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Originally Posted by doctor vivian
it's plainly obvious. Ever see dark city?
The rikti actually won the war. We, the surviving humans, are part of a giant experiment. They didn't think it necessary to the experiment to import birds, animals or any lesser life forms. And of course, there are no children. All of the test subjects were sterilized before being placed in the experiment. -- vivian |
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I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has expired on a twelve (12) year old movie.
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
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Well, really, isn't Penelope like 20 now?
As for the no children, I'd say it's probably because they don't have models for them to just up and use.
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Originally Posted by Doctor Vivian
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*rim shot*
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"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Except on Freedom??
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We still outnumber you!
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and a lil boy could steal a lil girls dolly and she could chase him around Atlas... screaming that she wants it back...
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
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I know there's at least one baby... new year.
While some benefits would be obvious (creating young characters inspired by stories from my youth, like "The Dark is Rising" and "Chronicles of Narnia" series of books), there is the danger that a few unscrupulous individuals would portray the characters inappropriately, or interact with other player characters inappropriately. This goes beyond ESRB rating issues. The FBI takes child exploitation seriously, and devotes a sizable chunk of its resources to investigating crime online. Consequently, it would take only a small misunderstanding to give customer support a real headache. They should avoid the can of worms entirely.
As I recall, characters as young children were playable in early beta tests for [CENSORED] (the father of modern MMORPGs). But they were quickly scrapped from the game (even as NPCs) when it became apparent that the game's community, as a whole, could not use the feature responsibly. And it's not just adults-who-know-better that cause problems. If any of you have ever moderated an online game, then you know that some of the worst offenders are--surprise, surprise--young children.
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Originally Posted by Doctor Vivian
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@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
Eh, the issue is quite simple: It would require a new skeleton, and that's too much work for the devs. Especially as the benefits are percieved to be slim.
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om ock i gyllne dosor.
Och rosor i ett sprucket krus
�r st�ndigt alltid rosor."
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Dark-Eyes � Doctor Serpentine � Stonecaster � Skymaiden � The Blue Jaguar
Guide to Altitis � A Comic for New Players � The Lore Project � Intro to extraterrestrials in CoH
Isn't Fusionette really young too? Personally, I don't really care, I hardly ever noticed. In fact, the only other time it even crossed my mind was a few days ago when I saw a post that made me wonder why there weren't any schools in Paragon (that I've seen, anyway).
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There aren't any gas stations either. Or churches.
Penny Yin is young but not a "child" (depending on how you wish to define it). Penelope is a child.
We can't play children because you have to be an adult to get a hero license. Arachnos won't issue villain licenses to kids either no matter how evil they are. Lord Recluse refuses to believe that a kid can be his chosen one - mostly because of the implications of those words.
My solution is to not play 8-year-olds.
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She's about 18-20 I'd guess (otherwise the police may be after Jim Temblor), just acts like a 12 year old with ADHD.
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Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Isn't Fusionette really young too? Personally, I don't really care, I hardly ever noticed. In fact, the only other time it even crossed my mind was a few days ago when I saw a post that made me wonder why there weren't any schools in Paragon (that I've seen, anyway).
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Good lord!
Practically no children? The Child Catcher got 'em!
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Originally Posted by Utopia
Where they be? Penelope must be the only girl in her class. Isn't that little girl in Founders Falls called Penny? I think we should be rescuing more little kids and seeing them play in the parks. We should have schools and playgrounds. We could have a Child's Booster Pack with sneakers, pigtails, sportswear, overalls, the works. Plus we could change the boob slider so that when I make an 8 year old girl, she doesn't have a B-Cup.
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This is a good question, Utopia. Paragon or Praetoria would feel much more like a real city if there were moms pushing prams, kids wandering about getting into minor mischief which players might get small, funny easter-egg type rewards for preventing, and we definitely need more than two girls named Penelope. (I assume that Penny Preston in FF probably has "Penelope" on her birth certificate as a legal first name.) The Devs are usually so detailed & ingenius with NPCs that I'm surprised they didn't expend more effort to give one of these characters a very different name from the other.
On the other hand, I see that the "Perils of Penelope Yin" is a plot device in Praetoria, which was a nice touch...
Where is the ubiquitous (in comics) gangly genius kid with hair in his eyes and potato chip crumbs on his "Statesman" t-shirt who can tweak your jetpack, making it either perform beyond expectations, or (oops) blow up? Or the "Rick Jones" / "Snapper Carr" superhero wanna-be/sometimes is, who won't stop tagging along after you & getting into trouble? (Percy Winkley is a bit too old for such loose-cannon shennanigans, & in no real need of rescue after the first couple of Midnighter arc mishes.)
In any case, more child / teen NPCs would really add Silver Age flavour to the game, & it would be fun to see a couple of normal kids (if there are any) throwing frisbees in the park.
But perhaps Paragon is underpopulated by children because they have all been kidnapped by one nefarious group or another for sacrifice, ransom, and/or experiments), while Paretorian kids either hide in the sewers or have Cole-inspired Tiger Moms who keep them burdened with various extracurricular activities and thus off the street.
I myself created a "Cole Compassionate Child Care Center" (the CCCCC) for my Brute, Strong Kid, to have been confined in after her politically incorrect parents were whisked off for readjustment. This was just for my own fun, as part of her bio, but perhaps there are more children in CCCCC than I believed.
We can't have it all (don't get me started on the need for personal vehicles for Natural toons; that's an entire game expansion akin to Going Rogue). But yes, I vote for more kids in CoX, both as background and NPCs.
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On the other hand, I see that the "Perils of Penelope Yin" is a plot device in Praetoria, which was a nice touch...
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Look at the names of the named badguys in the rescuer badge mission in Faultline.
Ant (Hill mob)
Gruesome (Twosome)
etc, to go with Muxley and his dialog.
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Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
Sometimes in the Rogue Isles (Port Oakes in particular), I will see an unusally short citizen walking around. Maybe its just a glitch with the NPC height scale, but sometimes these shorties are even sporting "youthful" looking clothes and hairstyles, which makes me suspect they are meant to represent chidlren. Although they still kind of look like just really short adults.
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They're just really short adults. I know this because I made some of them during CoV. But that slider...wow... The thing was, you create a small NPC (which is fine by themselves) and then you attach them to an animation and it scales with them.
So I had this woman running a hot dog cart, and the cart scaled so small that if you were to realistically "buy" the hot dog, it would be about the size of one of those appetizer cocktail wieners that come in a can. (Better be a price break!)
So there you have it. A moment of development time from me.
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Boy isn't that height slider scale something, eh?
They're just really short adults. I know this because I made some of them during CoV. But that slider...wow... The thing was, you create a small NPC (which is fine by themselves) and then you attach them to an animation and it scales with them. So I had this woman running a hot dog cart, and the cart scaled so small that if you were to realistically "buy" the hot dog, it would be about the size of one of those appetizer cocktail wieners that come in a can. (Better be a price break!) So there you have it. A moment of development time from me. WW |
LOL that could be the title for the next SYFY movie. "Pygmie Women with Small Weiners". Life changing geek confusion could result.
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Glad you agree! I also have several children, tween and teen toons. My best one is Shortstack, an 8 year old girl with rock skin (Tanker). Stone pigtails and overalls, funtimes.
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Originally Posted by CanaDixieMan
It took me 53 years to get around to making babies, but due to double XP (I assume), my wife & I had twins. ; )
This is a good question, Utopia. Paragon or Praetoria would feel much more like a real city if there were moms pushing prams, kids wandering about getting into minor mischief which players might get small, funny easter-egg type rewards for preventing, and we definitely need more than two girls named Penelope. (I assume that Penny Preston in FF probably has "Penelope" on her birth certificate as a legal first name.) The Devs are usually so detailed & ingenius with NPCs that I'm surprised they didn't expend more effort to give one of these characters a very different name from the other. On the other hand, I see that the "Perils of Penelope Yin" is a plot device in Praetoria, which was a nice touch... Where is the ubiquitous (in comics) gangly genius kid with hair in his eyes and potato chip crumbs on his "Statesman" t-shirt who can tweak your jetpack, making it either perform beyond expectations, or (oops) blow up? Or the "Rick Jones" / "Snapper Carr" superhero wanna-be/sometimes is, who won't stop tagging along after you & getting into trouble? (Percy Winkley is a bit too old for such loose-cannon shennanigans, & in no real need of rescue after the first couple of Midnighter arc mishes.) In any case, more child / teen NPCs would really add Silver Age flavour to the game, & it would be fun to see a couple of normal kids (if there are any) throwing frisbees in the park. But perhaps Paragon is underpopulated by children because they have all been kidnapped by one nefarious group or another for sacrifice, ransom, and/or experiments), while Paretorian kids either hide in the sewers or have Cole-inspired Tiger Moms who keep them burdened with various extracurricular activities and thus off the street. I myself created a "Cole Compassionate Child Care Center" (the CCCCC) for my Brute, Strong Kid, to have been confined in after her politically incorrect parents were whisked off for readjustment. This was just for my own fun, as part of her bio, but perhaps there are more children in CCCCC than I believed. We can't have it all (don't get me started on the need for personal vehicles for Natural toons; that's an entire game expansion akin to Going Rogue). But yes, I vote for more kids in CoX, both as background and NPCs. |
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Originally Posted by Ramification TM
There's no children OR animals...
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I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.
It's a sad reality that pretty much anything related to kids these days results with inevitable screams of "Won't someone please think of the children?!"
Anyone here watched Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid?' Didn't get a chance to watch all of it, due to it only popping up briefly in our cinematography lecture.
If you were to try to pull that off these days, people would be calling junk like 'pervert' before it had even premiered.
And honestly? That is so many levels of tripe you could feed the world for years. People these days will attach horrible conotations to even the simplest and most innocently meant of things.
I'd like anything that could make the City feel more alive, personally.
And hey, the Isles could have it's own unique brand of grubby, cockney urchins scurrying around
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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I have a couple of young toons, Tweenage rampage does look about 12 or 13, and a toon with a name that is perfectly innocent here in the UK, but less so in the US (and I eventually won a genericing argument over it) The pocket rocket is about 15 or 16.
You can't build an 8 year old, but you can do teenagers or just pre teen toons relatively easily.
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