Victrix

/unsigned

We dont really need another way to disciminate or prejudge players. Demonstrate your experience by playing well and others will notice this.

Glob of Noobloplasm

Glob of Noobloplasm

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

lf guild

Thats a good idea

maybe instead of like a cheetah or something the emote would be of my Mom doing my laundry and getting me a glass of milk so I dont have to move my fatass from the computer chair.

Charles Arthur

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/Mo

well maybe they should just have an accomplishment menu. my bro plays starwars and sometimes i get on his account and screw around. he has this check list screen too..everyone does. if u click on their name and like click alt or something it says everything they have done. Things such as:
Important Quests/Items
Places they have seen
Weapons they have got
Wat they are and wat teir of stuff they have unlocked
Exp points
Wat faction they are with
and so on.
i would think that would be the easiest way to say it. it would hep people pick out who's good and bad.

Kidney Licker

Kidney Licker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Europe Server

An emote based on the amount of money you have would be nice. Maybe gold coins falling around you and the sound of a cash register.

For each 100K in your account more coins would appear.

RuPee

RuPee

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Los Angeles, CA

[RoD]

Mo/

the point of emotes is only for a few people to have it. if they started giving emotes for such accomplishments as 1 million exp. or 100,000 gold, cities and towns will start to be really annoying with those emote-happy people flashing emotes all over the place. making emotes available for everybody is a bad idea.

Kidney Licker

Kidney Licker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Europe Server

Its annoying enough with the normal rank emotes tbh, but only because I don't have one to flash around yet :P. If the emotes could be ignored, or scaled back somehow for those who don't want to see them that would be nice too.

Maybe a money emote could kick off around the 500K+ or 1Mill mark, or have a tiny emote for those with not much money, e.g the tinkle, tinkle of copper coins, and have the emote increase gradually. (I'd only have a small emote though )

This isn't really the sort of emote that to flash around I think, considering the number of people who may message you to borrow money.

XeNoGeArZ

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

I'd work for a PvE emote. Definitely a better goal than spending time farming for gold or items, for the next GW expansion. There definitely needs to be some sort of way to avoid 'elitism', if this was implemented. It wouldn't be that difficult though. I'd also have to get into the power leveling business if this came into effect.

You know what they should do, ANET should have treasure buried somewhere on the continent, and then provide clues to finding it. That would be kinda awesome. It would encourage thinking and solving puzzles perhaps.

Captain Arne Is PRO

Captain Arne Is PRO

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

i'd like to see both this /experience emote as well as a party wide /age emote

when i'm recruiting for "experienced" members i'd like to be able to see their experience and age.. because generally 1 week and 100k exp isn't very experienced. :x



/sign x 2


Mike B
Canada
Captain Arne/B A R B/Noble Mika/S O R C/M E S/Avicara Scout/Z O N/N O M A

^_^

Sha Noran

Sha Noran

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

http://tinyurl.com/2jlusq

Idiot Savants [iQ]

R/

/NOT SIGNED

I've heard this so many times...

First of all, besides just the satisfaction of being able to do so, what the hell point is there to have this? Emotes in PVP mean little, and they would mean much, MUCH less if they were added to PVE. You may be able to "farm fame" to a degree, but you can, quite literally, power level forever. As it is, I have quite a bit of experiance and those that need to know, know already.

Second, THIS ALREADY EXISTS. FoW armor for the win... and don't say that isn't legit. "LOL EBAY WTF NOOB"... yea, EBay the gold and then pay for power levels for a week or so would be about the same. For the love of Melandru, please, NO.

Avarre

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

Oh great, so the 55hp non-english-speaking monks can scam their way into more teams by pretending they're experienced?

Have pride in your own XP, if you want an ego trip... well tough!

/unsigned

Makkert

Makkert

Black Beast of Aarrrrgghh

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

The Biggyverse [PLEB] // Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

I agree with Avarra and Zi, that it isn't necessary. Then again, pvp emotes aren't really necessary also... Especially after the IWAY wave..

I wonder what emote a pve -er would have. The idea is mindboggling....
a Grawl emote? that could look pretty cool probably.
a wurm jumping from the earth? so-so...to much in the face.
a devourer? meh.
an ataxe? decent looks

mindboggling.

Peewee

Peewee

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

London, England

I Uprising I [RAGE]

R/

i agree, why a expereince emote? it shows nothing, other than your ability to spend long peroids of time with the same build solo farming. That does not show skill. In addition i dont particularly trust rank emotes either. This may be becuase i dont have one :P. Quite simply tho, i play much GvG, but cant get into a decent team becuase i have no rank. Rank often excludes many n00bish players, but sometimes leaves some more experienced players out. In the long run an experience emote will show nothing, and only give the frankly exploitive 55hp solo monks another way of upping their egos.

And for the record, FoW armour isnt a sign of experience or amount of farming. It can be a sign of paypal skills, but for more experienced pvp characters can indictate success in HoH runs.

myword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Korea

i think the chinese farmers will win this hands down, i guess they're the best PvE'ers then!

Phoenix Avenger

Phoenix Avenger

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

Wisconsin

Eternal Knights

E/Mo

I'm definetly all for PvE accomplishment emotes. Maybe for the elite missions for Factions. The more times you complete the elite missions the more "pve fame" or whatever you want to call it you get, and then you eventually get better emotes. I'm assuming the elite missions are gunna be really hard, and wont be solo-able so you wouldnt have people be able to farm for PvE emotes.

Blind Rage

Blind Rage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

New Zealand

Inyurface Gaming [IYF]

/not signed

this is a stupid idea, an experienced player might make a new character and play through the game again. but due to their experience they cannot get in a group and probably know what to do more than any other player in that group, a pve exp/age emote is the stupist thing i have heard of, why do you think the level cap is 20? A-net based made it that so the game is dependent on skill NOT grinding, and dont give me fame and rank bs because that is reliant on skill not grinding, anyone who says iway will be shot....

anyways, it is a stupid idea, alienates new players, they have to get in a team to get good dont they? and if you are relying on an experience emote to choose your team mates, you need to actually grow some brains, its not hard, not hard at all to create a good Pug anything, its called whispers and team chat, question them, its for the good of the game and the good of the the team.

sorry i have bad english, and i didnt read all posts so if this has been posted sorry

Soul Shaker

Soul Shaker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sunshine Coast, Australia

Soul Crusaders

iway! :P

the mission/bonus all completed is the best idea.

Chev of Hardass

Chev of Hardass

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2005

Under a rock

zP

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blind Rage
/not signed

this is a stupid idea, an experienced player might make a new character and play through the game again. but due to their experience they cannot get in a group and probably know what to do more than any other player in that group, a pve exp/age emote is the stupist thing i have heard of, why do you think the level cap is 20? A-net based made it that so the game is dependent on skill NOT grinding, and dont give me fame and rank bs because that is reliant on skill not grinding, anyone who says iway will be shot....

sorry i have bad english, and i didnt read all posts so if this has been posted sorry
Somewhere throughout the posts, it was suggested that the exp be linked to your account. That way, if you are starting a new character, but don't want to group with people still figuring our Ascalon, you can seek out other players that have played the game a few times as well.

....

I guess reading would be too much to ask, prior to responding to a thread calling it "the stupist thing i have heard of."

-Loki-

-Loki-

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chev of Hardass
So, there is an emote for rank, why not one for experience.

Perhaps, one for pre-ascention, one for 500,000 exp, 1,000,000, 2,000,000, and 5,000,000.
Absolutely. We need a /grind emote.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

/not signed

I would like this but... I don't want to see an alternate the situation of the rank emotes has now and getting in to parties.

Not high enough, srry try another group
Too high and your a Mo/War your a farmer and "may" switch to smite and mess with us

If an emote was vague enough (aka not that many ranks and huge ranges in scope) I might go for it but fear a situation that the rank has w/ this emote for hard missions (TK comes to mind).

If it was 0 - 1 mil = Rank level 1
1 - 2 mil = Rank level 2

Then I might consider it.

njay

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

/Not signed

Experience farming is MUCH easier than fame farming.

warkst

warkst

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

my home

Battle Gods [BG]

R/Me

Sigh, it's a PvP game, with PvE built around it! Adding a rank system to PvE would just make PvE incredibly stupid.

Solberg the Exiled

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Xen of Onslaught

N/

While an experience emote would be nice, I would imagine that it would breed elitism just like the rank emote. I could see it now...

GLF 2 monks MUST have 1mil exp, emote will be checked.

I do agree with the idea of giving emote for accomplishing certain tasks, such as completely clearing the FoW. Although any kind of emote like these will cause at least a bit of elitism.

Kool Pajamas

Kool Pajamas

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Maryland

Mage Elites [MAGE]

/not signed

PvP shouldnt even have emotes let alone PvE also. O_O

mariano

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Experience for a given character or overall experience?

And what about a factions emote?

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blind Rage
this is a stupid idea, ...... the stupist thing i have heard of, ... anyways, it is a stupid idea, ... you need to actually grow some brains
Well, at least you have an open mind and are willing to discuss this idea in an open and constructive way.

Gardar

Gardar

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Iceland

[FUSE]

R/Mo

Yea this is a pretty neat Idea

/signed by me

Chev of Hardass

Chev of Hardass

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2005

Under a rock

zP

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by mariano
Experience for a given character or overall experience?

And what about a factions emote?
Overall, is the best answer I think. I would even include PvP character exp if that was possible.

I just keep having better PvE experiances with hench than PuGs since every time I grab a PuG, they let me down.

The Elitism issue may be sketchy, but the group leader will be in control of that, and asking for 5 million exp is not going to be a successful grouping stragety. Even so, I would begin to believe that two highly experianced players and 6 hench could finish Hell's Precipace far easier than the standard random pug. They may even choose to use ventrilo or the other one. At the end of the day those two player were able to accomplish the goal they set out and probably had to deal with less PuG BS than if there was not some sort of Exp. Emote.

Furthermore, the highly experianced people are the ones that get the most upset due to mission mistakes. These people probably made the same mistakes 4 or 5 characters ago and EXPECT the group they are with not to make the same ones. So, the new players could deal with less elitism in that instance.

Um, Faction. I think that might be neat, but since there is a cap on the amount of faction one can earn, I would not use that as a way to judge anything. I capped faction at 85,000 when I unlocked my account. Amost all from GvG experiance. Still, I know some people are somewhere near 400,000 exp and not fully unlocked. I would suggest some sort of guage to show the percent unlocked a player is. I would even suggest some sort of grand thing for being fully unlocked, but an emote based on a number that is capped, would be odd.

Lord Valkyr

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

N/Mo

I don't like this idea. All it would do is make it harder for new characters to get into groups. I don't much benefit from having it.

dawnrain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

I think this will evolve into the same problem that rank has developed. Pick Up Groups will start using this as a measure of player "skill," even though it is more a measure of player "time played."

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

I'd like some sort of reward for PvE, but I already can't play in HA thanks to my chronic lack of fame. Maybe it would be better to give special emotes or whatnot for the elite missions coming out in factions?

ManiakNL

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Dutch Assasins

W/

xp emotes is something i dont like not that i do not have xp i got like 2mill on my wammo

but its just a way to say hey dudes i found a way to farm!!!! or like hey dudes i could farm before the ubdates that nerfed it muwhhahahhahaha look @ it just look @ it i could farmed back than and you did not nananna
man thats so evill Rank emotes are evill to if i may add but just love to use them from time to time

Franco Power

Franco Power

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2006

UK

W/

/not signed.


Trolls and UW + 55 monks

Lexar

Lexar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Organised Spam

W/

I don't think the big farmers out there with bigger exp. ratings over 10 million will be that big a deal since they're generally not the type of people to play small side-quests or missions that don't give a lot of profit, with other people in the first place.

/signed

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

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Sounds awesome