In a recent forum post, CCP Elamef Laer outlined plans to increase the friendliness of Eve Online to female players and to increase their participation in the budding virtual space simulator overall. At this stage, passive bonuses that cover player fleets are the starting point and CCP Games will be monitoring and making further changes as necessary.
A snapshot of the post can be seen below. The system is currently active on the game’s test server “SISI”, and thousands of players have already been hard at work testing it out.
- In an effort to increase the participation of female players in active fleets, for every verified*** individual active and participating in the fleet, the fleet will gain a passive buff per participant. Bonuses do NOT apply to capital ships, fighters, and capital-sized modules. Bonus attributes will appear in the same manner as command bursts with a new icon to reflect this specific fleet bonus.
- 1.1% Bonus to base speed and velocity of all ships.
- 0.5% Bonus to all subcapital weapon damage.
- 0.5% Reduction in activation cost of energy and hybrid turrets.
- 0.5% Bonus tracking and falloff of all turrets.
- 0.75% Bonus to drone speed, tracking, and damage.
- 1.75% Bonus to velocity and explosion radius of all missiles.
- A diminishing returns system is in place to prevent a fleet with excessive numbers of female players from overpowering an equally sized, but lacking, opposing fleet.
- Bonuses at this stage are marginal and designed to encourage a diverse and vibrant fleet composition without impacting player activity in a significant manner.
- CCP appreciates the difficulty that players may experience in pursuit of obtaining the above bonuses, but we are confident players are industrious enough to gain the conditions necessary to receive them.
***To prevent player exploitation of this new bonus mechanic, the bonuses will only be applied once a CCP employee, ISG representative, CSM member (in good standing), or other approved representative verifies the account holder as a female player via webcam and/or receives a copy of a valid governmental document at CCP’s sole discretion. Random spot checks of players are to be a requirement to combat fraudulent bonus acquisition. Any player currently generating a bonus outlined above or in future changes in line with the new CCP Policy is required to have a working webcam, and/or said governmental document to hand and be willing to submit to a short notice verification check or risk losing their account.
As to be expected, Eve Online number crunchers have identified that having 7 female players in the fleet is the most effective, any more sees an insignificant additional bonus per extra participant due to the diminishing returns system in place.
Fleet doctrines are being formulated to take this new advantage into account. Pandemic Legion has already announced “Bring your mom to fleet” player drives with monetary rewards for those who can bring in bonuses for the alliance. Low-Security Space mafia group, SnuffedOut, has announced a similar drive “Female Friendly Fridays” where only the Fleet Commander has voice and chat privileges alongside the female players.
Of the four remaining females playing Eve Online since the most recent departure, demand is going to be high, to say the least. The MMORPG scene has been devoid of female players for some time now. And CCP Games are to be venerated for their efforts by society at large.
I remember when you guys were funny. This is just absolute junk. F.
Do the females players supplying the boost have to supply DNA sample to CCP to prove they were actually born female, vs. indentifying as female when playing eve? LOL
Complete and utter waste of time- females have better things to do with their time like sleeping with chad. Stop bribing girls to play a washed up mmo. This plan is beyond stupid and broken. Like .01% of females are interested in fake spaceships to begin with.
Why positive discrimination? That’s discrimination just as well…
The United States Job Market would like to have a word with CCP about the long term effects of Affirmative Action…
OMG satire, LOL–ya got me! Haha. Sorry just woke up and rolled out of bed XD
Once again, gender discrimination. Males dont have to identify themselves?
When do people wake up, burst their bubble, see reality? Women already own the online community. Women earn millions by the use of onlyfans, being an egirl streamer, by ABUSING male hornyness. And now CCCP will allow them to influence the outcome of battles?! How much more influence do we need to give women, until you see this is a grave mistake!