Suicide (Button/Pill/Mechanism/Etc)

[Phalynx]

Suicide is valid IG behaviour in some situations, but I think a character should be 7 days old before its an option and you need to have a weapon too...

Unless we have Foxgloves as a gatherable resource...

[Agar]

Ok, firstly, if you don't want a character any more, you can write PD!

If you don't want the character, in most cases, they will remove that single character after confirming you are serious. I did that not to long ago in Reniov Forest east with Ashley (sorry).

Aside from that fast path to a heart attack, you can DROP YOUR FOOD!!! Project : Starving to death 17/20 days completed. Not a great deal of people care enough to force feed charries, but if they feed you, drop the food. If they won't stop feeding you, run. They can't pass you food on the road.

Randomly walk away, while starving. That's a good one too. Just keep walking on, and eventually you'll die. You might even die somewhere interesting.

These are all in game solutions to removing charries you don't want any more, with out being a stupid madman. Try it.

[Phalynx]

All good and well, but thats not good RPing is it....?


There arem, or perhaps were, cultures where honor and suicide are an integral part of life, but that avenue isnt possible in the current game mechanics is it?

Suicide, like an unexplained heart attack, just to rid yourself of a boring character is poor play surely, but suicide for failure to complete a mission culd be totally in character ans there are enough characters in CANTR with diagnosable mental health problems, its frankly wierd that they can only die of an eating disorder!

[Sunni Daez]

All good and well, but thats not good RPing is it....?


There arem, or perhaps were, cultures where honor and suicide are an integral part of life, but that avenue isnt possible in the current game mechanics is it?

Suicide, like an unexplained heart attack, just to rid yourself of a boring character is poor play surely, but suicide for failure to complete a mission culd be totally in character ans there are enough characters in CANTR with diagnosable mental health problems, its frankly wierd that they can only die of an eating disorder!

Isn't starving to death like...Anorexia?
A suicide button would be abused... I agree that it is poor RP to kill charris, just because you don't want to be where you are...

I had one killed once.. but because it fit the situation perfectly.... not because I didn't wish to play her... She was the most boring charri ever, but I played her daily.. repeatedly... She was rarely interacted with...and mostly only whispered to a sleeper... Everytime she tried to leave, or drop her shield and food... someone would give it back, or convince her to turn around and come back... One day.... She stood up... fell to the ground..dropping everything... and she died.

(Edited..sorry, misread... thought it said they can't die of an eating disorder)

[swymir]

You can hit yourself, that is suicide, not pissing people off to hurt you.

[Mafia Salad]

You can hit yourself, that is suicide, not pissing people off to hurt you.

And you can RP that as a desperate attention getting suicide attempt.

[Savanik]

I've got an idea to keep people from killing themselves repeatedly to keep coming back.

Give each account 20 lives. That's 20 characters they can create.

EVER.



Sav

[SekoETC]

... NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *gags Savanik* (I think I've already had over 20 characters.)

[Thetaris]

Bah! I was all for this, and then I'm like, wait a minute, if someone logs into your account (some how hacks it) ALL your players are dead within seconds.

And the Players Department send you an email saying you cannot bring that character back to life no matter what... so...

[Sunni Daez]

Boy...that would have to be a pretty sad life they live to hack into someones computer game.

[Chris Johnson]

Currently if someone can hack into your account then there is a good chance they can cancel the account anyway , killing off all your characters.

I don't like the idea of the suicide option. I don't think it would be used by the typical suicidal newspanw player and justs encourages more mature players to take an easy way out if they find themselves where they don't want to be. As other posters have pointed out there are several in-game solutions to this problem and the final OOC solution of sending a request to the Players Department. Personally I prefer the option of grin and bear it , if you don't like where you are do something about it , move, change things or RP being unhappy .

[SekoETC]

Yeah, someone indeed would be a sad loser to get some joy out of wrecking another person's game account, but it still happens. Maybe not so much in Cantr but in other games. So remember kids, use smart passwords!

[Torch]

So "password" isn't a good one?

On topic, I think that there are plenty of ways to commit suicide in game.

I think suicide because of inconvenience of location, for most characters who are RP'd with any sincerity, isn't an option. Rather it's a cop out for players who aren't willing, or able, RP someone unhappy with where they live. I also think many times it's a CR violation, although impossible to really prove, I suppose, as there are valid IG reasons for suicide.

I've had two characters now in places they didn't like. One is now, according to another character, in charge of those surviving in the somewhat harsh environment, and another simply moved over to the next town and found it quite nice. Neither character is anything like my original vision of who they would be when I started them, but they're probably my most "realistic" and three-dimensional characters. To suicide either one would be totally in violation of the CR, as they both, while inconvenienced by their spawning locations, are content if not happy where they are now.

[rklenseth]

Moved: Rejected because this can already been done by other means in game.

[mikejacobs14]

I'm thinking, why don't we have suicide pills, like a depressed person takes them and dies, suicide pill cant be forced or incase people wants to vote for forced pills and poisons etc, We should have suicide pills for like old people who had enough of life and wants to pass on its inheritance to its child-heir

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