/vape emote

[Beckett]

Personally, I don't particularly want an emote for this, but I'm not seeing a reason not to allow it. Maybe they could just put it on the Mogstation and let people who really want it cough up a few bucks for it.

This should also help with concerns about kids pretending to smoke in-game, considering they're not likely to have credit cards to use for buying Mogstation stuff.

I'm not normally pro-Mogstation, but that sounds like a perfect solution if people desperately want a smoking emote.

[Vanitas]

No thanks I'd perfer a delete thread emote myself.

[ErryK]

Vaping? No. Smoking a cigar/pipe? Sure, I have it in canon that my character is a smoker and usually uses cigars/pipes.

As for smoking: I doubt they'll do anything with it because it can be viewed as promoting a bad/unhealthy habit.

Yet they'll happily give lit cigars and alcohol as housing items?

[Kuroka]

While i totally despise smoking myself, id still say we need that emote, together with an /meditate /eat /drink /sharpweapon / stuff that runs un endless loops so we can let them run when afk or even rp... its kinda sad to stand or sit like a stone statue. Its what i love on lala, they got those two /sit where they move a bit...

[Iscah]

Just because the rating says "use of alcohol and tobacco" doesn't mean that any use is covered - only a degree consistent with what the rating rules say can be shown in a T-rated game.

Look at all the other things listed there. "Blood" - but what's shown is very limited. "Language" - but not the 'worst words' or extremely frequently. And so on. Subtle things, not explicit, and generally not being done by your character.

[Sigma-Astra]

You seemed to have missed the point entirely and literally are taking the words of a rating system too liberal in favor of thinking you've won the argument somehow, you haven't. A "Teen Rating" as Iscah has pointed out, does not mean that everything is fair game and fair use under that rating towards a larger degree. Just because it says "use of tobacco and alcohol" does not mean that we can suddenly have our characters standing around Limsa promoting unhealthy and addictive habits suggested by the players themselves.

I mean, if you want the game to be bumped up towards a mature or adult rating, with a possible mess in regards towards the marketing and public relations that it has with several other countries who may not agree either, that's the way to do it.

[Kyuuen]

Some of the argumentation in this thread is absolutely, mind numbingly silly.

The game is already rated for Alchol and Tobacco and the PC's usage; or lack thereof, is not going to change that rating.

As to the comment of it affecting the ratings in other countries. Simple solution, don't release that emote in that/those country/ies.

[Jandor]

/smoke, sure.

/vape, no.

[Raikai]

I've actually just suggested /vape because it seemed like a less harmful way of saying /smoke, but in reality it - is - /smoke. It was just nomenclature.

Maybe /pipe sounds better?

[Jandor]

I've actually just suggested /vape because it seemed like a less harmful way of saying /smoke, but in reality it - is - /smoke. It was just nomenclature.

Maybe /pipe sounds better?

/pipe is that rare compromise that is actually better than either option