Hello everyone! I was on era today and um well I went into Astros for the first time in ages and I saw some disturbing things. First I saw people pretending to smoke and others were begging for the code like it was cool. Then when I told them that smoking wasn't cool at all and how it negatively effects people they decided to try to fight me. They literally call themselves going off and the nerve for them to call me a "kid" when they are probably much younger than me honestly pissed me off, that is not the point though. I think we should have a campaign to teach these impressionable young children that it is not good to smoke or bully. I know era can't change the world but we can change the young minds who play our game. I feel like if we had events and items dedicated to not smoking and non-violence we might be able to save a few lives from the pressure of "looking cool." I'm a Senior SWAT (students working against tobacco) member at my school (or I was... today was the last day for seniors) I am very serious, so don't shoot me down tell me what you think we can do. Every little thing can change the world.  

I don't mean to shoot you down or anything but if you ask me this won't have a very large effect.  

At first I kinda thought you sounded pretty ridiculous but now I understand you mean well and here's my opinion.

Really, you shouldn't even bother, half the people who play iEra are foolish and immature and probably haven't been educated enough to understand substance abuse and stuff.

Others pretend to do this just for pure attention.

If you see something that offends you then just report the person.

Otherwise, just disregard them altogether.

Just know that there are many rude players out there and an MMORPG probably isn't the best place for them to learn some manners.  

People in a game can be jerks and all but that doesn't stop the game from running.
It's a shield code, others are deem like to use it as their own choice. Nobody can neglect at them since it's their own risk. If others who has seen this 'effect whatsoever' then their bound to get a bad life. Why would you smoke? Why would you party all night long with beer? My life stinks, what about yours? All the questions passing through, imbeciles.  

I know what you mean. But this is Era. If these "kids" parents let them play Era, seeing them doing "pixel-drugs", then so be it. Plus, "looking cool" is part of Era's theme, so they would curse you out, saying bad words, and as you stated, begging for a cigarette code just for people to believe that they're "cool" on an online game.  

you should start a gang and pk them while sharing your message  

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My sides are into orbit  

I doubt it would happen. I mean, the start up screen is a guy holding a gun and smoking a cigar.  

:/ I just want to help these kids be inspired to do something positive.  

We 2 OG 4 u m8, we smoke da kush evry day nd screw ho's in da beds in da basment of astros yo. Plus we do da trashtalkn nd we get in2 so many fites at astro nd den we go nigr fk da police den we al get band nd h8 abot how da adiam wo band us abus powr

You cant stop this, this is like fighting a war on immigrants. Do all you want to prevent it, but people will do whatever it takes to get in, we learned this after the US banned immigration from certain places that people were heavily immgrating from. Did those bans stopthem? Nope. Also this is the internet, get used to this stuff or forever be flamed.  

*cough* cyber bully^  

Posted by 5hift

At first I kinda thought you sounded pretty ridiculous but now I understand you havent played era long enough and heres my opinion.

Really, you shouldn't even bother, 95% the people who play iEra are complete dumbasses and immature and probably haven't been educated or even old enough to undertand anything past 3rd grade logic/ideas.

Others dont get enough attention from their parents so they troll people in graal to make up for their losses in real life.

If you see something that offends you then just report the person. JK staff dont do *** unless you get evidence yourself.

Otherwise, just block them altogether.

Just know that the majoirty of players out there are rude, at least on iEra, and an MMORPG probably isn't the best place for them to learn how to be civilized normal people.

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Posted by PoeticFolly

I doubt it would happen. I mean, the start up screen is a guy holding a gun and smoking a cigar.

#graalogic... and then they have swear filters on the game.  

But in my opinion: I really don't think that kids are going to become addicted to stoges because of iEra. They aren't going to go and be like "Wow, a game has this so it must be cool, right?!" I mean, yeah, stoges do come off as being the "cool" thing. However, just because their pixelated character is doing it, i doubt they'll do it.

For starters, it's actually kind of hard to get your hands on cigs. You have to know someone who is 19 to buy them for you. And I doubt that a 19 year old is going to buy a 10 year old cigs, but that's just me. Plus, the first cig that someone has often turns them off from it. It did for me. I became really sick and light headed, a "smoker's high" you can say.

People are more likely to start smoking because they see their friends doing it than they are in a game. If a bunch of your friends are doing it, then you might fall into it. Peer pressure in a way. At least that's how I got started in doing things like this: my friends. Not from graal. If anything, we should be protecting kids from smoking in real life than in a game.

All in all: I really really doubt era is going to influence smoking.  

Are we all going to ignore the fact your name is Drag Queen?  

^ well done