Welcome to EVE.

Hope you enjoy New Eden for a long time.

btw, interesting read.

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a) what is the ratio of male vs female players in Eve?

a) Seeing where things can be found (where does a particular ore spawn, what NPCs drop what loot)

b) whether an item is an ingredient for something.

Like so many video games, EVE is disproportionately male populated, though the average player is much older (last statistic I saw was 27). EVE does contain (and I have worked with) mothers of children, who in their spare time field capital ships.

Secondly there are several resources for eve info. The wiki linked above contains most of the item info but also:
http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/default.php has accurate stats on every npc in the game. Note the loot tables are not public.
http://eve-survival.org has info on every mission and lots of other PvE content.
http://eve-central.com/ will let you check market prices from (all player driven) anywhere in the game.

Also if you love stealth ships the stealth bombers are incredibly cool. They are the size of frigates yet fields battleship-size missiles, along with a cloaking device they can warp with (you can cloak any ship but only warp in a few). They are excellent for disposing of the unsuspecting in larger ships (especially in groups).

Rabit Lanky: Yeah I've been sniffing about Evelopedia. But for instance in the case of Dairy Products, Evelopedia was of little use. I know this as an item (versus say a ship part), seems mundane and unimportant... I mean all it is, is a carton of milk, right? But how can I know? In WoW, items would be marked by color. Grey items could be sold off to vendors no problemo and served no use. White items however, meant that the item is useful for something and most likely and ingredient.

I find that in Eve my storage is starting to fill up with a whole slew of items that I dare not throw away or put up on the market because I'm not sure if I'll need them. As silly as it feels to keep something as seemingly unimportant as "Dairy Products", who knows - it may just be a rare ingredient to a formula I'll find myself using next week to create something I actually need. As a new player, I really cannot know.

Had this been WoW and Wowhead, I would have been able to immediately check whether Dairy Products are used in a recipe to create say pancakes that give a magical bonus for an hour, or whether it's an item that has no use and can just be vendored.

But Eve does not have a vendor store, does it? Am I to assume that a) all buying and selling action happens in the market and that b) every single itsy bitsy item in Eve has some use for something?

I'm surprised there are so few women in Eve, because at the end of the day - all of those 5 top reasons I like Eve, are things that any gender would enjoy and appreciate.

And does Eve have to change in any way what so ever to attract more female players? Not at all, it's perfect the way it is (at least so far it feels that way). In fact I really appreciate the fact that the game feels extremely equal and gender neutral to me. As an example, the way avatars are. In a lot of games male avatars would have full body suit armor where females would have skimpy sexy stuff, but in Eve it's all very mature and sensible. In other games there would be a focus on making females very sexualized compared to the males, where as in Eve it's completely and utterly equal in that respect as well. I love that I can modify my female avatar's breasts to be small, large, set far apart or together, high or low - but what's awesome is that I can do the exact same thing to the male character as well.

So basically there is absolutely nothing about the game that is pushing possible female players away. My guess is that they just haven't discovered it yet, hah! Now if only that Summerfest text would have been "families enjoying spas instead of wives" :-).

....But now knowing that "The Elder Fleet" is part of the lore, freaks me out a bit! I've never been much of a fan of people representing themselves or their guilds as something that was already in the lore. It's always seemed a bit arrogant to me. And now I'm actually worried that if someone sees "The Elders Fleet", not only will they assume that I am referring to the in game lore version, but that I even spelled it wrong - doubly crass. Argh! I wonder if one can change the name of a corp after founding it. If not, is there any time penalty or anything if I shut this corporation and create a new one?

There are a number of us who remember seeing Star Wars when it first came out in the theater

I also started with UO and went to Everquest when it was released. More recently I quit SWTOR and joined EVE. Guild Wars trilogy probably is my favorite, especially with the amazing art team and all the neat outfits you can get.

The character creator is amazing. I also find a high percentage of the female avatars made by women are actually pretty while the ones made by male players tend to really be more extreme and often intimidating.

I feel as though EVE gets so much negative press, but have found the community to be a nice mix of carebears and pirates.

I also jumped into this game and went all out with the entire back issue collection of EON magazine, a years worth in game time, a bunch of other stuff from the official store, the ISK manual and maps, and several PLEX. Couple of months in now, and I still think EVE is great!

Ohh, I was in EQ at release as well, started on Nameless server and then moved to Tholuxe Paells Such good times. Where were you and what class did you play? I was a cleric.

Welcome Shalestina

You're the kind of player this game really needs so I hope you stay for good.

As far as male/female ratios goes :
I met a girl....once. We had an invigorating discussion about avatar clothing
I had a good time actually ( I would have never guessed ).

Well ok I also met two other girls ( one in Exploration channel and the second one was my CEO ).
What Xercodo said ( 95/5 ratio ) is quite accurate.
I have never experienced any kind of despicable behaviour in this area so it's not a problem around here ( if it happens then just bomb them ).

Don't hesitate to ask any questions on these forums. Most of the time we are just trolling each other but we can also be helpful ( see how much info you already got ).

Good luck and have fun.

If you want to see the other side of the forums (the trolling part):

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=258

No topic goes untrolled there.

Tomcio FromFarAway: Aww gosh, thank you for such kind words. Not quite sure what I said to deserve that but I hope I'll be able to live up to it and offer something positive to this community! I have to say that already now, I am endeared and charmed by this community. Had I posted that same post in a WoW forum for instance, half of the responses would have been like you see here, but the other half would have been downright hostile, if for no other reason than the fact that they can and will get away with it. And J'Poll, maybe I'll have to venture over to the trolling side just before going out on my first serious PvP adventure to work up some aggro hehe :).

We girls are around. I've met 3 of them so far. You make number 4. If I count myself its up to 5. Only 2 I've heard over voice coms as actually female.

Welcome to the game, its fun. It can be adult. It can be immature. New Citizens Q&A is a bit gentler. Beware of General Discussion.

:P

Seriously though, it's about your positive attitude, maturity and obvious capability for carrying on a good conversation.
We can never have enough of those qualities.

That 5%-number might have changed a little the last few years. You have to poke CCP Diagoras if you want a update on that.

Now then, as a new player I have a few questions:

a) what is the ratio of male vs female players in Eve? When I was watching the Summerfest video , the way the text was formed ("Let your wives or friends enjoy the city's spa"), it felt like they were only catering to male players. I've come to this game assuming Eve is completely neutral on which gender it wants playing the game, I hope I am not wrong :-).

b) Does Eve have an item database similar to Wowhead.com for WoW? Of course looking at the attributes in info gives something, but I'm talking about stuff like a) Seeing where things can be found (where does a particular ore spawn, what NPCs drop what loot) b) whether an item is an ingredient for something.

For instance, I looted "Dairy Products" and now I have no idea what to do with it.

a) what is the ratio of male vs female players in Eve? When I was watching the Summerfest video , the way the text was formed ("Let your wives or friends enjoy the city's spa"), it felt like they were only catering to male players. I've come to this game assuming Eve is completely neutral on which gender it wants playing the game, I hope I am not wrong :-).

By the way, does anyone know of any Eve fan site gallery that collects awesome character profile pictures? Seeing some of these just amazes me and if something like that has not already been done, I would like to do it.

Friendly greetings!
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For instance, I looted "Dairy Products" and now I have no idea what to do with it.

The game gives me the freedom to invest as much attention or time as I want. You mentioned that those with not much time to dedicate to the game might not enjoy it, but so far it doesn't seem to be an issue for me

Darnit, had this been a year ago, it'd have been perfect timing. This time last year we were all bored out of our skulls from WoW and just waiting for SWTOR to open up in December. We'd had have many times more than the 7 that we have in the corp right now. Out of which only 1 or 2 has stuck to it in addition to myself, sadly enough.

[to be continued]

For instance, I looted "Dairy Products" and now I have no idea what to do with it.

I recall a corp similar to yours called "The Older Gamers" [TOG], basically the same philosophy of "we're older and casual gamers". They might (if they still exist) have some ideas on alliances that fit the bill.

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