Maybe you're not used to MMO's, but it's very common to give a friendly greeting to other players even if you don't know them. In Minecraft it used to be a sword waggle. In World Of Warcraft it's buffing another player. Yes Elite has the 07 text emote, but your comment seems to suggest you've not come across a random greeting before (not being critical, just making an observation)I was greeted the other day by a CMDR who stopped, did a quick crouch (which I, of course, returned), then stood up and continued on their way.
Made me think we could have a resurgence of Georgian-era style greetings of bow and curtsy - regardless of gender, whoever initiates the greeting does a bow (looking down and up) and those receiving it do the curtsy (quick crouch)
It was my first random greeting in the Alpha - normally other CMDRs just sprint on by.
Simple (civilised) greetings on the other hand...How about some of these?
Would I pay for them ... not sure, maybe.
I agree with Ben that basic emotes should be included FOC.
Agree.
These are great for combat oriented decisions. Might not work for basic social interactions. As with any of these co-speech gestures, they might be culture specific; e.g. someone from country X might not find these gestures as intuitive as others might.How about some of these?
Would I pay for them ... not sure, maybe.
I suppose my main thought was that I don't want "silly" gestures so a bunch of basic hand signals like that could be used quite creatively I imagine. You're right tho, they might not serve their original function.
