Deceased player statue

[AnnietheCat]

Well they could give us an editable(meaning dye it and customize what it says) headstone/memorial as garden furniture and it can be dedicated to the player or npc chosen by each individual. It seems a bit morbid, but I think that 1) it's a good compromise on something like this, 2) it would be beneficial to the players who want it, and 3) it could enhance the rp experience for some players(as some are currently using those massive garden rocks as memorials). They could be traditional western ones or "doman" ones, and craftable by GSM.

[ArkNova]

Outside furnishing headstone that can have something typed on it would be nice to implement and OP I feel for you, we found out a couple weeks ago our new born son is a carrier.

[Serendair]

To crc0427 and also ArkNova first off: I honestly feel for you two. A relative of mine was born with it and it was always horrible watching the parents helping that little one to deal with it. It's a terrible disease I wish upon noone.

While I do understand OP's longing for something to dedicate to said passed away friend and I see the upright and best intentions he has, I also see a lot of misuse coming along with a feature like the creative ideas everyone brought up. For example what ArkNova said with the outside furnishing headstone. It's a nice idea but in my head people are already creating graveyards in their gardens to make it look gothic, or spooky for halloween. Bringing that thought even further I see names of people that still are happily alive put on said item (looking at you cyberbullying). My very subjective point of view is that I would not feel comfortable with the possibilities a well intended feature like that could/can bring.

[Kabzy]

There's no nice way to say it really, but people generally play games to get away from the troubles in real life. So I would have to be against something quite so grim being implemented. Certain things should stay out of video games regardless of intentions.

And sorry for your loss btw.

[Nalyna]

I just want to give my condolences for your loss. *hugs*

[crc0427]

You don't have to get one if you don't want. Sometimes real life bleeds into games, this for example.

Don't want one? Don't get one.

Simply a suggestion for the Dev team.

[Lexia]

That could easily turn south with large amount of the player base, cause a person would have to die to get a statue? I could see people wanting a statue for other special events then. Birthdays, anniversaries or any other event some deems as a important event in their life. It opening a can of worms.

[AnnietheCat]

But the thing is, something like a headstone(editable or not) for your yard or a butsudan(ummmm it's like.....a family shrine for the home, for people who don't know) type item for indoors is all it would take. Those who /do/ want the item can get it. Those who don't can ignore it. Similar to how I find the flaming Ifrit head to be tacky, my neighbor loves it. He has one, and I don't. You don't have to want something in order to support those who do. Personally, I would use it for NPCs that I loved. not because I rp or anything, just because I felt a connection to those characters and would want to have a memorial. I think if it is something people can use and enjoy(in their own way, as everyone enjoys different things and mourns differently), it can be implemented without causing too much of a fuss. Remember what you wouldn't use, others might. There's no sense in barring people from things that would enhance their experience simply because you wouldn't use it. and while it /could/ have the potential for abuse, everything in this game does. otherwise we wouldn't have the vote kick option or many other things that so many people use and enjoy. abuse of an item like this /could/ count as harassment or griefing(maybe. might be reaching on the griefing charge), and would be a reportable offense.

tl;dr, I don't think a player statue is appropriate, but a memorial like a headstone or butsudan that could have personal meaning to those who use it could enhance the gameplay for some, and I'm all for that.

[Neira]

tl;dr, I don't think a player statue is appropriate, but a memorial like a headstone or butsudan that could have personal meaning to those who use it could enhance the gameplay for some, and I'm all for that.

I think something along those lines would be a nice addition to the furnishings. I wouldn't want something so specific, but a more general memorial, perhaps with the ability to add a name to it, would be a nice item and useful. Whether to celebrate something or to remember something, with or without the ability to edit a name on, it could be used as a furnishing for any FC to commemorate something important to them.

That being said, not to sound callous, but I don't think it's appropriate to make a public spectacle of a personal loss. I don't know if this is the same person or someone else, but I've seen another topic on reddit about someone that a FC was close to dying. I am sorry for your loss, and I've also lost a couple of people I met online(XI as well), but I find it incredibly inappropriate to try to inform hundred of thousands of people who didn't even know this person that you're grieving. Thousands die every day in reality, and sometimes it will affect us and sometimes it won't. But to go out of your way to try to impact others by something that they shouldn't need to be burdened by is morbid, as another user put it.

I like the concept of creating a memorial so that we, as players and FCs, can remember something important to us. But things like this honestly don't belong in public forums, and I hope to whatever powers that may be that no one will call attention to my own death when that time comes.

[AnnietheCat]

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Cemeteries also let it be known to hundreds(to maybe thousands) of strangers that someone is grieving. Seeing a funeral procession on a main road in your town lets you, a stranger, know that people are mourning a loss. You can choose to ignore them because they aren't meant for you, or you can complain about how their "public spectacle" is inappropriate. Which do most people choose to do? Everyone grieves in their own way, everyone has a right to grieve in their own way. And honestly, to commemorate a person that you cared for within a significant hobby of theirs would be an amazing way to remember them. For the people who loved them, they become a part of the game that they loved so much, and a world that they shared together. I think that's pretty flippin' awesome. Then again, I'm pretty flippin' sentimental like that. But we don't have to have similar tastes or mourn in similar ways. To be able to see how this could be a comfort to people doesn't require much in the way of empathy, and it isn't like every single player on each server will go one by one to read every single memorial. Everyone has their own lives. And even if it isn't for a real person, RPers would be able to use a headstone/memorial for IC things or for their characters to mourn NPCs. It's a very small thing, one that isn't mandatory, and one that would be appreciated by those who would use it.