Earlier someone nabbed the statistics of one of their linkshells and that made me quite curious. I jumped into the FC and attempted to figure out the ratio of female to male characters in my group.
20:19
Despite having a recruitment freeze there are new characters daily it seems and I didn't even know who some people were. So there are some characters unaccounted for.
Actual factual RL female players? 4. That I know of.
While interesting do I think any of this matters? Nope. I'm very much of the opinion that you should RP what you want if it is fun for you. (It /is/ your $15 a month after all)
I would readily admit that if I had to RP sexy times (hurr nurr nurr) on my main (who is a male) I wouldn't really know how to handle it (cause I'm not). As for all other RP, I really doubt that gender has much bearing on anything. As far as I am concerned a man and a woman who receive the same training in swordplay can stab at things on fairly equal terms.
Something I have observed is that people tend to pay less attention to characters that are male and gravitate to the female ones. I'm not the only one that has noticed this, many of my friends considered using fantasia to make their characters female so they could actually find more RP. It became a bit of a running joke after awhile.
My own personal female to male ratio with my characters? 3:3. Go figure. I just play what intrigues me, and makes me happy.
20:19
Despite having a recruitment freeze there are new characters daily it seems and I didn't even know who some people were. So there are some characters unaccounted for.
Actual factual RL female players? 4. That I know of.
While interesting do I think any of this matters? Nope. I'm very much of the opinion that you should RP what you want if it is fun for you. (It /is/ your $15 a month after all)
I would readily admit that if I had to RP sexy times (hurr nurr nurr) on my main (who is a male) I wouldn't really know how to handle it (cause I'm not). As for all other RP, I really doubt that gender has much bearing on anything. As far as I am concerned a man and a woman who receive the same training in swordplay can stab at things on fairly equal terms.
Something I have observed is that people tend to pay less attention to characters that are male and gravitate to the female ones. I'm not the only one that has noticed this, many of my friends considered using fantasia to make their characters female so they could actually find more RP. It became a bit of a running joke after awhile.
My own personal female to male ratio with my characters? 3:3. Go figure. I just play what intrigues me, and makes me happy.
