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« on: August 10, 2005, 12:41:20 pm »
just a thought, but if you used level taly\'s as an age reference you would-
1- not have people dying of old age because (I assume) it gets harder to level once you reach the higher levels, and because once you reach the top age group you could just stay that way
2- reflect the experience and skill of the CHARACTER, not the ammount of time spent in game.
3- Differenciate newbies from devs/mods/knolegable people. If a guy comes up to you with gray-ing hair and a long beard, you know that he has exp and can answer your questions (unlike, say, a bunch of children killing rats in the sewers).
4- set up a subconcious awareness of the superiority of more skilled players (in an RP sense). Adults (vets) will teach the children (newbies), who in return honor and revere them (or listen to rock music and crash the family car). and when the old mage in the crooked blue hat walks into town, everyone knows it\'s someone who is filled with wisdom and knowledge.
you could also give the person a choice to age past adult or not (most people would rather look manly and buff than like a wise old sage)
sorry if Im treading over previously mentioned ideas. I hate zombie threads as much as the rest of us, but I believe this idea has more merit than it has been acreditted with.