I have been reading around the forums for a while now and listening to in game chat and one issue has repeatedly come up-

"My children play this game, don't do X"
"You should act like Y, there are children that play this game."
"Z is inappropriate, children are here."

Now I'm certain that in a game with millions of players there are some children playing but I'm curious: how many of the players here are children? Honestly I wouldn't want my little brother playing this game. It's a cut throat experience by design with a maximum ammount of player interaction between e-mails and chat rooms. Very little of this is effectively policed outside of the actions made by players themselves. How many of us actually get upset when we see a player circumvent the word filter by using dollar signs, spaces and creative spelling? From my perspective most of us don't mind Evony being a little more of a grown up experience- which is a good thing in my opinion and also why I'd personally keep my younger family members off of it.

It seams to me that most (if not all) of the players I interact with are not children- they are adults and teenagers. (for the purposes of appropriate/inappropriate I don't see teenagers in the same category as children)

Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, or this point isn't worth making, but it seems to me that rather than people saying "your behavior offends me, please tone it down," they are using this argument about children to police the rest of us...

I don't mean to spark any anger here, I'm honestly curious. Are there in fact a lot of children playing this game or is it more of an Evony myth? How many of you actual know of a child (say 12 or younger) who plays this game?

Am I way off base here? I'm curious what all of you think about this issue.