What is the reason behind Facial Expression emotes not being Persistent?

[Nuinn]

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Well ok, maybe stroke was a strong word. A cramp perhaps. As I type this, I'm sitting with the facial expression displayed on the first Miqo'te and my muscles are hurting already >.>;

There's a difference in having your lip corners curl a slight bit into a smile and having almond/smiley/happy eye shape naturally VS pulling muscles into a smile (or in other words - making the current facial expressions permanent).

Just like IRL some people have, for example more closed eyelids/sleepy eyes than others (naturally) VS slightly squinting (making an expression). That's the difference I'm talking about but, that's the subtle things which should have been implemented in the severely lacking char creator. I know I get hung up on such things more than an average person.... Just can't help but notice :|

[Granyala]

I'd love them to make the /shuteyes expression persistent.
My kitty likes to close her eyes when idly sitting around.

[Brianmj]

i guess parents dont say that phrase anymore. lol

Or people shouldn't assume familiarity with colloquialisms that are intrinsically American.

[SeraphimXI]

I made macros that do this for me. example: /worried motion <wait.5> for every single line. It isn't perma but it gets the job done.

http://youtu.be/gh54MVGfaNo

[Granyala]

I made macros that do this for me. example: /worried motion <wait.5> for every single line. It isn't perma but it gets the job done.

http://youtu.be/gh54MVGfaNo

Yeah and it spams the emote every 5 seconds, unless you manually disable the chat message first.
Unless you can activate and deactivate that option via macro as well. That would be neat.

[Bixby]

Yeah and it spams the emote every 5 seconds, unless you manually disable the chat message first.
Unless you can activate and deactivate that option via macro as well. That would be neat.

That's what putting "motion" after the emote does. Keeps it out of the chat log.

[Granyala]

That's what putting "motion" after the emote does. Keeps it out of the chat log.

Awesome, THANKS!

[chocomaid]

Would definitely like this to be optional, so both sides can be happy. I'd definitely want to go on a rampage looking like this :

[Almalexia]

Right, but often times, to just so quickly return to a statue-like emotionless face can result in much creepier situations. This picture here would've looked a lot more natural if after the emote the character had a smiling expression as his "idle" facial emote.

Wouldn't make for a very good .gif, though. This is probably the best thing to come out of 1.0.

[duvvvv]

I like the idea but I guess I was pretty successful for making my character look unamused almost all the time :P :