The dancing tease

I didn't even think about the actual use of it as a game play element. Actually having emotes have a purpose beyond just the random social interaction aspect. Find a Kobold (or someone that's watched them) to learn the dance and then get a disguise. That would provide a non-violent way to possibly complete a quest. Great idea. Not sure how difficult it would be to implement... but again that's for the devs.

8^)

 

Man I haven't heard that song in forever. Great find. And yeah, you can just see the overwhelming "enjoyment" of the women in the cooking pots. Its like they aren't excited about being cooked and eaten. Go figure.

 

oh oh can we have drum circles too/nods.... dancing around the fire, too much like real events in the SCA/would be so nice to do ingame too!!! Tourneys and jousting.... such fun!

 

Hi all I call for a bump for this thread. You'll see conga line has been mentioned. I'm all for some graceful and interesting dancing.

So for me I am anxious to see more dance styles come in. If you read the thread I don't like our dances as i may have mentioned before please majoria does not 'jig'. I watch the jig and it continues on and on and on and on. I want some graceful moves, some swaying back and fourth, some smooth moves, interesting movement. Not to criticize what we have, it is fine for an occasion and really great that our characters can be rigged to do suchmovements, but it is definitely not an all purpose dance and only my opinion does get on my nerves after awhile. Perhaps I am just grumpy, but oh well it is just an opinion and doesn't mean anything is wrong, just keeping the ideas alive. I just request something else for dances, more choices as in character development getting love and some choices and individuality for us. I will do dance #3 forever if no other dance comes in since I love it. It always makes me smile no matter how many times I see it. Now that is style and interesting, well to me. So who says we cannot waltz line dance also

 

How did I not discover this thread until this eve?
Thx for the bump majoria, and for my stumbling over it - so to speak....

Let me say that it has been so gratifying for me to see so many of you feeling exactly like I do about adding more interactivity between people, and dancing is just so damn natural.... Music and dance is how we've always expressed ourselves to each other as individuals, in so many personal ways.... As comrades, as friends and beyond...

There are so many good ideas here... But alas, it's late for me - I'll revisit tomorrow...

Excellent topic, wonderful ideas ! Bravo !

One last thing -

In the present case, LeFou is simply mistaken........

 

Oh, almost forgot something I wanted to add.
@lollie
If you or someone else hasn't done so already, would you please create a thread on your idea below - it's something that I've been thinking about for the longest time - and you stated it so beautifully:

And if you do that, could you please include a request to have a small is fine little round dot up at the top of the screen that tells us immediately, the following, based simply on it's color -
Blue for (your mood after too many hours in) Single Player.
Magenta for (how your mood changes in) Multiplayer. (It is sooooo tedious to have to exit back to login to find that out)......

Since we're both lookin' for a bit of UI love here..........................................

 

I definitely think the dances in game could use some love. Clearly dancing is engrained in this game. How do we celebrate a new release? A dance party. We've made impromptu conga lines.... we dance with our friends while enjoying in game events. I think it would be great if there was partner dancing. It could open a window like a trade window, so both partners could consent and determine who will lead and which dance. A separate dance UI would be great for showing off.. A list of simple moves... step right, clap, kick, turn that you could click in order or preset and macro. (This would cut down on emote spam at events, too, if these effects were purely visual). I think if we have functional instruments that we can play , the next step really is dancing to go along with it.

 

I like the idea of being able to control moves during a dance, rather than just a simple /dance emote. If added, I'd be curious to see what sorts of events might make use of or be based off such abilities. Professional dancers touring Novia at judged competitions for gold and such? Careful in touring those pvp towns though, a few extra moves might be thrown in to the routines

 

I would love to see more sync when everybody dances. My wish would be that if I target someone dancing and type /dance it would sync with this person, especially for dance3.

Second wish would be longer dance animations which are not bound to one spot so we move around each other. I don't think there is a need to make couple animations if we are able to sync ourself. It needs a little training and will not always look perfect but nicer at now will it look anyway.

Group dances would be really cool. /dance3group where you start with everyone on the same time in a group. How awesome would that be

 

just like group music , there was group dance in SWG, the leader of the group typed the command for what dance and synced the group to all start at once.

 

I would love for dances (and other animations) to allow us rotate with Q and E so we can face people who we dance with.

 

My absolute favorite event to do in Second Life was ballroom dancing. And all those animations were player made.

Hugs and holding hands would be nice too.

as far as congas go, if we could move we could follow each other.

 

While dancing (and with other emotes) if you click on someone you will turn to face them without exiting the emote.

 

It might have been already mentioned, i haven't had the time tonight to read all the post, but we could have a dance hotbar, and put in various 'moves' and click like we do in combat. Maybe it could be a fixed hotbar, and the more we drink it becomes more random, thus harder to achieve a series of moves, just like in real life

 

I think this was removed for R17 and seems to be still missing.

 

Time for this thread to come back, It is a fun thread and no new dances yet, so just trying to keep the idea alive.

 

ok @The Devs, time to resurrect this thread. We need a little slow dancing and swaying in SOTA like now lol j/k No jigs for majoria. Even if the characters can't touch, they could look a bit like slow dancing. I'm sure you'll find a way eventually for us, but it doesn't have to be right this second, just a BIG remeinder lol

 

Doubly so as we are now getting more instruments and player music in game, it would be nice to dance to the music.

 

Yes, please! Dancing is one of my favorite things to do whenever there is a non-combat in-game event. Heck, we even have a dance party for every new release... New dances would be great!

 

oh I thought this video was pretty precious about the dance craze being introduced to mmos. Enjoy.
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/56841/the-mmo-evolution-of-dance/