What is with all this crime?

[Lone Wolf]

No matter what town my characters spawn in or travel to, there is or has been some crime. There have been wars, and blood shed. Can't we all just get along. Um...wait a minute....That would make the game boring, now wouldn't it? Or am I alone on this one?

[Drew Zinkan]

Answer these questions about real life and you'll answer your own question...

Can real people get along?

Are there murders all over the place in real life?

Are there fights all over the place in real life?

Are there arguments all over the place in real life?

[Gunny1723]

well Blaman Mountains (south) has a spawn point and theres been no crime there YET

[Sho]

In any case, I'm not sure whether a hypothetical agreement to "get along" on Cantr wouldn't be sort of against the intent of the Capital Rule. Ideally, our characters should base their judgements solely on their perspective, and not what their players think OOC, though granted, this is not always feasible.

[Drew Zinkan]

In any case, I'm not sure whether a hypothetical agreement to "get along" on Cantr wouldn't be sort of against the intent of the Capital Rule. Ideally, our characters should base their judgements solely on their perspective, and not what their players think OOC, though granted, this is not always feasible.

well if the game is simulating real life, and if people in real life don't get along, then that shows that there will be diversity in the game and that people will not always get along in the game.. it's a fact of business and can't be stopped..

[Sho]

Right. I agree. It's just that I don't think anything we say here should affect the personalities of in-game characters.

[David]

No... no... I mean yes, I can see crime, but basing it on mimicing reality isn't correct. This is supposed to be a society sim, with certain "laws of the physics of social interaction inegrated) but not just play-acted in because it happens to be a certain way in reality. Many aspects of real life may appear, but you don't just say, well this how it is in RL so we have to make it so in Cantr... (except with respect to the actual neccesities of interaction) I mean the potential for crime and violence is there, but you really have to base it on your characters, not just making it so because it happens to be that way IRL.

Of course this is the ideal, I mean who are you going to base your characters on? RL to some degree obviously.

It really is more than just a question of semantics, I promise.

[nitefyre]

I am wondering why we have two practically similar topics by practically the same person on practically the first page.

Anyways; this as explained, is just another figment that makes Cantr similar to IRL.

[ephiroll]

...people in RL don't always get along, so I see no need to try and go against that rule of nature in Cantr...