EVE Fiction

Over the last few months I have watched with concern that the eveonline.com homepage has steadily been stripped of all references to eve history, backstory and lore from its official page.

Even on the the community page..... the main chronology of years and the history of organizations ... its all gone. The chronicles and short storys while very well written are hardly easily digested content for new players.. the basic race and timeline description is inadequate. They need context which the chronology of years and history of organizations provided.

For example how would a new player know who "Upwell Consortium"or the 'Serpentis Corporation" are... or the history behind carolines star and thera... Where can I find information on "drifters"....

CCP you claim that EvE is the worlds largest depository of living science fiction yet your commitment to chronicling that fiction and storing the history of lore and player created history in a accessible way is woeful.

Players understood that you couldn't maintain the eve wiki with all the changes to ships and items etc in each patch...

You could and should maintain the historical and lore information that was contained in the wiki. Its not living science fiction if your not providing a accessible location for the history of the universe or at the very least a basic timeline.

Otherwise all this talk of "living science fiction" just becomes what it currently is... marketing bu$s$it. Perhaps you could use all that money your CEO boasts about earning on skill injectors to hire an extra web developer and archivist.

The YARR program.. player volunteers to help with maintaining history and lore needs to rebooted and re-energized.

A new official website needs to be created to store the history of the universe.


Also the data dump of the old eve wiki is now broken on fuzzworks..

For articles not backed up on Backstate don't forget to check the Wayback Machine.

I doubt they'll do much about that considering that Empires of EVE is out. That book basically does the job of detailing at least the first couple of years of major EVE player history, so there's probably not much sense of CCP doing something of their own.

Yep. :( I'm expecting that too. There's lore in EVE Source that isn't available anywhere else, including very basic and very important lore such as the full requirements of becoming a capsuleer. How salty am I about that? Dead Sea salty. I stayed away from EVE for four years because of Monoclegate...

I agree! Recently I was really stumped when someone in a public chat channel dropped the word "Yulai" and another one who is playing since 7 years (and is very active, quite helpful to new players, creates videos about EVE content, etc.) was asking: "What is Yulai?" The backstory and lore of EVE is far too hidden and too difficult to get into.

The minimum is a better organisation and completeness on the EVE website. The listing of the chronicles for example is awful, you just don't know where to start, what a chronicle is roughly about (there needs to be a mini "abstract" on each chronicle or some tags to have at least a little orientation), you don't know how the list is sorted, etc. To me the game is losing a lot if the history and background isn't actively maintained and driven forward.

CCP will come through.

I certainly hope they give the lore the ease of access and support it deserves. It is one of the main reasons why I got into EVE, and I'm very sad to see it slowly fading into the background.

As someone who is rather new to EVE and who has fallen in love with the history of New Eden from day one, i have found it increasingly difficult to find lore explanations for many things, or just find more informations on New Edens history.

And i dont even want to start talking about forum threads linking to the dead Evelopedia and the fact that there is to my knowledge, no complete mirror of it.

Would be nice if CCP as a company would give EVEs lore some more love.