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One of the most stubborn myths in our community is that minerals and vespene gas are the most important resources to StarCraft: Brood War. This is dead wrong. In the long run our own children, our own flesh and blood, will prove to be our most precious resource.
For this game to live on, it will need to be passed on from one generation to the next much like a traditional sport such as football or baseball.
And it seems to me that, with the game now over 20 years old, we shouldn't be too far off from seeing the children of long-time BW warriors starting to make names for themselves.
A few discussion topics for this community:
1. Have any parents started to train their children in BW? Do you have any takeaways or amusing anecdotes from that process? Did your children look at you like you were the world's oldest man trying to teach them that old timey game where you roll a hoop with a stick?
2. For those of you without kids, what are you thoughts on the possibility that a wave of 12 year olds will once again descend on battle.net? Are you excited at the prospect of their fresh perspective? Or are you horrified at a possible drop in our community's stellar manners and maturity level?
3. What strategies are most likely to succeed in cultivating the next generation of players? The cartooned version was a good start. Next, how about establishing a BW Little League with uniforms and pizza parties and all that? Or filling a spawning pool with progamers' DNA and waiting to see what emerges?
Onward...
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Can't pay for a defiler mound with your children
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My son plays a bit of BW, SC2, Age of empires 2, HOMM series, majesty, settlers etc. We will see if he decides on a title as he is only 5,5 now. He can win the AI in most of above titles so there is potential. :D (easy difficulty obviously)
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On January 19 2020 20:02 kogeT wrote:
My son plays a bit of BW, SC2, Age of empires 2, HOMM series, majesty, settlers etc. We will see if he decides on a title as he is only 5,5 now. He can win the AI in most of above titles so there is potential. :D (easy difficulty obviously)
Damn, that is one badass 5-year-old.
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United States10890 Posts
Have any parents started to train their children in BW?
Some people must of had / been some amazing parents. =)
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On January 19 2020 12:27 mmhmm wrote:
2. For those of you without kids, what are you thoughts on the possibility that a wave of 12 year olds will once again descend on battle.net? Are you excited at the prospect of their fresh perspective? Or are you horrified at a possible drop in our community's stellar manners and maturity level?
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Can happen... Not likely tho.
Recently I met this 13 years old from Colombia, he was playing fastest and 3vs3, 2 months after he is B rank with zerg.
Theres hope
Dandy has a son that also plays bw, las time I heard of him Dandy said he was c ishlevel
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1. Have any parents started to train their children in BW? Do you have any takeaways or amusing anecdotes from that process? Did your children look at you like you were the world's oldest man trying to teach them that old timey game where you roll a hoop with a stick?
lol holy hell no. The curse started with me and ended with me. He is a gosu playing piano instead. Conservatory level, much more acknowledgeable than being "good" at BW.
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United States10890 Posts
On January 20 2020 21:40 iFU.pauline wrote:Show nested quote +
1. Have any parents started to train their children in BW? Do you have any takeaways or amusing anecdotes from that process? Did your children look at you like you were the world's oldest man trying to teach them that old timey game where you roll a hoop with a stick?
lol holy hell no. The curse started with me and ended with me.
CURSE?
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I've trained many family members throughout the last ten years and they all eventually quit.
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Russian Federation250 Posts
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4yo girl trying to play terran campaign. Has about 4 apm.
At the moment she is stuck on a mission where you need to be alive for 30 minutes, because she refuses to defend and sends all her army to attack zergs.
Biggest problem is that she can't read and count numbers, so it's very hard to teach her what to build when.
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i would never subject my child to bw (its not bw, its video games in general)
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the idea of forcing children to play bw is bizarre and should be openly laughed at, let kids choose what they like instead of trying to make them play a 30 year old game none of their friends will be playing
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
I’d love it if I could get the kiddo to play Brood War with me, but it’s insanely antiquated, difficult to play and requires a ton of knowledge too.
Kids these days don’t grow up on a keyboard and mouse like I did, it’s a tough transition, they have touch interfaces, VOIP etc.
When I was 10-15 and playing games I had to type to socialise with friends and others, and I became pretty good around a keyboard, which obviously helps with RTS games:
Trying to get a modern child up to that baseline is extremely tough, by and large they’re not as au fait around a keyboard as we are as a starting point anyway, then it’s getting them to play a 20 year old game.
Fair play if you can manage it, I’m struggling to impart the RTS bug to my (6 year old) youngling. He simply doesn’t use computers in the way I did in my youth
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
If you can manage that it’s great, and props to you guys. Just largely kids these days don’t have the (forced) skills I did.
I had to fucking master the keyboard at a young age, all our social communications were done that way. There was no VoIP. If you want to communicate, learn to type.
Which helps greatly in playing BW or RTS, where keyboard chops are crucial.
The coming generation, they don’t have those chops because they don’t need to. Just how it is. My little sister, with a 15 year gap can’t type for shit, doesn’t need to with modern technology. She can crack maybe 40 words a minute on a good day, I’ve dropped from my 140 peak but can still coast on 120.
I could artificially force my kid to get good at these things but why? What’s he getting from it?
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It's better if they don't start.
If they're going to play games let them play games their friends play, so they can socialise around that.
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my 10yo daugther calls it "dad plays his monsters game" and laughs at me to her friends while playing roblox on her ipad. I'm not sure this is a bad thing though.
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you win, best trolling of 2020
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On January 21 2020 04:45 Hatchet_man wrote:+ Show Spoiler +4yo girl trying to play terran campaign. Has about 4 apm. At the moment she is stuck on a mission where you need to be alive for 30 minutes, because she refuses to defend and sends all her army to attack zergs. Biggest problem is that she can't read and count numbers, so it's very hard to teach her what to build when.
I laughed. Can't teach a BO without knowing how to read and count numbers. Reminds me of when I tried to teach my little one to play on my PC. His hand could not reach the buttons on the mouse.
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
On January 21 2020 23:52 Dangermousecatdog wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2020 04:45 Hatchet_man wrote:+ Show Spoiler +4yo girl trying to play terran campaign. Has about 4 apm. At the moment she is stuck on a mission where you need to be alive for 30 minutes, because she refuses to defend and sends all her army to attack zergs. Biggest problem is that she can't read and count numbers, so it's very hard to teach her what to build when. I laughed. Can't teach a BO without knowing how to read and count numbers. Reminds me of when I tried to teach my little one to play on my PC. His hand could not reach the buttons on the mouse.
My little one has issues in that he’s a southpaw and my mouse is awkward.
He’s pretty enthused about getting to grips with a computer in general though, bit of a novelty really for him so that’ll be fun moving forward. Plus he likes watching it with me when tournaments are on although sadly he prefers the ‘bug guys’ to my beloved Protoss.
Amongst other obstacles his mother is not a huge fan of Starcraft as our time together coincided with me being borderline obsessed with it :p , but I’ve sold it as an educational tool
I reluctantly was dragged to play Fortnite with him so I figure he owes me now, although it was pretty fun. Is Coop mode In SC2 any good for anyone who’s tried it?
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TLADT24920 Posts
On January 21 2020 07:14 brickrd wrote:
the idea of forcing children to play bw is bizarre and should be openly laughed at, let kids choose what they like instead of trying to make them play a 30 year old game none of their friends will be playing
I agree that they shouldn't be forced to play something they don't want to. Conversely, some kids might learn to play the game because they see it as spending fun time with daddy. Different strokes for different folks after all.
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