EVE Fiction

First of all, we are playing a videogame, so the fun and "happening" stuff is, and always should be, compressed on small place or short period of time. That's what makes any game more "fun" and exciting than slow, boring real life (don't get me wrong though, of course RL still wins anyway). Second, I respect your vision, though what I'm saying is that lore and "happenings" are so invisible last two expansions - in compare to the past expansions. And that what makes me a sad panda.

I dunno, just write your own chronicles about in-game events. Literally any event in EVE can theoretically be documented on the EVE-Wiki and turned into a narrative.

Go play WoW, SWTOR, or STO, then. We don't need to hear your whiny sob story of apparent lack of immagination and overabundancy of pessimism. There is a rich story to EVE (there are 3 full novels) but for the most part it is up to your own initiaive to advance that story. Whether you do so through your actions as a capsuleer or by the power of pen & paper (writing), in the end it is up to you to discover or create story. I do understand part of your complaint, as I would like to see more chronicles, but the dev team is busy working on two big games so I'm thinking we need to be patient before we see more story advancement.

Likewise, If you really think this game isn't for you, you're right! Go play something mindless that holds your hand and tells you everything that is and should be. The key to games is having fun, and if EVE Online doesn't fulfill that role, quit wasting your time and ours with these posts and simply go play something else.

I, for one, miss the regular fluff news pieces. Sure, they didn't really affect my gaming experience one way or the other, but it was fun to read about an ongoing scandal in an NPC corporation, and wait for the next update to see how it would evolve over the coming days.

The Fiction portal on the wiki s nice and all, but it doesn't have the same impact factor that those news pieces would. Every time my feed would light up in Google Reader, I found myself wondering if an existing thread was about to get a little more tangled, or if a new thread had just been presented for me to pull on.

You should read the books. It will probably change your perspective of the game.[/quote]

I too have read the books & would like to see some of this used as epic arc missions

But I don't want to PvP, I've done it for years. I've done a lot over the time I've been here...PvP is fun and all but, it's not story or lore to me. Just people bashing pixel heads against each other.

I agree that EVE is what we, as a community, make of it. So it naturally follows that if we want storylines and character progression shouldn't it be up to us to collectively create it? Maybe if as a community we came together in greater numbers and shaped the lore collaboratively (continuing from established lore of course) CCP might take our cues and create further chronicles around the content we as a community provide them.

I admit I still have A LOT of reading to catch up on before I could be any kind of authority on EVE lorecrafting though, and I suspect the majority of the community doesn't even care about lore in the first place so even though I fully agree that EVE is a game ripe for roleplaying and rich in already established lore that should continue to progress, I guess the process from a community perspective wouldn't be without it's complications.

If you don't like it, don't read it. Your opinion is not welcome.

The CSMs would like to remind everyone that "Reapers" are just a myth.

My gripe with this is it isn't being reported on the EVE website as much anymore. You go to something like TheMittani.com and they have war reports, updates etc. Years ago I remember stuff like Titan deaths being reported, Alliances wars etc all on the EVE home page as "official" news. To me that made the universe a lot more "real" and immerser then a short story written by someone ever could.

I mean I liked a lot of the EVE Chronicles, the two I really liked were one about the Amarrian Royal who ended up have his skin stripped off repeatedly as compensation for torturing his people and the Gallente's version of the FBI capturing a drug dealer and torturing the hell out of him and dumping his body in an alley just to send a message.

All that was good grimdark content, however when you're living in High Sec and you read a news report how a distant capsuleer Alliance has declared war on another one and has started an invasion fleet.... That is basically fiction too. You don't know any of those people (or realise they are shiptoasting idiots who sing abd songs on comms etc.), you're just reading a news story delivered to you via the TV in your Captains Quarters or whatever.

What I'm trying to say is: Real player generated content should be reported as news in game and on the website more, as to anyone not in nullsec it basically is fiction.