Ellri

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quick thought:
Will the trophy system be primarily for the contests like RPGC, or will it cover other things too?

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This is still very much in development so the press for details is a little premature, don't you think?

@Lillian Thorne

Don't you know? People here love discussing to death features that have barely made it to the drawing board, let alone to the coding stage...

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Actually, this is fairly well-covered in the Fonz-rule... It's not cool with relationships, or in this case RPs, of a sexual nature with someone considerably younger than yourself.

But for the sake of the of legal technicalities, a number might be necessary.

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Good, @HeySeuss... Good.

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sorry to argue, @HeySeuss, but there actually isn't a US federal law concerning age of consent with a single number. The US age of Majority is primarily 18, though. (exceptions: Alabama (19), Nebraska (19 or upon marriage), Puerto Rico (21) and Mississippi (21))

Federal law makes it criminal to engage in a sexual act with another person who is between the age of 12 and 16 if they are at least four years younger than you. Each state takes a different approach as the age of consent has ranged from 10 to 18.Jul 22, 2014

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true, Jordan.

We personally feel that sexual age of consent shouldn't be a static number, but based on age discrepancy. Something like this:
50+: ±15
30-49: ±10
20-29: ±5
12-19: ±3

so long as there's a clear set of rules here, we don't really care overmuch what the relevant number(s) is(are).

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a bit of both really. And a bit to educate people that age of majority != age of consent. Doesn't matter if they're 12, 14, 16 or 18, we'll personally still consider them children.

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From what we could see from digging further, the US is the only nation in the world with a age of consent that isn't a single number. as such, it can be impractical to use. Correction, Australia has one region with 17 while the rest is 16.

US appears to be primarily 16 (30 states + DC), with some states at 17 (8 states) and 18 (12 states).
Taking that into account, we'd suggest going with the number that appears to be most common throughout the world (and throughout the US): 16.

But its not really as if we can truly verify the physical age of people in any case, so its a bit hard to do with 100% certainty.

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Indeed. As it should be. But if you are doing an RP centered around some type of raids and you want to highlight the fact that the raiders don't care overmuch about the age of their "playmates", then simply say so, just don't describe it. Use it as a vague tool to inspire the raiders' opponents to go do what they need to do to stop the raiders.

On the racism note, its fairly easy to avoid that. Speciesism is far more fun. Instead of the black fighting the white, they team up against the green.

EDIT:
Huh. We were curious, so we looked it up:

Each U.S. state (and the District of Columbia) has its own age of consent. Currently state laws set the age of consent at 16, 17, or 18. The most common age is 16.

age of consent 16 (31):

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia

age of consent 17 (8):

Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Wyoming

age of consent 18 (12):

Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin

Wikipedia

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How would such opt-in be implemented? as a separate section or as a special tag? A section might be easier for the permissions, but the tag would make it more convenient for the various types of players and roleplays that might feature such themes.

If going with tag, it might be more appropriate to have several degrees of it, though that could also be covered by GMs. Some might want to just have "a little bit extra", while others might want detailed orgies. Neither of those should be visible to the youngsters (though it is a topic for disagreement where the top age of "youngsters" is, depending on country of origin. Some nations have 18, others 16. Some probably have other numbers again too.