I'm nowhere near a veteran of FFXIV RP but...
1.) I've seen people switch between jobs as the skillsets are needed - NIN for stealth and sneaky stuff, caster classes for spells. And more than a few that know one "Job" and are working on learning another - learning different magic types, learning to use an axe over sword and board. I think as long as you can reasonably explain it, you... should?... be fine?
2.) The zones are actually divided up decently well, so I don't think that issue comes up very much. A good section of Ul'dah is all in one area, for example, so people in the Quicksand tavern can hear a citizen shouting for help catching a robber along one of the streets outside. The distance that normal conversation and emotes is a bit more limited, but there's yells and even shouts to spread out to wider ranges.
3.) There's a lot of fun emotes, I know I like to use a lot of them. Changing standing positions, facial expressions, full on movements. There's a lot and I often find myself popping open the emote window so I can remember how to do various ones. You can sit on chairs and stools and benches or just sit on the floor, and many of the emotes can be done from those positions as well (and are marked as such in the emote window)! I don't believe there's a smoking animation, but a lot of the shortfalls of the game can be hand-waved with a descriptive enough default /em emote.
Also, that emote is of a Tonberry, a rather famous Final Fantasy enemy. It and the Cactaur (the dancing green cactus thing) are two of my favorite creatures in Final Fantasy.
I hope that helps!
1.) I've seen people switch between jobs as the skillsets are needed - NIN for stealth and sneaky stuff, caster classes for spells. And more than a few that know one "Job" and are working on learning another - learning different magic types, learning to use an axe over sword and board. I think as long as you can reasonably explain it, you... should?... be fine?
2.) The zones are actually divided up decently well, so I don't think that issue comes up very much. A good section of Ul'dah is all in one area, for example, so people in the Quicksand tavern can hear a citizen shouting for help catching a robber along one of the streets outside. The distance that normal conversation and emotes is a bit more limited, but there's yells and even shouts to spread out to wider ranges.
3.) There's a lot of fun emotes, I know I like to use a lot of them. Changing standing positions, facial expressions, full on movements. There's a lot and I often find myself popping open the emote window so I can remember how to do various ones. You can sit on chairs and stools and benches or just sit on the floor, and many of the emotes can be done from those positions as well (and are marked as such in the emote window)! I don't believe there's a smoking animation, but a lot of the shortfalls of the game can be hand-waved with a descriptive enough default /em emote.
Also, that emote is of a Tonberry, a rather famous Final Fantasy enemy. It and the Cactaur (the dancing green cactus thing) are two of my favorite creatures in Final Fantasy.
I hope that helps!
