Can we get children?

[JockHarley]

I think there would need to be two different systems for this kind of thing to work in this game.
1. A family bonding similar to a wedding for the purposes of adopting other players into your family. This would let the players RP whatever they want...like they already do really.
2. An extension of Khloe's system where we can adopt children and be a mentor or big brother/sister kind of person to them. Maybe they can set up shop as an interactable NPC similar to house vendors. (They sell something but have a stock appearance you can't change) as opposed to retainers who have a customizable appearance.

Also, not really a system but it would be nice to have NPC families and children walking around the housing wards to make them feel a little more alive.

I can totally get buzzed on that idea of like a big bro/sister program

[BigRed5392]

I think Laerune was talking about playable children in the sense that they could actually do something (fight and all that). The "Costumes" you're talking about couldn't do anything (can't emote I think, can't fight, can't change gear).

Legend of zelda Ocarina of time. link is 8 at the start. 10 in majoras mask.

[BigRed5392]

I'm still for using Ragnarok Online's system of adopting other player characters and turning them small. Maybe lalafell sized/ shaped, but any race (so SE'd not need to make special armor in theory). If players got divorced, the adopted player character would return to normal size, as if nothing ever happened.

Correct me if I am wrong, but ERPing is already a punishable offense? If you do it privately, I doubt anyone would report you, but publicly leaves you open for reporting and having GM intervention.

look up the WoW moonguard server. goldshire being a good place to start.

the things i saw in chat would have made ron jeremy blush.

[Nestama]

Legend of zelda Ocarina of time. link is 8 at the start. 10 in majoras mask.

And that's not an MMO.

[Laerune]

Legend of zelda Ocarina of time. link is 8 at the start. 10 in majoras mask.

In a single player you are limited on the actions that you can do with the children (including if the child is the protaganist), in a MMORPG we have more freedom, from dressing the character in a certain way to doing other stuff like ERP. Like I have said before, I dont mind seeing them and I can understand that some players have the need to want to roleplay a ingame family, but untill they add playable teen/child characters (Lalafellins are not children) I dont think we will see player characters interacting with their own kids.

[Nestama]

Thinking about it, if we forget about all the creepy stuff that could happen, there's actually another thing that prevents this idea from being possible (unless you don't care about immersion).

You don't age in this game. Story/world-wise, I don't think we've even gone through a year yet. Also, child NPC's that have been around since ARR are still children. It'd be kinda jarring if your child could (rapidly) age while everyone around them stayed the exact same age.

[Ilan]

There should be a system where married couples can either have or adopt children. It would be so cool! it'd bring a whole new level in to the marriage system; having a family is an important part in a marriage.

I'm not certain about the details, but maybe they could act as retrainers when they get about a certain age. They could start off as infants and grow up to a certain point over time. Any other ideas would be great!

Edit: I can see where having children would cause an issue. I didn't intend it to be something inappropriate in the game; merely something like the two parents decide to have a kid and a little bit later, poof! They have a child! Thank you for all your feedback.
Now I'm leaning more towards adoption. I do see that a lot of you know that this could be turned upside-down and have a lot of issues with it, but I think if they made it right, so that those issues could not even come up, like dressing the child up (maybe kids could only use pre-made sets of clothing so that no issues could come from that), then the system could possibly work out.
I didn't consider what would happen in the case of a divorce because I never really anticipate such happenings, but that's why I asked for more suggestions to help polish the idea.

Thank you all for your feedback, especially do those of you who are being polite and understanding on this matter. And for those of you who keep saying this is not Sims, please rethink what you're saying and what that really means. As someone has posted in here, we buy houses in this game, and that's something that's in simulators. And I'm sure that's not the only thing.

And now my questions for you: For what use do you want have babys? Do you want to have them as minions? Why would you have a baby in a game anyway? The house has a use for me, leveling the chocobo, gardening which results in stuff to feed the chocobo or minions

Sorry for me it has no use and it would just take recourses away that the developers could use for actual content.

[LineageRazor]

This is not Minecraft.

So all y'all better get it out of your heads of having any kind of gathering or crafting system because it'll never-

Oh, wait. We do have those things. It's almost as though this game is flexible enough to have a variety of different features and activities aside from the core combat! Isn't that something?

[Notomi]

And now my questions for you: For what use do you want have babys? Do you want to have them as minions? Why would you have a baby in a game anyway? The house has a use for me, leveling the chocobo, gardening which results in stuff to feed the chocobo or minions

I only thought it would be a fun feature that would give being in a marriage something more, since there is already a marriage system. No, I do not want them as minions; that would seem kinda weird in my mind, but I'm not sure. o:

I was hoping people would brainstorm and give some thoughts on how children could be useful in the game, and I was hoping people who posted would actually give some solutions to the problems they present; not just the problems. I didn't realize this would be a pool of negativity. If you or anyone else have an idea on what use they could be, then please share. Other than that, I made this thread hoping to get more ideas.

[Alleo]

OP you asked for children in the game and a lot of people just said their opinion about this. You will always have people agreeing or disagreeing with you in a forum and sometimes one has to accept that maybe people dont just like the idea. Also not really sure why having them as a minion would be weird but them turning into another retainer is not? I mean you would basically do child labor with that.

I am not for this idea yet I gave another possible way with helping the orphanage and getting to know those children better but I dont believe that we will ever have our own children in this game.