Communities or character types Cantr might be missing?

[Swingerzetta]

Well, no, not exactly. Shai (aka Teregotha) has five individual governments who work in colaboration (sometimes) and changes are only made when the five leaders agree unanimously. You could maybe call it a governing body of five, but really, it's probably more accurate to say it's a five-town alliance.

[miirkaelisaar]

Why aren't there any homophobes in the game?

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against gay people that I don't have against any other person. But seeing a homophobe and a flamboyantly gay person interacting could be quite interesting.

There are... several in-game years back my character kissed his boyfriend and a new guy said "Eew did you just kiss?! That's gross! I thought you were brothers or something!" And my character got really upset, and his boyfriend got defensive, and the town leader told the homophobe if he couldn't be respectful he needed to leave. I think the guy just fell asleep after that. But yeah there are homophobes, and a lot of people make my characters feel like being a gay male, as opposed to bisexual, or a gay female, is unnatural, which is really sad. I have characters who thought it was wrong for them to be gay until recently when they actually met others for the first time. It just happens that most of Cantr has no real qualms about sexuality in general, I mean look how accepting we are of threesomes or sex-slaves in Cantr, maybe homophobia is too predictable for them =P

[Swingerzetta]

I think it makes sense, if you consider the societies in Cantr to be blank slates, at first. Some characters spawn with pre-formed sensibilities, but most learn from their surroundings. With no institutionalized homophobia, people have nowhere to learn such things.

[SumBum]

I think a lot of it is simply that most chars aren't all that confrontational and that confrontational chars aren't tolerated. Just like Miirk's example, the guy was shot down quickly and harshly for even voicing an opinion that didn't coincide with the majority. Instead of pushing the issue or standing up for himself, the char just slept. I'm not speaking in favor of one side or the other in that scenario. Simply pointing out that it's a good example of why there aren't a lot of chars who buck the system. That excludes criminal types. I'm referring to vocally opposing something, staying in the location where the confrontation/tension exists, and not losing your head in the process. lol Usually it ends with the vocal char dead.

[Alladinsane]

I know of one homophobe on treefeather and the interaction is pretty comic imo.
It seems that both players know what is going on and the interaction is amusingly adversarial without any ooc beliefs or prejudices affecting it. I can't wait to see where it goes and thanks for the laughs.

[ColormeGreen]

I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I kind of wish there were..... less ... 'stereotypical' women in cantr. So many my characters meet are super sensitive, put themselves in bad situations and then try to play the victim, and/or want to be the center of attention. Then they get b****y and act as if they're being mistreated when you call them on it.

Along the same lines, or perhaps separately... I wish there were more loyal relationships in cantr. It seems to be a rare gem to find the ones that stay loyal and it'd be so nice to see a change in pace. I have no problem with the more open characters, but it just seems like a vast majority of cantr population are men/women hoppers.

[Genie]

I think we observe different things, because I see many well played female chars and some good relationships. Sure not all and some people seem to have strange triangles. I still recommend you to give another chance to us robotic players and our chars

[ColormeGreen]

I think we observe different things, because I see many well played female chars and some good relationships. Sure not all and some people seem to have strange triangles. I still recommend you to give another chance to us robotic players and our chars

I've only seen a handful of stable relationships, which makes me sad. A few of my characters found one, but the wonderful players would fall asleep or unsub... leaving my very loyal characters in a bad place emotionally.

There are too many strange triangles and quadrilaterals and n-gon relationships going on...

Maybe you robotic players should travel around more. I'm at locations A, B, and C. *points to a map *

[miirkaelisaar]

I think we observe different things, because I see many well played female chars and some good relationships. Sure not all and some people seem to have strange triangles. I still recommend you to give another chance to us robotic players and our chars

I've only seen a handful of stable relationships, which makes me sad. A few of my characters found one, but the wonderful players would fall asleep or unsub... leaving my very loyal characters in a bad place emotionally.

There are too many strange triangles and quadrilaterals and n-gon relationships going on...

Maybe you robotic players should travel around more. I'm at locations A, B, and C. *points to a map *

Same here, mine were always with one person, except one of mine cheated once, but they never lasted long, ever =( or they slept most of the relationship. Was it really so boring to be with my character instead of with two or three different ones? Sometimes I wonder. I had one character in a three-person relationship and it failed miserably, a long time ago I had one who was loyal to her girlfriend but her girlfriend liked to bring more and more people into the relationship, including men, and she didn't protest, and one of them still constantly harasses her for sex even though she's no longer interested, and really wasn't attracted to him because she's into women. It really bothers me sometimes that I put a lot of effort into a character who wants to fall in love with one person, and it's really hard because everyone's looking for a fling, or multiple lovers, so the character that tries to be romantic and cute gets overlooked by the guy or girl who's like "hey baby wanna go in the storage shed and do it?" Kind of a nice-guys/girls-finish-last thing =\ it is pretty hard to find a character who sticks to one person and is actually interested in them and doesn't even flirt with other people because they're so obsessed with their soulmate. Most of them are older characters who have been together forever, and usually then it seems, only because everyone else they knew is gone and they only have each other.

[ColormeGreen]

Same here, mine were always with one person,.... only because everyone else they knew is gone and they only have each other.

I wish this forum had the ability to 'like' posts. Nearly all of my characters put their whole heart into whoever they fell for.... and didn't try to flirt with others while having those feelings. It's a shame for all that effort to be tossed aside. One right now... especially, is having a hard time because of it. She's tried to off herself but can't feel right about it, because she promised the man she'd be there.... even though he chose one of the men hoppers/ manipulators. Although I've seen situations like these before, I think mine is unique because mine isn't out looking for a pity hook up. She's sincerely at a loss because she loves the one man she can't have. It's an effort to play that isn't really appreciated. Instead, I feel like those around her think she's just seeking pity, when she really isn't. Maybe this is part of the reason some players avoid it.. .because it's read the wrong way and frowned upon?

[Shedevil]

I think we observe different things, because I see many well played female chars and some good relationships. Sure not all and some people seem to have strange triangles. I still recommend you to give another chance to us robotic players and our chars

I've only seen a handful of stable relationships, which makes me sad. A few of my characters found one, but the wonderful players would fall asleep or unsub... leaving my very loyal characters in a bad place emotionally.

There are too many strange triangles and quadrilaterals and n-gon relationships going on...

Maybe you robotic players should travel around more. I'm at locations A, B, and C. *points to a map *

Same here, mine were always with one person, except one of mine cheated once, but they never lasted long, ever =( or they slept most of the relationship. Was it really so boring to be with my character instead of with two or three different ones? Sometimes I wonder. I had one character in a three-person relationship and it failed miserably, a long time ago I had one who was loyal to her girlfriend but her girlfriend liked to bring more and more people into the relationship, including men, and she didn't protest, and one of them still constantly harasses her for sex even though she's no longer interested, and really wasn't attracted to him because she's into women. It really bothers me sometimes that I put a lot of effort into a character who wants to fall in love with one person, and it's really hard because everyone's looking for a fling, or multiple lovers, so the character that tries to be romantic and cute gets overlooked by the guy or girl who's like "hey baby wanna go in the storage shed and do it?" Kind of a nice-guys/girls-finish-last thing =\ it is pretty hard to find a character who sticks to one person and is actually interested in them and doesn't even flirt with other people because they're so obsessed with their soulmate. Most of them are older characters who have been together forever, and usually then it seems, only because everyone else they knew is gone and they only have each other.

I have two characters that are still with their first love. Fairly young, still in their 20's, but I don't think I'd ever forsee them breaking apart since they are so dedicated to the other. As far as my others, yeah... best not to mention them.

[Melodianme13]

Same here, mine were always with one person, except one of mine cheated once, but they never lasted long, ever =( or they slept most of the relationship. Was it really so boring to be with my character instead of with two or three different ones? Sometimes I wonder. I had one character in a three-person relationship and it failed miserably, a long time ago I had one who was loyal to her girlfriend but her girlfriend liked to bring more and more people into the relationship, including men, and she didn't protest, and one of them still constantly harasses her for sex even though she's no longer interested, and really wasn't attracted to him because she's into women. It really bothers me sometimes that I put a lot of effort into a character who wants to fall in love with one person, and it's really hard because everyone's looking for a fling, or multiple lovers, so the character that tries to be romantic and cute gets overlooked by the guy or girl who's like "hey baby wanna go in the storage shed and do it?" Kind of a nice-guys/girls-finish-last thing =\ it is pretty hard to find a character who sticks to one person and is actually interested in them and doesn't even flirt with other people because they're so obsessed with their soulmate. Most of them are older characters who have been together forever, and usually then it seems, only because everyone else they knew is gone and they only have each other.

I agree completely.

[SumBum]

Chars are fickle.

[*Wiro]

I want an abusive relationship. Not of the master & slave kind, but those where the husband or wife hits their spouse for serving the tea too hot.

Sadly, unlike normal relationships, the ones I want are hard if not impossible to set up.

[miirkaelisaar]

I want an abusive relationship. Not of the master & slave kind, but those where the husband or wife hits their spouse for serving the tea too hot.

Sadly, unlike normal relationships, the ones I want are hard if not impossible to set up.

I had a character who's boyfriend wasn't abusive per-say, but he was quick to anger, and if something was wrong and my character didn't wanna talk about it sometimes he would grab him too hard and yank him by the arm or yell at him and scare him, but he always apologized afterward.

And a long time ago I had a character who was kind of pressured by his leader into dating a girl who was insane because he was her only "friend" and the leader said he could bring her around, he wound up spending years with her in their room working silently and trying to talk to her like a normal person, before one day she walked to another room and waited for him, and when he followed her she freaked and started throwing sharp objects at him, screaming, and was covered in her own bloody hand prints.. needless to say it scarred him for life, along with events that ensued and his leader betraying him, there was a lot more abuse than the relationship he was in.. his life was pretty rough when he was younger but he's far, far away from there now =P