For a survival game of mine, I’m looking to make it so you can press e on dead characters to gain hunger stat, its not going to be graphic in anyway but I’m wondering if the concept of that is too much. I’ve seen a past post on the dev forum saying no, but there’s no mention on the terms of service.
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I don’t think that’s allowed because Roblox is available to all ages so it might be very sensitive content to children. Still when children is searches up what it means it won’t give out a good result.
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(From lesserfantasy)
You’re contradicting yourself here. You say it won’t be a big problem and you also say that it’s prohibited. Both can’t coexist; it’s either allowed or it isn’t. Cannibalism isn’t allowed. Chancing moderation is not something you want to do unless you just don’t care.
The issue is not the encouragement of cannibalism or whether it’s a main point of the game or not. Games have been put under review desptie cannibalism being only a small part of the game. The concept of cannibalism itself is not permitted and isn’t a friendly idea for the Roblox platform.
You are not on good standing to add it and I can think of many people who would object to its addition, up from players themselves to moderation.
I saw that but he didn’t provide any sources
So, I saw cannibalism in some games, so I think you can do that, as long as they are light graphics, not so real.
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That was the plan, I’ve just ran into moderation with other games before and it completely ruined the game because they took so long to unban it even when it fit within terms of service so I wanna be sure that won’t happen again
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This was taken straight from the rules.
It should be fine so long as there’s no extreme detail (i.e. limbs being ripped off). You can always verify this with a staff member if you’re unsure.
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Cannibalism is still cannibalism; you don’t need to be super detailed in order for it to be cannibalism. Don’t do it. Introducing it to your game would be questionable anyway.
Let’s take a step back here: do you need cannibalism? Are you sure you can’t replace this with something else?
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Not everything can be written down somewhere in bold to be linked for your convenience because there’s simply too many things that are and aren’t allowed, which is why the rules use broad terms rather than concise terms except in occasions where a stance about a certain action needs to be made explicitly clear to users.
You should already be aware about the nature of the Roblox platform and how it doesn’t tolerate excessive amounts of gore, gruesome or otherwise inappropriate content. Cannibalism falls under that category by concept. You’re welcome to try adding it if you’d like your game later taken down though, but as the above post mentioned why do you even need it? Use something else. Ro-Ghoul changed from cannibalism to absorption when it was put under review as an example.
Can’t always play up the Terms of Service verbatim. Use common sense here.
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You don’t need terms of service to know what common sense is
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how is that common sense? its not like it would be graphic in anyway and its allowed in some games that are popular.
You do you then, dont complain when you get hit with a warning.
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You should always try to stray away from the “this other game did it, so it must be fine for me to do it!” mindset. Those games simply haven’t been taken down yet.
That’s not what I’m saying, I’m saying that if other games do it and get away with it maybe there’s a CHANCE that it’s not breaking the rules, ix_Eclipse said it was common sense and my point was that its clearly more complicated then that, if it was common sense then no games would do it.
Yeah I wish there was a staff member I could verify this with, the reason cannibalism is so important to this game is because it adds a reason for combat, you kill a person, you can raise your hunger stat, making you live longer.
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Honestly I can’t find a substitute, I need to find some way that killing other players can allow you to live longer, with the only stat being hunger, being able to eat other players would be the easiest way of doing this.
Why can’t people unexplainably drop a side of beef when they kick the can? No explicit connection other than that you can kill other people to get more food?
no. remember what happened to spider? the game where you turn into a spider and commit cannibalism?