Project Having sex

[west]

Now when baby-makin's implemented, I'll get to say "Don't blame me, I voted for storks!"

[Pearl]

I like this idea.

If you're able to damage a person (the hit button), then you should also be able to pleasure that person. I understand sex is a tabu in most places, it's still a natural thing that everybody experiences at least once in the lifetime.

Although it would be weird to see the project "A man in his twenties is having sex with a woman in her twenties"

[Phalynx]

I understand sex is a tabu in most places, it's still a natural thing that everybody experiences at least once in the lifetime.

For that to be the case you would need it to have a solo project to be possible too...

[Frits]

A button for pleasuring persons! Pearl, i think you cracked it! Make a thread and we'll come up with a 1001 lines so a randomly generated text can appear once you click that button.

[DELGRAD]

I think the idea is completely asinine. Do we not have enough of this in real life? Games are used to escape from such things. Every day I see suggestions to make Cantr more like real life. It should be the opposite. To make it less like real life. I see things being added that make this less a game than an extension of real life. Soon I fear this will no longer be a game, but reality so to speak. I just do not want to even see a having sex project. Any sex should all be RPed. I find the idea repulsive and ignorant.
There should not be children either.

What the hell ever happened to good RP, private RP? Have people lost the intelligence to privately speak amongst one another? Or is it one being too lazy? 2 clicks for private conversation. And we do not need *you pleasure a woman in her fourties*
I feel sex to not be taboo/tabu, but should be private among those who participate.

[Sunni Daez]

project sex should have no place in cantr....

[DELGRAD]

project sex should have no place in cantr....

Thank you.

[Dreamhand]

I have to agree as well. Cantr's game mechanics are great fun, but they are secondary to the role-playing element of the game (imho). Love, sex, imperial ambition, conflict... these are all deeply emotional aspects of characters' lives. The notion of relegating these amazing opportunities for interaction to the click of a button would remove the biggest draw of Cantr for me.

I've had the priviledge of RPing some amazing romances and romantic/erotic interludes in my short tenure with Cantr and - speaking for myself - I don't need a button to click. My characters and their partners have managed quite well using language and role-play, thank you very much.

[Sicofonte]

You can RP anything, even if you have a button to click.


Please, think about that "button" (in fact, the projects for those activities) as a way to report the game system what are your chars doing.

Because... if you are having sex, you shouldn't be gathering potatoes.


And I think the most of the people will have sex IN PRIVATE, although you can click just a button.


IMO (I don't know if it is humble or not), activities's projects (for sex, worshiping, dismembering, singing or anything else) aren't a threat or a trouble for RPing.

[Dreamhand]

I see what you're saying, Sico... but is it really necessary to incorporate sex into the mechanics of Cantr? Is Cantr to become such an immersive program that the base code needs to keep track of who's having sex? And how well? And how often? All I'm saying is that it seems to be extraneous to the essence of the game... at least as I've experienced it.

And yeah... if you're having sex, technically you shouldn't be harvesting potatoes. But come on... do we have to regulate things THAT compulsively? For that matter, most of the more enjoyable interludes I've RPed in have taken DAYS to unfold and conclude... now THAT "technically" ain't gonna happen either (as much as I might wish it were so ).

It seems like there's some things that don't need to be regulated and this is one of them. I'm advocating to leave sex to the players and OUT of the base code.

[SekoETC]

Those of us who are having rp'd sex might find it a turn-off if you had to engage in a project to do it.

The primary reason for having sex was to make babies. That's unless we are to implement a happiness-meter, and Marian said she'd quit if we did so I guess we can't have that.

Another reason for having sex show up as a project is to make it possible for others to realize that they have stumbled upon such a scene. Not all people can afford locks, and sometimes you don't even have a room/building of your own but are having fun in a public building or a shared house. When someone walks in and doesn't realize what was going on, it totally flattens the mood. Should you just ignore it and go on? Or should you run after them raving mad for spoiling the moment?

Also, many people tend to work on repairs while having sex. That's rather annoying, but can ignore it. But things like hunting in the middle of an intimate moment totally spoil it. (Happened to me once.) If such could be prevented by being engaged in a special project, that would be nice.

[Dreamhand]

I totally agree with Seko that the lack of a "We're Having Sex" indicator of some kind is an issue, but I still advocate that it can be RPed. I've had characters "thusly engaged" and had someone walk in (you're right Seko, we can't all afford locks) ask for a tool and walk out. The player I was with and I RPed it between ourselves and pressed on.

Now HUNTING while having sex is just plain tacky.... but again, that can be addressed in-character...

*pushes him away, her eyes blazing* What the hell do you think you're doing? Would rather hunt wild boar than attend to me?!

You slap Thoughtless Cad for 0 points of damage

I guarantee, you'll either never have sex with that charrie again or they will NEVER hunt in the middle of sex again.

[Sunni Daez]

During an intimate moment with one of my dead charris (before she died of course) Not intercourse but headed that direction... and this also happened to be their first time becoming romantically involved.... well back to the point, in the middle, a string project that I had set up was finished by my partner... he then asked, in the middle, for that string... She handed it to him, got up and left the room after muttering something about how unimportant that made her feel.... they never tried again...before she died. (they kissed , hugged and stuff, but)


Tact is needed when it comes to RP... but a sex button is not!

[Sicofonte]

Well... I think you both, Seko and Dreamhand, are right.

This is a really difficult dilemma.

I would be fine in either the two ways (with and without projects for sex and similar activities), but I think I prefer to have it, so the people could NOT rapair or hunting anything without leaving the sex project (an thus without coming in ). If people are not seriously involved in the sex activity (doing other things during it), they are not having sex, they are not even in the preamble, they are just flirting / playing the fool (sorry, I don't know the correct word in English for "having sexual games"), no matter the ammount of whispers they interchange.


PS: Seko... repairing whilst having sex ô_Ô... are you sure they were "repairing" the handle of the scrwdriver?

[Nakranoth]

Honestly, there's no reason for a sex project... it would only last an hour at most... not long enough for proper RP... If your partner's busy doing something, then complain about it. We don't need some new functionality to make the RP more automatic.