EVE Fiction

Honestly, I feel like my first OP was just too empty of content. Also quite frankly, things need to be said that so far havn't been said.

CCP. What. The. ****?

I mean seriously, how, if you guys are even at all bothered about it anymore, can you justify this total p***up? Its not about who was a little mean to who or who looked at who funny, or any of the petty squabbles.

Whats really unnaceptable is how you, CCP have literally taken people's time, ISK and materials and wasted it. People have poured great resources into the project, entirely from their own pockets and with their own effort. But now apparently that doesnt mean anything, and we dont matter.

EVE is a game, I know, but in real life when work is taken with no payout its called theft, fraud embezzlement and other things. For Devs to **** away people's resources like this either deliberately malicious or monumentally stupid.

But what makes it even more of a **** on the doorstep is how news gets delivered to us. Of course, nobody holds anything against someone for deciding to take a new path in life. But the fact that a leading Dev in this project leaves and the only way we find out is when they actually tell us on external forums is just a slap in the face.

On top of that, we only get answers when a leading contributor asks on EVE forums, which is very telling of CCP's attitude to the project and players in general, it tells people that you dont care wether people get something out for what they put in.

CCP, Arek'jaalan is now effectively a smoking wreck. The way you have handled it goes beyond misshap into downright unprofessional. I'd assumed in early days that no matter how bad rumours got of CCP's internal clusterfudge, as a basic customer service we could always count on being told when we were no longer needed. I certainly never believed CCP would be capable of so flagrantly stealing player time, isk and resources.

Now please, dont get me wrong, this isnt about CCP devoting an undue amount of attention to a small slice of the playerbase, CCP should care about all its players. Frankly, I'd get some satisfaction out of just a little admission of messing up and a simple yes or no to this question:

CCP, will Arek'jaalan continue or is it now shut down?


Original OP below

Dropbear also said in his Backstage post that a reboot of Arek'Jalaan would either be unlikely or take a good deal of time. I'm also not sure CCP would attempt a similar event again.

Do we have a resident CCP authority on the WH storyline? I'd love to be able to run my Talocan fiction past someone to make sure it doesn't outright contradict anything CCP has in mind...

As far as I understand, AJ was an attempt to make a conflict between capsuleers, so players could blow each other ships around that freighter: from one side - Ishukone loyalists, from another - AJ defenders.

What about scientific part of the project, well, I feel quite skeptical about applying scientific approach in world of EVE. At least with current content.

Well I personally would love to either see the Arek'Jaalan project taken up again, or at least have it properly ended RP wise, say with the assassination of Dr. Tukoss and the destruction of Site 1 by Sleeper forces. Then to have a new interactive RP started.

Updated, my opinion has changed somewhat although the original question remains pretty much the same.

One can but speak from the heart Morwen. Which is a fancy way of saying I feel obligated to be honest.

I still have my hopes. I think the new team is still just catching up with material.

Waiting patiently none the less.

All the time I hear the same. What proof do we have about that everybody in the EVE cluster came from some place called Terra trough what they tell us it was a giant stargate, where we only see a big cosmic anomaly?

What proof do we have that jovians exists at all? Because I don't know you, but I've never seen one of their ships by myself. That constructions? Oh well, Caldari old-fashioned style sense. The rest of it, "CONCORD made it all up to justify their mandate".

If you want to point at some piece of new lore and say "oh well you know what? This isn't lore because lol", I would like to hear first some kind of actual evidence that makes it incompatible with the previously established lore, not just that you don't like it because "this doesn't seemed like this, so it can't be". Why on Earth would the Sleeper constructions need to give any hint about the Sleepers jovian origin? You tell me.

They are not the same population group (being the architects sort of clique inside the jove empire). They are not even constructing those buildings in the same millenium. Look out there on our planet and tell me how Cherooke buildings resemble the Notre Dame cathedral a lot.

Although I find CCP's silence frustrating and altogether typical of of their botched RP game plan. I don't see how T1 really contradicted anything that AJ was able to piece together, which wasn't much.. Likewise, T1 is just a snapshot of a very brief period in the history of New Eden..

I have always related the Jove as the primary masterminds of the New Eden political spectrum, as anyone who has followed these threads should know. The AI in Jamyl Sarum's head is a Jovian Lab Rat.. A single Jovian entity that has arguably held more influence over the backstage politics of New Eden for the past several centuries than any of the Empire factions combined. This is one entity. One single Jovian.

While in decline, can anyone really argue the Jovians are still manipulating mankind for their own hidden agendas? I doubt it. Can anyone seriously believe that some Jovian factions are not independant of each other and working on their own agendas? Read the Book of Eve and most especially the Jove section..

There is a faction of Jovians out there, or was, who hold the same goals and dreams for humanity that Nation does.. Likewise, the Sister's of Eve are mostly funded by anonomous donors...