Subject: Re: Suggest Birth System in Majik
From: Dave (Dave@happymagic.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 04:01:09 EET
Just as someone who has nothing to do with the work on Majik, I think a "birth system" would be very cool. However the way you described it gave to much power to the adults. No one should pick who their parents are, It should be random, Like if someone wants to play they send in somthing and who they are born to is random. If anything is chosen race might be the exception. ANd the idea of having the adult players choose when their kids can have children is silly. Diffrent races mature faster and such. Oh well, I was just bored, Looking forward to majik, Nimbus Manuel Schuhmacher wrote: > I have read about the world of Majik. It shall implement many new, > unique features. > I now suggest another idea that would make the world of Majik > hopefully even more > exciting and lively. It is about a birth system. <Why is it necessary > ?> > Usually a new player abruptly appears in the world and has to invent a > story > around his character. Often these stories are quite monotoneous and > stale, > contradict each other and what has happened before. This makes the > world very > inconsistent. <How does it work ?> > You could solve this by making new characters be born. This means that > newbies > are not cast into the world suddenly but instead introduced and woven > slowly > into it. When they start to play, they start to live in the world of > Majik, > and everything that happens to them, happens really in Majik. To > slightly > imitate our world, the new players might be placed into the world by > other > players, referred to as parents, considered first to be a child, later > adult. > It might look like this: A new player arrives at the Majik website. He > opens > a message board, where adult players shortly introduce themselves, > tell, who > they are, where they live, which race and culture they belong to. The > new > player chooses parents and answers their message. If they agree, > parent > players can let the newbie enter the world. In order to do this all > parents > should be adults and have to be logged in. They set a birth interface, > telling > the system the login name of the new player. In game, while all > parents stay > logged in, the new player now may login. He emerges in the world near > the > parents, having the state child. Of course he can move, speak and do > everything an adult player can do, except procreate, yet he is weak > and > unexperienced. Afterwards the player may login normally. When the > parents > deem him mature, they may set an interface which changes his state to > adult. > From then on he can give birth himself. In game all of this should be > clad in > roleplay: The child is unfamiliar with the world around him. The > parents > introduce him to the group they live in, teach him about the world, > their > culture, and protect him. To become adult the player usually must pass > a test > or a quest, determined by customs of his culture. From then on he will > be > treated as an adult. The parents control the state of their child only > to > prohibit bad, inconsistent roleplay by their child. They should also > be able > to set an interface to let other players adopt the child, leaving > control over > the state of the child to them. In order to do this it might be > required that > the parents tell the name of the child and the names of the new > parents and > the new parents also have to set that they want to take the > child. <What would have to be done ?> > The coders would have to implement a status of maturity, an interface > for > giving birth, declaring adult and adopting, and adapt the newuser > login. > The designers would have to touch terms of sexuality, familiy, > childhood and > maturity in their descriptions of races, cultures and mythology. What > are the advantages ? > 1. The world is more consistent: stories do not contradict each other, > > previous events > 2. The players are rooted in the world: based out of cultures, linked > to other players by family ties > 3. The world and cultures are made more lively and colourful: Adults > bind > themselves to one another, give birth to, raise, teach, look > after > children, children get adult by passing tests or quests > 4. The players are forced to roleplay within the context of Majik: > only so > they get mature and become adult, otherwise are deemed mad, > which may > be sanctioned by the group they live in > 5. New players are protected as long as necessary > 6. Cultures are steadier, because players are based deeper in them > [...] What are the disadvantages ? > 1. Starting to play is more constrained (but continuing not) > 2. Starting requires parent players (but probably many players will > offer to > be parents, as this makes their characters more lively, they > like to > aid newbies, or their culture demands it) > 3. Parent players might stop playing the game, though they have > children not > yet mature (but other players can adopt their child) > 4. Additional work creating the game Now, how do you like this ?
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