EVE General Discussion

Absolutely. I have this arguement with my wife all the time. If your kids see you're not scared of, say, Friday the 13th, then they too will look at it and laugh at how utterly ******** that movie is. I loved it! It was hilarious to watch him do the crap he did, and the overacted, stupid people he chased. Although, the newer one by I believe Rob Zombie (I could be wrong) kicked azz.

My daughter's 10. I don't get much time with my kids, I'm up nights (I simply can not sleep during dark hours, too many years doing grave yard shift) and so they simply don't get to spend much time with me. They come home from school, see I've hopped on Eve, and get to their homework so they can park it next to me (my 6 year old son is my copilot) and hope on the laptop (my 10 year old daughter). She's struggling a tiny bit through the tutorials but I told her, if you want to play, do the tutorials. I've played since 2008 off and on, I STILL hit up tutorials when I have a need to know something!

And, me starting all over again puts us on equal footing. And, in the game, I'm not "Dad". I'm "MutnantRebel". It's a time to let formality relax and pretend to be something else for a while, just as if I sat with her to a tea party. We've discussed the fact that local and other chats will be full of adult content and is to be ignored. She's only allowed to chat with that which is approved, some people just don't care about a person's age, mentally or otherwise, and let whatever fly out of their finger tips. That's fine, but she needs to understand that not all of the things in chat is appropriate for her. And, I think she does. Also, here, I can show her hard work isn't everything. Work hard to reach your goals, yes, but work SMARTLY in order to actually SEE those goals.

LOL I don't know what she's going to do when I inform her that at some point, we'll likely be a Pirate Corp LMAO. "Gasp! You mean we're going to ROB people!!???"

Imagine the faces of people when they find out they've been owned by a 12 year old FCing a 50 man fleet..

Ok, so she's not 12 yet, it just means she has 2 years to learn more about Eve and it's mechanics, before you give her the reins and unleash her onto the unsuspecting universe.

Your kids are going to grow up to be armed robbers, or Wall Sreet traders.

Armed robbers are more ethical, so making a pirate corp would be a good thing.

Just look for the anticipation and excitement in her eyes and the widening grin on her face, that'll tell you everything that you need to know

Mine, unfortunately, let me know how much I cuss by her 2nd word being sh.t I was not pleased with myself LOL. But that was after I stopped laughing.

Epic. Also, I lolled hard.

As far as LARPing goes, I had people on the forums laughing hard when I told them what I did to get over the "EVE withdrawls" last June when EVE got shut down from those attacks.

I was on vacation from work (which of course is WHY EVE was down for several days, I must have pissed off some Nordic God in a past life or something and EVE was made to torment me). I had my Step-Son's boys over and we make paper airpplanes all the time for "air to air combat". This time I decided to get a bag of rubber bands and make some paper planes and wrote names on the wings. The most priceless moment was when my 6 year old step-grandson asked me "what are you writing on the wings?".

I was righting "Corpus Pope", "Corpus Harbinger", "Dark Blood Arch Bishop" and such on the wings. Then the boys got to shoot rubber bands at the paper airplanes I launched (I made them with folded up wing ends so they would loop in the air instead of just flying forward, sometiems they would float down in a kind o spiral dive) and i gave them a quarter for every one that were able to shoot down (2 quaters for the dark blood).

Yep, while everyone else who plays EVE Online was going through withdrawls, I was running Blood Raider anomalies in my Den. Even got an escalation when one of the boy's rubber bands hit one of my wife's ceramic figurines and broke it. Wife escaltions are WAy harder to tank than 10/10s......

Letting 10 year old girls play this game is guaranteed to end badly. The average EVE player hearing a girl on teamspeak will start linking porn and talking about all of the dirty things they want to do to her, and probably won't even think about how old she may, or may not, be.

So did you tell your kids to send you their allowance money so you can double it?

You know, to teach them a harsh lesson.

Other than that, props for making sure your kids enjoy a rather difficult game like EVE.

Christmas Eve was a get-together at my grandmother's house (and, sadly, the last one I'll have with her. RIP nana. :*( ), and as usual my immediate family and i got there hours early. So I helped set everything up and then pulled out the laptop for some game play before I had to socialize. My uncle, aunt, and three-year-old niece Maggie showed up. My uncle is a commander in the Navy, and more importantly with the SEALs. His daughter takes after him, and myself (a Marine captain).

So anyways I'm flying about, and a guy on our teamspeak server is just talking **** to me. I have headphones on because no one should hear that, and also the niece is on my lap. After fifteen minutes of listening to him swear and talk crap, my niece tugs on my coat sleeve. Looking down, she gives me the most innocent look and says:

"After you blow up his ship, tell him to go **** himself!"

She then hops off my lap and runs giggling to her father, leaving both myself and him stunned. Apparently she could hear it. :D