Moods - Suggest new ones

Zuko

Something solemn, mild in nature for a monk. Focused, reserved. That sort of thing..

Mithridates

for @silas maybe horny?

Ellodin

i was just following the suggestions thing, but since there was a bit of speculation about places where moods may be earned or mandatory, i'll add this.

this reminds me of when expressiveness first came out, and suggestions were open.  it was limited at the time, and in the end, there was a pretty large list of adverbs that were acceptable, and the help file listed them next to the names of the people who had suggested them.  now, people are able to do whatever they'd like, whether grammatically incorrect or inane or what, and that seems to pretty much work fine, as i don't see many people going around doing something like Bain says Skyfully in a dark, Skyful voice.  there are so many different possibilities to cover, and ideas will always flood in for moods people want to see added, even if they aren't moods, but character traits.

free it up and people might be stupid with it for a couple weeks, but it should save a lot of higher-level celani/demigod/god time and in the end, be more easily usable for a greater range of people.

Shirszae

pensive, listless, and the like would be great

Jurixe

Honestly, if we were able to customise moods like we can with expressiveness, I would love that so much. I understand the desire for consistency, but maybe we could just be able to customise in-room appearances? That would be amazing and I think (hopefully) minimise stupidity in customisation if any.

Sarapis

We're very likely to limit these to predefined moods and possibly the occasional custom mood.

That said, I see us eventually having over a hundred, so there should be lots of choice as time goes on.

Sarapis

Also, lots of good suggestions so far.

Sarapis

Oh, not at all. These are intended as the most basic moods though, so they're largely going to be the simplest.'

Really though, I wonder if we're eventually going to need multiple randomly-selected messages for each category per mood. That's going to be a little brutal in terms of content creation if so, but it may very well end up being the case.

Sena

Disinterested. Curious. Confused.

Jurixe

Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't it be possible to make it all customisable? When Expressiveness was launched, something quite similar happened - a lot of preset expressiveness styles were suggested and introduced and the list became ridiculously long, but still didn't incorporate everything people wanted (and 90% of it people never used). In the end, it was made fully customisable and I've been really happy for that change.

I'm just wondering if it's a code thing that makes this not possible (which if so, aw and oh well), or if it's mostly just a preemptive measure to stop people being stupid with setting moods. If it's the latter, maybe the community could self-police by just reporting anyone who uses it in a dumb way or telling them themselves - since we can already custom emote and custom say, custom moods shouldn't encounter too much more issue with people, though I guess I could be overly optimistic.

Shirszae

We've launched the system with 16 public moods, and plan to add more moods that can be collected in various 

ways such as questing, leveling up, Shop of Wonders, and so on. 

@Jurixe ?

Antonius

@Jurixe Probably mostly a code concern. With expressiveness it's just a bit of extra text on a few key commands (say, whisper, etc) but the basic structure remains the same. This affects a lot more and would probably require the messages for those things to be entirely rewritten by each player using it.

Bonko

Mood: GRIEFER

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Room LOOK                                                              (Active)

Bonko is here, attempting to destroy all the exits and create a kill room.

Movement Messages                                                      (Active)

Entering : Bonko enters from the north and attacks you for no reason.

Exiting  : Bonko scurries off to the southwest, obviously having heard the word 'issue' escape from your mouth.

SHOUTing Voice                                                         (Active)

You see   : You channel your past inner shrubberies as you shout, "Blah blah blah."

Others see: Shrubberies rustle in unison as Bonko shouts, "Blah blah blah"

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Klendathu

paranoid, fretful, listless, apathetic (no, not synonyms)

Sylvance

Agitated. Restless. Contemplative. Respectful.

That last one is Cyrene-only.

Utianima

flabbergasted!

Tharvis

I like this change, got called a determined bastard three times already

Shadrac

Mithridates said:

rancor plz. 

Here you go: 

Anaidiana

oh. How about a Cain mood where it's just...pure rage?

Bob stomps in from the east, glowering at all and sundry.

Loosing a primal scream of rage, Bob picks up the nearest newbie and hurls them into the next room.

Glaring at you all a final time, Bob stomps out to the west. 

Sarapis

Already have a rage one in the works!

Sarapis

There are also going to be special ones that are less like literal moods and more like 'theme's. Fire, ice, etc for instance.

Sylvance

@Sarapis Whilst I understand that this makes no sense in terms of what a literal mood: Any thoughts to making faction/class/race specific moods?

Sarapis

That's ok, they don't have to be literal moods. We have thought about making faction/class/race specific ones, and may do it at some point, but for now are more focused on broader ones.

Taraus

Sarapis said:

There are also going to be special ones that are less like literal moods and more like 'theme's. Fire, ice, etc for instance.

Please make 'jingle' a theme. Thank you.

Gibbi

I got one! "constantly flexing"

Trey

Gibbi said:

I got one! "constantly flexing"

Chanting "Bro, do you even lift?", Gibbi enters from the northeast. ??

Also, I'm tired as hell, but 'sly'?

Kelandra

Irritable (which is pretty much what mood Kelandra is in all of the time)

Caoimhaen

How about.. passionate?

Taraus

omg swagger!

Does anyone have the text for that yet?

Jurixe

I really like the new public moods, particularly impassive and amused. Thumbs up for that!