EVE General Discussion

In real life I am female and now 58, Eve was my first mmorpg in fact my first voice chat and type chat, and I was completely enthrawled by the game. Oh and I think I might hold the record for being ship killed 4 times in 30 minutes of loading up the game for the first time. But I stayed for a long time.

I have watched the many changes and gone out of game due to some mechanics and some players who feel they need to be agressive.

Many times I have seen the game of Eve brought down by biggots and foul mouthed players, a shame, it is part of life that is now, but still a shame. I have had some unpleasant sexual words used at me and I have heard what some of the men would like to do to other men sexually. Just because you are anonomous behind a screen, gentlemen does not give you the right to speak to anyone as some of you do.

Passive people and players are not welcome in eve. The very nature of the game now does not encourage this.

For myself I was in the game for social interaction, fun, and yes to learn something that for many women of my age is not usual. The game of EVE.

You are asking what gets women to join this game.

I can only speak for myself.

I don't need fancy ships, or pretty dresses or flash screens and fantastic anything. I do need respect.

The game mechanic really does not distinguish between 0.0 low sec or high sec now. The gloves are off and pvpers, gankers..pirates and thieves are having a lot of fun reaping the benifits of the hours that miners and missioners put into their game. Yes I know I am a whiner . lol

The new jump gate annimation, is beyond me I won't even try to deal with the side effects.

I used to enjoy sometimes a dance with one pirate or can flipper ..could be fun and well not so hard to avoid if you pay attention.
but fleets of three or more on one loan mac..not so much fun. Hulkageddon ..a laugh for the pvpers ..a waste of money for the passive player to not play and leave the game.

Women in real life, and those who have families are on guard all the time, we know the realities of the world, in a game we want to just relax and enjoy..without hatred and angst.

But then even the accounts department of eve told me to leave the game if I did not like the attitude of it......

So for all the gentlemen and possibly ladies who do not like my posting..please remember this is one players opinion only, and one who probably will not be in the EVE world any more.

I commend all the women who play Eve and are able to sustain a good game. And all the men who support them.

Fly safe Be safe Alizeran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8s_q3IaglQ

If I play this song will more women come to EVE?

Now I'm curious... what in your life says that it would be more enjoyable?

I have noticed lately that people seem to paint a prettier view of the opposite sex than they do of their gender. I can say as a female that there is a reason that make up has a nickname of war paint. Personally I don't care about the gender breakdown of EVE. It wasn't what drew me to the game.

If there were more girls around I'd welcome them. Just like I do in real life in male dominated fields. It's just that when women come together in large groups you see the sense of sisterhood fall away very quickly. In it's place you find cut throat competition that does not follow moral boundaries in most cases.

I see many responses saying that WIS would attract women, which as I stated early is a big yes. The social aspect to many women is a big draw.

As a woman, I have to tell you how much I appreciate men who treat me as a lady and take care not to get too vulgar around me, I can hang with plenty of things playing a male dominated game, but extreme vulgarity and that usual ** or GTFO is old, but I just usually ignore it.

I also have to laugh at some of the reactions to when I enter a voice chat for the first time... my fave was some guy who loved my voice so much he thought that I would respond favorably when he tried to post male pics of a porn star for me... ?????
WTH? I think he thought I would be sooo excited that I would take him into a private chat rooom ... if ya know what I mean... lol

If you can talk your wife, gf, sis, or mother into giving it a go for a month, the first thing to do is to get her into a voice chat with some fun peeps. I have a fantastic group of online Eve friends that I have stayed with since the very first week of playing and I love spending time just chatting with them some nights.

but CCP... WIS WIS WIS!!! and if you let me design some of the clothes I KNOW I could attract some women to play :)

not with me.

I was referring to how many men are kind enough to refrain from excessive vulgarity in conversations, which I appreciate.

I think that interpretation says more about you than it does about her.

Which is exactly what?

I buddy-invited a real girl. All hail Garamonde.

Does stepping into voice chat with someone instantly identify you as old, gay, disabled, fat, or wearing spectacles? If you are identified as one of the listed descriptors, do you expect to get both random propositions and random vitriol? Do you, as a spectacle-wearing person, find that you are actually grateful and relieved to run across people who just don't care about your glasses and care about your ability to pilot your ship?

Sorry, I just found this-

I'm not trying to be sarcastic but I'm not sure if you're serious? I'm new here and I honestly can't tell if you're trolling, forgive me.

Human sexual genetics and psychology are one of, if not the most, vastly studied branche(s) of scientific research of all time and serious study goes back as far as the 17th century at least. I'm sure you've heard at Darwinian theory, the Kinsey studies, etc, the Smithsonian Institute, Oxford, etc?

It runs the gamut from tiny studies using flawed science, sloppy research and only a handful of test samples to gigantic studies utilizing thousands of test samples and purely empirical research conducted over decades.

And as with any true science, yes, there's endless hardcore debate and comparison of those studies and careers are devoted to such, but what I mentioned is generally accepted as not only one of the most basic findings and a startpoint for the rest of the research, it's also backed up by thousands of studies of sexual genetic behavior in thousands of other animal species using empirical data and cross-referenced to those human studies.

Just Google human sexual genetics major studies/findings.