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The Lennox Building (lennoxbuilding) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2012-04-21 20:40:00

Just a general community question
Question for all the other mods out there: When do you feel you need to cap male or female characters? I've been modding for nearly ten years and I've always done it when there are five or more of the opposite sex. I don't often see games capping. I was just curious. I know it can be a pain in the ass. Some weeks there are more females, others more males. Sometimes a cap can last over a week and there are pending applications. I'm just afraid the players waiting to hear back about their applications are going to lose interest.

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Simplified: When do you feel you need to cap male or female characters?

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minimurphy
2012-04-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)

Personally I'm definitely anti-capping of any kind because as

fromamerica said up there, I feel like capping is more likely to discourage new potential players than anything else. From a player standpoint, I have stopped looking at several games when I saw a cap that would have prevented me from playing the initial character I wanted, and I am usually a player who ends up picking up about four characters at a game and tries to go for diversity and balance among them in gender, personality, age, etc.

If you feel you need more of a certain kind of character, maybe try talking to your existing players about picking up more characters of that type? It's always flattering to be asked to pick up another character, and you already know that they're good writers since they made it into the game.

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