How Many Actual Female Players Are in EVE?

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This isn’t a troll thread or a debate on who should be playing EVE, just a genuine curiosity:

How many actual, real-world female players do you think actively play EVE Online today?

I’m not talking about female avatars or roleplay personas (we’ve all seen the meme-worthy male ganker in a pink Catalyst calling himself a “princess”). I mean women who actually log in, undock, fleet up, and pew pew, or mine, haul, scan, or market hustle.

Do we even have a ballpark figure? Has CCP ever published gender demographics for their player base?

If you are a woman playing EVE, I’d love to hear what got you into it, what you enjoy most, and whether the game feels welcoming. Bonus points if you’ve been around since the early days.

Keep it civil, please. This thread isn’t about gatekeeping, it’s about understanding the community better.

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I started playing in 2013, because of the article referenced in this Reddit post:

I thought any game that was so engaging a team of people would spend 10 months to accomplish a “task” was the game for me.

As to what I enjoy the most? That’s easy, outwitting the opposition.

Hm, as to welcoming… I’d say that depends upon the individual/group. I’ve been welcomed, and felt really insulted, not at the same time, to be precise.

:slight_smile: I’ve played all over the game, started in null, spent a lot of time in highsec (still do, for that matter), but consider lowsec my home. I’ve travelled through j-space but never really “lived” there.

I spent several years of my EVE life…ganking “rude” pilots, and war deccing corps who named their structures “creatively”. I don’t believe in reporting pilots to CCP; the game allows me to take action…and I’ve done so.

Years back I war decced and blew up a Goon structure due to the structure’s name. I’m here to tell you the Goon’s were very good sports about that. I had a long convo with the CEO who expressed surprise that’s what I did in game (at that time.)

And, I’ve a bunch of alts.

One of the corps I was in had several women playing, but in my experience that’s not the norm.

I read a stat, years ago, supposedly reported by CCP, that only about five percent of the player populace are women. I don’t know if that’s true or not.

I consider EVE my hobby, :grinning_face:

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Same.

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As well as blocking misogynist Frostpackers. :thinking:

:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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I almost wrote something mean, but today I’m a good girl.

:princess:

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Good choice, don’t ruin your chances, he might still cough up the 10 bil ISK for that private convo offer you gave him, even if he has to sell his liver to do so. :thinking:

:blush:

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I must have missed that.

Link?

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Let’s not include the creep in our live chat.

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I’d place it well under 5%.

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Joke incoming

I don’t know but I THINK I have met both of them.

I am old, it does not matter to me what you are behind the veil of 0’s and 1’s

m

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Fair enough. But if you saw your preacher coming out of a house of ill repute, wouldn’t you start questioning his Sunday message?

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If Aiko decides to change her hair colour to a colour like Chartreuse

Along with her pink catalyst change also to the colour chartreuse

/ that would also go very well wearing that yellow space suit.

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SAVE his liver to do so….fixed. @Uriel_the_Flame

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It is kind of an old debate that goes like this;

Player 1: I am a female player.
Player 2: Yea a G.I.R.L. guy in real life lol.
Player 1: No really.
Player 2: Prove it.
Player 1: How?
Player 2: Post your “proof” ( aka social media page, photo, etc. )

If the woman does, and she is considered good looking, she gets all the creeps drooling over her. If she is old and/or married with kids, then the cougar talks start buzzing. So in most cases it is not worth the trouble. Any smart girl is going to pretend to be male or not discuss their sex openly at all.

I have been gaming a very long time. Back when I was playing D&D ( table top ) our group headed over to meet a new dungeon master who just moved into our area. We spent the better part of the day and night in his kitchen playing a very well done campaign. After some time, he was such a good DM, I married him. He got me into the computer games. I never thought much about computers until I met him. But we met in person, not some anonymous community using aliases. My two sons stop by and once in a great while we get out the dice and have an adventure.

As for statistics, I read in a magazine that somewhere around 45% of women play video games and the number was growing. The article was written 5 years ago and it gave statistical data about some game genres. I recall the numbers were greater in the fantasy MMOs than war games. I would consider Eve to be a war game and guess there are fewer female players in here. I have a friend Sandy who likes Star Trek, she is slightly younger than I am. Sandy is a gamer but doesn’t care for space shooters like Star Trek Online. She plays more along the lines of Bingo, Poker, and other mellow gaming. Meanwhile my grand daughter has played on my account a few times, but she has her own games she likes to play.

My advice is to think there is one man playing all those females out here. Bob is 35, lives in his mother’s basement, and collects My Little Pony figurines. It is safer that way.

Have fun!

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Frosty had given Princess this same chance.

Congrats to your husband in finding his Princess.

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It has become part of our culture for women to refer to guys who are interested in them as a creep if they don’t feel the same way.

Ie

Let’s not include the creep in our live chat.

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You kidding, right?

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You can tell on comms. No need to post a picture. Posting a picture of yourself is just falling for it.

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Computing for games seems to be the natural progression of tabletop games, It adds the visual element to these adventures which is really cool.

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I don’t have the references handy, but I recall that way back in the early days, CCP estimated around 5% female players. Then four or five years ago I saw a reference that CCP estimated around 10%.

There’s a link I saved from somewhere about the “Player Data” presentation at Fanfest a couple years ago. It may have something useful for you. CCP has done a few of these over the years, maybe look for more:

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Thanks!