I was sitting here looking at the models for a chair and table someone on my project had just done and began thinking to myself...why dont people actually use emotes and animations the way we do in real life? Furthermore, is there a way to make these more fluid methods of communication? Sure there games that allow players to sit and have wave emotes, but its customarily not used. I was thinking that perhaps each emote could very slightly raise the faction of the person you're emoting to? Or sitting on a chair or laying in a bed could actually raise your stamina? Both of those seem too crude though. Im sure part of the reason is that its not as easy to thumb through menus for emotes as it is to raise your arm and wave in real life. But as we creep closer and closer to "realism" in gaming surely these features can serve a more meaningful purpose? Thoughts?

Right, macroing would ruin the whole thing.

It would need to be more like:

/wave
You wave at Lightgarde Knight.
Lightgarde Knight waves at you.
Your faction with Lightgarde Fortress went up by 1.
/wave
You wave at Lightgarde Knight.
Lightgarde Knight scratches his head and waves back.
Your faction with Lightgarde Fortress says the same.
/wave
You wave at Lightgarde Knight.
Lightgarde Knight wonders why this idiot is waving more.
Your faction with Lightgarde Fortress went down by 1.

Or either initiate some sort of interaction based on the repitition, but yeah macroing that would suck big time.