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lol James315 will get a decade of free subs

Competitions are all nice and that but how about giving those of us who have actually been subscribing to Eve for ten years a little something as a thank you?

Mildly annoyed that the story board appears to exclude fan-fiction. Even when it pertains to something like how you started your character....

"The story has to be true. It has to have happened in EVE." - Submit Story page, Plot Summary "hint text"

I understand why they want 'legit stories'. But seriously if we made a text file out of all the battles and crap players do it would sound horrible.

You need to put that "Hollywood Spin" on stories or people aren't going to give a **** about them.

Do you want to read about how GoonSwarm fleet blobbed some other alliance?

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By adding some finesse you make the same situation sound interesting.

So how interesting is it to listen to a play-by-play of how I made this character slowly trained up. Got better ships. Got blown up some. Was present during some of the Expansions' 'Event' peaks (ie Incursions, but not "THE Incursion" [think the recent Dust Event with the titan])

-sorry for picking you Goons, tired and your name was the first I thought of :P

EveTV, hmm rings a bell, like StevieSG, or maybe even Oveur.
Isn't Nathan Richardsson doing another SyFy TV series

As a fan from Stargate SG1 it amazed me how it got along so well where basically the american military saved the universe.
Maybe we can expect to see Icelandic team(s) instead of 'merican teams, with socio-political nerds (insert CCP names) to offset their overwhelming coolness, saving the New Eden Universe

"Exceeds the Text field's limit" is a good point. I looked and found it strange that they didn't specify any kind of maximum length -- which is writing contest 101. So could I write something the length of Empyrean Age?

On the other side, I'm hoping their not expecting a 2-paragraph forum post entry that one just typed into the text field.

Will this place you on top for the most likes sir?

Very interesting contest :).

However, I was so psyched about it that I was about to submit stories when I re-read and realized the emphasize on REAL eve online stories.

Unfortunately, despite being a 2004 player, there is nothing that I ever experienced that was astonishing or mind=blown compared to stuff I've seen and heard from others.


Oh well, I guess its back to my dark little corner with fake-fanfictions :).
But I like the site and all around it. Very impressive.

I tend to miss out on EVE-O site features, hence this question:

Speaking of eve fanfictions, do we only have the forums as a place of submitting or is there a "EVE Fanfiction Site" like the "TRUE story" one we have for this contest?

If there is no such site for fanfiction - REALLY, I'd love to see one for the fanfictions. I like the voting and setup of it.


edit:
well... there was this time that felt like first sex when I tackled this hard-to-catch/arrogant Curse-cruiser in a highsec wardec back when I was getting back into an active role in the game (I was in hiatus/semi active between 2005 and 2007'ish). He was a real killer for my highsec corp of miners/carebears , and our mini call to arms required me to hop in the only frigate that was in my hangar at system -> A bloody tackling Tristan (long before its tiericide).
Guess he underestimated me for whatever reason, I tackled, we blew him up - and we're cheering like girls.
And thus I was a miner/industrialist no longer and EVE had herself a new tackler-blood.

Another time invovled me probing a group of expensive faction-BS pilots of the same wardeccing corp. They were afk and back then, nobody was afraid of being probed in a safespot (let alone the different and complicated probing mechanics).
... So I was in this Minmatar Probe frigate and happened to have learned the mindbogging probing stuff.........
//edit2 we didn'T get the faction-BS, butother BS stuff, and they surely did have a shock that day.

Anyhow, nothing specially really. I'm sure there are better stories out there, starting with those in Jita. :-D

It's:
-127 for the story title
-5k for the plot summary (I typed a '0' and it went to 4999),
-2k for author notes
-60 for support points
-500 for explain said points

As for Forum Posts, yes, it's 6k.

Even looked in Internet Explorer to see if there was a "Browse and Submit"...sometimes Chrome won't display those. But nope.

...whole thing doesn't make since "Plot Summary". Infers that at some point I should be able to upload the full story.

.........CCP. Are you out of ideas and bumming them off the players. And that's why you just want "the back of the book"-synopsis. So you can fill in the details.

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WebTV, using their CGI Software. But in-house WebTV... I don't want a bunch of censorship.

Why not keep it as it is. And let us attach a Document file of say no bigger than 1MB.

If people like the Plot Summary they can read the entire story.

Unless you could setup another field and allow 'Bold', 'Italic', and 'Underline'...bonus would be alignment (left, center, right). But then you'd have to set the character limit to something around 50k (my 7page short story is 10k, for reference).

You can provide an "elevator pitch" summary of the plot and a link to a more verbose version on the story, if the 5000 character limit is not enough to describe the story you want to submit.