Significant other halves and elite/gaming in general

Jezzah

Jezzah
My Wife (significant other half) does not really share my past-time i.e gaming and the like.

she'll play the likes of Marvel Super heroes on the XBone that i got my son for xmas but other than that its a real struggle sometimes to get her to give me a "leave-Pass" for a bit of time on the PC.

With Elite coming into Beta1 soon im thinking that i'll be really wanting to get back on for a bit of space gaming.

Any of you guys/girls/etc have any tips for getting other halves into this hobby of ours?
 

Mobius

Mobius
Jezzah said:
Any of you guys/girls/etc have any tips for getting other halves into this hobby of ours?
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My advice is to make sure your other half has zero interest in Elite or gaming as a whole, because if they do get an interest you can guarantee that your gaming time will be a lot less as you fight who plays elite and who plays candy crush on the PC.
 

Squicker

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I consider myself fortunate in that my partner likes some things I do but not all, it meshes perfectly.

She loves sportscars, dining and travel so we can share holidays and weekends away\out, as we should. But she hates my guitar playing (don't blame her), doesn't like to explore when we do travel - would prefer to sit on the beach - suits me as I love nothing more than clambering over old ruins ALONE, and she doesn't really do computer games. She is academically interested in them - how they operate, what you acheive - but will leave me to play them.

This is great as I go nuts if I have someone living in my pocket, so I can sit and play guitar literally all day uninterrupted, and a computer game all night. She will quite happily sit in the room doing her own thing, while I am murdering prostitutes in GTA. So I really don't want to upset what is the perfect status quo for me, by getting her into games :-D

Jezzah said:
My Wife (significant other half) does not really share my past-time i.e gaming and the like.

she'll play the likes of Marvel Super heroes on the XBone that i got my son for xmas but other than that its a real struggle sometimes to get her to give me a "leave-Pass" for a bit of time on the PC.

With Elite coming into Beta1 soon im thinking that i'll be really wanting to get back on for a bit of space gaming.

Any of you guys/girls/etc have any tips for getting other halves into this hobby of ours?
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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Mobius said:
My advice is to make sure your other half has zero interest in Elite or gaming as a whole, because if they do get an interest you can guarantee that your gaming time will be a lot less as you fight who plays elite and who plays candy crush on the PC.
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Particularly with ED

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Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol
I got my wife into PC gaming about 8 years ago. I downloaded the WoW demo for her. Two weeks later I built her a custom gaming rig, and the rest is history. She still games. Every so often we "upgrade" or build new rigs. In fact, she's sitting five feet away from me at her desk gaming :)

I got her to pledge for SC and ED. She's played the alpha a bit and likes it. She wants to do more than just dogfight though. She is a big sci-fi fan so that helps too.
 

Pembs

Pembs
Sadly, I had to give up years ago trying to get my wife interested in video games. She sees them as a complete waste of time (putting it mildly). I put it largely down to the generation gap. I'm 34 and she is 48.

Thankfully we have lots of other things in common (like our children for example!) and we both give each other some time most evenings to pursue our own interests (me gaming, her TV usually) so we have the best of both worlds I think.
 

Hamerstein

Hamerstein
I've been fortunate in that my partner is an avid gamer. She even pledged (after a little prompting) to ED! I may have to update her rig for it's release though - she's only in for the gamma and after.

As a tip to Jezzah, at least she isn't anti-video games, so you'll need to sell ED as more than just a space combat sim. In my experience women who aren't inherently gamers seem to appreciate the more social aspects (read less confrontational) of games so multi-players that don't solely focus on combat need those aspects highlighted.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Hamerstein said:
women who aren't inherently gamers seem to appreciate the more social aspects (read less confrontational) of games so multi-players that don't solely focus on combat need those aspects highlighted.
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However, it will be difficult to persuade that ED will be a moment of "Five O' clock tea"

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JeffRyan

JeffRyan
I just kinda do what I like and every once in a while she complains and I sorta go 'OI, we agreed you weren't gonna nag me' and that's that.

Now that sounds harsher than it is. I do my part around the house, I cook sometimes, I clean, I work a lot and I take care of the baby.

Now with him we have no such Agreement and being 5 months it's hard to rationalise with him.
 

Mars

Mars
I game a lot, but make sure I take her to dinner once or twice a week and every night spend at least an hour next to her watching some program or film, that seems to buy me enough credit to to game the rest of the time.

I'm also hoping that having knocked her up the kid will provide some further distraction when it arrives.
 

filip

Banned
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Jezzah said:
My Wife (significant other half) does not really share my past-time i.e gaming and the like.

she'll play the likes of Marvel Super heroes on the XBone that i got my son for xmas but other than that its a real struggle sometimes to get her to give me a "leave-Pass" for a bit of time on the PC.

With Elite coming into Beta1 soon im thinking that i'll be really wanting to get back on for a bit of space gaming.

Any of you guys/girls/etc have any tips for getting other halves into this hobby of ours?
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I'm so sorry you married someone who lacks basic compatibility, I would never be able to do that.
It's so good to be gay, you are never forced into these nasty situations because of...breeding and...societal hetero-normative structure.
 

scrufferpops

scrufferpops
trekman said:
You shouldn't go putting ideas into people's heads. Although I am hoping that there will be people on here that don't understand the Brookside and patio connection. :eek::D
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Dead body, anyone? lol, I got this straight away and remember all the furor around at the time
 

Stachel

Banned
Stachel
Patrick_68000 said:
However, it will be difficult to persuade that ED will be a moment of "Five O' clock tea"

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Indeed. The feminisation of, well, just about everything men once found sacred is one of the reasons the modern world is such a bloody intolerable place to live .. :D

If she doesn't like shooting people in the face over the internet but instead prefers ad hoc picnics in the engine room, long romantic strolls along the cargo bay and believes in non violent outcomes etc. Then honestly: take her to the zoo or something instead. ;)
 
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