Emoticons while walking..
 

When you try to do the AFK, BRB, Sleeping, and the other Emoticons that are in a loop, how come it won't turn on when you're walking?

I suppose it could be the server you're on.
(Custom movement?)

Confirmed - it is only the looped emoticons that don't appear while moving. You have to stop moving to get those showing. Animated and non-animated emoticons are working fine (just for the record).

Maybe someone figured you don't need to walk while "AFK," but on the other hand, not everyone uses an AFK or "stuck (looped)" emoticon to actually go AFK. I see it all the time: player 1 slashes player 2, player 1 runs away playfully and does the AFK emoticon. Player 1 is suddenly not AFK anymore at the exact moment player 2 runs at player 1 for the revenge hit. I'm pretty sure I could've just mentioned "lamer" somewhere in there and you would've gotten the idea much quicker, but that's no fun.

lol, and perhaps change the loading precedence so they're not lagging behind the moving player.

Haha, yeah listen to yourself... Away From Keyboard, Be Right Back, Sleeping... why exactly should you be walking while displaying these animations?

Why would anyone use a sleep emoticon to show they're sleeping? I guess maybe if they weren't aware that they usually get disconnected after idling for so long. Every time I've seen the sleeping emoticon, it was out of either arrogance, ignorance, or...not sleeping.

My earlier post would give you the answer to your question, but I guess since you said "should," it doesn't count. Maybe if you said "would," but I'm sure you already knew about everything I said anyway.

Role Playing? The sleeping emoticon is my fav.

Because walking them shows some leet status in society or something.

Well, the sleeping one works for walking around because it also stands for boring. For example "zzz too easy".

I wouldn't know - I've stayed away from role playing servers ever since I got in trouble for killing someone while they were idling (probably waiting for someone else to do their turn or something).

Besides, it could be fun to sleep-walk. What if someone had a role play about sleep walking?! They could just as easily phone-walk if this was "fixed."

I'm not much of a big role player either, but it's fun to go into the bed and press ctrl+Z... Like, when I started playing, I thought that was how you got healed in a bed.