OK, there's really 2 parts to this suggestion: 1) mainline Wesnoth should have clearer content "ratings" 2) mainline Wesnoth should contain "more mature" content than it has in the past.
I don't have a problem with #1. I am against #2. I'm proud of the fact that i can recommend Wesnoth as a non-brain-rotting alternative to for any child old enough to comprehend it, (almost) no matter what the standards of the parents. >From a perpetuation-of-Wesnoth standpoint, i suppose that while very young players don't add much to the community now, if Wesnoth was one of their first "real" games, they are more likely to care about Wesnoth when they have matured enough to contribute. I'm not deeply familiar with ESRB ratings, but it seems that E+10 most accurately describes Wesnoth up to the re-inclusion of SotBE. E10+ Everyone 10+: Contains content that may be suitable for ages 10 and older. Titles in this category may contain more cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language, minimal and/or infrequent blood and/or minimal suggestive themes. Why should we change the de-facto "rating" of Wesnoth to accommodate the addition of terms like "tree-shagger"? That would be a case of the tail wagging the dog. I understand that many kinds of stories can't really be told at a E10+ level, but does mainline Wesnoth really need those stories? I place more value on presenting Wesnoth to a broader, younger audience. - eleazar / j.w.bjerk On May 20, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Richard Kettering wrote: I second this suggestion - it allows sufficient freedom to express meaningful content, since anything that would push us into an R rating would be very awkward to try and express within wesnoth. Furthermore, it offers an extremely large body of work to act as a "legal precedent," per se - we can look at general examples of things in movies to judge whether something is appropriate/inappropriate. Obviously, there have been gross inconsistencies in how the MPAA has applied their ratings, but they've done a reasonably good job, as well as any human beings could be expected to. That is to say, it greatly clarifies what is/isn't appropriate, so that we'd be less likely to repeat this inane discussion (is this the third time this has rolled around? Fourth? Thirtieth?). So the policy guideline I suggest is: BfW contentent must be compatible with a an MPAA PG-13 or ESRB "T" rating. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
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