Norns do drink. In the C1 to DS room there's the still, and the water pump just east of the structure. In fact, just west of the still there's even a shower, lol. There's not a separate word for drink, and all liquids are "potions," but "eat potion" is one of the things a good God hand teaches his creatures to do. Besides the hooch, there's BAWLS cola, which I assume is well-known to someone other than Americans, coffee (great for warming up cold norns), ginseng and other teas, etc. Probably there are merely licensing and trademark issues preventing Coke, Pepsi, etc. vendors from being a part of the game, too. There's calm balm to soothe the nerves of angry creatures, carrot juice, panatreea potion (a sort of vitamin drink), milk for baby norns, etc.
I think sexual vs. scatatory issues probably reflect what kids think more than what adults think. However sad a commentary it may be on our culture, our kids are thoroughly sexualized by the age of six or seven and consider it a natural and maybe even positive part of ordinary life. An inauspicious fart will still send them off blushing every time, though, lol. As I said, I inadvertently created a small firestorm of indignation by asking in a forum "Say, anyone seen a norn pee?" And it was a legitimate question, which I immediately qualified by saying I was attempting to determine if the buildup of urea, ammonia, etc. had any relationship to the ubiquitous homesickness. Liam's right, though.
No humping. What you're seeing is probably a combination or norns leaning in to kiss, then out again, or happy dancing as they kiss-pop, or both. If there are several in a group kiss-popping, it could very well be interpreted as humping, so it's an understandable but incorrect observation. Look closer.
His observation about technology issues is valid, too. For its day, the creatures game engine was perhaps one of the most advanced ever developed. But at this point it's ancient technology by computer standards, at least five or six years old. There's only so much you can do with it, and a portion of what you potentially could do might be inadvisable due to the size of the files that would be required, the expenditure of CPU, etc. If breed makers had to make two different sets of animation frames for clean vs dirty norns, for instance, probably most breeds would be fifty mb downloads instead of roughly ten for the complex ones.
Hopefully the community's dreams will come true, and creatures will generate enough interest on the part of some investor to manifest a new game with a new game engine. Then maybe we'll have norns that pee on the trees after drinking too much beer, and need a shower when they return home from a day of happy humping. :2funny
