EVE General Discussion

Good to know I'm not the only one dissatisfied with the fact that CCP has copped out of creating new backstory in favour of "give the users a big sandbox to create their own stories with". I didn't start playing EVE because I wanted to write my story from scratch - I started it because I wanted to be part of a continually unfolding and changing story. (I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly to tell me I'm playing the game wrong. Good for you, go play in the traffic.)

So what's the problem? Well, as already mentioned, CCP deciding to lay off 20% of their workforce because Hilmar makes poor business decisions, certainly didn't help things. But a bigger culprit, IMO, was the introduction of the CSM. The CSM, not CCP, now effectively controls what goes in the game and what doesn't - and the CSM delegates have shown sod all interest in expanding the rich tapestry of EVE's history. They have, however, shown a lot of interest in twisting CCP's arm to implement things that will benefit them (Goons and Titan nerf anyone?) and only them. How can that be healthy for EVE?

What pulls people into game worlds - something that Blizzard understands so well, hence their success - is the history of that world. You can have all the gameplay you like, but without new things constantly shaping the world, that world will be boring. EVE is rapidly heading in that direction.

Bring back the writers, CCP. Bring back the dreamers. Bring back the ones who create universes with their minds. They are the ones who should be dictating the game's direction, not players with their own selfish interests at heart. I'm not saying the CSM should be disbanded - but certainly its suggestions should take back seat to the direction that the creative people at CCP want to take the game.

There are many things in this life given to us for the wrong reasons. What a man does with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.

No, it doesn't go topic. It's awesome, though.

I am more interested in why Gallente is at war with Caldari. I thought peace was settled for "the prosperity and wealth of mankind"? Yes, a deeper story would indeed be interesting, however, I doubt there to be enough people in need of it to scream for it. What I do know, though, is that CCP most likely wouldn't have a problem completely ignoring null-sec-players in favor of their own storyline. Imagine that you'd created a world, would you then not enjoy playing god and continuing to write this world? Why then does people find a need to complain? Why does CCP not fix a team to play god?

Faction Warfare is a genius part, really, as it makes EVE even more the sandbox than it was. Now we no longer have to go to null-sec to fight for a useless cause, but the cause itself in high sec falls flat if we don't create devastating consequences (that people involved in FW can't dock in enemy territory ... well, it's a small but a genius move). Let me share something with you.

Entropia Universe (a real-cash economy MMO) has a planetary system where different IRL companies can build their planets and thus creates a competing environment with the other planet partners. This benefits the players. A new planet has just arrived with a soft launch, called Planet Cyrene, and the planet partner behind this planet plans to utilize a tool which gives the developers the opportunity to create the world from the actions' of its players, e.g. 50 players do things in place A but ignores place B; place A will prosper, while place B will become New York without a sewer system.

I believe FW to be a road to this and I also have enough faith in CCP that this is something they can achieve. Let EVE stay a sandbox. Fighting in null sec isn't much more than playing World of Warcraft; all you need to know is when to do what to get that boss (or player) shatter into several pieces.

It is my profound hope that EVE's storyline will continue to develop and that not only "the evil parts" of EVE will represent "the core which is EVE". I myself am not much of a roleplayer, but I do enjoy politics, and I want something to fight for; I want a reason to do something. I want the ability to change things in the storyline rather than just create my own storyline in null doing the same thing each time someone trespasses into my alliance's territory. It really isn't that fun to shoot pixels "just because".

I want a reason to fight. An idea could of course be to give very valuable resources to high sec systems, but if Gallente, for instance, owns that system, only Gallente-characters' involved in Factional Warfare will get to enjoy this wealth, and if Caldari-players (in Factional Warfare; this is important - only FW-players should get to enjoy this wealth and fight for it) wishes to take this system from the Gallente Federation so they themselves can enjoy this wealth, it should be possible (which it also is, but there should be a collective reason for taking over a faction system in high sec).

Like I said: Let EVE stay the sandbox it promotes itself to be; not all of us have an interest in spending time with mindless pvp-ing goons, nor gank new players just because we're bored. I really hope CCP reads this post as I've just started respecting my intelligence even more than I did an hour ago, and that's quite the achievement on my part.

M.

I'd like them to start with adding NPC ships going about their business. We can't be the only ones flying.

Eve lost it's storyline years ago.

It is more of a mash up nowadays.

Lets walk down memory lane while we hug each other and remember what CCP is really capable of when mind is put to task: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbwsyhJjUs

Drop Bears experiment in interactive story telling, Arek Jaalan, showed a great way forward and was an outstanding success. It is deeply disappointing that it is seemingly being shelved following Drop Bears departure. The all new wiki is a poor replacement for what we had.

I don't see how we can be any clearer in our support for AJ, live events than we have been.

I remember printing out Chronicles and reading them in school at lunch. I even wrote (but never posted) a short fan story.

Haven't done it in years, about since wormholes came out. I was intensely interested then but the stuff now doesn't make me want to get involved, because I don't feel like I could have an influence (i.e. Faction Warfare).

And I want to see moar Sleepers. Moar! A live event or two, or Sleepers attacking POSes would benefit wormhole space immensely.

It's been too long since there's been any interactivity from the world. The story needs to progress, in the shape of IC news articles and in game Actor-interactions.

I agree with Andreus.

It's worth noting that many RP corporations and entire alliances flourished off of CCP interaction. CVA and Ushra'Khan come to mind. Now, without CCP interaction they have fallen to the wayside and are now mostly normal, non role-play organizations, with only the occasional hurrah for their old roots surfacing in an RP-based wardec or the odd IGS post.

Let us RP'ers live again!

storyline contracted out to freelance null Alliance writers.