EVE General Discussion

Because space pirate boobies.

this happens 64% of the time but there is only about a 22% chance of that.

My main is male who earns all my isk.

My alt is female who spends it all.

I have an army of Sexalicious Space Vixens

You have a **** in a box.

Case closed. No homo.

The only thing that confuses me is when you are writing about someone in game chat that is using a female avatar and a female name. Do you say "she or her"? Even when you know that more than likely it's a dude? Do you ignore the avatar and assume it's a man?

i don't have an issue with guys having female avatars. some of them make some pretty good ones. just don't pretend to actually be female. your follies and shenanigans are only making things more exasperating and irritating for we legit girls that game.

not that any of the guilty will actually heed that advice. felt compelled to add my 2 cents anyway.

Galaxy Pig is my main character and, if you like, I'll walk you through my noob thought-process as I recall it.

After reading the descriptions of there various races and observing that Caldari is very obviously the best one, I noticed how all the Caldari men of the time were either weasly-looking Asian men or Neanderthal-football-player types (not much improved today). A sexy looking Civire girl seemed like the much better option.

Also, consider these points:

1) If everyone chose their Avatar's gender according to their real life gender, New Eden would be a sausagefest, and nobody wants that.

2) Not picking a female character because "it would be gay", in my mind, actually reflects back at you and testifies to your own latent homosexual tendencies you have yet to come to terms with. So, pretty much the way I see it, not having at least one female avatar, is kinda gay.
Friends of mine have tried to give me s*** about having a girl avatar, I always just laugh and think how they must not be secure in their own gender identity.

3) Whether they realize it or not, guys are more inclined to be nice/give stuff to pretty girls. You could see how this could be advantageous in EVE, particularly for new players.

4) Perhaps there's a divide between people who view their avatar as an actual digital representation of themselves, and people like me who feel less "at one" with their avatar. I think of Galaxy Pig as more of a pet I own who lives in the Internet and likes to blow up exhumers.

5) In conclusion, girls are pretty, guys are ugly.

Ya, that's my rule of thumb too. Trust me, It's a guy.

Funny enough, ive been called "she" and "her" before, on comms, 3 months after ive talked with these people, daily. they know full well im a guy, but i guess the combination of a slightly high-pitched voice and the female avatar, they just dont care.

I've always considered the characters separate from the player so I refer to the characters with their gender and to the players with their gender, defaulting to the character's gender if I don't know the player. Seems the sensible thing to do.

Since I consider my characters separate from myself I don't feel it's any weirder to play a female than it is to play a half-orc, a dwarf, a klingon, a fae or whatever else you can think of, none of them look like me, think like me or behave like me. But for some reason playing a male Fae is somehow acceptable but a female one isn't. Insecure much?