Well I've been searching around on this forum for awhile,most recently certain topics of looting,crafting, and such things and after reading I thought of one strange yet plausable survival opportunity,human harvesting.While the name "Human Harvesting" could imply alot of things, by human harvesting i mean cannibalism or using the human corpses for other such needs.

Obviously such a taboo act as cannibalism should be a last resort but in a world torn apart with suvivors facing the reality of their past actions anything could be put to use
1. Lets say your character is poor after facing a certain defeat or is in an inability to provide for his/herself, well lets also say there is a dead raider right in front of you, while you can take the raider's gear does that quite solve your body's problems? Well you don't see any animals around or anything nearly safe to be edible so put out your shank or knife and start filleting.
2. Just looting a human's corpse could be a good sorce of gaining caps but think about the possibilities of providing to fellow survivors a meat that is less irradiated than your typical brahmin, and if they dont know what such a meat is (Ex: Mystery meat in fallout 3) they will obviously want that meat, at a reasonable price, of course.
3. While leather and synthetic clothing are very nice and even decayed and torn after who knows how many years of abuse after the great war to craft mass bulks of clothing for a business you will need to find something more available than good quality leather or atleast something that could help improve even a small hide of leather,human skin fillers, you see clothing these days with 90% wool or 90% cotton well what about 10% human?our skins may not be as good as a brahmin or as vault jumpsuits but hell any protection counts right?
4.Lets say your a dangerous criminal or well known for your,lets say darker acts,(ex:raiders) or even a survivor that doesnt want to be bothered by such raiders what if you let hang afew body parts or even a corpse of a fallen raider outside your little shack or carried around a head on a stick or hang some by a string on your belt,who wants to mess with you know?

It's a realistic and dark possibility, so I'm all for it.

i assume that children killing is < than cannibalism, so no much chance for that
but who knows although to me trophies sound better than making products out of human bodies, for example cutting off the head to claim a reward on bounty or just make an nice ear chain

Cannabalism is a cultural practice. If gamesas includes cannabalism, they could just say its thier attempt at a diverse multi-culturalism.

sounds interesting.. it should include some sort of flag if you do it.
but i like the idea.

i'm for it!

Maybe if your character has the human harvester trait can have a chance to terrify human npc's and get the initiative in combat... MMO's... MMO's never change...

If u eat someone ou could get addicted to that or if u sell to somebody that Mysterious Meat, u will make someone cannibalize and then u should lose karma for this , but in the case of using human skulls as trophy its a really nice ideia, and u dont need to lose karma for that, maybe u can use it as currency (e.g: u can trade raiders skulls for more reputation with a cities that are attacked by raiders all the time). Lok'tar ogar for the Horde... man I love WoW...

It is not necessary to drag the whole scull when the only scalp is enough. Excuse my bad English... I am a Russian bear, it's hard to type with claws.

really which one? because not even the nazis used human parts for product.

well there have been and probably are tribes that do cannabalism, even so there are several civilizations that used human products as a product (Indians with their scalps for example )

well first I would like to thank you guys for replying and if you don't mind i'll try to help out in some topics
1:In asia minor and into the beginning of the byzantine empire various rural slave meat markets were in business in pagan settlements,further occurences have appeared spotting europe before civilization claimed the mass of it and in africa around various periods.
2:If there is a karma system I would prefer to think that unless the certain harvested human was in anyway "innocent" of the befouled act apon him there shouldn't be penalized for harvesting for trophies,but there should be a karma drop in any time you harvest meat with anyone in sight
3:I would like to suggest that if like in many other games there is a type of title system you could gain a title of cannabal?
4:Like most previous titles I would think that Fallout online would be rated Mature.If this is the case then why wouldn't cannabalism be allowed?As even the act has been portraited in games and way pass the line of subtle hints of cannabalism.
That is all ty

Everything what is not going against the setting is useful to make the game unique. I am for it. Excuse my bad English... I am a Russian bear, it's hard to type with claws.

I think if 'human harvesting' is implemented, it's the perfect reason to have an alignment system (Karma).

I think there's probably more than a few Factions in game that would frown upon 'human harvesting'.

All the "civilized" factions would I even think raiders would think bad of it, they are raiders, not psychopaths like in fallout 3 where they had dead bodies everywhere... even in their damn beds... wth where bethesda thinking there xD
(sorry for talking bad about another company but damn, they had no raiders, they only had psychos everywhere in that game >,<)

Well, F3 raiders is too much, but they are cruel enough to use scalps and sculls as a jewelry. Excuse my bad English... I am a Russian bear, it's hard to type with claws.

maybe but i still think that its distasteful, will you get a special recipe for human meat

still i can see how trophies might work, severing the head as a prof for a bounty or skulping etc..

I like the idea of cannibalism in Fallout, we saw it in Fallout 3, with the town of... I think it was Andale...
I know that wasn't gamesas era, but still.
Also Human Harvesting, in my opinion, might mean selling characters (players possibly!) into Slavery.
It's ALWAYS been a huge part of the Fallout Universe, from the Slavers Guild to Vault City.

I'd say its about time to be able to collect tokens and trophies from npcs and pcs alike. i for one would love to have finger necklaces and skull shoulder pads and the such to adorn my power armor or any other gear i maybe wearing and even my hummble abode for that matter. I mean its not like it hasnt been touched on in any of the fallout games all ready via raiders, npc's, quests or household themes. I envison whole cannabalistic cults and and "special leather" armors. Sure give us Stigma with some cities and do gooder groups but if you can be a super paragon of good why not a sinister pillar of evil. oh yes and the whole "gotta do what ya gotta do to survive" asspect too

Cannibalism is pretty dark, and I agree with whoever said that if child killing is out, it's unlikely that cannibalism is in. It's unfortunate. One of the best parts of the book The Road involved "human harvesting."

Cannibalism is pretty darkJust 100 years ago you could be eaten in the most parts of Africa and Polynesia. Even nowadays, you have a risk to be eaten (in a ritualistic case) in a certain central Africa regions. The world is wider then you think, and there are so "dark" places that you can't even imagine. Excuse my bad English... I am a Russian bear, it's hard to type with claws.