Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
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Posted - 2013.06.19 17:47:00 -
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My wife plays EvE, although she plays no other game online, so I'll just make some observations and let you draw your own conclusions.
1: Before she ever began playing she asked that I put our voice coms over my speakers instead of my head phones. She enjoyed listening to the corp chatter in the back ground while doing other things. The eventually led to her feeling comfortable enough to start interjecting her own comments. While she is no shrinking violet, I believe she felt comfortable with this because none of us were big fans of letting voice coms get too stupid or crude.
2: Once she played the game for the first time, my son immediately killed her. This startled her, and then she laughed... and losing a ship has never bothered her since then.
3: She finds the game play engaging, the politics interesting, but finds ship fitting to be the most boring activity designed by man... and usually asks me to do it. She's a bit of a brainiac so no, it's not too hard for her in the slightest, it just bores her to tears. Ratting or industry of any type runs a close second. She had no issues participating in the occasional mining op (due to the high level of social interaction going on during them I believe) but usually opted to fly top cover instead of hauling or mining.
4: She is quite possibly one of the most aggressive and effective blaster boat pilots I have seen in this game, and a reasonably good scout (although she is a bit too aggressive to excel at it, she likes to get her hands dirty too much).
5: While she spent a bit of time getting her Avatar to look right when Incarna was released, she really doesn't mess with it. In fact, I tweak it more than she does.  She does, however, like the idea of Avatar based game play because it would likely be linked with the social aspects of EvE.
6: While she is good natured about bantering (or if necessary shutting someone down) on a "mature and adult" level, it can get old for her (and the rest of us) very quickly. If the players I hang with were over the top crude or creepy that would put a big damper on the experience for her (and frankly for me as well). In this aspect I think many women that try the game are driven away by the very people that would most like them to play. 
For what it's worth.
To carve a successful niche for yourself in EVE you need to be able to out sell, out produce, out fight,-á out run, or out wit your competitors.
If you can do none of the above, your only option is to complain on the forums that somehow you are at a disadvantage using the exact same tool set-áas the rest of the player base. |