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Game & Forum Discussion => Game Discussion => Topic started by: duna the killer on June 09, 2013, 11:34:27 pm

Title: Oversized Characters.
Post by: duna the killer on June 09, 2013, 11:34:27 pm
I have seen many characters who have their characters over the middle section. People don't seem to care about realism in size matters. I mean, say the average human man character was in the middle, where it starts when you create a character. If people believed that, there would rarely be any extremely large characters over that size. Lions and Wolves are smaller than humans guys. One time I saw a Smile Dog, and according to the internet he/she is a husky. That Smile Dog was the largest size possible, larger than my human character. I mean, there is no techonology (spell?) I have heard of that allowed dogs to become 10 ft. tall unnoticed. And dogs aren't the only one. Warrior cats are starting to become unrealisticly huge as well. One time I was at Stonebridge, and I saw a leader who was at the top of the height list!
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Yup I am serious.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: hugrf2 on June 09, 2013, 11:47:28 pm
Not everyone knows the average size for humans. If lions and wolves are smaller, then humans are to be very close to the hugest height.
Sometimes people notice wild cats are huge, but then they get carried away with the hugeness.
Yes, I understand your suffering about the height. But, people are able to customize themselves as big as they want, or small. I have seen a thread about lion-sized warriors before in fact.
Tigerstar was big, yes, but not the actual size of a tiger!
"But there's leopard/tiger/lion in my name!" is not an excuse for hugeness.
People probably just want their characters that way, as long as they don't really want the realism, but the character's looks itself.
Take a neon person, for example. You can't force them to change their character, and they aren't trying to be realistic either. But, if someone plans on getting in a realistic RP with that hugeness, then they will be asked to lower their size I'm sure.
You just have to ignore them. As long as they don't use their size as an advantage, also.
Using their size isn't cool as an excuse though, if they are to be smaller animals.
I once even saw a husky the biggest size there was. He even tried to eat me as a bull elk. .-.
They might learn in the future though about the realism.
Also, imagine a LEADER the biggest size there is.. and they use their lives AND their height as an advantage. Be glad there's no such thing as that... yet. o.o
I come up with very bad powerplay actions that I'm glad no powerplayers thought of yet.
At least it's not at the worst.


Best wishes, ~Hugrf?
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Tanglemask on June 09, 2013, 11:49:49 pm
While extremely large characters seems a bit annoying, it's their decision and creativity. They are allowed to be that way. FH is about creativity and if they want a huge feline or canine then they should be allowed to have one. There's no need to be extremely realistic on this game. And besides, having everyone the same size might get a bit... Boring.

And as it is with Warrior Cats, it may be different. For them, they could have it so their large size is actually a normal cat size. It's really all about creativity here.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Cecilia~ on June 10, 2013, 12:03:23 am
I feel like the default size (which is in the middle before you change anything) would be the actual size of a lion or a big cat in general, so I always work off of that.

I never saw anything wrong with large characters, as long as they don't use their size to powerplay or anything.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: mossstar1992 on June 10, 2013, 05:27:01 am
  I have argued over this alot of times in general, and I don't mind posting it here, normaly when we pick our size it is to compare to /Only/ our kind. If i make a hiest warrior, im to be bigger than all the other cats, but not bigger than a fox. if i see a fox, i dun fight, im hightailing outa there.
And the smile dog was that big, b/c Hunskys are a pretty large breed. i think we use sizes for the realism of just our kind. not to compare woith others.
 Now i know what im ghonna get for this: But cats god-mod and powerplay with it!
I know they do, and if you ask me, its not right. i never do that, actualy if i can, i don't Rp with other kinds. If your going to max out your character you need to play it in comparison to the irl sizes of the animals or things your fighting.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Psidra on June 10, 2013, 02:34:03 pm
Well, the platform you stand on when customising your character was never really good for comparison... So..
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: YouheiSunohara24 on June 10, 2013, 03:20:24 pm
Okay... Imma get things straight here. The reason animals are so big is to comapre with the size offspring can be. You know the smallest size you can get? With warrior cats, they don't want KITS half their size, so they are somewhat big. A little over the middle. Because, think about it. If all the cats were right at the middle or under the middle... the kits would be half their size. Same with wolves and their pups. Same thing with lions and cubs. It makes sense to be big because of adult size compared with offspring. DERP. At least, that's MY reason for being a somewhat big kitty. It isn't like Impressive Title. In IT, a cat could be right at the middle, and the smallest size (KIT) would be... kit sized. However, with FH, it's not like that. It should be, but it isn't, so cats have to be big.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Jango_Fett on June 10, 2013, 06:19:12 pm
Okay... Imma get things straight here. The reason animals are so big is to comapre with the size offspring can be. You know the smallest size you can get? With warrior cats, they don't want KITS half their size, so they are somewhat big. A little over the middle. Because, think about it. If all the cats were right at the middle or under the middle... the kits would be half their size. Same with wolves and their pups. Same thing with lions and cubs. It makes sense to be big because of adult size compared with offspring. DERP. At least, that's MY reason for being a somewhat big kitty. It isn't like Impressive Title. In IT, a cat could be right at the middle, and the smallest size (KIT) would be... kit sized. However, with FH, it's not like that. It should be, but it isn't, so cats have to be big.
I Agree Mello, i have seen a guy named HawkStar (NOw meh chars enemy X] ) and hes was a good size over the middle, but only because his character was a large TOm-cat, and some of my chars r big to but only because the kits r small and i dont want to be only half bigger than a KIT because that, if you think about it, is PRETTY weird O_O"!
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: mossstar1992 on June 10, 2013, 07:13:05 pm
Okay... Imma get things straight here. The reason animals are so big is to comapre with the size offspring can be. You know the smallest size you can get? With warrior cats, they don't want KITS half their size, so they are somewhat big. A little over the middle. Because, think about it. If all the cats were right at the middle or under the middle... the kits would be half their size. Same with wolves and their pups. Same thing with lions and cubs. It makes sense to be big because of adult size compared with offspring. DERP. At least, that's MY reason for being a somewhat big kitty. It isn't like Impressive Title. In IT, a cat could be right at the middle, and the smallest size (KIT) would be... kit sized. However, with FH, it's not like that. It should be, but it isn't, so cats have to be big.
Yes, i agree with Imello, its so we are the right size for our king only, not agian others. those who use there size agianst pppl not there kind, ar abuseing the privledge ._.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Killian on June 10, 2013, 08:25:49 pm
I personally don't really care about sizes, not unless you are in an open RP (role playing with your group and the public). I work off the biggest size being the size of a lion or tiger and the smallest being baby animals. So I figure I am pretty realistic when making my characters. Though I tend to be smaller then the average.

I'm not one for human characters so I don't think of them when sizing, I wouldn't RP with one since I prefer animal RP. Humans are something I want to get away from when gaming all round.

Warriors I do believe to be the worst for this, giant domestic cats that are the same size as rottweilers... If they are going to be role playing with the public then I think they should size realistically, if they are closed to public role playing then they can be as big as they want since they won't be comparing with wolves and lions. 
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Lady_Alizarin on June 10, 2013, 08:31:22 pm
iMelllo has a good point.
I remember making a topic similiar to this "Lion-sized Warrior Cats?" Whenever I make my warrior characters, I make them slightly bigger than the mid-sized option. They are pretty much they same size as my red fox characters. The only "big" character I have is the Jason Voorhees pitbull. Howerver, he is not at full max height, since most pitbulls aren't that big. He is a bit smaller than the max height.
 
The only thing I don't like about the whole oversized thing is when people abuse the big size to win their battles unrealistically. For example, I have met a few warriors who were bigger than my fox or my bobcat character and they would tell me "I'm bigger and more powerful than you! I can kill you with just a swipe of my paw to your head." That's too unrealistic, and that's when I have a problem with the oversizing. However, if I meet a warrior that is bigger than my fox or bobcat character, and they play in terms of being realistic and fair (not using their height as an excuse to win against me) then I'm okay with it.  
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: femalecreature on June 10, 2013, 11:38:22 pm
"The size of characters is too dang big!" ~Edited version of rent-is-too-high guy.
8ut yes, it is too big (only trying to make it funnier ^). Most times I see lion-sized Warriors, and this topic is frequently repeated. In fact, the topic shouldn't be brought up at all! I believe human characters are all the way up on height, lions a bit under, wolves even lower than lions, foxes below wolves, and cats under foxes at about a little over the smallest height, if not that. I made a wolf once, and I was going around minding my own stuff. I came upon a Clan and decided to watch it. There was this cat named "Knifeclaw" (cats don't know what knives are), and he was bigger than my wolf, which was a DIRE WOLF! I was like, "Wtf?!" People. Really. Stop making your characters SOOOO big that they can walk over a human with 6 foot clearance. And what's more, I believe that this happens for a reason! I think that people believe they will win ALLLLLL the battles they RP fight if they are larger than normal. I give a thumbs up to those who are little, and have something like "Little" or "Tiny" in their name, and are smaller than foxes! Huzzah for those people. Anyways, that's my rant.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Prinprinkley on June 14, 2013, 02:29:49 am
To be honest I don't really mind this, unless they powerplay about it. Since the heights aren't given in feet or inches or the metric system, Its all relativity here, also, I don't see anything wrong with unrealistic characters unless they ask to join a realistic rp, just my opinion here, since some of my charries and kind of big and over 90% are neons.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Rev Guardian on June 17, 2013, 06:08:15 am
As said this game is about being creative including when designing your character so if they have a non-proportionate size it's not really a big issue to me. I do admit it is a bit strange to see a warrior cat the size of an adult male lion but if that is the way they want their character so be it.  :)
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: Vespian on June 17, 2013, 07:14:31 am
I'm not really bothered with the size problem, and like most people have already said, as long as they don't use their size for their own advantage unrealisticly when they claim to be realistic, I just go with the flow. I have noticed that the Warrior Cats are taking some kind of growing serum though, considering the fact I've seen some nearly as tall as Starrk and Starrk's a big dude. However, I don't often interact with many Warrior Cats through Rp however so it's not a major problem in my book. And like many have said before me and this post, you nor anyone else cannot demand for the individuals to change their size if they wish to be unrealistic and all. Though, my advice is try to give them a few pointers in the height and if they try to roleplay unfairly with you, merely ignore them or walk off. Hurr, late with this response.
Title: Re: Oversized Characters.
Post by: whitewolf223 on June 17, 2013, 07:32:13 am
I've seen house cats bigger than my coyote. I do not agree with it. One time a cat tried one hitting me because I would't leave their "territory"