City of Child Development

My two year old finds CoH fascinating. So fascinating that I can't actually play unless he's asleep or out of the house- any glimpse of the game inspires his battle cry "Oh...WHASSAT?!?" as he charges the computer.

When he was younger and I hadn't yet admitted defeat his favorite zone was Atlas Park, which he called "BIG GIANT GUY!"

These days he doesn't see much other than whatever I'm doing when he wakes up/gets home. This morning that meant my stalker in the middle of a CoT morality mission, stalkers being the perfect child-friendly AT since you can abandon them pretty much anywhere and they'll be fine.

I was stealthed about 20 feet from a Nerva Spectral Demon, which inspired this conversation.

My mind immediately went to a super group founded by Sister Flame.

That's so cute! Your little goatling is adorable.

My 6 year old nephew tends to come in and watch whatever game I'm playing when he's here on weekends. He tends to keep wanting me to switch characters to 'the purple guy', by which he means my character from another MMO. Or to switch to my male characters instead.

I'm pretty sure he's made comments about the CoT ghosts as well, and he seems to like watching Praetorian clockwork in action.

I hope Claws is taking notes

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My oldest kid is off flying helicoptors in Afghanistan...so at least he lets me play!

My son loves the Praetorian Clockwork...he gets very mad at me if I have to fight them.

I have a kid coming in January... thanks for giving me an appreciation of what to expect!

I used to play Fallout and Baldur's Gate with my 3 year old daughter on my lap. I let her loot the corpses and she got to the point of "kill something else Dad!" so she could keep on having her fun.

Now she sometimes teams with me in the Cities. So you have that to look forward to.

Back in her younger days (3-5) she loved the Freddie Fish and Pyjama Sam games but I don't know if they are still available for current gamer spawn, if you want him gaming on his own or with you.

I have a two month old and she loves watching me play...especially when I'm on a stormy or on my emp defender (all her powers are bright gold). I guess all kids like bright colors; this is my first so I don't know. She's also a fan of Ren and Stimpy.

Oh yes, yes indeed. The power button on my tower has a bright red, glowing ring around it which my daughter's little fingers inevitably head towards. She's almost two now so she will sit on my lap for 30 seconds and watch me play before smacking the keyboard and send me flying into a wall. Although she does love watching me incinerate level 1 Skulls with a Fire Ball.

The other day she took to putting her bib on backwards so it was like a cape before running around the garden with her arms stretched out like she was flying. So there's hope for the next generation of CoX players.

Oh and congratulations Shadowe. It's a tiring but wonderful experience. Good luck.

My nephew has been playing and watching me play since I've started CoH. He's about 12 now... a mouthy, wisecracking 12 year old that if my sister has her way won't live to see 13.

He told me the other week that he was a better player then I was. I asked him how come he thought that. He said it was because I've only been playing for a few years and he had been playing for about half his life.

When my little brother was about 2-3 he used to demand that my Step-Father play "Hutt"

"Hutt" being the sound a male character makes when it jumps. Of course when we let him make a character my Step Father named it "Hutt".

speaking of shows, the little man has been enjoying Futurama on our Roku lately.

he calls it "rocketship".

My daughter started out with "I want to sit with you" and just watching the flashy colors on the screen.

Then it became "There's a bad guy! Fight him!"

"He's too low level."

"But he's taking that lady's purse!" (I fought him. Getting to missions took a while sometimes.)

Then one day I heard the magic words: "Mom, when I'm a superhero I'll have pink hair and a black skirt and black boots and fly with a rocket backpack and go hiiiiiya. Can I be a superhero in your game?" And her very first character, a MA/WP Scrapper was born. A few years later, she has a 25 Fire/Fire Scrapper who has declared herself defender of Steel Canyon (it REALLY ticked her off when we trashed the place for the villain cape mission. She actually started crying.) and a lot of alts. She's also very useful for playing a character on the other account when we need more damage for an AV or something.

I was heading to a mission in the end of Boomtown when my son was watching. He insisted that I fix all of the broken cars on the way.

So with every broken down wreck, out would come the batsmash and jackhammer emotes.

My 10 yr old started playing when she was 7 and hit 50 on her first tank (!) when she was eight. Now she has moved on to much simpler games, such as panfu. I am trying to convince her to play again, but has only managed once when she was mildly interesting in what Going Rogue had added to the game.