What gender do you make your characters?

sovereign010

This something I've been wanting to find out since the very start, so here goes. And to see whether the user base is biased towards one side or the other

jam3s1701

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I have a mixture but normally go for a guy tbh feels strange playing a girl lol when im a man​​

quepan

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are male.

in team based games , MMOS, fps and the like and ones that use a voice chat system , i find that its easier to go male for conversations and such I also tend to make all my characters in these games to have a common naming convention for ease as well , in single player RPGs i tend mix it up .

rakija879

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are male.

Gorn and Tellarite female my favorites.

sirmayday

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

Strictly speaking, most of my toons are male (75%), but where I have only the four free toons, it seemed misleading to say 'most/all' are male; I made my Delta Recruit female just as a change of pace. I think, on some level, I expected minor gender-based variations like one might find in a Western-style single-player RPG from BioWare or Bethesda, but of course nothing of the sort materialized.

fcaptkmton

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

If Kenny from South Park can play as a girl, so can you.

sovereign010

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are female.

For me, all of my toons are female and modelled on what my ideal woman would be: tall, hourglass, brunette. When I'm doing a ground mission, it's a female form I want to be looking at

At the same time, all of them are very different from each other, not least because every single one of them belongs to a different race.

solardynamo

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are male.

I know many guys say they want to look at female toons and okay, I have my crew for that. For me I like immersion and that's easier with a male character (5 here and 60 something in Champions). I know it makes me odd in this day and age, but it is what it is.

kodachikuno

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

STO is an aberration for me, in most mmo I play about 60% female, for the usual reason of not wanting to stare at a guy's back end for hours on end while I play. STO gives me my away team to enjoy female characters so I only have 1 female here, used to have a second but I deleted her a while ago.

gulberat

I think that by doing a public poll, you will not get an accurate sample. I don't think everyone would want to answer that honestly knowing that it might either a) reveal personal information about them, or b) make them feel they might be judged somehow according to their answer. Perhaps if it were set private, you'd get the most accurate response.

gavinruneblade

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

My main account has 8 males and 6 females, my second has 4 females 2 males.

walligig

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I think my account is half and half. Generally the characters I play the most and my mains are male. I don't play my female characters that much and when I do its usually just dilithium or EC grinding.

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

gulberat

walligig wrote: »

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

And that is case in point on why I doubt this poll will get honest answers being public. Imagine what a woman, or anyone who thinks they could be mistaken for a woman because of their response, might feel about the idea of having their answer publicly identified. The hard fact is that women are treated VERY differently than men online, and especially in gaming, and would consider security in a way that male respondents might not feel they had to.

kjwashington

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

When making a new character, I decide the gender by flipping a coin.

bloodyriz

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are female.

I have one that is very much me, that is Riz (male) the others are all women because that is the form I much prefer to see while I play.

jexsamx

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I'm male and have an approximately 2:1 ratio of female to male characters. Women, even polygonal ones, are nicer to look at, but having a variety of different dolls to play with is much more fun than a collection of all bridge bunnies.

cidjack

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I enjoy a mix, As I like to setup my toons with backgrounds, not dil farmers, I enjoy having to come up with stories for them.

walligig

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

bloodyriz wrote: »

I have one that is very much me, that is Riz (male) the others are all women because that is the form I much prefer to see while I play.

I did that too. For my main character I made myself. I don't usually do that in these types of games but for Startrek it just seem to make sense.

ghostmatter

I'm a man and all but two of my characters are male. One of the women I play as non-binary gender as she is a joined Trill. The other, I don't really play.

narthais

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

walligig wrote: »

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

My account probably has a higher ratio of females to males and the ones i play regularly are female. As my screen name in game is rather gender neutral my female character get hit on regularly if i spent too much time just standing around the social zones. I find it amusing myself, so I troll those that try it on me since most of them just do it based on my characters appearance. Frankly no one should have to put up with that in a game or in real life so i consider those that try it fair game.

[Deleted User]

I'm a guy and most/all of my toons are female.

... and I have no d*mn clue why.

oldravenman3025

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I have a mix of both. I figured, why not?

gavinruneblade

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

gulberat wrote: »

walligig wrote: »

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

And that is case in point on why I doubt this poll will get honest answers being public. Imagine what a woman, or anyone who thinks they could be mistaken for a woman because of their response, might feel about the idea of having their answer publicly identified. The hard fact is that women are treated VERY differently than men online, and especially in gaming, and would consider security in a way that male respondents might not feel they had to.

From:
http://blog.pricecharting.com/2012/09/emilyami-sexism-in-video-games-study.html

Additional reading:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/22/5926193/women-gaming-harassment

gulberat

gavinruneblade wrote: »

gulberat wrote: »

walligig wrote: »

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

And that is case in point on why I doubt this poll will get honest answers being public. Imagine what a woman, or anyone who thinks they could be mistaken for a woman because of their response, might feel about the idea of having their answer publicly identified. The hard fact is that women are treated VERY differently than men online, and especially in gaming, and would consider security in a way that male respondents might not feel they had to.

From:
http://blog.pricecharting.com/2012/09/emilyami-sexism-in-video-games-study.html

Additional reading:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/22/5926193/women-gaming-harassment

Exactly...thank you for providing the statistics. I would recommend the OP either adjust the poll settings or repost, to get an accurate sample. Other than a few PWE/Cryptic employees, who can take aggressive measures to protect themselves, no one is going to make themselves a target.

One need only look at incidents like you describe, not to mention the extreme hypersexualization of female toons (mostly created by men) in game, to see why gaming is a female-unfriendly environment. And frankly, even the costumes put in game show that there is an underlying bias that at least some of this behavior is treated as if it were OK. I don't think it's necessarily intentional because I can't imagine Trendy or ZeroniusRex or anyone condoning harassment, but when that's what's popular and that's what sells, what message would one expect female gamers to get, and male gamers to get about the kind of interaction it's OK to have with suspected women?

This needs to change, IMO. NOT just on Star Trek: Online, but lots of games. Personally, I would remove the super-sexual costume options. There is no reason one should be able to strip a female toon practically naked, especially when aside from on Risa, only Orion males (somewhat) show up that way unless you glitch the tailor to make the Risa outfit show up in other zones.

Of course, the number 1 thing to do is strict moderation and GM'ing. I don't think it's a matter of "male privilege" like the article says, but simply a deficit in a lot of people's sense of "be a decent human being." That's all that needs to be addressed.

ikonn

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

I like to play both male and female characters just to have variety.

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kodachikuno

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

walligig wrote: »

When I played DC Universe Online one of my mains were female. Then during some mission a guy in my group had his VC on and hit on me mistakenly thinking I was a girl so I decided I would never main a girl again.

hell playing a girl in DCUO and some other mmo is a great way to get dumb-posteriors to buy you cash shop items

ovrkyl

I'm a guy and my toons are a mixture of male and female.

It depends on the nature of the character, the "theme" or whatever, especially if it's more a RP toon. But, honestly, as a guy I'd rather be stuck looking at a girl's...back than a guy's while I'm playing.

iyx

I'm a girl and most/all of my toons are male.

Well, KDF has lack of females, so I haven't much choise.

Nausicaan females, pleeease we need them... Just add the body, head already perfect.

angrytarg

This is just a poll to find out how many women play STO

[x] I'm a Targ and I have characters of multiple genders, ethnicities, factions and backgrounds.

artan42

Exactly half-and-half.
1 Fed Alien male, 1 KDF Alien male, 1 ROM Reman male. Then my Delta Recruits- 1 Fed Andorian female, 1 KDF Klingon female (my new main), and 1 ROM Romulan female.