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the game will never be inclusive to just one gender/kink/etc, the whole point of the game is to be open about everything. there will always be female players that don't care what an anon comm says and just app to have fun, the way it should be, and there will always be people waiting to play with them.

i really don't get the big deal.

30 y/o. i'm honestly a picky person when it comes to smut, though, so take this with a grain of salt. but i will not rp smut with characters under 18 or characters whose art style makes them look particularly young (most of the animanga female characters in this game to be honest), OCs, or characters i don't think have enough personality (touken ranbu and overwatch come to mind first).

that may be true in their canon contexts, but outside that context, why would you expect other characters (NPC or PC) to treat them that way? i'm not saying it's necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, but like, treating apparent kids like kids is how people behave.

R+L=J except it's always been blatantly true and I'm a bitter bitch.

Well, thanks to the anon below, we have a place now! Once some people join, what do you think about having a silly meme (Stuck In A ____, body-swap, etc.) as the first post to get our character's feet wet?

Sure, because THAT'S not a wanky solution at all.

Yeah, just the grimdark ones drive me up a fucking wall.

mods play the npcs. mods create the situation in which it's "ic" for them to restrict access to plot. it'd not like this is some uncontrollable force of nature, people behind the scenes are making these choices and it's not smart to write the game in a direction that restricts 38% of the taken list for a reason that oocly makes little sense. these people already proved that their characters were suitable when they apped. putting in additional rules and restrictions like these just makes the environment unfriendly and less fun to play in.

there are ways around the "that's just how kids are treated" thing, ways to use the setting and its advanced tech to run power scans or test abilities, and the mods could have shown a little creativity to get around the issue instead of this decision.

trans headcanons

solaire being the firstborn

i feel like ds3 only made the nameless king a thing to finally kill this dumb idiot theory once and for all

you sound like it

or younger characters could be restricted to less mission-critical roles until they've "shown their mettle" and the NPCs have reason to trust them. there are any number of ways to do it. instead it just seems like the mods don't really want to deal with it, so they've fallen back on this weird and unnecessary "solution". idk, im sympathetic to the people who are frustrated

all of these arguments could be applied to irl too. "but this 17 year old is more mature and has more life experience than this 24 year old! why can't they buy alcohol and join the police force?!" because that's not how things work, and that's not how the mods want their game to work either

Good choice, anon! She's so cute, and her songs are so light and cheerful.

Catching up on Psychostick's newer stuff because I've tapped into my inner 13-year-old boy, apparently. Dumb men writing noisy metal songs about food and hygiene and robot dinosaurs are the shit.

i mean yeah but irl the 17 year old probably isn't also a superpowered space ninja who pilots mechas and solves the brutal murders of their classmates on the side. it's rp

ultimately it's the mod's call, for sure, but that doesn't make it immune to criticism

one: y'all are why people don't want to mod anymore.

two: consider this about the NPC explanation. just because your character's canon has child soldiers, who are more capable than many adults from SoL canons, does not mean the NPCs in the game condone that kind of thing and would want to do it themselves.

three: they have also said time and again that picks for missions have been based on merit, before, aka. Yuuri from YoI would not be picked for an assassination mission or any other of that kind, either, because he has no experience with it. so you can stop making those dumb, hyperbolic examples.

Seconding this. I've seen legitimately good ideas put forth by people in the Discord chat, and Quix has shot them down without providing an alternative. It kills any enthusiasm I have for the game.

3: genuine question, why not just keep using that system then? younger characters were already being filtered out based on mission suitability, like everyone else. if they're suited to the game overall (which one would assume from being accepted in the first place) then what's the point of the cap?

because there's now a character cap on the game as a whole, I imagine, which could risk the game skewing younger after a while. if they don't do it now, there'd be a lot more bitching later on. yes, they should have said something from the start, they didn't, and so they should have at least said sorry for this situation now. but they're not being as unreasonable to want to implement this rule as many people are making them out to be.

i don't think they're being unreasonable, its their game, i just think it's a super counterintuitive way to get to the goal they want. like, even if every single available slot was filled by someone under 18, the game would still be 50/50. and if every single slot was filled by someone exactly 18, would that make much of a difference?

yes, as things stand right now, which doesn't account for future drops and future application rounds. i'm not sure what's so counterintuitive about it. it's like any other cast cap, which have never been disputed like this, to be entirely honest. just that in this case what's considered a cast is based on a different metric.

one: People call out mods on stupid shit that isn't worth wanking over all the time, and I agree being a mod sucks in this day and age. But this is a legitimate concern to call out mods for.

two: Sure, they don't have to condone it, but there could be a compromise here with younger characters being able to prove themselves capable of doing what the NPCs want of them. Also, this is RP - they are not bound by the laws of the real world like they're trying to act like they are.

three: So if picks are based on merit, then there are younger characters who are plenty capable, if not more capable than many of the adults in the game. I would think if the ship were in dire need of help, in a life or death situation, they'd consider the children who've proved themselves more capable. And there are a lot of characters here who'd be all over helping even if they were told no.

bonus: Really, this is just nothing more than a way to restrict players in unsavory ways. Many people apped into this game with the intent of playing out the elements in it that were advertised. The people apping younger characters didn't app in hoping for their character to just hang out and have fun. It makes no sense to restrict plot elements (aside from sexual things, like that district children are banned from) from characters based arbitrarily on age. They could even add in the option of going against the NPCs and striking out on their own without their approval to see how that'd affect the plot of events.

Putting a cap on characters is the worst part of it, though, because like many people have said, child characters are just as suited to the game as adults. And there are adults in the game who didn't have to prove their suitability, even if they'd probably be deemed unsuitable if they were child characters. They're basing suitability entirely on age, and that doesn't make any sense at all.

I think that while the game IS the mods' game, the players should have some say in huge rules like that as well. We're the ones playing in the game, after all. The mods aren't the only ones here.

well for starters there's a bunch of younger characters in the game that could be canon bumped just a smidge, and they hit 18. suddenly they don't count for the cap anymore, but the overall demographics of the game haven't changed at all

comparing it to a cast cap doesn't really make sense to me, bc there's no way for a character to just arbitrarily not count towards a cast cap anymore

there is a huge difference between capping a cast so that one particular cast doesn't wind up overrunning a game and capping an age bracket, which encompasses a multitude of casts/genres/mediums. a lot of crosscanon stuff can happen between chars of similar ages, but if you're actually drawing a line in the sand of 'must be this old to have fun' and capping how many chars of a specific age can app into a non-smut game, then just commit fully and nix any chars underage. because that's going to affect your game as a whole, whereas one or four casts being capped wouldn't.

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