Smoking emote.

Would anyone be interested in a smoking emote or am I in the minority when it comes wanting a smoking emote.

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Originally Posted by Awha

Would anyone be interested in a smoking emote or am I in the minority when it comes wanting a smoking emote.

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Personally, I am not a fan.... others might disagree, but it is a very unhealthy habit that I consider disgusting.... and while this is not a real world, I do think that it could be "glamorizing" it for younger players. I'm not trying to judge, I was a smoker for many years.

We have a drinking emote already, so I wouldn't see this being an issue. I wouldn't be opposed to having a smoking emote too, though I'm sure there's multiple reasons why they wouldn't add it.

I think it could be cute to have a LOTR inspired longbottom leaf emote. Not sure if anything else fits in with the fantasy world of the game.

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Originally Posted by Luthiene

LOTR inspired longbottom leaf emote

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Originally Posted by Luthiene

I think it could be cute to have a LOTR inspired longbottom leaf emote. Not sure if anything else fits in with the fantasy world of the game.

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That would be cool.

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Originally Posted by ApolloGenX

Personally, I am not a fan.... others might disagree, but it is a very unhealthy habit that I consider disgusting.... and while this is not a real world, I do think that it could be "glamorizing" it for younger players. I'm not trying to judge, I was a smoker for many years.

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I can see that, not a huge smoker fan IRL, but for some reason in terms of art I do tend to depict a few of my characters as smokers guess on some sub consensus level I did buy into the whole smoking is cool thing, even if I personally would never smoke.

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Originally Posted by Awha

Would anyone be interested in a smoking emote or am I in the minority when it comes wanting a smoking emote.

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Only when I get a fire extinguisher emote that neutralizes a smoker I target.

On a more serious level: I see no reason to promote such a nasty habit in the game.

Not going to happen. Too many guidelines in various countries to allow this.

For example:

http://ash.org.uk/wp-content/uploads...n-download.pdf

If people want their character to be able to smoke for RP, I say let them. Not a fan of it IRL and nor does Oraina (smells bad); but let people do what they want.

On a technical level, the animation for such an emote actually already exists in the codebase; a fairly major NPC in the Stormblood storylines has and smokes a pipe. (That said, I suspect it only exists in there for the one gender/race—it's not like anyone else uses the animation—which means if they added it as an emote they'd probably have to make the appropriate variants for everyone else.)

On a social level? I'm not super fond of smoking, but I can also see the benefit for screenshot purposes and roleplayers and such.