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March 25, 2011 - 3:39pm — Seed
The subject came up in a conversation that a lot of my gestures can be mis-interpreted... And this is always the problem with a game like TEF, where gestures can mean a lot of things, and there's no course for immediate correction. Some things, of course, there's no helping... But if I give the wrong impression, that's no good, and should be corrected.

And, I figure, if someone misunderstands me in a way that's problematic, they're probably not going to say anything unless I ask, because we're kind of a paranoid community about that.

So I might as well ask the question in the title line, and see what I can do about the answer.
March 25, 2011 - 3:50pm — Mis
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Whenever I see you, you run

Whenever I see you, you run up to one of your friends, likely in the group I'm also hanging out with. You greet your friend, sit next to them, pay the others no heed. By now, I stopped trying to greet your deer at all.
Now I guess that makes sense when approaching a big group, but when there are two deer and one is your friend, I wonder why the other get's no form of acknowledgement at all.
But, you know, I actually see this happen in the forest a lot, with other people too. Not only you seem to do that.
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March 25, 2011 - 4:10pm — Seed
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Hearing that is actually what

Hearing that is actually what made me bring this up... If there are two deer in a group, and I bow, I'm acknowledging both deer. The same applies to a group of 3, 5, or 10. From there, I usually just nuzzle the ones I'm close to, since I tend to view nuzzles as kinda intimate, and part of the standard greeting for a friend. During this, I'll return any nuzzles or sniffs thrown my way...Which, when the group is sitting, isn't a lot.

Maybe I should add more individualized sniffs in my greeting line-up. When I started, I didn't see sniffing as a part of the normal greeting routine, so to this day, I only return sniffs. Maybe my intent would be clearer if that changed.

I never felt like I was ignoring anyone.
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March 25, 2011 - 4:11pm — quadraptor
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Generally what I do is bow to

Generally what I do is bow to each individual person (if it's a small enough group), or in a big group setting, I'll bow but press either the left or right button to make Quad turn while he's bowing so it looks like he bows to the entire group. Then afterward I may nuzzle a friend.

But anyway I've never thought there was anything wrong with the way you play your deer. Not like there are strict rules or anything, so I don't think you should worry Eye

Heck, when I play Pent, he rarely acknowledges ANY deer who bow to him, because he talks to trees. Laughing out loud
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March 25, 2011 - 4:19pm — Seed
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It's less that I feel

It's less that I feel concerned about a specific way to play as I do getting my feelings understood clearly. I think individual bows would kind of ending up confusing me a little, since delicate pointing isn't my suit, but I'll have to try a full bow + rotate combo more often.


When I sit near a friend in a group, to me, I am interacting with the whole group in participating in the sitting experience. I think my standards for what constitutes acknowledgement and interaction are a lot lower than other people's standards, which is problematic when I'm interacting with other people... Come to that, that happens to me in real life, too.
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March 25, 2011 - 7:52pm — Zyzzy
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In-game actions are often

In-game actions are often hard to interpret, especially if you don't know the deer. Sometimes certain behaviors are written into a character, other times things are just misinterpreted. Its really hard to always come across like you want to when your character is an animal and can't talk! xD Unless you're just being ridiculously rude for no reason, I think most people brush off any seemingly odd behavior as either a misunderstanding or just how the character is played. I've never met you so I can't say for you personally, but hopefully we'll meet sometime ^___^
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