My Tibby-sense tingling also detects that CoH seemed to have a higher ratio of female-to-male players than other MMO's - is this true or just my personal impression?
I wouldn't necessarily say that CoH had a higher ratio of female players to male players, since unless you're on Teamspeak or Ventrilo you can claim to be male or female and there's no real way to tell (aside from the old joke about "maxed breast slider = male player"...). However, what I think was true about CoH was that women playing the game were more comfortable
about admitting their gender, as opposed to other games where I've read accounts of women claiming to be men because of the harassment and attitude they got from other players if they admitted they were female. I didn't see players being treated differently because of their gender or age, except on the occasions when a team member would say that another team member was their (typically under 10) child and asked us to avoid overt crudity -- and I don't recall anyone ever objecting to
that, either... and the kid would rarely need any help keeping up with the team.
