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General discussion about making emotes gestures handier to use. Some emotes can be evoked right in the Chat line by preceding them with a semicolon (;). So type ';grief' and your toon does the Grief emote. But other emotes cannot be used like this. If I create a macro or keybinding for and emote such as /macro SMP "emote crouch", some work, but others don't. I would like to create a macro to evoke the Idle > Stances poses such as /macro VP2 "emote Villain Stance 2", but that macro doesn't work. Why is that? And why do some one-word emotes such as Thrreaten, not work in the chat line with a semicolon? Typing ;threaten does not run the Threaten emote. But in the 'before time' it did. Only drilling down through the emote menu >Interact > Threaten activates it now. Chat line typing is quicker and can be combined with an actual text chat, so both comment and gesture are linked. Such as Chat: Fear not! I'm a Hero!$$emote akimbo Opportunities for role-play there. Anyway, I'm seeking a better way to evoke Emote gestures. Looking to learn more about how it does work or how it could work. Discuss.

Four years and three months later the problem resumes on Excelsior. Why? What to do? And also, 'Help'.

So we're agreed the login server is down. Has anyone heard this. Is it being fixed?

Idle question for true lore masters. Navigating the Emote trees to find the right emote takes time and is clumsy. It's easier to just type, in Chat, semicolon and the Emote name like ;salute or ;crossarms. But not all names are represented in the Emote tree. For example: what's the name for the Idle: Drink Tea emote. And it's apparently not 'Drink Tea' or 'drinktea' or 'sip tea' or 'teacup', etc.. Also it would be nice for there to be greater support for combining emotes and chat. By typing a Chat comment "Hello" followed by '$$emote Wave", then your Avatar both says Hello and Waves at the same time.

Doesn't the new Long Range Teleporter mean is must have at least one Exploration badge?