Atagal and Emmara

[Atagal]

Ok, so in our role play, Atagal and Emmara wan to be married, and sense they could not decide upon who name to take they picked to change both of their names, but some reason the game masters will not help with this, I've been told by one GM they are only aloud to change a char's name if it is not aloud or if it's marriage or divorce, and well this reason is marriage.   So why can't they change it? Also something I have wanted the answer to, why do they not allow same sex marriage? Who are they to say who our char's can love... =/

That is why I like Dream of mirror more -.- you can have same sex marriage and in Asda story you can have a same sex soul mate. All the games I play are starting to allow it, why not PS?
Though those two games are not true rp like PS saddly...

And I have played PS for nearly 3 years... Never played any game for so long.

[Rigwyn]

For this type of marriage select a Kran.

[Atagal]

That would not be a true rp, and I have worked to hard on this char to scrap it because of GM's
So thanks but that is no help

[Timmothy Perriwinkle]

I'm banned from the PS IRC channel for talking about lesbians .

They don't care what you think. There will be no same sex marriage

[Atagal]

So they are sexiest?

And do they really want to lose the few people they have playing? and do they really want to lose some of the best rper's they have? Hell some GM's told my guild are good rp'ers and that I can see we are one of the few rp'ing guilds, all we do is rp, do they really not want people to rp? if they ban me from PS I will get my whole guild to quit playing, lol. So if they want to lose about 4-6 heavy rp'ers than so be it.

[Illysia]

No, they do not wish the issues that tag along behind it to come in game. The idea is to prevent the controversy you are currently stirring up.   And the correct term would not be sexist as that would imply they let male characters each other marry and not female characters.  But it's not like they are being heavy handed about it otherwise there would probably be something about it in settings which it isn't. It's just one of the many unimplemented mechanics.

[Atagal]

I just want to rp, if they are not supporting of it than what ever, I just want them to explain all the reasons why please.

[Tharos]

PlaneShift is just a game and nothing else. Leave the same sex marriage to your local politicians and their voters to decide.

[Atagal]

Yes it's just a game so why do they care about same sex marriage than? And does this forum let polls? maybe take a poll see if people think it shoud be ok.. =/

[Sarras Volcae]

No, they do not wish the issues that tag along behind it to come in game. The idea is to prevent the controversy you are currently stirring up.   And the correct term would not be sexist as that would imply they let male characters each other marry and not female characters.   But it's not like they are being heavy handed about it otherwise there would probably be something about it in settings which it isn't. It's just one of the many unimplemented mechanics.

that's the lamest excuse ever. by not allowing it, no matter their intentions, it seems like the devs are against same sex marriage. you can't just IGNORE something like that and pretend it just doesn't exist. they're stirring controversy by not allowing it. what's the worst that could happen? there are tons of games out there with same sex marriage (even if theyre not rp games) and nothing has been stirred by that, and those games are 100x bigger than PS is.

PlaneShift is just a game and nothing else. Leave the same sex marriage to your local politicians and their voters to decide.

it's this kind of thinking that shows how prejudice and closedminded some of you are. you can't just ignore problems like that.

[lilura]

I have seen several characters who wanted to marry the same sex, they just wrote it into there description which is what the stupid button does anyway.  =simple solution

[Lhaa]

It makes sense that in an old-fashioned culture such as the PS setting is set on there is no room for same sex marriages.
I find that pretty easy to understand and I have no problem with it at all. And mind you, it affects me.
And the reason why other MMORPGs allow it is probably that they are not really RP games.

There is no reason why you can't RP whatever you wish despite the surname of your characters, labels are OOC anyway.
You can also RP an unofficial ceremony and nothing will stop you from doing that.
In the end, that's what marriages IG are... well, that and clicking a button. I don't see the RP part of clicking a button though.

But this has been discussed many times, and most of these threads have been locked or deleted.
So expect this one to be soon.

I've been told by one GM they are only aloud to change a char's name if it is not aloud or if it's marriage or divorce, and well this reason is marriage.

This is not true, and I don't mean that you're lying. But whoever said this did, unless the policies changed in the past weeks.
I've recently seen TWO couples of brothers/sisters IG and both had the same names for the two couples.
Those are new characters and they have been recently renamed, so if GMs aren't going to change names now for you I guess this is more about making sure the mechanics are not overlooked.

But I'm pretty interested in this, since it seems that no longer is possible to create brothers or any other relatives... if what GMs told you is the way it works.

[Atagal]

I have seen several characters who wanted to marry the same sex, they just wrote it into there description which is what the stupid button does anyway.  =simple solution

We will do that but the point is we can't change the last name ourselves

[Sarras Volcae]

well, if Yliakum doesn't allow same sex marriages, then can't they say it's not allowed? they haven't said anything about it at all.

[lilura]

There is no reason why you can't RP whatever you wish despite the surname of your characters, labels are OOC anyway.

Good point Lhaa!