The fantasy MMO New World is enjoying a lot of popularity at the moment, but players still seem to be less than enthused about some aspects of the game - namely, the repetitive nature of some Gathering skills. One New World player has found a way around the need to grind the Fishing skill, not by using bots, but by teaching their young child to fish in-game.

Redditor AtomicOnionRing posted a picture of their six year old seated in front of a desktop computer, earnestly learning New World's Fishing mechanics. In the post, they declared that they didn't need to rely on fishing bots when they had a kid they could teach to do the fishing for them. Grinding is often considered one of the most annoying aspects of RPG and MMO games, so this decision to outsource the grinding to someone who is presumably trustworthy has gathered some attention.

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While outsourcing grinding to other players has been a controversial tactic for a long time, gamers teaching their kids to tackle the more annoying elements of a game seems to be more accepted than paying a stranger for the same thing. It could be because the child is generally not being paid for their work, or because keeping it within the family removes most elements of risk associated. This isn't the first time New World players found ways around an inconvenient limitation of the game, but it may be one of the most consistently rewarding - at least until the child enters a rebellious stage.

Several other players replied to this post by sharing their intentions to do something similar, or by telling stories about playing games with their families. One user noted that they aren't raising a son, they're training a pocket healer, while another claimed their father did this to them as a kid and they now write computational fluid dynamics code for a living. Teaching a small child to do Gathering tasks may seem understandable, but it's uncertain how many of these users would allow their kids to get involved with New World's interplayer conflicts.

At least in the US, this sort of gaming tactic appears to be legal - most states allow young kids to work real jobs when the business is owned by their family, and Fishing in New World could be considered more of a chore than a job. One user even directly replied by calling the kid an unbannable Fishing bot, and another stated they would add in-game Gathering quests to their kids' chore lists. It appears that small children enjoy gaming enough to put up with the repetitive nature of these quests.

New World is out now for PC.

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