[Ennewi]

Have yet to see anything about the absence of idle animations, but here's some insight as to why female bards don't perform the dance while playing a horn/flute...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010727...icID=308.topic

Sepherenia
Adventurer of Underfoot
Posts: 101
(1/22/01 8:05:06 am)

Time to make bards look better
I think it's past time that VI makes us look better. By that I mean, ever noticed what a bard looks like when they are running with percussion? The best way I describe it, is like a running festering hag from unrest sans the outstretched arms. LOL! Well? It's the truth. Even Jimwise used to tease me about how very silly I looked when running with my drum.

VI has taken the time to remove the "unintended" effect of selos to resist root when cast on us. I do still notice I am slower without my instrument post their latest patch when running with just selo's accelerado. So I do think we still took a bit of a nerf there.

If these programmers have all this extra time on their hands, hey why not make it so that the female bards do that cute little dance when playing a flute/wind instrument like all the male bards do. Anyone ever notice that? The male bard is going to town doing a little jig there, and here we are, all us female bards standing stiff as a board blowing into the flute every tick. What's up with that? hehe

I think if VI has all this extra time to devote to "fixing" this "unintended effect", and then knowingly introducing a known bugged code into our songs and then treating us all like red headed stepchildren and informing us that "it's merely an inconvenience, deal with it until the next patch", then I figure they can take the time to give us the actions that the male bards already have.

There are tons of emotes that show the action, ie - wave, blush, laugh, snicker, beg, plead, whine, ect...
Why not have it so when we are playing an instrument we are dancing, and even add a bit of music to it when we are playing too?

Sepherenia Crystalwind
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Hethral
/r Where's the corpse.
Posts: 900
(1/22/01 11:51:17 am)

Re: Time to make bards look better
I think they said the animation file was a 20+ meg download, and people probably wouldn't be happy about downloading a replacement one for new bard animations. I remember it being brought up on the official boards quite a few months ago.

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Hethral
/r Where's the corpse.
Posts: 915
(1/23/01 1:40:49 pm)

Re: Time to make bards look better
It wasn't so much a decision as a pushing the patch live, having everyone download it then coming in in the morning and saying "Oh shit what do you mean we forgot those animations?"
They screwed up, they admitted it, they just don't want to make people download something that big that's just for looks.
/shrug

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