are we there yet dad? Are we there yet? Dad I need a wee!!! We just left the service station 5 minutes ago!!!!!
My 5 year-old is very interested in the Solar system, so I took an Imperial Eagle to fly him around it
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And lo, a mini-CMDR was born! [big grin]
My cat flippin' RULES at E: D. Not bad at Dark Souls either.I tried to get my cat playing ED. He was more interested in sinking his claws in my leg.
No but seriously it's fun to see such young ones to be into that kind of stuff. When i was his age i was all over the dinosaurs. Then came the universe. After learning our solar system in and out i went further into the void.
Then my head exploded.
OT: Whoever said videogames corrupt da yoofs? Sounds like a proper astronomy lesson, that (with a wee driving lesson in
). My nephew loves watching me game.
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I recall somebody else started a thread where he (the poster) had a grandson who was happy to watch his Grandfather playing ED, so Grandfather bought Grandson a copy of the game. On one occasion the boy is playing the game, with Grandfather reading the news. At one point the boy very quietly said "That's so beautiful". Grandfather looked up to see that his Grandson had parked his ship in space, and was looking at the stars.
Repped, for the beauty of the post.
Repped, for the beauty of the post.
I recall that very same one. This is a wonderful game. We forget how beautiful it is in our scurrying to complete missions and make money, but it's nice to just park somewhere and star gaze for a while once in a while.
Yea.. can't we have a fantastic trade route in a system with a black hole and a couple of blue stars aswell as the station orbiting a ringed planet really close? Tired of sitting around at an orange star with my orange cockpit waiting for an orange hollow dot to come up.
Try Altair. Has a blue-white sun and is home to a rare good.
Haha, that's great! My 4 year old specifically wanted me to get my ship blown up, so I took my Hauler and flew at a star and kept it there until it went bang. He thought it was great and then went back to watching junk on Youtube.
I'm so jealous of young 'uns.
Haha, that's great! My 4 year old specifically wanted me to get my ship blown up, so I took my Hauler and flew at a star and kept it there until it went bang. He thought it was great and then went back to watching junk on Youtube.
Now that sounds like my 12 year old lad , if something isn't blowing up every couple of minutes he's back to watching some idiot scream at the camera on YouTube.
Did you find the infamous planet #9 in your travels? You know, the one that some think will end our existence?
Very nice, but i hope you told him that mars looks a little bit different in reality
TBH, many objects in the Solar System look quite different in reality than in the game.
For example, real-life Iapetus has extreme brightness contrasts and a huge equatorial ridge that gives it a walnut-like shape; Europa has very few large craters, and its network of lineae is much denser than what we can see in the game; and the equatorial region of Enceladus is mostly crater-free, but densely packed with ridges and scarps.
Haha, that's great! My 4 year old specifically wanted me to get my ship blown up, so I took my Hauler and flew at a star and kept it there until it went bang. He thought it was great and then went back to watching junk on Youtube.
Last year, when my then-nearly-4-years-old got interested in the game, for a while he would always hit the silent running button and wait to see first the warning lights & sounds, then the sparks flying – and more often than not, to see the ship explode
So far he’s seen only the training missions, though; I was obviously not keen on letting him blow up my ship in the middle of an exploration trip…
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I think FDEV is missing a lot of potential revenue by not considering an option to let players buy extra CMDRs at a reduced rate. I would very gladly let my kid play ED when he gets old enough to grasp the mechanics, but I would not let him touch my regular CMDR, which I invested a lot of my very precious free time in; and €53.99 for an extra copy of the game, in which he may lose interest within a week, is way too much in a country where the average wage is about one third the UK’s.
Surely I’m not the only one in that position.</rant>
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I think FDEV is missing a lot of potential revenue by not considering an option to let players buy extra CMDRs at a reduced rate. I would very gladly let my kid play ED when he gets old enough to grasp the mechanics, but I would not let him touch my regular CMDR, which I invested a lot of my very precious free time in; and €53.99 for an extra copy of the game, in which he may lose interest within a week, is way too much in a country where the average wage is about one third the UK’s.
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You are in this thread, mate. We're all on Xbox
Good point. [facepalm]* I guess I better tone it down. :xYou are in this thread, mate. We're all on Xbox
* I know it’s not valid BBcode here. [smallgrin]
My little girl is 4 and currently loves The Toy Story 3 game on XBox 360.
She is warming to Buzz Light year and the flight space ranger missions she does. She is aware of 'Daddy's space ship game'.
I am looking forward to when she gets a bit older and Daddy can show her to Infinity and beyond! ... My Python has an empty co-pilot seat and I know just the person for it. I may need to purchase a booster seat though...
She is warming to Buzz Light year and the flight space ranger missions she does. She is aware of 'Daddy's space ship game'.
I am looking forward to when she gets a bit older and Daddy can show her to Infinity and beyond! ... My Python has an empty co-pilot seat and I know just the person for it. I may need to purchase a booster seat though...
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