New dad

[JBConquests]

Lots of great posts. I especially like eris post.

When we had our child I learned that Civ was about the only game I did have time for since it is turn based. Trying to play a shooter or some other story based game just didn't work 10 minutes at a time. As was mentioned by another poster, I would leave it up and running and play the game for 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Though max game time for an average day was probably an hour or two and some days none.

Also a factor is who wakes up at night with the baby. If you are splitting the duty of waking up in the night to bottle feed the baby then you will be sleep deprived regardless of whether you actually play computer games or not. Once the baby starts sleeping through the night this will get better and you will find yourself with free time after your child goes to sleep for the night.

The good news is:
1) If you end up not gaming for a while, you won't mind. Spend as much time with the baby as you can. Be involved in your childs life and don't tune out. I have a friend of a friend who is a gamer and basically ignores his kids to keep gaming. Don't turn into one of those.
2) When your child is older, he/she may turn into a gamer. Happened to me. Now my son and I game allot together and it is a blast! It started at age 2 or 3 playing single player Civ, I would tell him to build a road, farm, etc... and he knew what key on the keyboard to press to make it happen. Now we have more than 1 computer and play multiplayer games together.

 

[CYZ]

Wives are good for practicing diplomacy

Babies are good for learning to deal with crappy AI

It <snip>, pees and pukes on you and doesn't make any sense

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[pxpdoo]

Babies are good for learning to deal with crappy AI

It <snip>, pees and pukes on you and doesn't make any sense

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[RealHuhn]

I'd play another game. CIV consumes too much time.

Whenever I have to learn for exams, I only play fps games like call of duty because games only last around 10 minutes.

Of course, you have to be somewhat good at fps or you won't have much fun and you can't relax. ^^

 

[lithium97]

wow didnt expect this many responses! thanks all, and thanks for the congrats! as it is now, my wife is 8 mos pregnant and i really only play when she naps. maybe 2-3 hours per week. it's awesome when she watches something dumb on TV like dancing with the stars, so i can play another 2 hours uninterrupted.

to those who said maybe my kid will be a gamer, i hope so! so then there will be 2 people my wife will want to kill!

 

[nokmirt]

You teach the new baby History of the World from day one. The only way to teach a baby such a subject, of course, is in front of a simulator (err... game) like, mmm... Civ?

It's what I did, 10 years ago. Now I cannot de-glue both the girl and the boy off the comp... but at least they are not playing Mortal Kombat nor The Sims...

Grace unto you sir! I have to deal with my fiance playing The Sims 2, if we have a baby, well... History will be first on my teaching priority list. Him, her, they have to be civ players.

 

[Aristos]

Grace unto you sir! I have to deal with my fiance playing The Sims 2, if we have a baby, well... History will be first on my teaching priority list. Him, her, they have to be civ players.

Indeed your "half orange" is a tough nut to crack... I don't mean "yours" only, I mean most of them. My wife is still "out of the field" in Civ regards, and I tried everything, including the psycho pressure of "what will you do when they grow up and we three have our LAN parties and you cannot join because you don't know how to play?"" missiles... to no avail.

Now I am trying a new approach, the "slow paced" strategy. I managed to get her into Monopoly lol:), because the kids love it.... step by step, one at a time, perhaps when we retire she will join the legions of Civ...

But the kids, oh well, they have been assimilated.

 

[nokmirt]

Indeed your "half orange" is a tough nut to crack... I don't mean "yours" only, I mean most of them. My wife is still "out of the field" in Civ regards, and I tried everything, including the psycho pressure of "what will you do when they grow up and we three have our LAN parties and you cannot join because you don't know how to play?"" missiles... to no avail.

Now I am trying a new approach, the "slow paced" strategy. I managed to get her into Monopoly lol:), because the kids love it.... step by step, one at a time, perhaps when we retire she will join the legions of Civ...

But the kids, oh well, they have been assimilated.

Yes that is good thinking. With my fiance, I tried Stratego and she played, but she did not look all that happy. She says I have to play Sims for her to play Civ, stating that it can't be all about me. I feel thats fair, so I am thinking of playing along. We have Medieval Sims, I think that would be more interesting to me. I feel that once I am able to get her to actually play civ she'll become addicted. In the meantime the thing that really surprised me is that she is reading a book called Unbroken, which is about an American bombardier who gets captured by the Japanese in WWII, and his trials and tribulations as a POW. She tells me that it is the best book she has ever read. A war story, which is something she usually avoids like the plague. I feel a whole new world is about to open up to her. All I have to do is pretend to like SIMs.

 

[Aristos]

All I have to do is pretend to like SIMs.

Good luck with that. Has to be the hardest thing on Earth, the Sims... I mean, liking it.

 

[Drottocoitus]

I just leave the game running and will play as little as 1 turn a day sometimes. You will also not miss playing you will be too involved with what is going on and enjoying that.