Character Aging?

[Price]

This is merely a suggestion, but it's something I"d been thinking about for some time.


Are all of our characters SO amazingly capable, with metric assloads of potential, that they can achieve such amazing levels of power in such a short time?

To put it this way: These characters levels grow leaps and bounds, in the span of what could be considered very minimal time in the RP world. After all, one would think that just becoming stronger than an apprentice would take at least a year, yet, some posters here could pull it off in a week real time, and there's no way you could spread just a week's worth of threads to cover an entire year.

It's not a good idea to enforce an aging system, I don't think, but shouldn't it be something you take into consideration? After all, if someone hits Wizard or Sorceror level, should they REALLY be just MAYBE a year older than they once were?


It's just something I've been thinking about, feel free to discuss below. That is all.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

thats a damn good idea. i was actually thinking about that myself though in different context. personally im making Tristan be a year older in the beginning-middle of a new rank. i think, that one should be a year older at every rank up though (with the whole post count=rank thing) people would be oddly aged. thatd probably be the main problem with this but its a good idea any way.

[The Sword]

That means that some character will age faster just because they post in their little boyfriend/girlfriend threads. Age should have nothing to do with posts. If it did, then everyone that was the same age would have had to have the exact same post count. I know that you don't mean it like that, but that's how most everyone would perceive it. Different threads run in different time intervals.

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[Tristan Knightrhode]

thats true enough and my only problem with the idea but Price has a point...someone shouldnt reach wizard or master in less than a year, i mean (using the context of martial arts here) even the most talented students take a few years to become a blackbelt. so even a prodigy in magic should take more than a year to become a master in their particular style right?

[The Sword]

Yes, it took me 6 years for my blackbelt. A blackbelt is nothing special, just a robe and a title. The skill is yours whether you're a blackbelt or not. The same thing with magic. However, members are required to participate in at least 1 mission/event and 1 class before even becoming a spell caster so that we have people actually doing things to gain their posts (sufficing characters that fight constantly, they are exempt if they could not join a mission or class).

After that, we just expected that characters would like missions and classes and get the hang of joining while you can or else the fun goes to everyone else. People should find a good way to age their character on their own, or talk to Osay (official bios).

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[The Voicer]

My 2 Cents:

This is just a board. Not real life. Seeing that no one here in this board tried to make real fire come out with just their hands. Please again, this is just a board, would you like to spend like 6 months in real life just to learn on spell on a RPB? NO. So it's just a board. Who cares and it doesn't really matter if a person knows like 300 spells. Not like they can with the limit on your stats.

And that there is my 2 cents.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

thesword said:

Yes, it took me 6 years for my blackbelt. A blackbelt is nothing special, just a robe and a title. The skill is yours whether you're a blackbelt or not. The same thing with magic. However, members are required to participate in at least 1 mission/event and 1 class before even becoming a spell caster so that we have people actually doing things to gain their posts (sufficing characters that fight constantly, they are exempt if they could not join a mission or class).

After that, we just expected that characters would like missions and classes and get the hang of joining while you can or else the fun goes to everyone else. People should find a good way to age their character on their own, or talk to Osay (official bios).

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i couldnt find this Osay thing....

and i assume that participation requirement thing is an unwritten rule cuz i havent seen it >.>

any ways, you have a point, i suppose we can only encourage people to age their characters appropriatly (some have said that they will follow their age by years of being on the board which shouldnt be right considering Price's point but...*shrugs*)

[Darian Dumonte]

As a small note character aging I believe should fall under a player's choice not under a standarized guideline.

[The Watcher]

Truthfully it isn't required that you post in a mission/class before you rank up. It's merely reccomended that you do. It doesn't state that in the rules Tristan is right and it is not a rule. We would like you to participate in missions and classes. Because honestly they only benefit the characters as you gain xp and posts.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

kiele said:

Truthfully it isn't required that you post in a mission/class before you rank up. It's merely reccomended that you do. It doesn't state that in the rules Tristan is right and it is not a rule. We would like you to participate in missions and classes. Because honestly they only benefit the characters as you gain xp and posts.

K, that's what i figured (and im pretty sure that fights constantly thing was directed at me >_< [not a bad thing])

the main and probably only reason i didn't get into a class or mission before ranking up is the limited avaliability. just plain arent enough of em >.>

[The Sword]

fenrir said:

My 2 Cents:

This is just a board. Not real life. Seeing that no one here in this board tried to make real fire come out with just their hands. Please again, this is just a board, would you like to spend like 6 months in real life just to learn on spell on a RPB? NO. So it's just a board. Who cares and it doesn't really matter if a person knows like 300 spells. Not like they can with the limit on your stats.

And that there is my 2 cents.

Why are you here? Obviously you didn't read the thread. Don't post unless you know what we're talking about. We're comparing real life to RP time, not setting them equal.

joegt123 said:

thesword said:

Yes, it took me 6 years for my blackbelt. A blackbelt is nothing special, just a robe and a title. The skill is yours whether you're a blackbelt or not. The same thing with magic. However, members are required to participate in at least 1 mission/event and 1 class before even becoming a spell caster so that we have people actually doing things to gain their posts (sufficing characters that fight constantly, they are exempt if they could not join a mission or class).

After that, we just expected that characters would like missions and classes and get the hang of joining while you can or else the fun goes to everyone else. People should find a good way to age their character on their own, or talk to Osay (official bios).

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i couldnt find this Osay thing....

and i assume that participation requirement thing is an unwritten rule cuz i havent seen it >.>

any ways, you have a point, i suppose we can only encourage people to age their characters appropriatly (some have said that they will follow their age by years of being on the board which shouldnt be right considering Price's point but...*shrugs*)

Well, it's not a rule, but people consider a Spell Caster character stronger than an Apprentice. If an Apprentice is a good RPer with their magic and the Spell Caster only has his/her posts from threads that had nothing to do with magic, the Apprentice is stronger, obviously. Since it's not a rule, we don't make you do this, but character will not expect to be strong just from their post title. They have to do things to make their character, not get titles. However, if you can attain your titles as well as participate in active threads, that makes your character stronger (so it should).

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[Tristan Knightrhode]

wait...wtf does all this new stuff have to do with character aging?....

fuck it. disscusion closed. Good thought, shitty rule. End of story >.>

[The Something]

The point: It is the RPers decision on rather he/she wants their character to age and when to age. If they want to keep stuff realistic to their eyes, and take awhile to gain their ranks IC (not always OOC), do that. Some characters might want to look cool by getting strong without aging as quickly. Sure, the space time continuum isn't going to flow correctly, but that's what happens on RPBs. Unless we make a time period where everyone ages one year no matter what (which is the only way to deal with aging appriately), then we give this to the free will of the RPers. With that said, someone could age 5 years before someone else ages 1, but just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean you still can't have fun.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

ultimacool said:

The point: It is the RPers decision on rather he/she wants their character to age and when to age. If they want to keep stuff realistic to their eyes, and take awhile to gain their ranks IC (not always OOC), do that. Some characters might want to look cool by getting strong without aging as quickly. Sure, the space time continuum isn't going to flow correctly, but that's what happens on RPBs. Unless we make a time period where everyone ages one year no matter what (which is the only way to deal with aging appriately), then we give this to the free will of the RPers. With that said, someone could age 5 years before someone else ages 1, but just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean you still can't have fun.

I repeat: "Good thought...Shitty rule. End of story" >.> (pretty much ties up the point right there.)

[The Sword]

Um, yes, Ghiste; no, Tristan. It's not a rule.

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