Great suggestions! These echo some of the suggestions I had written down/received as well. Reading some of these gets my RP nostalgia goin’!
Some “easy win” (aka not a lot of effort) additions/notes:
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Generic two seater mounts – being able to ride a horse with two people vs. having to always summon a fancy mount would be pretty neat. This could be either new mounts or mount equipment for existing mounts.
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More emotes – Definitely echoing being able to use the leaning/bar emotes that only NPCs have. Being able to play certain combat animations - either through chat-less emotes/states or toys, would also be a great addition. I distinctly remember (and I’m certain this still happens) where fights would mostly consist out of people awkwardly staring at eachother. There are duels, but those only really work 1on1 and can only go on for so long in a certain area before someone is forced to give up. Being able to emote one’s character better in these situations would be amazing.
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Dungeon/raid accessibility – Having a way of invisibly flying around dungeons/raids in “no-clip” (aka just let us use the existing commentator mode used in tournaments) would also make this idea very useful to machinima/fan artists. To prevent abuse, this might have to be limited to the earlier mentioned “RP dungeon difficulty” though.
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Built-in OOC chat on RP realms, maybe with an indicator or different color. I’m aware some addons can do this, but having a /ooc or something would be useful.
Less easy wins that will require some effort:
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Character customization – Definitely a bigger ask on dev time, but being able to specify colors for certain things (e.g. eyes, hair) vs selecting from a list of predefined colors would be cool (and save on a few prebaked color textures). Shoutout to Kruithne whom I definitely didn’t steal this from.
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Transmog – Can’t go without mentioning the whole “armor dye” idea that’s been floating around the community for a while. I would like to add that I wouldn’t actually choose to recolor entire armor but maybe just certain parts of armor – for example just the blue part of the Imperial/Stormwind armor set.
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RP dungeon difficulty – Definitely a great idea, but would obviously need to disable loot, achievements and any other form of reward to prevent this being an option to “cheese” certain things. Maybe a trivial difficulty with all these things (maybe even enemies or respawns) disabled would be a great way to start with implementing this.
Even more effort:
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Built-in TRP3-like profiles – Big ask and would require a lot of UI additions as well as new moderation tools to moderate these profiles, but addons like TRP being a standard on RP realms alone is enough reason to consider adding something like this in a built-in manner.
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Multiple character voices – All characters of the same race/sex currently sound the same, adding some new voices one could pick from would be yet another way to set your character apart from others.