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With no EVElopedia, who do we go to now?

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Commander A9
This Was The Way
#1 - 2016-04-11 18:16:21 UTC
Hey, guys.

Without EVElopedia, what is the next best thing for players to build and update a wiki community based on EVE?

And hell, what do the devs plan to do about all their in-game links stating "refer to EVElopedia for more information?" Hell, alot of training agents and new career agents had links to EVElopedia to teach new pilots the ins and outs.

And the fake Pax Ammaria book simply states "This book has a bit of a history" linking directly to an EVElopedia article-an article that no longer exists.

I'd say killing EVElopedia was a REALLY bad idea!

Recommendations:

-enable ships wobbling in hangar view (pre-Captains Quarters)

-add more missions (NPC fleet vs. NPC fleets that actually shoot)

-STOP NERFING EVERYTHING!

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Pix Severus
Empty You
#2 - 2016-04-11 18:18:28 UTC
Next best thing.

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ISD Fractal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#3 - 2016-04-11 18:20:03 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Fractal
The most comprehensive Eve wiki that I'm aware of is Eve University's wiki. As for the links in game, feel free to submit a bug report every time you see something that looks out of place. I'm sure references to the Evelopedia are all over the place and CCP could probably use a hand finding them.

Edited to more explicitly state that you should submit a bug report.

ISD Fractal

Lieutenant

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

Interstellar Services Department
Commander A9
This Was The Way
#4 - 2016-04-11 18:22:35 UTC
Hmm, so be it then.

Thanks.

Recommendations:

-enable ships wobbling in hangar view (pre-Captains Quarters)

-add more missions (NPC fleet vs. NPC fleets that actually shoot)

-STOP NERFING EVERYTHING!

Join Live Events!
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#5 - 2016-04-11 18:39:03 UTC
Commander A9 wrote:
I'd say killing EVElopedia was a REALLY bad idea!


Agreed 100%.

F.

@lunettelulu7
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#6 - 2016-04-11 19:13:16 UTC
The first week after they killed it I tried accessing it or googling for articles I knew were on it several dozen times. Pretty much says how much use it actually saw.
The Golden Serpent
A Drunken Squirrels' Conspiracy for Revenge
#7 - 2016-04-11 19:22:22 UTC
lol report everytime...hey let me pay this company to work FOR them, to completely NOT fix the actual problem, there's an idea!

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Salt Foambreaker
Greedy Pirates
#8 - 2016-04-11 19:27:44 UTC
ISD Fractal wrote:
The most comprehensive Eve wiki that I'm aware of is Eve University's wiki. As for the links in game, feel free to submit a report every time you see something that looks out of place. I'm sure references to the Evelopedia are all over the place and CCP could probably use a hand finding them.


We could have a protest, everyone could submit a ticket for each one we find Twisted
ISD Decoy
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#9 - 2016-04-11 23:24:28 UTC
I have removed an odd/off-topic post and those quoting it.

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Captain

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Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#10 - 2016-04-12 00:05:53 UTC
Here is another site that you can use if the uni wiki is missing stuff.

@lunettelulu7
Gosakumori Noh
Coven of One
#11 - 2016-04-12 00:58:44 UTC
Almost every day I am irritated by the removal of EVElopedia.

Didn't like maintaining it? Fine. Whatever. Don't maintain it. I mean, really, developing a compelling intellectual property that people want to search through is hard work. Yes, I get that. But given that the work had already been, you know - done... why not let it continue to exist? Were the hosting fees for a wiki that burdensome?
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2016-04-12 01:59:54 UTC
Make it so that whenever someone tries to search the Evelopedia, they got a list of alternative wikis like E-Uni wiki, Goon Wiki, Agony Wiki or etc. That should alleviate the complaining.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2016-04-12 02:44:51 UTC
Commander A9 wrote:
Hey, guys.

Without EVElopedia, what is the next best thing for players to build and update a wiki community based on EVE?

And hell, what do the devs plan to do about all their in-game links stating "refer to EVElopedia for more information?" Hell, alot of training agents and new career agents had links to EVElopedia to teach new pilots the ins and outs.

And the fake Pax Ammaria book simply states "This book has a bit of a history" linking directly to an EVElopedia article-an article that no longer exists.

I'd say killing EVElopedia was a REALLY bad idea!

Yup, definitely a bad idea. And to add insult to injury, they've conveniently overlooked and ignored all of the links and threads that go to Evelopedia.

Anyway, for info only : EVELOPEDIA via The Wayback Machine



DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Terranid Meester
Tactical Assault and Recon Unit
#14 - 2016-04-12 14:27:41 UTC
Heres hoping they manage to integrate all the evelopedia stuff into the main eve website.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#15 - 2016-04-12 16:57:55 UTC
Eve needs its own Thottbot.

Everything reprocesses into crab meat

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Amber Solaire
COMA Holdings
Cosmic Maniacs
#16 - 2016-04-12 21:09:51 UTC
Big smile Dunno, this might help:

Alternative option
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#17 - 2016-04-12 21:16:41 UTC
What even happened to EVElopdia? I take a break for like 10 months and I come back to all sorts of weird news
Akira Kata
AkiCo LLC
#18 - 2016-04-26 21:24:05 UTC
Lacking an official, definitive source for game mechanics explanations is a major gap for something as complex as EVE. Sifting through devblog search results is an abysmally poor substitute.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#19 - 2016-04-26 21:25:59 UTC
Me.


You come to me.


Give me your question, and I will dispense wisdom

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

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Zeric Aurilen
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#20 - 2016-04-26 21:48:25 UTC
As a newer player, every time I google something I get directed to EVElopedia only to have it not available. Seems like it must've had some good information available. Not sure what happened, but if anyone has some other recommendations it would be nice to hear.
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