Babies and children

[jeslange]

I was thinking about that too. Perhaps 2% or so of the mother's strength could be depleted for every turn that she is in labor. This would make midwives and just concerned community members in general more involved in what it takes to grow their popultaion. It'd be fun too to when char's can say things like "I knew from the day you were born that you were gonna be a hellian, your poor mother was in labor for 10 hours and look how you repay her!

[kroner]

I just realized that it's going to be really boring for a bit to have a baby character. Other people hold and feed the baby and babies probably won't be able to tlak. So what can they do except observe?
New players might be turned off by this because they have to wait a while before they can actually do anything. Then again, it might be really good for new players because they get a period of time where they can observe how things work in cantr and become adjusted to the game, just like children in real life.

[rklenseth]

:lol:
I was thinking about that too. Perhaps 2% or so of the mother's strength could be depleted for every turn that she is in labor. This would make midwives and just concerned community members in general more involved in what it takes to grow their popultaion. It'd be fun too to when char's can say things like "I knew from the day you were born that you were gonna be a hellian, your poor mother was in labor for 10 hours and look how you repay her!

I could also lead to a mother dying from child birth if she was already low on strength to begin with or if the labor goes on to long. It would be more realistic. Maybe later when medicine and possibly pain killers are added to the game then the amount of strength lost from these kinds of things will be less.

[Ecilope]

I just realized that it's going to be really boring for a bit to have a baby character. Other people hold and feed the baby and babies probably won't be able to tlak. So what can they do except observe?
New players might be turned off by this because they have to wait a while before they can actually do anything. Then again, it might be really good for new players because they get a period of time where they can observe how things work in cantr and become adjusted to the game, just like children in real life.

See, I think it will be SO FUN to play a baby. You can scream and cry and throw tantrums and then when you learn to walk and talk you can get into mischief and learn responsibility and get rewarded for behaving. There are a lot of things adults can do and children can't, but there's also a ton of things children can do and adults can't (or usually don't), like throwing a fit for no reason or hugging a stranger or chewing on the hem of someone's toga.

[Missy]

I like all those ideas. Im with you ecilope. LoL I don't think i could possibly get more psyched about babies being implemented. Just when I think that, Im imagining how it will be etc, and Im more excited again. lol

Anyway, another question is, how about when a character is pregnant? What happens if someone hits her? Will it effect the pregnancy? Or will it just make the mothers strength even lower because she's pregnant? Or will there be a certain strength she has to get lowered to before it does effect the pregnancy?


I don't have any objections at all to playing a baby. I'm in hopes that someone will play my characters children, so why wouldn't i want to bless some other char with a kiddo. lol
And I also think that there are more things you can do by playing a child than some would think. Maybe some of you don't remember what it was like when your younger brothers/sisters were little, or when your kids were little. lol But they do quite a bit besides just lay there. Before you know it, they're crawling. Eating things they shouldn't be....(Say shouldn't babies be able to put foreign objects in their mouth, like stone? LOL) Before you know it, the babies will be a toddler. 1 year isn't all that long. By that time, you can have that baby doing almost anything your average toddler does. Thats a heck of a lot, unless its an extremely extremely good child. LOL Whats better than getting held by a town leader and throwing up on them and embarrasing your parents? I realize I'm more enthusiastic about this than others. Meanwhile I think, that those whoo don't care for this baby idea, will warm up to it later.

[kroner]

I wouldn't mind playing a baby because it would be an interesting contrast to my full grown characters and if it ever got boring, I have my other characters who are doing interesting things.
I was thinking more from the perspective of new players. Eventually I think the plan was that all characters would start as babies. New players could play only babies until some of their caracters got a little older. Playing a baby will certainly be more limited than playing an adult. If they didn't find that aspect of the game as interesting they would probably quit. 20 days is a long time to commit to a game you aren't enjoying. I'm not saying this will turn off all new players away, but probably some. It just seems like it would take too long for them to become immersed.

I still support implementing babies and I don't really have a solution to this problem.

[Missy]

Well thats a good point, now that I think about it. Maybe all new players should be aloud 1 spawn. *Shrug* I dunno. I guess it would kind of be boring to have fifteen babies. I mean, I don't think it would be boring, but if i was new....I could see how it could possibly be boring.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

give them a choice they can have a spawned char or a new born char. and with babies you'd have to take a number and wait anyway since there isn't always going to be a baby born when you want a new char

[Ecilope]

I'm so psyched. I want to help implement babies. I sent an email to personnel, but I don't know if it got there or if a reply was sent to my bulk mail folder or something, because I haven't seen a reply. They could just be busy.
Missy, I think we're like the baby cheerleaders, we're both so excited about it

[rklenseth]

I think the plan is that newbies will have so many spawned characters but after that it will all be babies.

[kroner]

ok that makes sense. maybe as an option so that they can skip straight to babies if they want to.

[Missy]

Missy, I think we're like the baby cheerleaders, we're both so excited about it

LOL Doll, you have no idea. Ever since i first started playing I've been hoping for this. LOL My god, when my char first gets pregnant I think I might have to throw a party for real!

[Ecilope]

*shouts* JOS! When are babies coming, and do you need any help???

[Meh]

There are some performance issues that are being looked into.

[Ecilope]

Like what, and how can I help? Personnel hasn't answered my email yet, I'm going stir crazy.