EVE General Discussion

Your son playing EvE now at 10 years old is the equivalent of an MBA at 18. If he gets hooked, he might just be rich by the time he is old enough to own stuff.


Disclaimer: No, I'm not saying EvE will make you rich. The mentality of earning success will.

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To be honest - I don't think it's a very good idea at all. This game may have a "teen" rating but a few hours of playing EVE will show you that a vast majority of EVE players have no issue with broadcasting material that is is no way "child friendly" in very open channels - Simply join the CCP created channel "mining" (where one would assume that topics related to "mining" would be discussed) and within one hour you will be introduced to a lot of "content" that is in no way something that a ten year old should be part of.

There are plenty of games out there for players that are still children, and I don't feel that EVE is one of them.

It would have to be very close supervision. Personally, I really wish CCP would just take steps to make sure that only whatever the county of origin of the player considered an "adult" was even allowed to play in the first place. Think of the reduced load on the GM's that a change like this would result in - from this point on a support ticket for "offensive language" could just result in a system response of "HTFU and use the block feature" :-)

Better to learn now in a video game than when he tries to buy a house IRL.

Almost everyone who replied to this thread either isn't a parent or doesn't play minecraft, or both.

Minecraft is FULL of griefing, cursing, backstabbing little **** scammer bastards. If you let him play that by himself you can certainly let him play Eve. Of course you would be breaking the EULA.

my three year old wants to play, its cute.


Now then, if it was my son, i'd let him. Put him in your corp, make sure he is on the same TS channels as you and his pc is close enough so you can watch it. Once he understands how people and things work, you could give him some more length to his leash. But always make sure you can see his screen so if he clicks on something he shouldn't you can quickly say no!

But 10 is fine, just again, supervise. thats what i would do. He will either get bored quickly or honestly pick up some skills that will help him later. Eve being chess may give him patience, or will just **** him off lol.

give him a billion isk of frigates to run in Faction Warfare, and tell him if he doesn't make his own isk to support his habit he is done playing EVE.

Adult supervision to play this game? Just turn the graphics off that show weapons being shot in space. Minecraft can be worse than eve at times o.O

Robert. Knowing you the way I do now since your first thread here in GD, I know absolutely that this is a genuine offer of help.

Unfortunately we live in an age where offers of help, aren't always intended that way.

While you are a really nice guy and totally mean your suggestion the right way, I don't think any parent should let their young child play EvE under the guidance of any other player, unless they know and trust them personally IRL.

If this happens, only a parent should be guiding and assisting their 10 y/o son play.

Nothing against you at all. I just think in these situations, given EvE is what it is, a conservative approach when it comes to children is the best approach.