Dont like children in real life, dont like them in game. They are annoying.

Khajiit would be happy to see many little kittens in Tamriel.

The little ones are so useful yes, do not need much fish and can easily be trained to avoid the guards.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

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SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit would be happy to see many little kittens in Tamriel.

The little ones are so useful yes, do not need much fish and can easily be trained to avoid the guards.

Seriously, who doesn't love Kittens?

How would that be different from vendors and other unkillable NPCs?

I don't care one way or the other . It would be just more NPCs to me . I don't see the big deal one way or another . Tons of games have them running around and I'm not sure if it makes the game anymore interesting or not .. If they were in game I would still pick pocket the brats .

And is it not strange to have a world with so many cradles and yet every one of them is empty?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Abeille wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I don't care one way or the other . It would be just more NPCs to me . I don't see the big deal one way or another . Tons of games have them running around and I'm not sure if it makes the game anymore interesting or not .. If they were in game I would still pick pocket the brats .

It would at least make many quests in this game make more sense.

Right now, we have NPCs claiming other NPCs are children but you get to them and see that they look as old as their parents.

Most of the arguments against adding them can be applied to existing NPCs. We already have NPCs that are annoying for some but not for others. We already have unkillable NPCs - a lot of them.

There are tons of MMOs with children and they are fine. I imagine lots of people here never played these MMOs.

If it makes your game better , I'm not opposed . Most of the quests that mention NPC children say "my son is in trouble" or my daughter needs assistance " and that doesn't mean anything age wise to me . Many people have children the call son or daughter that are all grown but they are still sons and daughters . None of the quests I've been through say "my little boy" or my little girl . But if you think it would add more to your game or make a quest make more sense , I really don't mind if they add them . I just enjoy the game now and don't see any issues currently .

Bethesda was strangely paranoid about players hurting 'children' - i.e. pixels on a screen - in their games.

You could commit all sorts of ghastly crimes but hurting unreal children was regarded as beyond the pale. You couldnt even discuss it on their forums.

I guess this hang-up exists here too. Maybe its an American thing?

I know I'd enjoy blasting some npc brats to oblivion.

Khajiit has an idea.

Why not have kittens - and yes children and little lizards too - as potential housing based NPCs?

This way those who want them get them and they will not be running around all over Tamriel bothering anyone else.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

1. Adds absolutely no value
2. The main story would then contemplate kids being murdered and captured by Molag B
3. Requires development (I need them to work on finishing and repairing the current game)

One of my favorite things in skyrim was adopting kids and making them do chores when they would rather go play! Then I gave them restoration glitches million damage daggers and watched them slaughter bandits dragons and giant. Defending the homestead

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit has an idea.

Why not have kittens - and yes children and little lizards too - as potential housing based NPCs?

This way those who want them get them and they will not be running around all over Tamriel bothering anyone else.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Soon in crown store - exclusive children pack, 20k crowns

As a game world, all of the TES games share the same problem. Not enough children. Even Skyrim.

But, children require a lot of development effort. Child sized bodies. Child clothes. Child voices. Special animations, since they are doing things that adults might not do. Placement. Etc. If they are for more than just backdrop, then they have to make quests and special dialogs, along with anything else unique to interactions. Children could easily be a Chapter in the game. That is how big something like this could get.

Children also add social problems. The issue of players killing children has no compromise, so if they allow it, or don't, there will be a contingent that very strongly disapproves. Beyond that, you get into the issues of whether children should bear witness to crimes, or ignore them. The have to decide whether children should be in certain places, why they are there, and what their parents are thinking by letting them be there. All of these sorts of things have the potential for being contentious, possibly in a very large and noticeable way.

Frankly, as much as Tamriel, the game world, needs children, my thinking is that they should not add them to the game.

lordrichter wrote: »

As a game world, all of the TES games share the same problem. Not enough children. Even Skyrim.

But, children require a lot of development effort. Child sized bodies. Child clothes. Child voices. Special animations, since they are doing things that adults might not do. Placement. Etc. If they are for more than just backdrop, then they have to make quests and special dialogs, along with anything else unique to interactions. Children could easily be a Chapter in the game. That is how big something like this could get.

Children also add social problems. The issue of players killing children has no compromise, so if they allow it, or don't, there will be a contingent that very strongly disapproves. Beyond that, you get into the issues of whether children should bear witness to crimes, or ignore them. The have to decide whether children should be in certain places, why they are there, and what their parents are thinking by letting them be there. All of these sorts of things have the potential for being contentious, possibly in a very large and noticeable way.

Frankly, as much as Tamriel, the game world, needs children, my thinking is that they should not add them to the game.

In this game in particular, it is not that complicated. The character creator, with the exception of the height slider, has the capabilities to make very young-looking female characters (and males for some races). They wouldn't have to make entire new models. And being the regular bodies but with a different scale, the same animations would be applied to them. Hildegard is already shorter than the shortest available height for Nord females btw.

Regarding voice acting, it is not different from hiring a new voice actor for a new character in a new DLC.

As for people whining because they can't kill children, they will get over it like in every MMO that has children.

They would also most likely be kept in cities only, except for the few of them that are supposed to be part of quests, but it wouldn't be different from adding a new quest. On the existing quests, it would be a matter of replacing one character model plus the voice over. There are only like three or four quests in need of that anyway. It would barely be a TG-sized addition, let alone a Chapter-sized one.