Should they do that when...

[Griping]

I've read bunches of threads on the whole hidden emote thing.. Done right, I think it's great. But I saw something that really irritated me. 'Someone' is hidden, which is fine and dandy. And if they were making emotes that suggested this hidden nature, that would not have bothered me in the slightest. But instead, 'someone' is emoting -to- people as if they were standing right out in the open. Very close example being..

Someone smiles at the green-skinned pixie as she waves.

So how do you get around -that-?
Icly, if it's just someone, obviously the green-skinned pixie might catch someone waving and shrug it off. But OOCly, it rubs me the wrong way, since if they're going to be posting out in the open type emotes, they should -be- out in the open, or it comes off as trying to RP and twink-boost skill. Especially when they know they're hidden, since when you emote, it shows 'the green-skinned pixy' and not 'you', unlike when you 'look bushy-browed frog', it shows to you as 'you look at the bushy-eyebrowed frog'.

And when it's not an isolated incident, as well. You've seen this person doing it more than once, do you pull them aside and OOC your opinion, or mail the mud? It's not as if it's a serious offense, but it is irritating, at least to me.

[??]

Can I ask why nobody has answered this? I mean, it's not just a gripe, I'd really like to know what would be the best approach to that.

[Gorobei]

Don't pull them aside and OOC.  If it bothers you enough to do something about it, mailing the mud's the best option.

[Anonymous]

Ignore it because your character isn't going to be aware of every single thing going across your screen.

Or, conversely, decide your PC did see something and start scouring the room, if that is what they would do.

[Angela Christine]

Never go OOC to "correct" someone's roleplaying, this will almost certainly make the immediate situation worse.  You are not the RP police, and breaking character to deliver a criticism will annoy the general audience and likely make your target annoyed and defensive.  Not a good scene.  

They may not know they are hidden, or have forgotten it.  Hide doesn't tell you if you succeeded or failed, and it doesn't tell you when it wears off.  It is possible that they are "fishing" with emotes to try to find out if they are hidden, since if they are not hidden people will look at them when they emote, but I doubt it.


If it is really irksome, your best bet is to let the staff handle it.  Make a quick log showing several emotes (anybody can forget and emote once, so there is no point complaining about ocasional random emotes) and the time that it happened.  Then if the staff decides the person needs talking too, they can check the runlogs and find out who it was. Or you can try wishing.  If "someone" has been emoting a lot of non-hidden actions in a particular scene you might send a quick wish like: "wish all An unseen "someone" keeps waving and making other obvious emotes here, can someone check it out?"  Either way, you'll probably never know how it turns out, so go back to enjoying your character and try not to worry about others too much.


AC

[Anonymous]

Ignore it because your character isn't going to be aware of every single thing going across your screen.

Or, conversely, decide your PC did see something and start scouring the room, if that is what they would do.

What he said. Also, sometimes people just flat out forget they are still hidden when they speak or emote to someone.

[Me again]

See, I thought it might have been a forgotten thing, when I first noticed it, well over a month ago. But when they chuckle and /sometimes/ come out of hiding when someone starts spam-scanning to find out who the 'someone' waving is, and when this person spends over 80% of their time hiding and sneaking around, it seems more obvious that they know, and simply don't care or think it's funny.

I'll have to figure out how this client takes logs.. If it does at all. Honestly, I don't try to play the rp police. I can ignore bad spelling, bland emotes, and all sorts of things. Unless I'm the one doing them, then it -really- bugs me. But yeah, this one irked me, with the frequency and what it is. When someone is in an 'out in the open' place, waving and moving about, saluting to general soandso, then laughing when people start spamming.. Yeah, it's irksom.

[Armaddict]

I think chuckles and waving are things that would sufficiently draw attention to you, and thus, take you out of hiding.  If you've seen what PC was doing it, send a complaint to the mud account.  If not, let them know that someone is doing it so that they can watch a little closer until the person can be corrected, if there's a problem in the staff's opinion.