<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2251533#msg2251533">Quote from: Question Mark on 20-09-2009, 03:19:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">No, I was just looking for a satisfactory explanation.  Too many times people come onto Sci-Fi RPs with characters that have a variety of skills (the space cowboy syndrome Red mentioned) and this is only compounded by the fact Adult RPs tend to have much younger characters (would <em>you</em> like to bed a geezer?).  So we wind up with inexplicably young characters with multiple skills, most, if not all, of which take a lifetime of training and experience to learn.<br/><br/>You can see why a 34-year-old Admiral who started off as Army, and was also one of the best engineers in the Navy, sent some red flags up in my mind.<br/><br/>But, now that we've established that his race has superior learning capabilities, I'm satisfied.  ^^<br/><br/>EDIT: Er, whoops.  Didn't know additional posts had been made.  On a personal note, though, it was a constructive argument, not heated at all.  O_o<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yups, but all of us that have been on E for more than a few days know just how easily a discussion can be turned heated(can get annoying really lol)<br/><br/>Agrees with the whole old geezer thing, although if a character was older and attractive I wouldn't have a problem with it lol.<br/><br/>But hard as it might be, because this game is full of characters with special abilities, let's try to make it as realistic as possible on all front's.