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Originally posted by Nos3y:
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The rest of you saying "oh its just some sprites, oh he can't read, oh yadda yadda yadda". So?</STRONG>
So, he didn’t ask for our opinion, he asked has anyone removed a huge portion of the game or is there an easy way to do this? Answers to both are no.
Is there a game that roughly has the same level of insane detail that DF has but no combat? I don’t know but I highly doubt there is.
There’s a certain chain of events that led to this derailing that may or may not have started with Armok, but that doesn’t give you the right to say So? in such an offensive manner!
The only thing I can say at this point is that, sorry Bolt. If anyone here is wisest its 0x517A5D, you simply cannot change DF so much, nor is there any other game that could be as satisfying as DF, nor could a 4 year old even play it to its full potential. It took me three whole days to figure our how to manage a fortress, 8 hours each I reckon, I doubt a kid would have that much patience. Surely your best bet is simply to play DF yourself and explain what you are doing, simply like reading a story book.
Maybe we got you all wrong, maybe you never intended to let him play at all, the way you worded your post led us to believe something else, you said you didn’t want to expose him to things like sieges, but surely he could only be exposed to such if he played the game himself? But then you say if he wants to play it, you'll let him play a limited version, then you state that you are not an expert parent, saying such is to invite advice from others, even non-parents like myself, because simply, I would advise how my parents brought me up but ultimately it is your decision. You then say it would be silly to limit his experiences based on your estimation of his mental capacity, here I could say it would be better to let him attempt to play the game as it is, but then he would give up in frustration (I would). You then say once again you want to make it safe, it would be troublesome of me to ask you define what 'safe' means, because there is nothing physically dangerous about a computer game itself, though certain monitors might have an ill effect on the eyes, I doubt that is the major concern here. Mentally I don’t think its dangerous, I would guess that the worst case scenario is that he hates the game and doesn’t want to play it any longer, then in a few years time he would completely forget about what DF is and the only lingering memory is of how hard and annoying the game is. Later you say if his dwarves die, he will reject DF for all eternity, maybe it would be better to forget about this entirely? Its certainly a problem, he wants to play a game that it seems, he will hate when he plays it, what do you do? Let him play it and make him hate it? Forbid him playing it and make him hate you? Let him play it but change it behind his back so that its more ideal for him? Whatever I would do I certainly wouldn’t lie to him, I don’t think my parents ever lied to me about the things I liked, was there ever a need to? Maybe he does like DF for the less honorable things, or maybe he doesn’t understand that the dark red shapes represent blood and gore? Seeing as you haven’t posted anything recently I have no idea what you did, I would hope that you followed my advice and told him that the game involves death and gore, though not visually as such.
Either way whatever you did is your business though I would be grateful to know if I am wrong in this matter, from you, not from anybody else.
I probably should have structured this post better, but now that I've already typed it all up...
My science teacher would wag her finger at me for this post. :confused:
If anybody is wondering, I wrote this post because I was angry at my advice being rejected by someone who it did not concern. The top of this post was written and hour and fifteen minutes ago.
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