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Girlfriend starting eve, what should we do?
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Napoleon Baleine
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-10-05 03:22:04 UTC
I'm 50 mil sp in mostly combat. My girlfriend wants to start playing eve, what are some good activities we could do in game that require us to work together in a joint enterprise? Prefer lowsec lifestyle, and no manufacturing (except maybe drugs)
Tiffany Kautsuo
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-10-05 03:22:56 UTC
uh.... perhaps exploration? piracy? something of the sort.
Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-10-05 03:23:04 UTC
You should Pod her.

"The American Government indoctrination system known as public education has been relentlessly churning out socialists for over 20 years". - TravisWB
Hammer Crendraven
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-10-05 03:30:40 UTC
Good luck with that. Your girlfriend playing in game with you....could be great or could be a huge disaster one that follows you home knows where you live and gets revenge in the bedroom.
Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#5 - 2013-10-05 03:35:50 UTC

Starting with Rubicon, you can go around with her sucking resources from guys' pos's. You never know, it might lead to more group activities for you two to do together.

See Bio for isk doubling rules. If you didn't read bio, chances are you funded those who did.
Lady Areola Fappington
#6 - 2013-10-05 03:36:54 UTC
I'd recommend asking her what she wants to do, and going from there. Just a thought....

7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided. --Eve New Player Guide
Xearal
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#7 - 2013-10-05 03:44:16 UTC
Exploration, hunting people with her in a tackle frig and you as 'muscle', PI, cybering in local, or whatever she feels like doing.

Does railgun ammunition come in Hollow Point?
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#8 - 2013-10-05 03:51:20 UTC

Abandon hope all ye who enter here...

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#9 - 2013-10-05 04:34:32 UTC
Gank her.

See if she likes it. Cool


Bring back DEEEEP Space!
NightCrawler 85
Phoibe Enterprises
#10 - 2013-10-05 04:45:03 UTC
Lady Areola Fappington wrote:
I'd recommend asking her what she wants to do, and going from there. Just a thought....


This.

EVE is not a game that you really "play together" when your a couple. Im sure that some are lucky and have the exact same interests, but in many cases one likes to do one thing, and the other likes something completely different.

Your gf is going to start playing, which means that she has not yet had time to actually try the different activities (and you saying something like "industry is boring because ******" dosent mean that she wouldent like it.

So here is my advice. First off dont think that you have to play together. For all you know you might end up in a different corp because you have a completely different play style in EVE. Give her time to decide what she wants to do, and then (if possible) meet each other half way.

As an example...
You enjoy living in low sec and PVP, she enjoys industry and mining.
Set your self up so you can protect her while she is doing the mining, and she can help get you ships and things you need by building them.

And if she simply decides that she does not want to live in low sec.. Well you can still go on a roam together once in a while (if she enjoys PVP), or do exploration together, or she can help haul stuff from empire to your area if needed..

But keep in mind... EVE is not the kind of game that you "play together" like WOW as an example. You dont have to follow a quest line where the end goal is to get to level 85 (or whatever it is now), there is no end goal of getting into the raids and getting the best gear.
Wanting her to follow your play style (while understandable) is a good way to wreck her interest and will to even try EVE so go into it with the idea that at most you might fleet up together once in a while, but in the long run you will most likely be doing your own thing separate of each other.

Be there to assist her when needed, ask her to do the tutorial missions, explore the options provided to her, and then if she wants to, introduce her to your own play style, but make sure she knows that if its not for her you wont object if she does something else.

Phoibe Enterprises

The Eve Reader -  Audio Recordings of Eve Chronicles
bloodknight2
Revenu.Quebec
#11 - 2013-10-05 05:15:52 UTC
Mining. I mean, really.
Lady Areola Fappington
#12 - 2013-10-05 05:16:23 UTC
NightCrawler 85 wrote:

This.

EVE is not a game that you really "play together" when your a couple. Im sure that some are lucky and have the exact same interests, but in many cases one likes to do one thing, and the other likes something completely different.

Your gf is going to start playing, which means that she has not yet had time to actually try the different activities (and you saying something like "industry is boring because ******" dosent mean that she wouldent like it.

So here is my advice. First off dont think that you have to play together. For all you know you might end up in a different corp because you have a completely different play style in EVE. Give her time to decide what she wants to do, and then (if possible) meet each other half way.

As an example...
You enjoy living in low sec and PVP, she enjoys industry and mining.
Set your self up so you can protect her while she is doing the mining, and she can help get you ships and things you need by building them.

And if she simply decides that she does not want to live in low sec.. Well you can still go on a roam together once in a while (if she enjoys PVP), or do exploration together, or she can help haul stuff from empire to your area if needed..

But keep in mind... EVE is not the kind of game that you "play together" like WOW as an example. You dont have to follow a quest line where the end goal is to get to level 85 (or whatever it is now), there is no end goal of getting into the raids and getting the best gear.
Wanting her to follow your play style (while understandable) is a good way to wreck her interest and will to even try EVE so go into it with the idea that at most you might fleet up together once in a while, but in the long run you will most likely be doing your own thing separate of each other.

Be there to assist her when needed, ask her to do the tutorial missions, explore the options provided to her, and then if she wants to, introduce her to your own play style, but make sure she knows that if its not for her you wont object if she does something else.



Amusing story time. Way back when, me and my counterpart were both EVE players. I was the evil yarr pirate, counterpart was some kind of industrialist. We didn't know each other's names, in order to save arguments.

One day, I was out in lowsec doing my thing, and I come across a mining op. Doing the correct piratey thing, I proceed to gleefully explode barges. Bout ten seconds later, I hear a keyboard slam on the floor in the other room, and "DAMNIT SOME **** **** *********** ********** JUST KILLED ME!"

I waited a few months before mentioning just WHO that pirate was. I still got in trouble.

It takes FOREVER to wash spaghetti sauce out of your hair. Just sayin'...

7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided. --Eve New Player Guide
Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#13 - 2013-10-05 05:26:55 UTC

Does this counterpart now play farmville instead?

See Bio for isk doubling rules. If you didn't read bio, chances are you funded those who did.
Don Purple
Snuggle Society
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#14 - 2013-10-05 05:34:09 UTC
Lady Areola Fappington wrote:
NightCrawler 85 wrote:

This.

EVE is not a game that you really "play together" when your a couple. Im sure that some are lucky and have the exact same interests, but in many cases one likes to do one thing, and the other likes something completely different.

Your gf is going to start playing, which means that she has not yet had time to actually try the different activities (and you saying something like "industry is boring because ******" dosent mean that she wouldent like it.

So here is my advice. First off dont think that you have to play together. For all you know you might end up in a different corp because you have a completely different play style in EVE. Give her time to decide what she wants to do, and then (if possible) meet each other half way.

As an example...
You enjoy living in low sec and PVP, she enjoys industry and mining.
Set your self up so you can protect her while she is doing the mining, and she can help get you ships and things you need by building them.

And if she simply decides that she does not want to live in low sec.. Well you can still go on a roam together once in a while (if she enjoys PVP), or do exploration together, or she can help haul stuff from empire to your area if needed..

But keep in mind... EVE is not the kind of game that you "play together" like WOW as an example. You dont have to follow a quest line where the end goal is to get to level 85 (or whatever it is now), there is no end goal of getting into the raids and getting the best gear.
Wanting her to follow your play style (while understandable) is a good way to wreck her interest and will to even try EVE so go into it with the idea that at most you might fleet up together once in a while, but in the long run you will most likely be doing your own thing separate of each other.

Be there to assist her when needed, ask her to do the tutorial missions, explore the options provided to her, and then if she wants to, introduce her to your own play style, but make sure she knows that if its not for her you wont object if she does something else.



Amusing story time. Way back when, me and my counterpart were both EVE players. I was the evil yarr pirate, counterpart was some kind of industrialist. We didn't know each other's names, in order to save arguments.

One day, I was out in lowsec doing my thing, and I come across a mining op. Doing the correct piratey thing, I proceed to gleefully explode barges. Bout ten seconds later, I hear a keyboard slam on the floor in the other room, and "DAMNIT SOME **** **** *********** ********** JUST KILLED ME!"

I waited a few months before mentioning just WHO that pirate was. I still got in trouble.

It takes FOREVER to wash spaghetti sauce out of your hair. Just sayin'...

Best story ever

I am just here to snuggle and do spy stuff.
Don Purple
Snuggle Society
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#15 - 2013-10-05 05:41:20 UTC
Turn back now!!! On a serous note your sp and play style might not allow her to experience eve fully. Let her figure out what she wants to do and if its something you can do together then **** yes do it. If not then oh well :P

I am just here to snuggle and do spy stuff.
Lady Areola Fappington
#16 - 2013-10-05 05:42:01 UTC
Erotica 1 wrote:

Does this counterpart now play farmville instead?


Nah, they just drifted away from EVE. Isn't a game for everyone, yaknow.

Payday 2 is the current game, actually. Damned FPS geeks...

7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided. --Eve New Player Guide
Echo Echoplex
#17 - 2013-10-05 05:52:47 UTC
Erotica 1 wrote:

Does this counterpart now play farmville instead?

I bet he doesP

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. Gen. George S. Patton
Slavn
Flying Scissors
#18 - 2013-10-05 05:55:29 UTC
Honestly, just unsub right now. Not a great time to be subbed.
Evangelina Nolen
Sama Guild
#19 - 2013-10-05 07:22:14 UTC
Nullsec fleet ops. Women tend to like the social stuff & soothing voices of FC's.
Tao Dolcino
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2013-10-05 07:32:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Tao Dolcino
Lady Areola Fappington wrote:
It takes FOREVER to wash spaghetti sauce out of your hair. Just sayin'...


Ahem... don't take it bad but... your hair still look red...

Joke apart, yes, she should find her own way. She should play the tutorials and enjoy the discovery. Please don't spoil these magical first moments by giving her tons of ISK and telling her what's cool or not.
Let her experiment, and help her only when she has questions.
Then later when she's bored to play alone, support her in what she likes most.
Well, that's what i'd do.

Edit : oh, and also i'd let her join a nice, funny and active corpo.
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