This is a topic that has been weighing heavily on me for awhile now and so I wanted to see what others opinions were on the topic.

Particularly this stems from some very troubling developments I've seen from offsite Lioden discussions in places like Discord, Tiktok, ect. To be precise, I mean the amount of people under the age of 16 admitting to be so knowing Lioden won't do anything about it. The amount of times I've seen people on Lioden Tiktok posting about how they're 13 and play lioden, or replying to comments with their age is genuinely scary.

I've seen children as young as 11 admitting to being underage however liodens rule against taking offsite proof makes it impossible to report these players.

Many underaged players in discord groups get targeted in some circles offsite from lioden. While lioden doesn't have control of what people do off the site of lioden, they have some responsibility as a company to prevent these things from happening as much as humanly possible. People will slip through the cracks, there will always be stuff out of their control, but that SHOULDN'T be an excuse to do nothing.

What about falsifying proof? I don't want to get framed and suspended!

As someone with a deeper connection to this topic I can tell you the process for being unsuspended from this is very easy. Once you prove your age, boom! No account standing drops, no major punishments. When I was unsuspended I was met with kindness and understanding (I even apologized for being a dumb kid, lol)

Lioden does good with this. Children are naive and learn with age. I'm happy that they give such graces despite not being obligated to.
That being said.. Children being in adult/semi adult spaces endangers ALL parties involved and it should be addressed and met with more force.

Won't kids just photoshop fake proof of age or get their parents to hand over their ids?

You underestimate the difficulty of photoshop! Lioden has a very effective way of ensuring the proof is legit. Even if some kids managed to get by with this method, doing something is better than doing nothing IMO, especially regarding child and adult safety alike.

Also I'd find it pretty weird if someone signed up as say.. 18, and provided an ID of a 30+ yr old. Lioden would have to use their better judgement in these areas which is not my expertise.

My only concern

Other than being underaged.. the framing for other serious infractions is a genuine concern. Due to this, I mainly think this should be implimented due to age concerns only.

I know there's some pretty.. Feral people on this site. To keep the most people safe, proof regarding other bannable or suspendable rule breaks shouldn't be implimented as that can be used for evil and cause genuine damage. Keeping children from a semi-adult space would benefit both sides and hurt no one.