We should have age restrictions

[locolagarto 15]

Ok so my 4 year old just had to play sacred with his daddy today.

 

 

and he has a pretty killer level 3 Dragon mage with only Dragon form. Says he like dropping fire bombs on the bad guys

 

Hard to see in photo but here he is in Sloeford flyin to the "Find a merchant to sell stuff" he says.

 

 

 

Now the 8 year old wants in on the action. I can hear them fighting over the Computer already. Crap, gonna have to build another puter. LOL

[Furian67 15]

Now you went and done it. Next generation.

[Schot 407]

Awh look at tha lil guy. An up and coming Sacred addict. Brings a tear to me eye. ^^

 

I think your Sacred days are numbered loco. Mini loco is in dah house!

[Knuckles 904]

Just make sure you don't leave them alone with one of your toons, next to a merchant with lots of gold. I did and when I came back (swear I was afk 1 minute) my daughter had managed to buy about 50 horses

[locolagarto 15]

Just make sure you don't leave them alone with one of your toons, next to a merchant with lots of gold. I did and when I came back (swear I was afk 1 minute) my daughter had managed to buy about 50 horses

 

 

LOL luckily the only thing of any value I have is..... well that settles that. I don't have crap so we're good there. actually I only let them on lan. and I don't really have any SP chars so we'

re good.

 

Actually the younger one made the transistion to PC from Xbox better than I did. What's up with that?

[gogoblender 3,070]

hah!

See what happens when you share with the yunguns the joys of adult toys? Careful andy, you're gonna find yourself all tied up one morning with the kids playing your HC accounts

 

Great pix, great seeing the new, next gen hacking away in Ancaria

 

 

gogo

[Spunky 16]

Great pics Loco, a new generation of Sacred addicts

[Silearth 6]

And that is why I don't save my password in the options file. I once let my son help me with leveling a character in S1 and he killed it. There are 6 kids in the house. They all know not to touch daddy's/papa Henry's computer, but I do have to go to work..... Hate to come home one day to find my entire seraphim army dead.

[chattius 2,526]

Your boy is left-handed?

Me and my second daughter are left-handed too. I bet that is the reason my oldest daughter uses an assymetric trackball. To keep us away from her computer. Personally I prefer a ring mouse. Since all my characters are played close and personal and no need for long range targetting that is okay for me. But buying rings is a pain;)

Our six year old daughter hates computer games. She prefers board games and likes to look at our faces when she wins.

[ka243 3]

50 horses huh.... Someone wanted to start the arcanian cavelry.

It would be cool if you could buy 50 horses and hire 50 soldiers and run with an army...

[locolagarto 15]

Your boy is left-handed?

Me and my second daughter are left-handed too. I bet that is the reason my oldest daughter uses an assymetric trackball. To keep us away from her computer. Personally I prefer a ring mouse. Since all my characters are played close and personal and no need for long range targetting that is okay for me. But buying rings is a pain;)

Our six year old daughter hates computer games. She prefers board games and likes to look at our faces when she wins.

 

 

He's actually ambidextrous. I am left handed as we but grew up in a right handed world. so I play with mouse in right hand. As soon as my 8 year old got home from school he moved the mouse to the right side. and the four year old just changed hands and kept going. He starts school next year. I already expect call from his teacher that say he keeps changing hands while learning to write. My Mom finally made me choose one hand about half way through Kindergarten.

 

I catch and throw baseball left handed. But Bat and play golf Right handed. use tools left handed. my little one will probably be the same way

[locolagarto 15]

Well, my little man is progressing nicely on his Dragon Mage. He now uses Skull Lightning (Mind Strike) and Melee. His uncle Furian showed him how to zap em with the right button and Wack em with the left button. He can switch Combat Art's by hitting 1 for Skull Lightning and 2 for dragon form. Hits M for the map and can teleport back and forth from Start Isle to Sloeford. He's been grinding around Sloeford today. up to level 6 on Bronze.

 

More to come

 

P.s. Chattius he seems to have settled on Right hand mouse. With his stuffed monkey toy firmly in his left hand.

Edited December 18, 2009 by locolagarto

[chattius 2,526]

My second is playing "Krieger des Lichts" from the german group "Silbermond" in an endless loop when she plays her Seraphim. Krieger des Lichts translates to warriors of the light.

 

English translation of the song

 

So when I hear the music I know she is playing her seraphim

 

When my daughter was 3 I wanted to buy some computer books. We entered the store and the first thing my daughter was seeing was this 4 feet linux penguin. A lot of whining and crying, finally the clerk phoned his boss, got a key, unlocked the chain on the penguin and was selling it too me, leaving an empty spot in the kids corner.

 

Half a year later I was phoning the store for some books and the clerk said that he got a very big green dragon from another software now and I would better leave my daughters, all of them, at home when I would come for the books

Edited December 18, 2009 by chattius

[locolagarto 15]

My second is playing "Krieger des Lichts" from the german group "Silbermond" in an endless loop when she plays her Seraphim. Krieger des Lichts translates to warriors of the light.

 

English translation of the song

 

So when I hear the music I know she is playing her seraphim

 

When my daughter was 3 I wanted to buy some computer books. We entered the store and the first thing my daughter was seeing was this 4 feet linux penguin. A lot of whining and crying, finally the clerk phoned his boss, got a key, unlocked the chain on the penguin and was selling it too me, leaving an empty spot in the kids corner.

 

Half a year later I was phoning the store for some books and the clerk said that he got a very big green dragon from another software now and I would better leave my daughters, all of them, at home when I would come for the books

 

 

That'a fabulous story Chattius!. The morale to this story is what our kids want, they get, so be careful what you expose them to. My wife has said for years that she would like to have a little girl. I see how this little boy has me wrapped around his finger and........ Chattius I envy your ability to raise 5 girls and have them all so brilliant. I would have to lock them in the closet with the only key to "the Impenetrable" surgically implanted in my chest cavity. And a full stock of Shotguns with enough shells to make a third world country cringe.

[chattius 2,526]

4 girls, our 2 year old twins are mixed.

 

Beside that I use Sacred2 for teaching, I guess the most education my daughters got when helping to build their own rooms and bath, good times to teach electric, static and more.

 

When we bought our house, a railworker house at a no longer used railway line mid in forest, we had a long discussion if we really should do it, but 15000 german marks, 7000 US$ then for a house, barn and surrounding with 100 fruit trees sounded cheap. No one was living in it for 3 decades, next village (120 people) 800 metres away, 3 bus' a day, no longer a train, no cinema, no cable TV .... and no internet.

 

So we are permanently repairing the house, changing the barn into kid rooms and such. It's funny that we bought our first friesian horse not only for our daughter but for house repair. Wooden patchwork frame from oak, then the space is filled with braided willow twigs and covered with a biological, heat containing, breathing and cheap mix:

 

fine cut hay, stray, horse apples

add clay and water

smear it on the willow twigs

 

The bacteria in the horse apples will rot the hay and stray away, leaving tiny 'worm holes'. So the wall can breathe, no sweat water inside, while still a very good isolation.

 

So by helping with the repairs they learned a lot and it didn't had the taste of forced teaching. When we did the lighting for the kid room I asked which cable she would choose, 3, 5 or 7 wires to have 2 switches for the light at different places. So when she was 9 she knew about OR and AND switches already. It was mainly that I was able to spend a lot of spare time with my kids and there was no hurry, we knew that we would need nearly a decade work to have our house finished.

 

And for the shotguns:

We preferred big dogs. Our recently diseased Tarzan was a Saint Bernhard/ traditional german shepherd mix. Traditional german shepherds are the long fur variant from the storm blowing mountain ranges. Now we have 3 Leonberger dogs ,each way over 120 pounds in weight. They are trained to rescue people out of water. There are several small lakes to breed fish close to our house, so it gives less head aches if we know that the dogs will guard and can rescue in emergency.

 

One bad thing at living in the countryside and having daughters who like animals:

 

23 hedgehogs which were too light for winter sleep, 71 young snakes rescued from the horse apple heap, a tame mouse weasel (mother was caught by a fox), 5 little owls in the barn who need hunting training to be set free in spring, 300+ bats (we kinda stole their barn, they were there when we bought it)

Add

3 dogs, 4 cats, 3 horses, 13 geese, around 50 hen

 

It was a hard time to teach them which birds feed their nestlings only at the nest and which does on the ground too, if they were fallen from the nest. Some years we had young falcons, buzzards, owls, ... And only the falcon nestlings would have needed care

 

So now my oldest wants to become an animal doctor specialised on artificial limbs. (Love for animals and engineering combined in one job). My second is a hunter, she can spend days to watch out an animal, prepare the cameras for one perfect shot.

 

I can see this even in Sacred2. The characters of my oldest are always to test out a lot of stuff quickly, while the few characters of my second are designed to have have fun in late game.

[locolagarto 15]

I am envious. I only dream that in another life I would have to patience for such a wonderful self supported life. the teaching you do with the kids( 4 girls and 1 boy) is a lesson for all of us.

 

Continue to share our Stories with us please. This is better reading than any book I have ever seen. You should consider an autobiography of your family and life style. In todays energy crisis, economical crisis. your one of the pioneers.