EVE General Discussion

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes. I thought to myself no matter how good a story I may write, it will never get enough votes as likely all of the votes will come from the alliance blocks as per usual in these situation.

Just as predicted, it is exactly as I suspected. Mitanni at the top spot with a pretty bland and generic take on the famous BOB disbandment. He probably just copy and pasted it from anther source and instructed all his goons to up vote it. The other stories were also pretty boring and generic, with the second place prize going to a story with literally zero literary talent displayed, more akin to a check list of events which occurred.

A wasted opportunity indeed CCP. Did you really not forsee this happening?

May the tears never stop.

I like how whenever something doesnt go the way someone wants its always a debacle or a conspiracy.

Let me guess, your gripping tale was about undocking, warping to an ice belt, activating lazors, and then penning a retell of some anime.

I can see how the alliance vote matters in this case.

Sure, but there are also non-block members of the CSM. If OP isn't willing to even try then they have no room to complain.

With a 5,000 word limit it's hard to put any amount of description on a big event like the fall of BoB, however if the reader of the story put much effort into an internet search I'm quite sure they'd be able to find a more expansive version of the story. As a matter of fact, my first hit was 9 articles and 3 videos.

Oh no I'm not justifying OPs surrender before the fight even started. I'm saying I can see why they'd be discouraged, in combination with the alt army already criticizing OPs presumed lack of nul/low activity by saying they'd 'retell an anime.'

Hah?

To me, nulsec is blob, blob, more blob. I wouldn't want to read a story about that, one after the other. Additionally, CSM is a difference situation. I can't comment on that. However, given historical reference in Eve (see Mittani's election), it's a fairly safe bet to infer that Mittens got his votes from the bee's. I read his story...wasn't that great compared to others.

Long story short, I'm just saying that I can see how OP and others would get discouraged because of vote ganking. It's not like vote gank/vote blob is a myth and never happens. It's a logical and credible conclusion.

There were some really interesting small gang stories that got completely ignored in favor of those written by famous players with alliance voting power. The OP had a point, though calling it a debacle is a bit overly dramatic.

I discovered the "story" site a few weeks ago and started reading and rating the "stories".

To be honest, I did not find one true story in there, unless CCP redefined the meaning of "story". Everything I found read like a copy from the forums, with no attempt to even tell a plot.

Did CCP tell the authors that under all circumstances they should avoid using traditional story elements, and that they should tell everything in forum speech instead?

Was this site meant to be distinctly different from the EVE Stories site from the start?

I don't have a dog in this race, but it's pretty obvious how this has worked for years. The majority of votes are typically going to go to those individuals that belong to the largest alliances, regardless of quality or content. Of course not always, but the lions share. Nothing really wrong with that, but to deny it is dishonest. It is what it is.