Character Age/Appearance Over Time

[Dragon6624]

I've been hearing talk of the characters having to train to become Genin, Chunin, and Jonin level...but just thinking about that made me think about a new question. How will this correspond to the character age/appearance over time? In the show, Genin are generally kids of about twelve years of age, so does this mean that (like so many other generations) you'll start out as a kid and slowly "grow up" (i.e. will you have a certain amount of time in game to pass before your char becomes taller/ must get a new change of appearance to correspond with a change in age)? Or will you start out as...say....someone who lost their memory and must now re-learn all that they once had. Personally, the idea of a slowly aging char sounds pretty awesome to me...but it also seems a little bit odd (not to mention revolutionary...hell, even SWTOR doesn't want to FULLY embrace that idea). Please explain in more detail how you guys are going to address training to become Genin, Chunin, and Jonin...as well as if you will actually be implementing a time system to correspond with how long the players' chars have survived.

P.S. If you are intending to add an aging system, then will there just be a cap for the non-perma death servers but no cap for the permas? As you can see, this question really needs to be dealt with.

[Vreg]

There will be no ageing. SLO being a realistic simulation where time moves as fast as in the real world is the main point of reasoning for reaching that conclusion. Our main audience will consist of young adults so that will be the central character age, whether we'll allow younger and older ages than that at character creation has yet to be determined.

[Dragon6624]

Ty Vreg, that's great to hear from you, but please give me a little more info on Genin, Chunin, Jonin age. I mean, why would you JUST START as a genin when you're already 15-16 years old.

Yoda: He is too old, to old to begin the training....

[StrawHatSeyi]

@dragon6624 You start off as an academy student

[Dragon6624]

Guess that's the best I'll get on that one...oh well. Ty for replying anyway all who did.

[json243]

@dragon6624 You start off as an academy student

You actually start off as a genin, not an academy student, and work your way up. They're not implementing an aging system, so the age you start is the age you stay.

Ty Vreg, that's great to hear from you, but please give me a little more info on Genin, Chunin, Jonin age. I mean, why would you JUST START as a genin when you're already 15-16 years old.

Yoda: He is too old, to old to begin the training....

You just start that way in the game because there is no aging. People would be pissed if their character died due to aging.

[Vreg]

@dragon6624 imagine yourself being transported to the SLO world, why would SLO let you start as a genin when you have no experience and skill as a shinobi? You will start as an academy student like everyone else and work your way up if you have what it takes.

[json243]

@dragon6624 imagine yourself being transported to the SLO world, why would SLO let you start as a genin when you have no experience and skill as a shinobi? You will start as an academy student like everyone else and work your way up if you have what it takes.

@Vreg thats true if you started in the game as a genin you would not know what to do and not know the controls and such. The academy will be like a tutorial right?

[Vreg]

@dragon6624 imagine yourself being transported to the SLO world, why would SLO let you start as a genin when you have no experience and skill as a shinobi? You will start as an academy student like everyone else and work your way up if you have what it takes.

@Vreg thats true if you started in the game as a genin you would not know what to do and not know the controls and such. The academy will be like a tutorial right?

We will tell you more about this and SLO's ranking during the conference.

[rayzote]

@dragon6624 imagine yourself being transported to the SLO world, why would SLO let you start as a genin when you have no experience and skill as a shinobi? You will start as an academy student like everyone else and work your way up if you have what it takes.

@Vreg thats true if you started in the game as a genin you would not know what to do and not know the controls and such. The academy will be like a tutorial right?

We will tell you more about this and SLO's ranking during the conference.

Write that down...