just want to raise awareness and maybe drum up support on the topic of sitting/standing while eating/drinking.
its my belief that a player should be able to consume any food or drink in the game regardless if he/she is sitting or standing and not to be FORCED into doing the other.
If im chilling at a table at an inn and I want to sip on some coffee, my character shouldn’t be forced out of his chair to stand and drink.
same goes for eating.
if my character is standing, i shouldn’t be FORCED into a sitting position while eating.
movement breaking eating/drinking effects could still be in play, its just a heluva nussance to be sat to a table and have to stand up out of the chair to drink something then click to sit down again after every sip.
lets see what other people think/have to say about this.
My guess is that they would have to include extra animations to deal with those scenarios and that’s probably too low on the priority list to get development time.
no, he eats. or drinks while standing. theres animation allready in place for all of this. about half the food you sit for half you stand for. half the drink you sit for half you stand for. i dont think it would require a team to create new animations is what im saying. theres already an animation for standing and sitting for both eating and drinking. just remove the force into position clause per item
standing while drinking animation can be seen when using “majors frothee coffee”. ill return to the thread when i find which one i can use as an example for standing and EATING. might get on that right now tbh. brb.
edit: after looking over a few hundred items in the auction house it looks like most (if not all) items require being seated (sitting) to consume.
if thats the case just remove the FORCED stand up for the few items that do that.
my thoughts are on being seated at a table and consuming something and being forced out of my seat to stand and consume ( like the majors frothee coffee).
it would be 100% fine if all food and drink were a sit to consume, atleast then it would be a constant and known thing.
again guys, i know this is a really small niche thing, but i consume my fair share of Majors frothee Coffee and its just another annoyance to be FORCED out of the chair to have a sip then click to sit again.
Between 1-10 how pressing is this issue for you ingame? Would you quit if it wasn’t implemented?
So far for you I reckon it’s a 3/10 minor annoyance and good QoL nothing you’d lose a moment over.
Between 1-10 how pressing do you think this suggestion would be for the average other player?
I reckon 1/10 easily. This is the first instance in which it’s been brought up to me. Yes eating in different positions looks cool, but let’s be real, I’m doing that stuff to get a buff, I don’t care how I do it. No one else does either.
I’ve done development work for 20ish years, and while it was never on a game, I can tell you it is NEVER as simple as “just a line of code or clause”.
Maybe gaming software is significantly simpler than printer software, insurance software, and web pages; but I seriously doubt it.
If you were willing to accept cloogy cosmetic bugs that cause no real game problems but looks weird, like someone’s legs extending into the floor through the chair when the started eating while sitting, you could do it with minimal effort.
ive never seen the WoW engine/core, nor have I bothered to look extensivley into the files. but from my previous experience on other games theres usually a very simple way of editing things like this.
when i say simple, it maybe that was because its only remove a line of code or a clause. BUT, that dosen’t mean it might not be time consuming, because there maybe hundreds if not thousands of “food/drink” items in individual files that need to be re-edited/looked at.
I just pray for the people that work on WoW that its not all just in one big file and you gotta scroll down through that ungodly creation.
crazy you managed to find my alt and quote a previous post from him and tag it on this seperate thread.
yes I posted this before, but just the fact that you found out who my alt was and taged him here is a bit… weird?
I simply recalled seeing this before because it is weird. Such a strange thing to get hung up about. Eating in WoW. It was weird when you first posted it, and weird changing characters and reposting it.
ohhhhhhh, yeah, thats understandable. I switch characters on the forums between my two guys depending on who im playing as main in-game.
didn’t mean to make it look like im switching alts just to post more, sorry about that.
i agree with you, it does make sense to sit.
I just spend some of my time in-game sitting at an inn while browsing the forums waiting for someone to post “looking for craft or recraft” and ill drink a majors frothee coffee in-game while doing so. every time my guy takes a sip he stands up out of his seat and i have to click him back down into his seat. just some little thing that has bothered me over time.
no big deal or game-breaking thing, just a pain i go through several times a week.
