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Should they implement a pregnancy feature?

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  • Jagsman32Jagsman32 Member Posts: 109

    I would never turn down features that could make the game more immersive, so maybe this could work (Purely for RP purposes).

    As a Male, if you get certain female NPCs relation up, you can complete a quest to marry and//or impregnate her, and she will actually create an offspring of yours. As a Female you would receive the same option except during your pregnancy, you receive a slight debuff (nothing too harmful) until the offspring is born.  This quest could be something silly, or even an insignificant fetch or kill quest.

    These NPCs can be kept as followers in your player house, but can also be killed by mobs if exposed. Maybe they can provide you with simple gifts like food and stuff when you visit/interact with them. Imagine having hundreds of players offspring throughout the world who engage mobs, become guards, fight in civil wars, die, etc.

    Could be fun? I can imagine many laughs to be had when you bring your offspring/spouse/sexbuddy into dungeons, or the attachment some people may have with their pixel families. Maybe you are that guy who just sleeps with every NPC in the game and has a horde of children throughout Norrath?

  • YaevinduskYaevindusk Member RarePosts: 2,094

     

    Seems like something only a Sandbox game would do.

     

    ...Wait.

    Due to frequent travel in my youth, English isn't something I consider my primary language (and thus I obtained quirky ways of writing).  German and French were always easier for me despite my family being U.S. citizens for over a century.  Spanish I learned as a requirement in school, Japanese and Korean I acquired for my youthful desire of anime and gaming (and also work now).  I only debate in English to help me work with it (and limit things).  In addition, I'm not smart enough to remain fluent in everything and typically need exposure to get in the groove of things again if I haven't heard it in a while.  If you understand Mandarin, I know a little, but it has actually been a challenge and could use some help.

    Also, I thoroughly enjoy debates and have accounts on over a dozen sites for this.  If you wish to engage in such, please put effort in a post and provide sources -- I will then do the same with what I already wrote (if I didn't) as well as with my responses to your own.  Expanding my information on a subject makes my stance either change or strengthen the next time I speak of it or write a thesis.  Allow me to thank you sincerely for your time.
  • bartoni33bartoni33 Member RarePosts: 2,044

    Do we really want to go there? Hacking and slashing a pregnant woman to death? "Gut Shot" a woman carrying?

    I REALLY don't think this is a good idea. Let's keep the unborn out of the sandbox.

    Bartoni's Law definition: As an Internet discussion grows volatile, the probability of a comparison involving Donald Trump approaches 1.


  • sh33pishsh33pish Member UncommonPosts: 54
    Um, no thank you to the pregnancy feature.  Wtf...
  • YaevinduskYaevindusk Member RarePosts: 2,094

     

    I remember when there was a game that advertises Pregnancy as a Sandbox Feature; there was also all out PvP and the ability to capture people and torture them so that they couldn't go to sleep or log out.  It had a permanent death system as well.

     

    The way new characters entered the world was that they had a mother and father Player character that they were born to.  If there were no new players, then an NPC was born and followed the mother around as a helper of sorts (which also fought to protect her).  If no players were having a baby, then NPC parents or you could wait or if you knew people in real life it could be reserved.

     

    It was an interesting system as a whole, but way before it's time.  It was an idea that was being pushed years before WoW came out and almost no investors were interested in MMORPGs back then.  Though the people who partook in the genre back then were somewhat more mature than the whole is now; not sure if people would be able to maturely accept this or rise beyond socially accepted things of their own culture.

     

    Trying to remember what that game was.  It is getting some support now to be made again, but with limited features.  Something about being able to build countries and death having a permanent meaning.  Magic had to be learned from dangerous adventure and the like.

    Due to frequent travel in my youth, English isn't something I consider my primary language (and thus I obtained quirky ways of writing).  German and French were always easier for me despite my family being U.S. citizens for over a century.  Spanish I learned as a requirement in school, Japanese and Korean I acquired for my youthful desire of anime and gaming (and also work now).  I only debate in English to help me work with it (and limit things).  In addition, I'm not smart enough to remain fluent in everything and typically need exposure to get in the groove of things again if I haven't heard it in a while.  If you understand Mandarin, I know a little, but it has actually been a challenge and could use some help.

    Also, I thoroughly enjoy debates and have accounts on over a dozen sites for this.  If you wish to engage in such, please put effort in a post and provide sources -- I will then do the same with what I already wrote (if I didn't) as well as with my responses to your own.  Expanding my information on a subject makes my stance either change or strengthen the next time I speak of it or write a thesis.  Allow me to thank you sincerely for your time.
  • TalinthisTalinthis Member UncommonPosts: 26
    you've got problaaaaaaammms
  • AkulasAkulas Member RarePosts: 3,029
    What do you want a legacy feature?

    This isn't a signature, you just think it is.

  • AmarantharAmaranthar Member EpicPosts: 5,852
    Originally posted by Yaevindusk

     

    I remember when there was a game that advertises Pregnancy as a Sandbox Feature; there was also all out PvP and the ability to capture people and torture them so that they couldn't go to sleep or log out.  It had a permanent death system as well.

     

    The way new characters entered the world was that they had a mother and father Player character that they were born to.  If there were no new players, then an NPC was born and followed the mother around as a helper of sorts (which also fought to protect her).  If no players were having a baby, then NPC parents or you could wait or if you knew people in real life it could be reserved.

     

    It was an interesting system as a whole, but way before it's time.  It was an idea that was being pushed years before WoW came out and almost no investors were interested in MMORPGs back then.  Though the people who partook in the genre back then were somewhat more mature than the whole is now; not sure if people would be able to maturely accept this or rise beyond socially accepted things of their own culture.

     

    Trying to remember what that game was.  It is getting some support now to be made again, but with limited features.  Something about being able to build countries and death having a permanent meaning.  Magic had to be learned from dangerous adventure and the like.

    Wasn't that the game that had several moderators under the same name, "Teila" or something very close?

    Once upon a time....

  • MindTriggerMindTrigger Member Posts: 2,596

    This game seems like it's basically going to be a family friendly themepark / sandbox hybrid leaning very heavily towards themepark.  It's too early to tell for sure, but that would be my educated guess.  There's simply no way in hell there's going to be anything in the game that even remotely hints at sex / pregnancy.  In the SOE Live panels, they even said they wanted whole families to be able to play it.

    In the US, "Family Friendly" means "Graphic Violence OK, but No Sexuality".  lol...

    A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.

  • Shadowguy64Shadowguy64 Member Posts: 848
    What happens with pregnant characters and PvP? Would you kill / gank a pregnant character?
  • KarbleKarble Member UncommonPosts: 750

    Log online, put on some Barry White, light the candles, throw down some rose pedals from the door to the to the bed. Get your sony emote camera going...and make some babies.

     

    On second thought...this is definately NOT where gaming shoud be going.

    ESPECIALLY  with Disney stylized facial looks.

    Everything about this idea is bad bad bad. Nothing good can come from it.

     

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  • DullahanDullahan Member EpicPosts: 4,536
    I dunno, I'd make a baby with Jaylena.


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