Even if the sliding wasn't there, I'd just be happy to be able to just sit down on the ground again. XD
Yes I really miss the sitting on the ground thing. More than a lot of stuff really. It added an important social element especially as it was a very relaxed pose.
The new avatar stuff is just speculation. I know Cyrene said they wanted new avatars and it might be potentially kinda vital for the "mech"'s they talk of. But we know that new avatar stuff is a massive thing to slide in. Last time, EVERYTHING had to be (or at least was, not sure about HAD) redesigned. The vu 9 avatars were presumably essentially hacked into cryengine and there is probably scope for way better ones with that engine (certainly if you look at other games for 3 or 4 npc's... although what you can put in a game doesn't scale necessarily to an MMO and a few thousand custom characters potentially all showing up in once place. Hopefully things are a little more "portable" these days but who knows really. We can't see behind the scenes infrastructure. I think a new avatar design would need to be able to accomodate future stuff like pets and taming etc and some more advanced interaction maybe.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Perhapse this would be a good idea?
maybe entropia could be the first real life .hack
Still it has to be noted that entropia is still improving avatars even now. We got the eye movements and blinking and idle movements and physics hair which actually made a stunning different to getting out of the uncanny valley we've been in since vu9. I noticed last update they dicked with rotation now so its a tad broken at the moment (looks silly at least). Clearly "something" is going on at least. Another clue is that the facebook ad team said the photo'd avatars on their promo material was a secret where they came from. If it was just Poser or something similar they'd have just said.
Another clue is that the longer Cryene is delayed the more the rest of the world moves on and the more money they "don't" make. As everything else moves on they need their game to look better so its more likely they will wait for new avatars in order to "keep up with the jones'"
Wistrel
PS did anyone else notice Cyrene armour on sale auction? Looked really cool I thought!