You don't want swimsuit bodies to be added to GK?

Ding ding ding.

Why the hell not? We need some diversity, and considering we occupy tropical islands, it would probably not be a bad idea to advertise the "fun and tropical nature" to prospective new players.

Imagine logging into GK for the first time and being dropped outside of the start house wondering "Hmm, would I want to upgrade to gold for this?" then you look to your right and see 6 players in swimming trunks, bikinis, or full platemail armor bopping a volleyball back and forth over a net.

I'm sorry, but 3v3 volleyball in graal, on a beach, in swimming trunks is probably about the coolest thing any noob could dream of seeing when logging into a new server. Damn, I know I'd subscribe. :P

No matter what, I have a feeling it will inevitably lead to a rise in the number of cross-players, which is potentially bad for my reputation.

Of course, I didn't say it was necessarily a bad idea for the server.

You really need to stop trying to make it sound like everything you do/suggest is going to create a flood of new subscriptions. If beach volleyball was such a big draw that people would subscribe just to play a fairly basic version of it, there'd be a ton of beach volleyball MMOs out there.

Good idea, but it will probably result in newbs running around screaming "WANNA HAVE SEX???+"

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Pretty much what I'm talking about.

Precisely.

I hate to break it to you, but most MMOs have similar built-in minigames.

For example, Asheron's Call has life-sized chess boards scattered about the world with monsters acting as chess pieces, and you actually have a serverwide Chess Rank.

http://www.thejackcat.com/AC/Hobbies...hess/Board.JPG

Ya, like the addition of perfumes makes people run around screaming "Ooo, don't I smell pretty!?".

Seriously, adding new bodies isn't going to result in any more sexual behaviour than is already present. I mean, read the "most embarassing" thread where homeboy talks about cybering on GK.. we don't even have the swimsuits yet, and people are cybering.

Seriously, this is a very ignorant statement to make. -.-

Graal, also, has several minigames including chess. People do not subscribe to Graal or Asheron's Call for no reason other than to play chess, and people will not subscribe to Graal just to play beach volleyball.

The experiences of other games suggests otherwise.

Oh really now? Go play Blizzards latest online game (prohibited to say the name).

Obviously you've never played Entropia...

There is nothing socially unnacceptable about swimsuits, it's not like I've given the bodies nipples or something. Christ.

You're trying to be the carpenter who blames his tools when his chair falls apart, or the murderer who sits in court and says it was all the gun's fault.

Adding a new feature, you have to respect that it can be missused, as an feature could be, it's up to the user to decide morally how they will use it.

For example, GK events teams can get a monsters spawner, and one corrupt staff missused that spawner to swarm me and a friend of mine with monsters.

This is missuse of a game feature. Would you suggest we remove the monster spawner and limit the types of events the ETs can hold? No. The monster spawner still exists, and I made sure that ET was removed from his position on the server.

Reprimand those who missuse, don't ruin features for everyone. For every 10 people with integrity, there will always be 1 who is trying to break the rules.

Don't punish 10 people for the actions of one.

I was merely saying what would happen if swim suits were added.

I suppose it wouldn't be that bad of an idea. If it were an event that the swimsuit could only be obtained when the event is in play I guess that would be alittle better, because isn't GK based in like old times where swimsuits didn't exist? ;0