Pretty cool ideas

[Bedouin]

Sounds interesting .. this thing about kids.

Horizons is supposed to have a concept of this sort. Personally I don\'t really see a benifit if they are to be NPCs .. and if they are to be actual noobs coming in to the game .. whats the fun in just logging in one morning and finding a bunch of clueless snot nosed brats rummaging though your cupboards. The fun thing with kids is making them. And don\'t start with the idea of an NPC wife/mistress thingy. Thats kinda sick.

What if I wanted to make a new char.. or if I gimped my stats and just wanted to reroll .. can I divorce my parents? What if I already had kids running around and was then born again? *shivers*

Can we eat them? Like that feline race .. some cats eat their kids y\'know.

[Lobsterman]

Bedouins,
they eat their young
...ya know.

[ratdudett]

eating ur kids would be awesome   j/k i don\'t think you should be able to...

[Kiern]

the kids thing is too complicated why not it just be like an adoption/apprentice thingy like you find someone you are willing to train and ya kinda \"adopt\" them so you teach the stuff (like your job) and they can learn skills from you....

[mistwalker]

I don\'t in fact see anything wrong with having a wife and/or children. I mean, you wouldn\'t have to do it. Or, for those who are not sexist, chicks could also have a husband . As far as kids go, you could have a newbie as a child, for a couple of weeks or something, just as a way to show them around. Some people really like helping people around, and this could be a good means. If you were a \"kid\", I think you should be a teenager, about to \"come of age\". That way, you could train for a couple of weeks before you go out into the world. It should, of course, just be a choice. And you shouldn\'t be able to choose your child/parent. Also, you should be required to spend a certain amount of time with your parent before you get out on your own.

[Dwinney]

Yep, I agree. For the marrying part, also make sure that two-timing is not allowed.   I think that the newbie should be required to spend about 2 weeks with the parents.

[ratdudett]

i think the kids should be NPCs and they might do the cooking for u or help in battle or carry the ore for u while ur minning

[David_HD]

1)  BLOOD TRAILS!!!
You shouldn\'t actually bleed (well, not enough for it to show anywhere but on your skin) unless a noticable amount of damage was dealt with a single blow. Probably a certain percentage of your health... maybe 5%? If you are wounded badly enough to be \"bleeding\" you SHOULD be able to bleed to death, if you don\'t bind the wound, cast a cure spell on it, or at least take it easy for a while. That\'s only realistic. And while, yes, it\'ll make people die a little more often, it won\'t be that much more if it takes noticable damage to start you a\'bleed\'n.

2) Maybe you could log in as your own children, when you come of age? And pass off extraneous accounts to your friends... That way, a bond of brothership in the game would be backed by a bond of friendship in real life, which might add noticably to the roleplaying experience. I\'m not sure. And parent/child relationships will mean old character/ future character...  I\'m actually FOR characters dying for good, but to each his own, I guess...

3) Meh. Actually, I don\'t know why I bothered to comment on pets at all. I really don\'t have anything to say.

4) What is the actual relationship to the surface? People might still keep track of astronomical events. They may be pertinent to some spells or something... And who knows? Maybe someday someone will find a way up... (Exile 3 flashback... )
Still, devoting a lot of time to astronomical stuff in an underground game seems rather unnecissary. Perhaps other things that follow cycles... Anyone up for glowing fungal blooms? Or maybe there\'s some sort of regular weather patterns in a cave of those dimensions and conditions or something. I dunno.

[Jalix Amundus]

I would definitely like to have pets, but I dont know about the other ones. I would like to have a nice panther sneaking around with me in the shadows. Panther and Enkidukai...nice combo....