Ive looked to use an emoji from time to time, as its basically a picture can paint a thousand words and that comes in handy on the bike when time is limited to get at the screen..
But this should have been a foot note in a release (“oh by the way, we turned on emojis”), not the main meal of a release.
Was it a necessity, probably not, is there more important things to work on.. Very much yes.. It all just falls into the usual thing of the direction of zwift is very odd.. Feels like a 12 year old child is directing it at times.
my point is, even if they do use random emojis in their names (I have a cat face for instance becuase my team name is the Dirty Mitten Hellcats) or flags or vegetables, I don’t think it will really bother you unless you start to specifically look for it. They show up in the riders nearby list and thats about it… how hard is it to ignore that? I know ride leader messages are in the middle of the screen, but I rarely do group rides now that robopacers are available.
Probably. I just dont need to see political statements in Zwift. Also a reason why I zwift, to escape from all that nonsense. No matter how good the cause is, or they think it is, I dont believe Zwift is the platform to express that.
that’s already been around for a long time however, people have Ukraine flags as their national flag in support, one of the guys in my ZRL race has his name “Slava Ukraine” another guys name was something about “Gaza”
Wondering if there has been or will be consideration for what would be considered inappropriate language using emojis. I don’t use in game chat much and prefer to keep it pretty mild but as always there are some who like to push it and they should have some reasonable expectations. I’m old and probably don’t know all the secret meanings but there are a lot, both in terms of personal insult and generally inappropriate. Much harder to manage than an auto word filter.
Sort of related, will Unicode characters be implemented at some point? Again I’m not personally affected but plenty of East Asian riders are.
Yes, that is something I dont need to see. But perhaps I am getting too old for this.
But as Lee says above, the direction things get added to the game arent just my thing and I could very well do without electified wheels/socks, aero flow behind a bike, squirrels in our backpockets, emoticons ingame … it does starting to look like a game for 9 year olds …
they tried the gamification for races that never took off, remember boost mode anyone? that one certainly got an emoji that’s likely to figure quite a bit during rides
lol very true. although i dont think the biggest issue with boost mode was the boost it was that racing was so imbalanced anyway it just gave the sandbaggers even more of advantage as they could save their boosts while the rest were just hanging on.
If boosts were on a even playing field it would be interesting to see if feedback was different
the rider list was fine displaying emojis but when they messaged it would translate them to random characters instead (think it was a cow/pig face emoji)
Yeah, that’s been the bug with non-ASCII (maybe fixed at some point for Latin 1) characters in user names for ages: they look okay on the nearby riders list but when they get shown on top of a chat message (at least on Windows), they get shown as UTF-8 vomit instead. Haven’t seen the current version myself yet, but I presume this is related.
I actually turned chat on the other day, and the ride leader only had a keyboard that used upper case characters. Disabling chat took away their keyboard.
I tried adding the Scotland Saltire emoji to my name but on iOS Apple TV v1.100 it displays as a black flag emoji. It’s not a generic issue - the Norway flag emoji displays just fine.
emoji to my name but on iOS Apple TV v1.100 it displays as a black flag 
emoji. It’s not a generic issue - the Norway flag emoji displays just fine.