EVE Fiction

and all of the other things the player base has done?

We all know the real story that draws people into this game is what goes on outside of CCP control.

The thefts, scams, wars, battles and the lawlessness that goes on in this game on a daily basis is what draws in new players. Their stories are the ones people are interested in hearing because real players are behind them. Not anything created by the developers, and CCP knows this. They encourage this and are proud of the fact their game is this way.

However if you take what has been written down in the wiki as the back story to this game, there is nothing that connects these player based stories to any of the cannon history.

You would think a battle of over 4000 ships would at least worry one of the empires to sue for peace. Or the Amarr Empress would have sent an envoy to The Mittani to see if the Goons would be interested in invading Minmatar space.

Right now most players in this game could care less about the back-story because it has little to nothing to do with the game they are playing. And I can see why, when the real lore of EVE (the player’s stories) is being ignored and not being used as part of the cannon of this game.

If CCP is so adamant that the real story of EVE is the player’s stories, why are they not acknowledging these accomplishments into the story they already have? What better way to encourage players to leave their mark on this game.

It's the standard in MMO stories that players are faceless entities. In WoW and god knows how many other fantasy MMO's players are the faceless "adventurers" that brought down the evil of the week, we have a different blanket term, capsuleers. And personally if we start ackonwledging goonswarms and test alliances as in game lore then I stop caring about the lore. I have nothing against proper well known RP entities incorporated in the lore, but if you want to be included in the lore, you should at least be "dressed for the occasion." That means for me at the very least having a name that can be worked in to an in character setting.

There is an on-going project to record the player history of the game

[url]http://truestories.eveonline.com/truestories/index.html[/url]

and I believe some further 'integration' between the two different types of history has been discussed but, as others have mentioned, the two counter running histories are not easy bedfellows. In any case, it seems like CCP are keen to focus on the rise of the capsuleer as a competing power to the established forces of Concord and the Empires, so watch this space.

Ultimately, if you don't see something you'd like to see then make it yourself. There's tons of resources available to allow you to add correct lore to your own player influenced fiction. I've always thought the best way imagine how the player actions of the null sec power blocs would effect the NPC masses in Empire is that of the pebble in the water i.e. at point of contact (null sec) the ramifications are huge but once the ripples spread out over the massive distances between null and empire, much time has passed and the impact has lessened. The news that finally arrives Empire planetside of a large scale null sec player event would sketchy at best. Remember also that null sec is essentially lawless, hostile space. I'm not sure how much the Empires would want their subjects to know about it. If all your downtrodden tax paying farmers and industrial workers suddenly found out there was a place they could run to with no taxes and laws, might you not have a problem?

As I say, ripple effect always seemed like the best way of moderate integration to me, such as seeing masses of homeless NPC's begging in stations and someone saying they were all bankrupted by the fall of Ebank, or stuff like that.