My Kid is ruining my K/D!

[WarChimp130]

So, I keep on checking my K/D and wondering why it's never really improving. Most sessions I have at least a 2:1 ratio, yet my over all K/D is like 1.3 or something. I let my son make his own character(he is 8) just to fart around with. So I'm sitting in the kitchen and I think he is playing his TR character. Then he comes in and says "Dad, how do I switch to rockets when I fly?" I tell him he can't because his character doesn't have it. He says, "well...I'm playing on WarChimp." I run out to check and the little bastard has a 1:10 K/D! He says he likes to play my character because it has cooler stuff.

I know, it's just stats, who cares, but I like to try and keep an accurate track of how I'm doing. Kept wondering why it seemed like no matter how good I was going it wouldn't budge. Guess he just wants to play like his pop, lol.

[Galron]

SOE has said they will make your unlocks account wide (if his char is on the same account) this will help you out. No ETA yet though.

I find my K goes south when I play engineer.

[Electrofreak]

My daughter is 4. She saw me playing PS2 (though I try not to let her catch me doing anything violent) and really wanted to play.

So I taught her that the blue bubble is the safe place the bad guys can't get her and that W is for Walk and makes my guy walk. I showed her all the classes and she wanted to be the "fixer guy" (thanks Bob The Builder) so she spent an hour or so walking around the warpgate fixing tanks and such.

Obviously she has a hard time figuring out what is damaged and what isn't (though I taught her to go straight for anything that is smoking) and she gets stuck on stuff a lot (jumping while moving forward eludes her), and of course Electrofreak got run over a lot ("Daddy why do the trucks keep smushing me, I'm trying to fix them?!") but she had a lot of fun, and I got a few hundred XP out of the deal.

[WarChimp130]

Originally Posted by Galron

SOE has said they will make your unlocks account wide (if his char is on the same account) this will help you out. No ETA yet though.

I find my K goes south when I play engineer.

Yeah, he keeps asking why I won't buy him things on his character and I keep telling him to wait a little while. That and he likes to delete and remake his character all the time. I just didn't realize he had been logging on my character to use all the fun toys, though I guess it makes sense.

[thegreekboy]

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

"Daddy why do the trucks keep smushing me, I'm trying to fix them?!"

Sometimes I think the same thing......

[Goku]

Originally Posted by WarChimp130

Yeah, he keeps asking why I won't buy him things on his character and I keep telling him to wait a little while. That and he likes to delete and remake his character all the time. I just didn't realize he had been logging on my character to use all the fun toys, though I guess it makes sense.

SOE is making purchase account wide. No idea if its live yet though.

[Rolfski]

The most useless stat in the game, K/D ratio (aka, how good are you at NOT playing the objective or as a team) now even torns families apart. Sad that this game has become this far.

[Fortress]

Originally Posted by Rolfski

The most useless stat in the game, K/D ratio (aka, how good are you at NOT playing the objective or as a team) now even torns families apart. Sad that this game has become this far.

It's a cute story, calm down.

[Nolerhn]

I wouldn't worry about your K/D ration for real man. Just last night there was a major stalemate at a base, I don't remember the name of it, started with a P though. I'm TR and we were trying to conquer it, seemed like it was about 20 minutes or so that we couldn't make it into the control room without getting slaughtered. Then me a friend and decided to bust in with some MAXes at the same time. We both died of course, but we took people with us, and at the same time scattered some VS players that were defending. Shortly after the TR took that control point.

I'd like to think it was because of two people that charged in and scattered the defense enough that it allowed the TR to take over the control point.

The game isn't all about killing if you care about objective stuff. Sometimes even the smallest amount of teamwork can change the tide of a stalemate. [/U][/I] Sometimes you just gotta do what's good for the team.

[Rolfski]

Originally Posted by Fortress

It's a cute story, calm down.

Don't worry, it was sarcasm

[Whiteagle]

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

My daughter is 4. She saw me playing PS2 (though I try not to let her catch me doing anything violent) and really wanted to play.

So I taught her that the blue bubble is the safe place the bad guys can't get her and that W is for Walk and makes my guy walk. I showed her all the classes and she wanted to be the "fixer guy" (thanks Bob The Builder) so she spent an hour or so walking around the warpgate fixing tanks and such.

Obviously she has a hard time figuring out what is damaged and what isn't (though I taught her to go straight for anything that is smoking) and she gets stuck on stuff a lot (jumping while moving forward eludes her), and of course Electrofreak got run over a lot ("Daddy why do the trucks keep smushing me, I'm trying to fix them?!") but she had a lot of fun, and I got a few hundred XP out of the deal.

Ok, requsting it now, we need a comic of a four year old girl in NC-garb running around the Warpgate with a Glue-gun!

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by Whiteagle

Ok, requsting it now, we need a comic of a four year old girl in NC-garb running around the Warpgate with a Glue-gun!

Lol, I'm just trying to figure out how else I can put her to work earning me certs while I'm at the office. Hell, all I need to do is get her into an HE tank and tell her to click on the red triangles, and I'm willing to bet she'd hold a > 1:1 K/D ratio!

But yeah, NC on Mattherson, if you ran over Electrofreak in the NC warpgate on Esamir a few days back, you ran over a 4-year old girl. I hope you feel good about yourself.

Seriously though, she was really distressed about it the first time. "Ohhh nooo Daddy he's dead! He got smushed! Ohhh nooooo!" Then I showed her how she can click the big green button and he comes back. She was amazed.

Oh and tonight when I tucked her in to bed, she told me that in the morning she was going to eat healthy food so she could grow up big and strong like the blue guy with the really big armor. Awww, she wants to be a MAX suit operator when she grows up, that's my girl!

[DirtyBird]

Probably not appropriate in light of recent events but because of that I let my 6yr old nephew do what ever he wanted to do this weekend and he wanted to play PS2 instead of just watching me.
I was just as happy watching him play as he was playing it, K/D means nothing.

[Wahooo]

My daughter is 7 and she LOVED to drive around in PS1 in the harasser. She heard me talking in vent and wanted me to tell people not to shoot here when she pulled a buggy from somewhere on Cyssor in the middle of a battle.

She's driven a bit in PS2, but mostly in Beta, she drove off cliffs quite regularly.

I set-up global agenda on two comps and we played the desert together. It was funny finding a class for her. She liked "the one I can put the box down to shoot for me". I let her run around in the VR for a bit on her own (muted of course) and when I came back there were some questions in chat like "is Wahooo drunk or playing on a touchpad?"

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by DirtyBird

Probably not appropriate in light of recent events but because of that I let my 6yr old nephew do what ever he wanted to do this weekend and he wanted to play PS2 instead of just watching me.
I was just as happy watching him play as he was playing it, K/D means nothing.

I think it's just important that kids have a healthy understanding of reality versus fantasy.

I was very sheltered as a child, and as a result, when I got into my early adulthood, I craved violence in video games. Sheltering me from violence as a child obviously didn't work. I don't plan on sheltering my daughter, but I also don't want to make light of killing.

It's kind of difficult to explain the entertainment we get from playing war, but how terrible the loss of life in reality is. I guess what I'm going to do is that stress in my video games, nobody actually dies. When someone's life is taken in reality, it's a terrible thing.

Sorry, don't mean to be a Debbie Downer on this thread all of a sudden, but it's been something I've been thinking about as a parent.