Character real age vs visual age

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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby *Wiro » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:16 pm

computaertist wrote:
cutecuddlydirewolf wrote: Since Cantr characters are pretty much immortal, I don't see much point in making them look really old… even if the automatic description says otherwise. :P

The automatic description only says otherwise if you believe it does. If the custom description doesn't indicate otherwise, I always imagine older characters as looking more fit and able than younger characters, and a man or woman "who is very old" is at the pinnacle of physical strength and agility if their custom description doesn't say they're not.

But that doesn't make them any less "old", whatever that is.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby Joshuamonkey » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:22 pm

I guess Cantr characters are like dragons. They just get more and more powerful, and gather more and more wealth.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby computaertist » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:58 pm

*Wiro wrote:
computaertist wrote:
cutecuddlydirewolf wrote: Since Cantr characters are pretty much immortal, I don't see much point in making them look really old… even if the automatic description says otherwise. :P

The automatic description only says otherwise if you believe it does. If the custom description doesn't indicate otherwise, I always imagine older characters as looking more fit and able than younger characters, and a man or woman "who is very old" is at the pinnacle of physical strength and agility if their custom description doesn't say they're not.

But that doesn't make them any less "old", whatever that is.
Wiro, I think you may have missed the spirit of what cutecuddlydirewolf was saying, that the automatic description makes them look decrepit-mortal "very old" rather than glorious-dragon "very old". Or else I'm missing something in what you're saying, which happens plenty often enough.

Yes, Cantr characters are like dragons, that's how I'm going to describe them (though not reptilian of course) from now on :D
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby *Wiro » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:06 pm

Wolf used the word "old" to describe what old people look like (kind of going in circles there). It's an abstract Cantr term, I guess.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby computaertist » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:34 pm

*Wiro wrote:Wolf used the word "old" to describe what old people look like (kind of going in circles there). It's an abstract Cantr term, I guess.

Wolf used the phrase really old, and even italicized really, and was indicating this was a contradiction, thus making it easy to see the subject was decrepitude.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby quilink » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:07 pm

Uhm, my oldest character was 43. He barely looked 30 because logic.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby *Wiro » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:39 pm

What messes me up more than anything is the realisation that I'm a man in his twenties. I'm a newspawn. Help.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby Xander » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:57 pm

My bir.. spawn date of 12th February 1986 makes me 10571 days old both IRL and IG, whilst in Cantr years I would be 528 years old, far older than any character alive in the game today (the current IG date means that no character will be older than 229).
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby ObsessedWithCats » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:06 pm

If you scale a year to 20 days I'm about 18 days past spawning, still trying to figure out how to operate a bucket :P

People often have trouble guessing my age within 3-4 years, so I've no idea how characters can tell the exact day another turns something-ty.
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Re: Character real age vs visual age

Postby hyrle » Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:13 pm

Cantr characters are like a fine wine... just get better with age. :D

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