EVE General Discussion

My little one just turned two, and -- while I've stayed subbed since she's been born -- I haven't really been able to meaningfully engage with the game this whole time. I've settled into a pattern where I keep my skill queue filled. I do some light industry, and I do my hauling at night after she's asleep.

I do have these dreams of a glorious future where I and daddy's little scouting alt go traipsing through the vast reaches of space, but I don't know realistically how far off that future is (if ever).

Since this game has been around long enough for folks to have had families and children, I thought I'd ask the community:

Did you stick around through the early parts of childhood or did you take a break?
If you stuck around, what did you find you were able to do to keep you interested and engaged?
At what ages or developmental milestones were you able to expand the scope of your play? What did it entail?
Did you ever introduce you kids to Eve? If so, at what age and with what restrictions?

Thanks in advance folks!

When my first kid arrived I had the same concerns, but being able to prove I'm a family man has opened new doors of gaining trust for scams and when he got older I brought him in on a few to put the mark at ease.

Now I don't know how I ever managed without him, and have had 2 more since so I can use any age group or sex to keep the demographics of any scam open.

My oldest has branched out to running his own scams and has even come up with some ideas involving my 2 yr old girl I hadn't even thought of before. Its really great.

My daughter likes to watch when I suicide gank.

But she has gotten me killed on this character a fair bit, oftentimes in embarassing fashions because she wants to try and play the game if I leave the chair for more than a few moments.

But eh, it's no biggie, I am just glad she doesn't lick windows or try to kiss electric sockets like some of her cousins do.

You, my friend, have my deepest sympathies. I told my wife that if we have twins with this next one, that we are giving one to the circus. Of course my three year old daughter latched onto this, and keeps saying that "we have to give the ugly one to the circus, I want to keep the cute one."

Ah here, don't be like that....












They will both be ugly.

My daughter is 6 and my son is 3. I do find myself frequently having to go AFK but not as much as when they were younger. Although I'm divorced and have 50/50 custody so I only have them every other week. My mission ship is tanked well enough to face tank anything almost any L4 can throw at me. However, if you play in null, low or wh space then simply going AFK from time to time can be more fatal.

If you want to have more AFK friendly way to play it'll have to be hi-sec. Mining can be better than mission running in this regard. PI and station trading would be decent ways of making isk that will allow AFKing.

Daytime daddy here. Working afternoons and nights.
Put the first daughter on comms during a TEST stratop, the racist profanity and obscenity was much curtailed.
"Dad go to the moon! Go to the Sun!"..."It looks suspicious during a structure bash, darlin'."
Roaming with a friend in Wicked Creek at 0200 local time, son toddler creeps up and drops a box of Duplo on a tiled floor, at that hour sounded like the end of the world.
Random button mashing and mouseclicking reprocesses a Wolf, oh look morphite! Thanks kid #3 at 10 months.

By the 4th kid you are so laid back that their temperament benefits from it.
Have always just got up and walked from spaecships when needed though, causing some inexplicable losses and cutting some comms convos off sharp.

I'm not responsible enough for kids, and I'd probably be a terrible father. That being said, I'm probably not responsible enough for much, and definitely not interested in meeting anyone.

However, I do have a very demanding pet cockatiel I named Enyo. I hand raised her since she was a little less than a month old (by then they have most of their feathers except their neck ones) and she likes my keyboard. Just typing a single line when she's in my company often requires some deft finger dancing around her in order to get to the keys I need, and she hops around as if I'm trying to catch her.

And don't think for a minute birds are easy to take care of. One wrong move, one sudden gesture or unexpected noise, and they're up in the air, even with their wings clipped, headed for the nearest window (source of light, not so much trying to escape, just spooked), which if they hit hard enough they can break their neck or lose half their beak. Honestly, she'd be better off breaking her neck and dying quickly rather than knocking bits of her beak off and dying slowly from starvation.

But she's a lovely girl who when she's not playing on the keyboard, loves to sit up on my shoulder and preen my hair or beard. It's not much of a beard, just a short, trimmed bit of fuzz really much like that on my avatar, but it's enough for her to grip with her claws in order to climb my face and nest in my hair sometimes, which she does when she's tired and wants a nap.

But yeah, she does take a lot of looking after. 'Tiels are very social birds and I'll tell you now, if you have one you'll know that you don't need an alarm clock in the morning. They're one of those birds you don't have to cover at night, although in the winter it helps to keep them warm. Although, that's not entirely necessary either if they have all their feathers, which they can fluff up into a personal 'blanket' (feathers are nature's greatest insulator, true story). Anyway, Enyo doesn't often get covered unless it's really cold, and when the sun comes up, so does she, and the squawking for my attention commences immediately.

Anyway, the biggest interference with EVE is mainly when she's decided that right now, while I'm taking on this gang of frigates and destroyers and/or maybe a cruiser or two solo in my Ishkur, is the perfect moment to climb on the keyboard and stand on ALL the buttons I need.

Quietly.

I didn't play any game but Parenting for twenty+ years. I don't see how anyone could possibly pursue a gaming interest, properly maintain a household and raise children at the same time. I see people claiming they're doing it all the time. I have serious doubts. What makes this very difficult is how the economy has devolved into a form of economic slavery requiring two spouses to work in order to make ends meet. (I think my sleep went back to normal around three years after the last one moved out.)

I'm not going to go into a morality/sociology diatribe about it. Unfortunately, like designer coffee, parents get to raise their kids "how they see fit" in this world. That's often a mask for "not raise them at all"; fast food diets, parking the offspring in front of the Cartoon Channel...then we laugh at generations that can't find their own state on a map. To each his own. You're free to ruin your progeny after your own image. My ultimate view is - you can't raise kids and seriously game. Impossible. One or the other will suffer.

Love Child - The documentary