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Lighty Moderator Hola Mein Comrade I have made 14 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 I've received 3 likes	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 0:56:11 GMT Post by Lighty on Jun 9, 2016 0:56:11 GMT DISCLAMER No I'm not trying to force anyone to change their character. It's just something that I noticed and wanted to talk about. We know that no one was born from the time the Combine took over, to at least ten years ago, server lore says it's been 10 years since HL2. It isn't really ever stated how much time has passed since the events of HL1, which lead to the Combine's invasion, to HL2. Although we can use Alyx Vance as a rough time model. It's stated that during the time of HL1, she is but a baby/toddler, probabl no older than a couple of years. In HL2, she is easily in her early twenties. This can lead to the conclusion that the time span between HL1 and HL2 is between 15-20 years. We don't really know what happened to children during the Combine occupation, and examples like Alyx can't really be considered since she and her father were part of the resistance, and not under any Combine authority. So there's two things that they could've done. Dispose of children by one way or another, either by just killing them or sending them to one particular place. Or, they could've just let them be. If they chose to get rid of children, then that means anyone under the age of around 15-20 (They are aliens, and probably wouldn't consider any modern societal view on what classifies as an "adult") would've gone away. This means that by the very least, anyone alive in this RP's timeline would have to be between 40-50+. (Be at least 15 by the time of Combine Invasion, +15-20 years from HL1-HL2, +10 years since HL2). Or, if the Combine let children be (possible, since even if they did, they would've been an adult by the time HL2 occurred), then that simply means that a character had to be born before the Combine's invasion. That places them between the ages of 25-30+. (15-20 years between HL1-HL2, +10 years since HL2) Thoughts? EDIT This also leads to another point. Unless your character is in the 40-50+ age group, they wouldn't have any pre-combine knowledge/experience. They're entire lives would be under Combine rule, except for the past 10 years.
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French Security Moderator I have made 28 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 I've received 11 likes My gender is Male	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 1:04:22 GMT Post by French Security on Jun 9, 2016 1:04:22 GMT Latter is a no-brainer.
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Lt. Dan Taylor New Member I have made 31 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 I've received 2 likes My gender is Male	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 4:57:48 GMT Post by Lt. Dan Taylor on Jun 9, 2016 4:57:48 GMT Of course, for the most part I see many properly roleplaying their character to their specific age, I try my best to.
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Lighty Moderator Hola Mein Comrade I have made 14 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 I've received 3 likes	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 19:43:36 GMT Post by Lighty on Jun 9, 2016 19:43:36 GMT Actually no, a lot of people don't. There are several characters who, going by the timeline here, are RPing with experience (mostly combat related, from some type of organization) they got from pre-combine invasion, but they would've been only a child when that happened. The only way to be able to do that would be if your character is fairly old, 40's at least. Everyone under that would not have been an adult by the time "the world ended" when the Combine invaded.
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Squishy New Member I am here now, I guess. I have made 2 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 My gender is Male	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 20:38:59 GMT Post by Squishy on Jun 9, 2016 20:38:59 GMT If we are also following the BETA lore of Half life 2, the cut parts. There were actually children in the cities working on factories on the industrial parts of the major or if not, all the cities of the world controlled by Combine. This also opens up the opportunity to have more people like Alyx that grew up with a resistance group since... I mean... you'd rescue slave children, right? Anyways. This is if we're following the beta lore as well.
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Lighty Moderator Hola Mein Comrade I have made 14 posts Right now I'm Offline I joined June 2016 I've received 3 likes	Character Age Jun 9, 2016 22:45:03 GMT Post by Lighty on Jun 9, 2016 22:45:03 GMT Like I said, if we're going by that, and children did in fact survive and grow up throughout the Combine's Occupation of Earth, there is still the fact that no children would be born during that time. The concluded time span of about 20 years from when the Combine invade, to when they fall, plus 10 years since then. That literally means that the youngest someone can be is around 30 years old. Even so, anyone that age would've grown up into the Combine's occupation, and not really have known anything about the world before hand, or have any experiences from before the Combine's invasion. The current year is 2025, -10 years since HL2 means that HL2 occurred in 2015. -20 years for the time that Alyx Vance grew from a toddler to how we see her in HL2 means that the Combine invaded around 1995. Our timeline of normal events ends at that time, and unless a character was old enough to actually do something (Join the military, be a politician, a doctor, whatever) in 1995, they wouldn't really have a whole lot of experience.
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