04-06-2023, 11:27 AM
In theory this is super cool because I'm a big fan of seeing massive custom emotes and sometimes I just wanna be in the room reacting to stuff instead of adding my own commentary. But in practice the main issue I could see coming out of it is that being mute massively inhibits your ability to communicate in a quick and unmistakable way, including your ability to communicate that you're literally incapable of talking, and I foresee that becoming a huge issue for most job roles that aren't "funny little french fella".
I do already see the occasional mute character on RP and I'll go along with a game of charades to figure out what they want from me, but to be completely blunt I've already found a handful of mute characters to be frustrating and awkward to interact with. A large number of them still talk exactly how they would verbally, but now we need to pass a sheet of paper back and forth or I have to tab back out of the PDA window every time they say something. (Seriously, why does the window pop up every time I get a message even though the message shows up in the chat log? Is that a bug?)
In sum, a character that uses as few words as possible or one who has to look away from the other person to talk would be more fun to interact with than one that will ultimately opt to text the other person while they're standing right next to each other. That's my two cents on it.
I do already see the occasional mute character on RP and I'll go along with a game of charades to figure out what they want from me, but to be completely blunt I've already found a handful of mute characters to be frustrating and awkward to interact with. A large number of them still talk exactly how they would verbally, but now we need to pass a sheet of paper back and forth or I have to tab back out of the PDA window every time they say something. (Seriously, why does the window pop up every time I get a message even though the message shows up in the chat log? Is that a bug?)
In sum, a character that uses as few words as possible or one who has to look away from the other person to talk would be more fun to interact with than one that will ultimately opt to text the other person while they're standing right next to each other. That's my two cents on it.