Allow minor characters for all types of RP (not only gangs)

[Yung Ancestor]

(I don't know if this topic has been made before, if it has please direct me to it)

 

Detailed Description

I've seen some suggestions to remove minor characters as a whole because it is "unrealistic" to see teenagers with guns under the wings of a gang. I refute this claim and say that it is very much realistic to see young recruits in gangs. What is not realistic however is ONLY seeing minor characters in gangs and not be found anywhere else in the city. I find that it ruins the dynamic of being a minor in the roleplay if you can only be in a gang and not do anything else. 

 

To the argument that there is simply "not much to do as a minor" is just simply not true. The point of the roleplay is building your character's personality and finding things to do. Minor characters can realistically just hang around the city, play in arcades, or cause trouble in other ways other than just being in gangs. Seeing a character that is a minor and automatically being able to assume that they are in a gang or going to be in a gang doesn't feel realistic to me, that is why I think allowing minor characters to have more freedom would add a lot more to the roleplay.

 

And to other arguments about this attracting potentially problematic "ERP", I say just punish the players who engage in such roleplay. Not everyone should be punished for a problematic minority of players and throughout my time playing on the server, I haven't even seen such rampant problematic ERP as others claim they have (doesn't mean it does not happen but I believe that most players on this server have the common sense and decency not to engage in such activities).

 

Relevant Commands/Items

N/A

 

How will it benefit the server

Allowing more forms of roleplay to take place and more sense of realism to the game.

[Cartoonhead]

People time and time again have proven they either can't RP a young person correctly, or can't be trusted around young chars. Hard -1

[orca112]

As much as it would open new roleplay avenues and improve on immersion seeing not every minor being a gun tootin' Agent (M) 47, the community has been proven over and over to not be trusted around these characters and roleplay themes.

[Samuel]

NO

[Orpheus49]

Minors feel like an excuse to do dumb things because the character is "young and dumb" 

 

If anything we need less minors. Not more

[Welsh]

 I played a minor for a significant time and he wasn't in a gang. So it can be done 

[DLimit]

Minors are permitted if they are 16+, I believe.

I do support this, however, as it was only a very, very small minority that were abusing (M) for disgusting purposes.

[KinnyWynny]

i think you misspelled 'Disallow' and added 'not only gangs' by accident.

[Timzii]

They should be disallowed in total instead

[Peak.]

Big NOPE.