Women Gamers of EVE

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Women Gamers of EVE

What is Women Gamers of EVE ?

Women Gamers of EVE [WGoE] is a chat channel in EVE where only irl females are allowed. The reason behind this is due to many females playing MMORPG's sometimes have a need to take a pause from the testosterone and "Once I caught a fish that was I--------I big" attitude. As EVE is greatly dominated by males, a channel like WGoE can be seen like a haven for some.

"The WGOE channel is where I can get away from all the shit that goes on being an EXEC member of a corp... It is where I can bitch about my husband.. or about my day.. or hell.. if I feel like being emotional, I can... No strings attached. Being around an entire corp of guys most of the time, it is nice to get away from that at times!" - Malindah

By no means do the females in EVE have anything against interacting with guys, on the contrary actually. It is often said that they generally prefer talking with the guys in their corporation/alliance etc; although, being able to only talk with other girls can be a nice change from time to time.

So there you have it, it is not a corporation nor an alliance. It is just a chat channel created for all the females in EVE.

History

Almost 3 years ago a female named Aminida created WGoE.

In the beginning it was mainly for fun and laughs. Aminida knew a few females in EVE and wanted to bring them closer. Aminida started placing cans all over the EVE universe where she advertised the channel. Very slowly, the channel started to grow.

Finding females in EVE was not easy due to the facts that many females hide behind male characters, that EVE was big and getting the word out was difficult. The girls currently in the channel at that time all helped out trying to find other females. We would start a conversation with those who had female characters and a biography that would resemble anything a female would write. Now, as you can understand, that was not an easy thing to do. A few times we got lucky but most of the times we did not. What made our work easy was the fact that guys were honest about being, well, guys.

After a few months the channel had evolved from being just a channel for friends to a channel for all females in EVE. Aminida had to leave EVE but handed control over to Ada Lovelace. Ada took over and pushed the channel up a notch. More females were invited as we now had an "interview" procedure.

Those in the channel had information about WGoE in their biography. If any female saw it they would know who to contact in order to get invited to the channel. They sent the administrators/moderators a mail and we would answer back with a set amount of questions. The questions were the same for everyone. By reading their answers and looking at how they answered their questions we would later proceed on to an interview via chat. Some more questions were asked and we would later determine if they were actually a female or not. Determing someones gender just by typing in a chat window was not easy. Though to this day I have not heard of any males in WGoE.

The channel started to become even bigger with this new system as we actively sought up other females in EVE. After a while Ada Lovelace left the game and left me (Zajo) in charge of WGoE.

With the help from Feline Ferocity, WGoE grew bigger each week. Feline sorted out a TS server for WGoE that allowed us to make the interview process foolproof. Feline also created a forum that was open to the public. WGoE had its own private section and a public one. Unfortunatly this forum had to be closed down.

WGoE has a public channel ingame, feel free to join. WGoE.Public

Today WGoE is known by several people in EVE. It has been mentioned in magazines, talked about on EVE Radio and several times been a subject (gossip) between people in EVE. There are a big amount of females registered in the channel. Not all of them are actually in the channel all the time. It is important that they know the channel is there for them if they want to but we all know the vast amount of chat channels you can have open and many of us has a lot of responsibilities ingame that makes it hard to devote our time in the channel. Those not in are always welcome back!!!

Rules

Inable to keep the channel male free we of course need some guidlines and rules when accepting females. They are not many but they are important. This to assure the privacy of the channel. Those in the channel needs to feel absolutly surtain that no male is present in the channel. Thus allow them to feel relaxed and safe if talking about anything private. This has from the start one of the top priorities.

- You need to have a headset and working microphone, Teamspeak, Ventrillo or any other voice program installed so we can interview you.

- You need to be the only one playing on that character. We can not allow hubbies/bf's/brothers or any other male aquaintance get acces to the channel via your character. Reason explained above.

- At all time should the respect between all registered be set high. We do not tolarate race, religion, colour, apperance or any diminishing comments.

How to apply

It is very easy, you just contact us via EVE - mail or start a conversation with either of the administrators/moderators of the channel.

Administrators: Zajo

Moderators: Bianca Rhys - Malindah - MS Mary Jane

You can also join WgoE Public channel ingame and contact us there.

As has been mentioned before, irl and other happenings ingame might make the transaction a bit slow. We ask of you to have patience with us.

Disclaimer: The administrators/moderators ask of everyone to respect our wish to keep the channel females only. So please do not send us fake mails claiming to be a female.

This site will be updated as new information pops up. Thank you for showing an interest in WGoE and I hope you feel this is a good idea just as the rest of WGoE.

Fly safe and May EVE Be With You !

--Zajo 04:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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