Poll: Adult rated towns/basements in SotA? [UNOFFICIAL]

Well what ever your morals imply, this is just a topic for discussion. Why not just have the discussion without the moral judgementation. Let the devs decide if it could work or not. But let the discussion happen and see where it could go. Put the pitchforks down and your thinking caps on.

 

Well because we can murder children and eat their parents of course!

All joking aside though, rather than have an explicit option for sex, why not merely provide the functionality for two people to sleep in the same bed? This takes out all of the raunchy XXX gaming-porn elements while still leaving the capacity for harmless RP.

 

I think the topic here is what should players be allowed to do, not what developers should put resources into. I would assume that whatever adult items become available for use in adult player towns or basements would be crowd sourced. Besides that, there are also other forms of expression such as speech and text, e.g. books with player stories that might only be suitable for adult readers. Having an adult-only space in the game might actually make some forms of moderation easier for Portalarium. A player created book classified as adult would not have to be checked for explicit text passages.

 

I'm not voting. I'm not a prude and I have a problem with the: "gore and violence and killing are A-Okay, but sex is the devil attitude." BUT there is a risk of any adult material degrading in an online environment. So I'm still on the fence. I don't want my game to devolve into online sex, but I hate the idea of "sex is bad.. violence is good."

At any rate, if you look at the source material, some sex-related content seems likely. In U6 I could have sex with gypsies. In U7 I could hire prostitutes and go to a cave full of nudists.

I'm sure I'll be happy with however the team handles this.

 

Excellent post / username combo.

 

If sex in game is represented merely as a blackening of the screen then what value does that black screen have over nothing at all? Who's to stop two people from roleplaying whatever sexual act they want? Or are you looking for a button labeled "Rumpy Bumpy".

 

Which in itself is paradox as sex is something "social".

But I accept your opinion on this of course, though I see it a bit differently, especially in the light of the implication that combat and fighting others is "socially acceptable", even for kids...

As a game mechanic it adds realism to the game, making the world more "realistic". You could say the same for every other aspect of the game. You couldn't roleplay other elements of the game, too without having a gameplay mechanic for it.

Having it officially in the game as a mechanic would make it officially a part of the world.

 

I'm not judging anything. You can't have sex in the middle of the street legally (in MOST of this games demographic) for a reason, it's socially unacceptable.

My thinking cap says that what you're asking for subtracts more from the game than it adds. I'm not religious and I have nothing against sex or its content. I just understand the reality of why this is a stupid idea.

Really the only reason I'm arguing so much is because it's easy pickings and kind of fun to debate the absurdity of it.

 

We do live in a silly world. I agree with you on that.

 

Really can't vote in either direction.

Regardless if Portalarium supports or not the concept of "adult themed" roleplaying, people WILL find places to do it as closely as possible. One only has to look at the mods available for Dragon Age (and like games) and fan art for WoW and other games (Rule 34).

Whether or not Portalarium wants to keep avatar clothing modest or allow more revealing outfits is really up to them. They DID put in hot tubs... so make of THAT what you will.

 

You bought account for your kids is nice, but we do not even know the game rating yet. With the purposed system, at least in the last dev hangout, the are talking about lots of violence and gore possibly.

 

So this is a terms of service issue for you then?

If that's the case, then I support players talking to each other how they like as long as it's consensual. There's already that option in the game and there's an ignore button to back it up.

If you want "Adult" books, I have no problem with a rating system that keeps my kids from looking at that. But where I draw the line is having assets created that are specifically adult themed. If you want to use other assets in a way that creates adult themed situations, great be my guest so long as it's a private invitation only area.

But, and this is the part you'll hate, I want ALL accounts blocking those areas by default. I don't want parents to have to "figure it out" to block kids accounts. I want all accounts to be able to block that content from the beginning and I want parents to have the ability to control those accounts centrally. If this level of functionality isn't available to parents then let's just keep the whole thing out of the game completely.

 

I'm ok with violence and gore. I'm the parent so it only matters what I care about for my kids.

 

I think that most requests for 'adult content' will result in very immature game, however I am all for realism, if it is done right. It is hard to do it right though and people should know that they are not the only people playing the game. So if htere is such thing like nudity it must be carefully balanced so it is not abused by immature idiots running around the game naked.

I think that adult game should be less about nudity and more about good not being always good and evil not being always evil. The world is not black and white, there are plenty of shades of grey, and there are colours, too. I mean, there can be nudity, but if it is in, it should be in for a good (and adult) reason.

 

How about player characters having sex in the privacy of their SotA homes? Such as in an adult rated basement below their house?

I am just an advocate of freedom and realism and not a big fan of people forced into role playing mass murdering castrates. Portalarium wouldn't be selling adult content. I am sure those players who would be interested in that type of game play would be creative enough to contribute their own content.

 

What you said is exactly my opinion. Totally agree.

 

If adult content is limited to player owned adult rated basements or towns there would not be any adult content or nudity in the general game world. You could 100% and entirely avoid it by simply not entering adult rated player towns or adult rated player basements.

 

Have you considered the possibility that you might be participating in mostly male - male role play sex. Sure one might use a female character, but I'm thinking that the actual female players that see this behavior might not jump on board with this so quickly. I don't know. A first impression.

Maybe it is the whole icky thing about cartoon characters getting it on. Eating the meat of other players seems sick in a silly way. Avatars having sex in this game seems silly in a serious way.

The ability to have sex is not the same thing as choping up a player on the battle field though. While chopping up a character is likely to be graphic it will likely be in a battle field, and it will just be some silly thing. On the other hand people having the ability to perform sexual activity would be in our faces all day long.

People will be performing sex acts in front of taverns, and all around the city. There will be no way to avoid it. Yes I do believe that gamers will act like rediculous 13 year olds and grief people with sex acts all over the place. Not only that I think they will find a way to make it really gross too. Lets just say I don't want to play a game where naked people run after the sheep in town. EVER.

 

That functionality already exists...

No Portalarium employee is going to stop you from consensually doing whatever you want to do in the game via private conversation.

I can already see your mind trying to monetize pay for entry into an adult themed basement, am I right?

 

They would also be creative enough to put it on you tube or something similar, and that would not be good advertisement for the game. Just my thought on it.