Posted this in sticky but not sure which devs look at and which players look at. I honestly never look at the sticky thread but I assume that's where dev's look.
I've been wanting a host option for housing for years. I'm glad we have mannequins now but unfortunately, you cannot customize their appearance and they are completely unresponsive to visitors.
Host Permits would allow us to place retainers inside the house and have them perform the owner's available emotes:
1. Special emotes are continuously played in a loop (e.g. Eastern or Thavnairan dance on a stage).
2. Regular emotes that trigger when a player approaches (similar to how A3 vendors perform the /easternbow emote when players approach).
3. Owners can select both types of emotes from a menu, so a retainer may be performing a special emote on loop and interrupt that special emote to perform a regular emote when someone approaches (e.g. retainer does /sit on a chair or /doze on a bed but when someone approaches, they /wave or get up and are taken /aback).
4. In addition to the two types of emotes, players can also specify an /em output for the chat within the host retainer's menu. For example if the retainer is the host in a hotel and uses the tomestone emote, rather than using the standard output "[Retainer Name] swipes excitedly" the player can specify a chat output like "[Retainer Name] checks room availability for <t>."
4. The object title players will see is "Host <<[Name of Retainer]>>."
5. Like the expansion of duties permit, the menu has an option to update retainer appearance, so if the owner changes the retainer's clothes or uses retainer fantasia, this can be updated without having to remove the retainer (which may have been painstakingly glitched in that position... Unless you can make it a table top item. If you can make it a tabletop item, make it a tabletop item). I'm mentioning this because I've had this frustration with Mannequins that I changed the name of for a new housing theme and the name didn't change until I removed the mannequin from the stage...
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I've been wanting a host option for housing for years. I'm glad we have mannequins now but unfortunately, you cannot customize their appearance and they are completely unresponsive to visitors.
Host Permits would allow us to place retainers inside the house and have them perform the owner's available emotes:
1. Special emotes are continuously played in a loop (e.g. Eastern or Thavnairan dance on a stage).
2. Regular emotes that trigger when a player approaches (similar to how A3 vendors perform the /easternbow emote when players approach).
3. Owners can select both types of emotes from a menu, so a retainer may be performing a special emote on loop and interrupt that special emote to perform a regular emote when someone approaches (e.g. retainer does /sit on a chair or /doze on a bed but when someone approaches, they /wave or get up and are taken /aback).
4. In addition to the two types of emotes, players can also specify an /em output for the chat within the host retainer's menu. For example if the retainer is the host in a hotel and uses the tomestone emote, rather than using the standard output "[Retainer Name] swipes excitedly" the player can specify a chat output like "[Retainer Name] checks room availability for <t>."
4. The object title players will see is "Host <<[Name of Retainer]>>."
5. Like the expansion of duties permit, the menu has an option to update retainer appearance, so if the owner changes the retainer's clothes or uses retainer fantasia, this can be updated without having to remove the retainer (which may have been painstakingly glitched in that position... Unless you can make it a table top item. If you can make it a tabletop item, make it a tabletop item). I'm mentioning this because I've had this frustration with Mannequins that I changed the name of for a new housing theme and the name didn't change until I removed the mannequin from the stage...
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