Over the head emoticons on certain emotes

[Ed Venture]

Is it the face ones in particular that you find cringy, the concept, or people using emotes at all?

I find this version cringy. I only tolerate the text ones we have now cause it encourages people to read the chat.

I feel this would just make people even more distracting from the chat and not read the radio which is already a big issue in my eyes.  

Could this be exploited? Will people use it as a distraction to sucker punch people? Probably, but people hedge their bets lots of ways. Conversation itself is already used by people, asking someone a question and then attacking them while they're probably answering it.

This already happens and has been a thing since I started playing in late 2009/Early 2010. People who wish you harm will employ a tactic where they will greet you and attack you while you are typing out a response. I know its used cause I am one of the people who use this tactic all the time.

I just don't think emojis fit with the style of this game. I get what you are going for but this will just distract people even more from the chat and make them lost to the events in a round which can already lead to giant misunderstandings among players.