Greetings,
Lemme start by saying that I am really glad that bloodbond was added. The idea of marrying brother/sister and then divoricing just to make a family was rather distressing My concern is the amount of time you have to wait just to get married if you want to bloodbond as well. Waiting 48 RL days is kind of a frustration

Example: Joe Smith is in love with Suzy Johnson. Suzy Loo has a brother named Bob Johnson. Bob wants to continue(in this case create) the Johnson family, but Suzy wants to create a family with Joe. This means Joe gets to wait at least 48 RL days just to get his family underway...

Can I suggest that perhaps the restriction regarding getting engaged while bloodbonding be removed? As long as the bloodbond begins first, I think it would be reasonable to allow people to have their engagement timer running as well..

Anyone else agree?

Im too young to think about having my own family *nod me*

I assumed it was 24 days like every other IRE game. The only really thing I dislike with bloodbond, is making it look like I was married to my brother (Kaervas).

I agree that the wait can be fairly rough, but it is there to ensure that you absolutely want to marry/bond whoever you are marrying/bonding. I think it would be safe to lower the wait a bit, however.

Maybe I'm not making myself clear..

I'm not saying remove the wait..

I'm saying.. Allow engagement to occur at the same time of bloodbonding, rather than forcing people to wait 24 days for the bloodbond of one person to finish, and then another 24 to get married.

Yeah, it does seem a bit weird having the periods separate. It's supposed to make sure you're completely devoted to the person, but I don't think having two people in your life is going to throw your judgement horribly

I don't suppose any Gods could weigh in on this one? Or perhaps even Estarra?

No, we're not going to speedup the bloodbond time nor allow engagements at the same time and I'll tell you why. Families take a long time to form and we are not giving one family set-up an advantage over another (one of the reasons we aren't allowing multiple-partner marriages even though a couple of people have asked). The time it takes to bloodbond is the same it takes two couples to get married and found a family. If we were to allow parallel engagements, then bloodbonding families would get an enormous advantage--in the time it would take a couple to become engaged, get married, and start a family, a bloodbond couple in the same time could start a family with two married couples, thus gaining a tremendous headstart. Thus, we will not allow the bloodbond pair to have such an advantage. Yes, the bloodbond pair would have a longer wait before having children since they'd each have to go through the process of getting engaged and married after they form a family, but by then they'd be siring twice as many children as a family formed by a married couple.

Bottom Line: Whatever method you go about forming a family will not have an advantage over another.

Hope I explained this well enough. It makes sense in my mind if no one elses!

I appreciate the post.. I can't say I like it, and I'll even say I don't like it, but I can understand the reasoning. Oh well.. 44 days to go!

I appreciate the post too, but I can't say I totally understand it.

I understand it bit still would like it shortened >.< oh well, guess Ill have to live with the wait

I quite like the bloodbonding system (even though FAMILY TREE BAU says I am engaged to my sister). I have been anxiously awaiting a system that does not let you adopt willy-nilly. Alyvia knows my troubles with it, as do several others I know OOCly (not always my fault).

I agree that it is a long wait, but it makes sense. If you were going to adopt someone into your family in real life, surely you would not just do it, not even having considered the possibility beforehand. And if you are concentrating on your family, would you really want to worry about a wedding and children and all that at the same time? Adoption is an arduous process, and weddings are no better.

Estarra, I love you! They never listened to my pleas elsewhere!

Maybe I missed something but families, bloodbonding, whatever are just roleplay tools, they don't make you more powerful or technically mean anything so I really wonder where the advantage is if things got sped up or changed.
But maybe I have just missed something important. I have never cared much for families and such in a mud.

You get a family newsboard and channel and bankaccount if your family becomes big enough. As you can only consider one child per year... tis a long process, to be sure.

Let me quote from the HELP FAMILY file...

"If a family grows to over 50 active members (that is, 50 people can use their family name), then that family will be considered a "Great House". Great Houses will automatically receive their own news group, be able to keep a family bank account, and have their own communication channel. If a family drops below 50 active members, it will lose its status of a Great House and the privileges associated with it."

That is why some, at least, want things to be faster.

And you don't want a repeat of the Karmazov family... Who let me keep that last name anyways!?

Screw the Kamazovs, I don't want to see the Keytes again.

I dare you all to log onto Achaea and BLOODLINE SHOW BELDARAN.

Then you can scream while I duck all the flying objects.

Actually I just want my character to get engaged/married.

I don't think there is anyone out there who WOULD marry Felemar *grin* But I do want to bloodbond in order to get the ball rolling on the Palewynd family.

Despite the 48 Lusternian days, bloodbonding is a great idea. Nicely done.

-Ixion

I like the bloodbonding idea, it's something that no one else has and you don't have to struggle with trying to get married.