ZOS was trying super hard to get an E rating and that meant no form of violence against children could exist / ZOS didn't consider making children unkillable like Bethesda does with Skyrim and Fallout.

Children would be a cool addition. Can really change the atmoshpere when in town.

NPC walking into any building does not exist in this game (besides scripted quest events). No NPC is influenced by the day/night cycle either. I don't think torches even light themselves at night (pretty sure they burn forever).

SG_Celerrimus wrote: »

Everyone in Tamriel seems to be a fully grown adult, and it just feels odd that everyone in the world is like instantly an adult when they are born, or it sure seems that way.

It's Waidwen's legacy, mark my words.

And I know I'm going to sound like some hipster radicalist, but I blame society for this (I KNOW I KNOW I'M SORRY). But because of all the incidences where people can't seem to distinguish real life from video games, it has led companies to have certain realistic things not be allowed to be added to their games (children for example because of violence against children). Not that I agree with it nor do I think they should, but I'm surprised PETA didn't try to get animal violence removed from the game.

Point being, we can blame people that cant distinguish (or won't) real life from video games. These exclusions are not oversights. They are intentional, because of organizations like the ERSB (I think tthat's it, I don't feel like googling, cause I'm lazy), monitor them very heavily on their content.

And yes, as stated they could have made them unkillable, but at that point I think we're better without them. In my opinion it would be more immersion breaking to have everyone's children be invincible, but hey Timmy, once you turn 18, people can kill you. Even if your not a bad guy.

But that's just my personal opinion. I know it's not the only opinion out there.


Maybe everyone is sterile? Lol.

Gidorick wrote: »

Being a 5 star forum user who joined September 2013 I would think you would know about the search function @SG_Celerrimus. This topic has been discussed and insulted ad nauseum.

Here: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/search?adv=&search=where+are+the+Children?&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&discussion_question=1&discussion_poll=1&comment_c=1&comment_answer=1&within=1+day&date=

The ONLY response we've ever received is:

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

randolphbenoit - Why no children in the game? Feels unreal only adults and chickens everywhere...

Hermaeus Mora knows...

And we discussed that here: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/161465/no-children-in-eso-hermaeus-mora-knows-why/p1

@Gidorick, Being someone who has played ESO for a very long time, and has been following ZOS for quite some time, even back before they really started talking about the beta publicly, I know that when public interest is really shown, ZOS can add things into the game.

For example, the game was originally intended to be a third person only game, the public kept asking for first person, now we have first person.

Thank you very much

Chaos0720 wrote: »

And I know I'm going to sound like some hipster radicalist, but I blame society for this (I KNOW I KNOW I'M SORRY). But because of all the incidences where people can't seem to distinguish real life from video games, it has led companies to have certain realistic things not be allowed to be added to their games (children for example because of violence against children). Not that I agree with it nor do I think they should, but I'm surprised PETA didn't try to get animal violence removed from the game.

Point being, we can blame people that cant distinguish (or won't) real life from video games. These exclusions are not oversights. They are intentional, because of organizations like the ERSB (I think tthat's it, I don't feel like googling, cause I'm lazy), monitor them very heavily on their content.

And yes, as stated they could have made them unkillable, but at that point I think we're better without them. In my opinion it would be more immersion breaking to have everyone's children be invincible, but hey Timmy, once you turn 18, people can kill you. Even if your not a bad guy.

But that's just my personal opinion. I know it's not the only opinion out there.


Maybe everyone is sterile? Lol.

I'm on the opposite end of that, I see things like "look at the flowers" (child murder reference from Walking Dead) for one example, being written in to our "entertainment" and I tend to believe it does lead to society becoming "more accepting" of things as such. BUT that really is a back and forth that we'd likely get mod'ed for

As for ESO, I would love to see unkillable children npc's running around, but I imagine it would start an avalanche of requests. Why are there only human children? Why can't I play a child? etc, etc

They likely figured more work than worth it

No. Shutup. I want to see khajiit children going after fish now.

Why does this topic keep getting brought up? There are no children in ESO and there never will be.

NotSo wrote: »

The topic keeps coming back because there is an obvious desire for immersion. Lack of children (and elderlies) really breaks the atmosphere, imo.

Dead horse topic sadly, OP.

You'll soon see loons saying children in TESO will create real-life child murderers (that BS has literally been said on these forums by unstable, so-called, "parents").

Would be nice to see ZOS add children in this game, but sadly any chances of that happening are very low thanks to vocal morons.

Gidorick wrote: »

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

Dead horse topic sadly, OP.

You'll soon see loons saying children in TESO will create real-life child murderers (that BS has literally been said on these forums by unstable, so-called, "parents").

Would be create to see children in this game, but sadly any chances of that happening are very low thanks to vocal morons.

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.... wait....

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So you're implying that actions in a fictional world don't automatically fill the player with urges to mimic those actions in real life?

I know, right? lol.

The parent on the crusade against apparent future child-killers was attacking anyone who said otherwise.

The kids are on fire. Gotta keep them all deep in the snow.

Requesting some npc's craddle their babies.

Vorpal_Spork wrote: »

SG_Celerrimus wrote: »

Everyone in Tamriel seems to be a fully grown adult, and it just feels odd that everyone in the world is like instantly an adult when they are born, or it sure seems that way. So, in order to add immersion and immersiveness, and believability in the world, some children NPCs should be added around cities and towns that live in some of the houses, like normal adult NPCs do, and run around the towns and cities playing with each other, then return to their houses every now and then.

This could fit into a player housing and home dwelling DLC quite well.

Agreed. I saw a baby crib in the game and it reminded me how fake the world is.

There are also bronzed baby teeth, etc. in game as well.

Chaos0720 wrote: »

I don't understand what how many stars has to do with anything.... I only started posting on the forums last week and I'm already at two stars.... that doesn't make me any more knowledgeable than someone with 1 or no stars.

Its a reasonable point. And every time the game is updated it is a different build, and thus a new chance to review or renew certain questions or themes.

I don't plan on sifting through year old forum flames that applied to an old build or an old development stance.


You shouldn't be expected either.