Discusion on how players of children should be selected

[Nick]

Actually, I'd like to change my vote to every character spawns as a child.
If you don't like it, don't let your characters die. There has always been no real motivation to keep your crappy 20 year olds alive. This would give one.

[Racetyme]

If this is going to be done give me some warning so I can quickly fill up all my character slots, so I will hopefully never play as I child. Although maybe I would play as a really awfully rped child just to spite the system.

[Nixit]

I like your attitude.

[Wolf]

Eh, I'm among the few who picked "Players should be nominated by other players to play a child".
But, in my opinion, this nomination should be in agreement with the player being nominated.

As for how they come to the world of Cantr, heck... I dunno, it doesn't seem to be an issue that everyone ends up naked in their twenties, so it shouldn't be an issue that some start as kids...
Come to think of it, maybe the options to nominate them, and other options, would be coupled to the option to have other players/characters as parents.
(Probably this has already been brought up, I only kinda briefly raced through the thread, not really reading everything)

Another note about kids in Cantr...
What would be the odds, speakling in terms of gambling, if a child met wild animals?
An adult might have a chance to fight off a bear, or even actively hunt bears, but wouldn't children be like walking snacks to a bear?
And would these kids be able to manufacture and use the same stuff that adults can?
It'd be interesting to see a little kid trying to efficiently use a claymore, or drag around a big wooden shield and other heavy arms... heh...
Now that I think about this, I can already see some people consider ritual suicide because they know if it does get implemented, they'll have to do the work on the coding and the database... heh... if we suddenly see a newspawn with a huge gun going around killing every character that has a player who took part in the forming of these ideas, we'll have our suspects

But, I can imagine there being acceptable ways around some of those issues, it might become one of the things that's always being developed further... I don't know.

[Fleegle]

Regarding the possibility of being both the parent and the child... I would think that that would be a CRB, and would hope that it were coded in such a way that such a thing couldn't happen.

[Nick]

Although maybe I would play as a really awfully rped child just to spite the system.

Then hopefully you get punished for it by the PD, just to spite your poor RP.

[Racetyme]

I can't be punished for bad RP. Since when has there been a RP requirement for cantr?

[AoM]

I nominate Racetyme to be the first Cantr child.

I voted the nomination route. Simply because the only reason children are being introduced into this game is for the opportunity to RP a family element to Cantr. There's no other reason. So good RP is necessary.

The person playing the child should definitely want to do it. But I'd want a player I'd trust to RP well playing the child. In other words, avoiding people like Racetyme. (no offense of course )

[Nick]

It's for the social value of having bloodlines, not the RP value. There are plenty of RPGs out there with children, dragons or whatever you want, you can probably find an RPG for it.
Only one society simulator. And never forget it's a society simulator.

[AoM]

Uh huh, social value of bloodlines means diddley-squat if you can't RP it, or worse if you don't want to RP it. It's clear that not everyone who plays this game wants to simulate that aspect of society. Which is unfortunate, but nevertheless the reality.

RP is crucial to this society simulator that we have here. For many who play this game, that is the major motivation for playing.

[Racetyme]

I don't really like the idea of blood lines in cantr, my characters wouldn't allow their own children to take command if they were stupid. That is how I see it anyway. It would just make for an even stupider leadership, eventually, which would make life even harder for my vigillante character.

[glitterdown]

Maybe it's just the subject matter, but none of the poll options appeal to me.

[Racetyme]

Don't be conter-productive, suggest something else then.

[Schme]

I think the idea of children is a bad idea. What would be the difference between a child and an adult? Accept that the child would live longer.

I think is no good idea.

[Racetyme]

Accept that the child would live longer.

I think is no good idea.

This is the kind of thinking that comes from someone who uses accept incorrectly in sentences. Kids would be worse at doing things, need less food, be easier to kill, have less strength, and suck at everything that adults are good at. Pretty much just like real life.