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

What? You don't think we're serious?

I think they should have a dust bunny resource gathering in people's bedrooms, you know, for alchemy.

Once you've gathered 1000 dust bunnies, you get the Make Love, Not War Achievement in the game.

Doesn't that sound reasonable?

 

Are we going to allow tools for those who are not able to meet a special someone and have to satisfy themselves?

 

A solution to this would be to only sell access to the normal PG rated game in Thailand and to not sell the Access Pass to adult rated zones in such jurisdictions.

 

No. Spend time on other things. I dont like this idea at all.

 

+1 for sex in game. infact to take it a bit further i think there should be parties and a full fledged combo system!

lets be realistic here, the 9 year olds are all playing minecraft, angry birds, and call of duty.. they have no interest in this game and almost certainly never will. can we not have 1 game that is for grownups? if its going to get an m rating anyways (since "online content cant be controlled" bla bla) we may as well go whole hog!

as far as people posting stuff on youtube.. it sounds ALOT to me like people could use the assets from the game to make "naughty" things anyways if they wanted.. the thing is would they really bother? lots of games have nude patches for example, we dont see 900 videos for each game popping up a week though, infact for the most part i dont think ANYONE cares.

 

Wait, then I will not be able to enter... Maybe no that good idea.

 

You add porno to the game and every kid old enough to know at least a little about sex is going to want to play.

 

Dunno which generation you belong to. This might have been true in the 1980s when my generation were teenagers. Nowadays kids don't care about porn and sex stuff in things like roleplay games anymore because they can easily access it all over the Internet. You would think something like Second Life would be overrun by curious kids or horny teenagers, but it is not. Times truly changed.

Adult role play with avatars seems more popular now among grown ups who are restricted in RL by whatever factors, which can include geographic location, mature age, limited mobility, being married but bored, deployed by the military or stuck on some middle east oil rig, health and so on. I think there is also a considerable overlap with the kind of people who enjoy reading adult novels like Shades of Grey and interest among people who like certain fantasy series like Gorean or vampire novels. And so on. Lots of different groups, but most really have very little to do with kids or teenagers.

 

It is ease of access right? Second Life has a steep learning curve, or at least to get to certain parts. Reading? Kids? 2014? No way! lol, I do see what you mean, but if it was easy to get to in SotA, I have to believe kids would play to see the avatars do the naughty. I have four boys aged 2 to 14. It takes everything I have to combat the "bad" influences of society. I'm pretty liberal but I still don't want them watching hardcore porn. Not yet. That said, I do remember being a kid in the 80's and the things we got into... We worked for it though. lol

 

Nudity is ok with me, You can find that stuff on TV or going to the beach

Gore is ok, depending on how Gorey you make it; Off with his/her head or loping off a Thief's hand cause they got caught stealing for all to view in the public square is ok.
But bloody walls with guts all around I don't think we need.

As for Sex, i'm ok with a town Brothel but sex in game I wouldn't care for to much.

As for the basement Idea, im ok with it; As long as it stay's IN your basement and not plastered all over creation.

 

Lets talk about what real sex would mean to the game. It would mean means : babies, sexually-transmitted diseases, abortions, contraception. If the devs could put all that in and have it not distract from the game development schedule and priorities, cool.

But most people asking for sex in the game don't want real sex in the game, they want fantasy sex.

 

Ok, just like in the other thread, I've had to do some cleaning. Please keep it tasteful and on topic folks.

 

Ultima7 had quite some sex. I think it would be ok if npcs mentioned it in a proper language but actual animations I dont think that will happen same sadly goes for gorey scenes even if some would be very immersive like the beheading scene in pagan or being able to hang people but not gonna happen probably

 

You mean like fantasy combat, fantasy crafting and let's not forget fantasy MAGIC.

 

MAGIC IS FANTASY!!!? THATS NOT TRUE I've seen it on TV and in the movies.

 

My point is that if people want sex in the game because they're interested in honest portrayals of human relationships and sexual expression, like is insisted, they'd want all the trappings and consequences of human relationships and sexual expression, too. Because that's the only way to make it really honest. And it makes sense, even with magic. If you want to bring magic into it, there could always be an alchemical potion for contraception or induce abortion.

Its not complicated... on the other things .. Combat in the game should require consequences, too; you should die if you lose combat. Recovering from losses should require magic. If you indiscriminately kill people, you should be considered a murderer. Crafting in the game should require game time and effort; it shouldn't be easy to be a master crafter. Speeding up crafting should require magic. Isn't that what you expect from a role-playing game that has any depth?

And Ultima games are largely about virtue and testing the players ethics. Would we take out all the consequences of sex and declare sex a "virtue-free zone" where it never involves any ethical choices and consequences like in real life? That's not really in the spirit of the series.

 

Would that be woodwork (splinters!) or metalwork (cold!)? Which crafting table would be involved? Are special skills involved, and if so, how does one acquire them?

 

'Relationship' role players, as you have defined it, are typically the bane to any serious role play community. There are a lot of people who enjoy role playing the complexity of human relationships. They are *not* the type who enjoys watching ingame avatars go at it in various poses. That does not foster roleplaying, just cyber sex. And once a game or platform gets that sort of reputation it is essentially ruined for any sort of actual roleplayers.

 

I think something that is not really being taken into account is the fact that someone actually has to develop this content you all are talking about. My wife would be distinctly unamused if it turned out I was working on a sexually explicit game. (As would I, honestly.)

(I'm not speaking of how people roleplay with each other, to be clear - whatever you do in the privacy of your basement, as long as you both are consenting adults, is between you, your partner(s) and your hot tub(s). I'm speaking of the NC-17 content some of you are requesting.)

 

I'm just going to pipe in here on this note. I DMed a NWN server for several years during which time I've had both the privilege and the horror to witness a wide variety of role players. Many who engaged in relationships between characters were in fact very mature and did not in fact engage in "explicit" RP despite the common knowledge that the characters themselves had such a relationship.

I've also been quite disturbed by those players who seemed to actively pursue cyber sex in the guise of RP. One player in particular (who's character(s) shall go unnamed) was a male school teacher playing a female role.. who absolutely hated having his gender revealed and was known to RP with one or more known minors.

Now, to be fair I am not aware of exactly how far said "RP" may have gone. I am aware this individual was at least borderline and that alone is worrisome enough. That he wanted other players to believe he himself was female while engaging in this RP was even more worrisome. (I am of the belief that players engaging in RP of this nature should be honest about who they are.)

I also observed that excessive cuddling and lovey dovey in front of the cozy fire at the local tavern generally rubbed people the wrong way. I guess we just didn't have many voyeurs on our server. *shrug*.

I suppose one point I'm getting at is those actively seeking "explicit" RP are not always "astonishingly mature". Quite the opposite in fact. Even before UO I met someone in M59 who turned out to be male, playing a female actively looking for cyber.. and no shortage of other types of players. It really is a player beware out there. Maturity has nothing to do with it.