MMORPG Parental Care

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by aliptah
Well, in the real world you activate your \"parent option\" when you make love without protections.

First, that\'s a very right wing attitude, and is not shared by everyone.

Secondly, having children might force you into the role of a parent, but not everyone fills that role or fills it well once presented with it.

[aliptah]

Originally posted by Izzy*dot
Yeah, but I meant, the NEWBIE himself should have the choice too wether he wants parents or not.
Not only the parents should have the choice of being one, the new person him/herself should have a choice too. You can\'t make a person do such a thing if they don\'t want to.

Yes, that\'s what I meant. If you want to be a parent be it.
If you want to grow for  a while as a child, do it.

[Izzy*dot]

EDIT: Aliptah, you beat me to it I had this huuuuge post with thingies in it, but it didn\'t make sense anymore because you already gave the explanation

Oh, and:

Originally posted by aliptah: Well, in the real world you activate your \"parent option\" when you make love without protections.

Don\'t say that. You have no choice. There is no activation. And not everyone who doesn\'t want a child uses protection. Because it just feels better without

[derwoodly]

My two cents...  Most games including PS do not have seperate Avatars for children, so your family would look more like a clan.  Maybe instead of parents you could have five \"newbie clans\" that were run by players.  Also make it optional.  It would also be better if a clan has several clan leaders so as to provide an online leader 24/7.  Of cource you could replace the word clan with guild.

[aliptah]

Originally posted by zanzibar
First, that\'s a very right wing attitude, and is not shared by everyone.

Secondly, having children might force you into the role of a parent, but not everyone fills that role or fills it well once presented with it.

Right wing what? That was only an example.

Well, a parent can be irresponsible too!

From the idiki page:
\"The newbie could rate their childhood experience, determining the proportion of shared XP. The sum of all ratings multiplied by the XP of each parented player yields a rating for the experienced player\'s quality as a parent.\"

[Izzy*dot]

Well aliptah, it\'s not because a person doesn\'t use protection, that he/she DOES want a child. That\'s what meant

[Karyuu]

Originally posted by aliptah
If you want to be a parent be it.
If you want to grow for  a while as a child, do it.

What if you don\'t want either? :/

[aliptah]

Originally posted by Izzy*dot
Well aliptah, it\'s not because a person doesn\'t use protection, that he/she DOES want a child. That\'s what meant

Yea, yea but in this case it is just a boolean option, or not?

[aliptah]

Originally posted by Karyuu

Originally posted by aliptah
If you want to be a parent be it.
If you want to grow for  a while as a child, do it.

What if you don\'t want either? :/

You are just a normal player, as you are today.

[Karyuu]

Thanks, that\'s what I wanted to know about the suggestion - that it wouldn\'t be forced onto any of the parties :) Sorry for any misunderstanding.

[aliptah]

There is an ongoing discussion about this idea also in the eternal-lands forum: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21528

There are some goods questions there too, so it might useful to read  also what they are thinking there.

Later.

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by aliptah

Originally posted by zanzibar
First, that\'s a very right wing attitude, and is not shared by everyone.

Secondly, having children might force you into the role of a parent, but not everyone fills that role or fills it well once presented with it.

Right wing what? That was only an example.

Well, a parent can be irresponsible too!

From the idiki page:
\"The newbie could rate their childhood experience, determining the proportion of shared XP. The sum of all ratings multiplied by the XP of each parented player yields a rating for the experienced player\'s quality as a parent.\"

People would exploit it.

[aliptah]

Originally posted by zanzibar

Originally posted by aliptah

Originally posted by zanzibar
From the idiki page:
\"The newbie could rate their childhood experience, determining the proportion of shared XP. The sum of all ratings multiplied by the XP of each parented player yields a rating for the experienced player\'s quality as a parent.\"

People would exploit it.

That depends on how good the implementation is.
Let\'s say that the player can rate his parent only when he finished his childhood period, i.e. at 6th level. At this point it is very difficult and annoying to exploit the rating for a fake parent.