Originally by: Washell Olivaw

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So CCP should provide cloak as a safe way to go AFK for when things pop up.

Lets replace ccp with restaurant and cloak with babysitter.

A restaurant should provide a babysitter so parents can come dining.

Sounds silly that way, right?

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As for parents having more financial means, that's bs. For the last 2 decades teens and twenthies have been listed as an important group to pry money from. They usually have a decent income and few to none fixed expenditures.

Fresh parents have to deal with rent/mortgage, utility bills, insurance, car + maintenance, kids and their associated costs, putting aside money for the kids to go to school. Except a lucky few most parents are strapped for cash not flowing with it.

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TOP 10 INDUSTRY FACTS


1. US computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2006 to $7.4 billion û almost tripling industry software sales since 1996.



2. Sixty-nine percent of American heads of households play computer and video games.

3. The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.

4. The average age of the most frequent game buyer is 40 years old. In 2006, 93 percent of computer game buyers and 83 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18.


5. Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2005 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10+" for Everyone 10+. For more information on ratings, please see www.esrb.org.


6. Eighty-seven percent of game players under the age of 18 report that they get their parentsÆ permission when renting or buying games, and 89 percent say their parents are present when they buy games.

7. Thirty-five percent of American parents say they play computer and video games. Further, 80 percent of gamer parents say they play video games with their kids. Sixty-six percent feel that playing games has brought their families closer together.


8. Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger (23%).


9. In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.

10. Forty-four percent of game players say they play games online one or more hours per week. In addition, 32 percent of heads of households play games on a wireless device, such as a cell phone or PDA, up from 20 percent in 2002.

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Originally by: Laboratus

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If you move fast enough to be 2km away from the point you were at the moment you were scanned when the scanner warps in, they don't decloak you, no?

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Originally by: Robert Denby

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Edited by: Robert Denby on 20/06/2007 17:22:27
Basically, I have to somewhat nerf any of my ships to fit a cloak. You never know when your kids are gonna freak out, wake up screaming, or whatever. So as a parent, your choices will be:

a) never leave systems that you can't dock in
b) plan on losing a lot of ships to scanners
c) stop playing

Kinda sucks, tbh.

I'm not telling CCP what to do, I'm just pointing this out as a dynamic.

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Originally by: Herculite

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...I've ratted in 0.0 for quite a while now often with no safe area nearby and I can't say I've been killed offline once and I never use a cloak.

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Originally by: Annika MonSulu

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http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php

Now you see why adults....and parents specifically, tend to be catered to by the software companies. The money is in fact in the hands of the parents.

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