EVE Fiction

Moved from a previous sub-forum. Was getting no attention there at all...

It seems that with the push for more frequent updates, the sense of a virtual world is slowly eroding.

There was once a time when EVE's lore was continiously expanded through fortnightly chronicles published on the website, chronicles were published with beautiful artwork through EON Magazine and we'd routinely read live event news (sometimes with no actual event in-game) through the community news. Meanwhile each snippet of Walking in Stations (especially the article published in the magazine more than 5 years ago) brought players just that little bit closer to really involving themselves in this fictional setting.

All of this is gone. We no longer even receive cinematic/lore trailers with each patch.

There are so many lore sections that are out of date in-game. Aside from EVE: Source (which was brilliant) it's apparent there has been a huge shift towards 'all gameplay' and 'no immersion'.

So aside from my concern, what is in the works to help reinvigorate this game's world? What is in the works to entice players to really explore New Eden beyond the appealing gameplay itself?

To be fair, a six week turnaround makes this impossible with even the largest of cinematics teams. (Yes, even someone like Blizzard.)

EVE lets us create our own stories though, which is something other games with generic storylines and don't let you do.

The less CCP develop the lore, the less it will feel like we as capsuleers are 'breaking' the story.

I agree, though, that I like myself a nice chronicle or lore tidbit to read now and then.

I've been tempted to post something of the same nature. I know CCP is going through changes and the new update cycle would make large additions hard, but I feel like we should be seeing something. I feel like they are happy with what is laid out and just add as necessary and that's a sad feeling.

The background to EVE is fantastic, and even if we didn't get chronicles often it would be nice to see more news updates from the game world that doesn't involve us capsuleers. I actually expected the industrial changes to come with some game lore updates, but I was just left to assume that overnight CONCORD or someone decided to change how we pay lab workers and use public lab services, how refineries are changing, or something.

At the same time I feel like we've entered an era where we've become the lore. If that is true then I would feel the Empires would still have much to do and say regarding capsuleers and their own business.

Yes, the lack of World News and continued lore detail and vitality is very frustrating.

Good news regarding the trailers in the latest EVE Online Show EVE Online Show : Episode One

Their ideas remind me what we saw with the EVE Online: Dominion trailer that attempted to recreate the authenticity of EVE gameplay with a cinematic angle. I look forward to it, but I personally hope it's not immersion breaking. :)

I joined the game because I had really taken an interest in Jovians and their lore- now I know just about all there is to know about them but they've faded into obscurity

Although I'm working on an idea involving them that I'm definitely posting to the F&I soon

I kinda have to agree

right now it feels like an arcade game or mass produced non sense shooter.

War Thunder . Call of Spaceships w/e. Log In. Quick action. Log off.

I am not into roleplaying tbh but I miss the time were I used to be amazed by the depth of EvE Online and in conclusion its *scientific* articles and chronicles.

To be fair, the first titan was named "Steve". EVE player attention spans are not known for their length.

That being said, I completely agree with the OP and such. I was originally a Dust player, and I fell in love with the depth and complexity of the lore, and was elated when I found out this deep first person shooter was connected to an even deeper and more complex game.

I was hooked. After I made some new friends EVE side, I joined the game. I actually got immersed in roleplay rather quickly, and it has been a major aspect of how I play ever since.

But I joined after any of these large events happened. I heard about the Sansha invasions, the way people had to figure out how the wormholes worked. That sounds amazing. But all we get are some provists with bounties on their heads who barely make an impact, and are swallowed up by large alliances.

The events don't really even appeal to me anymore. They are too easily exploited by the big guys, and it's not because I was miffed I couldn't get any plexes.

Both of my attempts to join EVE events and be apart of EVE history have either ended with me dying, or TiDi made my experience not worth the effort.

If CCP could add more actors to actually play roles dealing with roleplay and setting up events, preferably events with many staging areas, with little incentive other than loyalty, I think we could see more events be more immersive.

Yes there are capsuleers who only work for profit, but there are hundreds if not thousands (IC & OOC) that will come to the call of the empires simply because they were called. Look who won this recent donation thing for the T3 Destroyers! PIE did!

There was no profit in that, other than prestige.

We need more live events that give less monetary incentives, more immersive incentives.

The big guys won't come if there's nothing in it for them OOCly.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one feeling that the backstory aspect has kind of lost its... vitality, I guess. I've been working on putting together an EVE fiction contest. But somehow it just doesn't seem that people would be that interested at present.

If I'm got it wrong and people are inspired to write, let me know. We'll get it done.