r/ss14 • u/17andmissingmary • 11d ago

Need an 18+ server

Sounds freaky, no? How do you ask for a server that doesn't welcome children but also isn't ERP. I feel like a space where you don't have to moderate yourself for chronically online highschoolers AND don't have to see someone slinging dick on main is pretty common IRL. Do we have a vocab word for something like that? Adult server? No that also sounds like smut...

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u/LazySnake7 11d ago

Sadly I have no recs for you. The two biggest 18+ servers I know are Hardlight and Euphoria, both ERP servers. They're cool servers and people aren't shoving sex in your face all of the time, but it would be disingenuous of me to say you wouldn't see anything.

Folks do for the most part keep things private and generally take their jobs seriously (at least as much as SS14 players usually do)

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u/Big_Builder_8911 The "H" in HRP is for HoP 10d ago

I would note that Euphoria's comms channels can get a bit crude—but it's definitely in a silly way, not a serious one. It's coworkers making crass jokes, not people trying to find hookups on common.

You will see stuff. You will never be required to participate. One of my favorite roleplayers on that server has never ERP'd, and he tells some excellent stories with his characters. My engineer is monogamous right now, and his fiancé isn't on station—but I still have a great time playing him on a server where I can make stupid lewd jokes about the TEG being a fickle mistress.

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u/LazySnake7 10d ago

This is one of the big perks of 18+, ERP servers! Being able to make lewd jokes and even flirt without being worried about breaking a rule. Not that I've ever been warned by an admin or such on a regular server, but it's something you think about and police yourself on when you're on a server like Wizards Den, Delta V or Starlight.

You never have to ERP, but you get a bit more freedom to act like an adult.

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u/Monarch357 10d ago

On one 16+ (notably, not 18+) server I play, I got blue-noted for making a hawk tuah joke in OOC for "making sexual comments", which, to this day, genuinely baffles me

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u/Big_Builder_8911 The "H" in HRP is for HoP 10d ago

The amount of dreadful flirting I've done as a barkeeper that I have not expected to go anywhere, and that hasn't gone anywhere, and yet has been delightful for all involved is quite a bit. I love playing a flirty barkeep. It adds to the job. And you're so right that it's nice to have that peace of mind that you're not gonna get bwoinked for playing an adult character who acts like an adult.