AGE OF CONSENT

[Solonius_Rex]

@Mayhaw_Morgan

New players are obviously going to die at a higher rate than more experienced players with more skillpoints and better equipment.

This has nothing to do with better equipment or more skillpoints, and everything to do with experience.

@Mayhaw_Morgan

Then I realized that this is also a problem in the real world. New drivers, for instance, are more prone to accidents than older drivers. You can’t join the army until you’re 18. You can’t go work in a coal mine as a child. There are rules put in place by society to protect newbies.

This is a problem in the real world, because we realize that Children have not matured enough in order to make informed decisions. In other words, they are idiots, and we try not to get them to make life-impacting decisions that impact their, and people around them.

@Mayhaw_Morgan

Players are being tricked and/or forced into interactions that they don’t seem to be ready for. The experience might be scarring them and affecting the overall game detrimentally. And, I even think there may be some players who understand this to be true that gain a certain perverse satisfaction of stripping newbies of their innocence.
Wouldn’t it be worth considering a minimum age for such interactions? That way young characters could be guaranteed a minimum opportunity to gain experience and develop the maturity to accept and respond to other players wanting to enter their space and aggressively force play upon them that they don’t enjoy?

Except that we have players with year-old characters still crying and whining. There doesnt seem to be a minimum amount of time that passes without an example of someone beyond that point in time that starts crying and whining about a huge loss and threatens to quit the game.

The thing with Humans in reality is, we have a good enough understanding of the human brain in order to determine when the age of consent should be. Thats why the age may vary, but no first world country with a sane leadership is saying that the age of consent should be 4. How do we determine what age should apply with characters? There are people who get it from the first day, as to what type of game EVE is, and there are people who cry and whine after years of play. Infact, the maturity of the character seems to be tied to the maturity of the Player in question. And this is something that we cannot put a restriction on.