Advanced Social Options

Ok, let's say you walk up to your best friend, smiling, maybe even laughing a little because you haven't seen them in forever and a day. Then you stop short and blink, unable to hug your friend, just standing there with your hands on your hips. You apologize to your friend, trying to remember where you put your hug attachment. Meanwhile, your friend has to go RIGHT NOW, and gives you a cheap, old-fashioned text hug. ::hugs you:: Then they poof.

Ok, we all know what I'm talking about. You have to either be wearing something or be sitting on a stationary ball in order to do some of the most mundane social tasks (hugging, kissing, shaking hands, screwing). It gets old when you say to your friend, "Come all the way over here so I can stop massaging your foot and instead kiss your leg." Ok, it's not exactly like that, but you catch my drift.

Since Second Life is a socially immersive world, I think it deserves a bit of consideration to put in some standard social actions. For instance, right-clicking on someone could bring up the standard pie menu, but there would be more and more options such as those listed above. Hugging, etc. To fix the height alignment problem, perhaps there could be sensors on each avatar's body part that is affected, For example, heads and hearts are generally the same distance apart for most people, so the taller avatar could bend its knees or kneel altogether in order to make this move. Maybe if there were a "grab wrist" so your friend can follow option would have a sensor in the forearm.

But overall, I'd really like to see this implemented just to clean up some of the clubs. I like the naughty poseballs as much as anyone else, but when I'm out for a stroll in the park or even visiting someone's house, I don't really care to see "MDOG" on some blue sphere.

The best example I can give is the Sims. I haven't played sims 2, but it's probably similar.

I have plenty more ideas for advanced social options, but if this is at least given some consideration, I am more than willing to support it.

Absolutely! One of the things I miss from my career on the simsonline was my ability to click a button and have my puppet dip kiss or hug or slow dance with a friend. And the animation seemed so integrated. Everybody lined up, none of this half assed " well your kinda hugging me but your hands arnt really on my shoulders. " Its as tho our avies in SL are not truly in the same dimension with one another. Built in social interactions that actually join two avies together for a brief shining moment, where they actually interact in a believeable way. For cripes sake, if TSO can do it. ( and to all those I dip kissed in tso, YOU remember what it was like, dont you miss that? lol) Make a proposal, I'll vote for it.

Interesting.. This should be the focus of some more discussion...

Yes! I do! *smiles @ her friend* I'd love this as an option with a few animations you could work from a pie menu with Hug being chief among those. But dipkiss was nice too.

yes would be fab to have that in SL, like the sims you click on anouther AV and then select hug, kiss. shake hands etc would be great to have, even if you could load anims into a pie list would be good to then you can interact with all types of objects and AV`s
yes i am 100% for the Advanced Social option

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I believe there is already a proposal out there for this:

https://secondlife.com/vote/index.php?get_id=115

If ya want it, put your votes behind it.

Ok, I forgot to include my proposal link in this forum, so here it is. This one seems to have more votes than the other similar one, but it is also a little more descriptive. So if you want to support this, go here:

https://secondlife.com/vote/index.php?get_id=382