How does babby get ignoreded?

[Harmless]

The wind gicker says out of character: consent to steal ur babby and train it as my witch's apprentice. You get dibs for the apprentice role if I live long nough?

You ooc: TAKE HEEM! TAKE MAH BABEH NOW!

[musashi]

Yeah I got a story about how his elf stole a vbaby once and low and behold the player like, had child kidnapping issues in their real life past or something so there was like, massive tsunami's of drama that ensued OOC'ly thus staff has a "we don't deal with this" policy now concerning vbabies or, something like that.

[Patuk]

What.

I certainly hope the Muark are doing well, hmph. Family members of mine have been murdered, but I'm not going to raise that as an issue when pcs of mine get murdered.

[TheBadSeed]

Umm.. Yeah..

[Maso]

Yeah, Arm isn't really the place for being sensitive about stuff. I'm pretty sure there is required/encouraged virtual baby stealing out there in Zalanthas...somewhere. >.>

[RogueGunslinger]

I wouldn't let people have virtual children if they couldn't handle getting them stolen in a game.

[Maso]

Sounds like an urban legend to me. >.>

Although, I admit there would be issues regarding the feasibility of stealing a virtual baby/item. Perhaps due to the 'value' of said item (a baby), the staff might need to be involved in order to decide whether or not the theft was successful, there's risk of power play etc...so maybe they would be against for that reason?

[Jingo]

I don't think staff get to decide when my character has a kid.

But then again, people get kidnapped all the time in game. So.... babies?

[Bast]

I always ask for consent from the baby daddy before getting prego. Just seems like a horrible thing to force on another player depending on the situation. I also always role D10s

[Maso]

Just have your character ask for the daddy characters consent IG? Or...take your damn mulmix! Or...deal with the consequences IG?

[RogueGunslinger]

I always ask for consent from the baby daddy before getting prego. Just seems like a horrible thing to force on another player depending on the situation. I also always role D10s

Or don't do that. And open up tons of fun RP?

[musashi]

Heh. If you do the mudsex ... you should be ready to deal with the consequences 

[Iiyola]

Heh. If you do the mudsex ... you should be ready to deal with the consequences 

That's only reasonable to me. You could always deny the kid's yours.

[BleakOne]

Heh. If you do the mudsex ... you should be ready to deal with the consequences 

That's only reasonable to me. You could always deny the kid's yours.

Maury Povich in Zalanthas, here we come! 

[Akaramu]

Now I'm super curious about what age psionics first develop.

Oh right um bebeh stuff ... I wish vbabies were easier to steal. As a whiran I was thinking about stealing a bebeh and Shalooonsh poo poo'd the idea pretty hard because apparently, people get seriously butt hurt about it on an OOC level.

...Really? Dear god.

Huh. Really? I've witnessed some vbabies being stolen, years and years ago. From PCs, even.

[Marauder Moe]

Right, and the staff seems to have adjusted policy since then.

Seems reasonable/inevitable to me.  I think we've always had a general guideline of other peoples' vNPCs being off limits.  Also, without baby objects, that means it's up to the staff to adjudicate the kidnapping.

[Maso]

Seems reasonable/inevitable to me.  I think we've always had a general guideline of other peoples' vNPCs being off limits.  Also, without baby objects, that means it's up to the staff to adjudicate the kidnapping.

I suppose with that in mind, they might be open to involving high profile vNPC babies if it would lead to some kind of great plot that would involve a large number of players, but it would take some organising.

I feel like this is all speculation though since a staffer hasn't stepped in to say one way or another. Is it mentioned in the docs anywhere? Arm's rules could do with a serious overhaul to add all the stuff that is buried in the GDB.

[Akaramu]

Shame. Baby kidnappings could lead to such GREAT plots. Perhaps if it was a consent thing?

Without consent, I can imagine the heated discussions that would erupt, aka, "BUT MY VBABY WAS NOT REALLY IN THE APARTMENT AT THAT TIME!"

[Synthesis]

If you morans would just keep your damn babies in your backpack, and keep it closed, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

[Bast]

Shame. Baby kidnappings could lead to such GREAT plots. Perhaps if it was a consent thing?

Without consent, I can imagine the heated discussions that would erupt, aka, "BUT MY VBABY WAS NOT REALLY IN THE APARTMENT AT THAT TIME!"

I have accidently left a crib arranged with a baby in even though I emoted taking the baby with me into the next room. I am assuming this one way that the baby stealing thing could go wrong. It should be consent, it's the ultimate form of torture for any parent that loves their baby

[Nyr]

I feel like this is all speculation though since a staffer hasn't stepped in to say one way or another.

It is pretty much all speculation, but staff already stepped in on it almost 10 years ago.  We don't have a policy on stealing babies that I can find. The only thing that has officially changed is that babies are no longer objects.  This is referenced here (that thread is pretty funny for several other reasons).  Since babies are virtual constructs, it needs to be coordinated with staff as staff are considered the arbiters of the virtual world.  More than likely it becomes more of a case by case thing.

Arm's rules could do with a serious overhaul to add all the stuff that is buried in the GDB.

What would need to be added to the help rules helpfile that is buried instead on the GDB?

[Malken]

I always ask for consent from the baby daddy before getting prego. Just seems like a horrible thing to force on another player depending on the situation. I also always role D10s

Or don't do that. And open up tons of fun RP?

What if the daddy is shooting blanks?

What if it's in his background that he's shooting blanks and the woman suddenly announces that she's pregnant!

Oh my.

[Maso]

I feel like this is all speculation though since a staffer hasn't stepped in to say one way or another.

It is pretty much all speculation, but staff already stepped in on it almost 10 years ago.  We don't have a policy on stealing babies that I can find. The only thing that has officially changed is that babies are no longer objects.  This is referenced here (that thread is pretty funny for several other reasons).  Since babies are virtual constructs, it needs to be coordinated with staff as staff are considered the arbiters of the virtual world.  More than likely it becomes more of a case by case thing.

Arm's rules could do with a serious overhaul to add all the stuff that is buried in the GDB.

What would need to be added to the help rules helpfile that is buried instead on the GDB?

I'm pretty sure there's all sorts of 'official staff opinions' scattered over the GDB about things you can and can't do, and should and shouldn't do. If I had the time to go digging then I probably wouldn't have made that previous comment! Ya know?

[Marauder Moe]

I always ask for consent from the baby daddy before getting prego. Just seems like a horrible thing to force on another player depending on the situation. I also always role D10s

Or don't do that. And open up tons of fun RP?

What if the daddy is shooting blanks?

What if it's in his background that he's shooting blanks and the woman suddenly announces that she's pregnant!

Oh my.

How would he know?

[Malken]

I always ask for consent from the baby daddy before getting prego. Just seems like a horrible thing to force on another player depending on the situation. I also always role D10s

Or don't do that. And open up tons of fun RP?

What if the daddy is shooting blanks?

What if it's in his background that he's shooting blanks and the woman suddenly announces that she's pregnant!

Oh my.

How would he know?

The player would know.