Out of Pod Experience

Ok I pose this question to you guys and ladies.

How do you manage spouse aggro.

I personally use active armor tanking by doing chores before being asked. I also throw in some passive shield tank by bringing various shiney trinkets and baubles home. Candy and a card acts very nicely as a tech 1 shield extender, dinner at a fine eatery gets you tech 2 shield modules.

One must be very carefull not to screw up because a spouse can bring to bear some pretty nasty DPS. Depending on the infraction the DPS can be compared to a t1 frigate all the way up to a Titans doomsday weapon.

So please tell about your domestic fits and how you go about FCing your spouse fleet.

Threaten to cut the credit card in two.

Get her addicted on one of those lame facebook games. Give it a few months before she will be the one complaining about domestic aggro.

Kindle, Audible account and her own laptop.

It's not a problem I have to deal with much, but the occasional reminder that I took up EVE in the first place because she had disappeared into Skyrim functions as effective ECM on the occasions when it's necessary.

I just tell her to **** off and go back to playing WoW and slam the bedroom door on her ...generally works for me !

funnely enough it seems to have worked as she"s re activated her account !

Sometimes, the communication itself goes a long way.

The key word is "partner." If you're sharing your life with someone, then you don't get everything to yourself and a cherry on top. That's not sharing.

I count myself rather lucky to have found a woman with a sense of perspective.

One who knows that my entertainment activities that keep me in the house (video games), are rather preferable to my hanging out in sports bars filled with alcohol and loose women. Rather less expensive, too.

Best thing I think is to set up a daily routine. That way, everybody knows what to expect every day, and at what times of the day. "Alright, it's x:30, I'm going to check on my EVE. Be back at x:30." Nothing wrong with that. Nice daily do your own thing time for everybody.

What seems to cause the worst domestic aggro is having so much fun that you can't wait to log in again. Incremental creep in your daily logged in time. "OMG, I've lost my spouse, he/she is in some kind of 24-hour dark backgrounds and ugly spaceships trance!" Kind of understandable, no?

Anyway, the easy thing is work some game time into everybody's expectations for the day. Sitting in front of your computer at home with earphones on ain't too disruptive. Even less than being in a bowling/pool/darts league, poker night, hanging with friends at the bar, golfing, fishing, or even being out of the house putting Bibles in hotel rooms. You are at home in a chair, right?