EVE Fiction

Excellently put. EVE needs its history and searchable lore archives back way more direly than it needs a book about how frigates are made. That is not to say I wouldn't like to see a book about how frigates are made, but IMHO the priority is just backwards - first just restore the lore in a searchable format, then work on new lore.

I now know that the story team is prohibitively small, so prioritizing what actually matters the most should then be extremely important. Postponing replacing the wiki and reimplementing its data in a new format in favour of an art/lorebook which with a small team takes a very long time to complete is very poor prioritizing, in my opinion.

Especially if you say first off that "we are looking to bring it all back in the next few months", and then it has been over a year with no communication on what is going on with it. I haven't seen any more than roundabout statements that "stuff is being worked on" (such as the ISD post in the first page) and I've been actively asking about it through in-game channels and EVE Slack. I've pestered ISD's and even Devs to say something, anything official but results so far have been less than satisfactory. Like, why can't you get into details? Give us somekind of ETA, tell us why is it taking so long, why is it a secret? If you just come out and say "we have next to no resources and it's pretty much 100% volunteer work by now", that would make the long wait more than understandable. As it is now, a multimillion dollar company that fails to do something this basic in a reasonable amount of time - a timeline they set themselves, is just mind boggling otherwise.


Side rant: And regarding the "frigates of eve", fiction announcements should logically ALSO be on the FICTION FORUM, not just General Discussion. Also, this forum still has a sticky pointing towards the nonexistant wiki. Really doesn't fill me with confidence that anyone actually gives a ****. ((Btw, thank you for being dismissive and derisive at me when I pointed this out on EVE Slack. You know who you are.))


Yes, my jimmies are rustled, I am upset and 100% frustrated.

You should definitely vote! With your main and all of your alts.

The next year will begin the content redesign, so this year will be our best chance to point devs to what we want lore-wise...

I linked to 2 csm campaigns, but I think there are other candidates concerned with lore too, and the high sec ticket also mentioned that...

Anyone who is interested in lobbying focus to the story team gets my vote.

Well, I voted for all candidates looking to bring lore back in to eve in one way or another found surprisingly many, think about 6 overall.
Now I can just hope they get through and hope they'll bring to the table the things they promised.

So I made the unfortunate mistake of searching my old forum posts and finding this thread: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4038164#post4038164
For those who don't want to open the link, it's me asking slash complaining about the lack of Evelopedia fiction updates ca. 2013, the updates being very sparse in the preseding 2-3 years before that. Reason given was the work being done on EVE: Source, which was released in early 2014. Updates on the evelopedia had largely stopped around halfway between 2010 though, judging by the timeline articles collecting all that happened each year - last entry, YC112 (corresponds to 2010) was only half filled, and altough later entries were generated, they remained empty AFAIK until the very end of the official wiki.

Time sure does fly by doesn't it, and in all this time it feels like the player accessible lore has languished in perpetual, resourceless, hell. Because Evelopedia updates didn't resume immediately, no - according to this it was over a year: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=429656&find=unread For a very short time compared to the years of inactivity on the wiki, about 6-8 months, before Evelopedia got axed, it had started to get some stuff trickling in to it as detailed on that forum post that is still stickied in this forum, pointing to the very dead wiki. Thankfully so though, because I could with it trace the correct search keywords to access the same articles on the few copies that exist such as the "backstage" one.

Again for the hundredth time, yes, I know, other stuff is being worked on, you have limited resources and even though I surely sound unreasonably angry at times, I do not blame the average joe working behind the scenes for any of this.

But for the life of me I cannot understand the absolute silence around this topic? So. Yeah. What gives with this epic slow crawl? Can someone, anyone, please give a definitive answer and if not, why not?


I dunno. Sometimes it feels like I should just give up.

The Minmatar page states that only four tribes (Krusual, Vherokior, Brutor, and Sebiestor) are included in the republic even though the Starkmanir, Nefantar, and Thukker tribes have rejoined a few years ago.

Links to all the Matari tribes other than Starkmanir and Nefantar lead to 404 pages.



Other than that I LOVE this! If it were an option I'd say that I'd love to help, as it is my feedback will have to suffice.

It seems to be some kind of import of the wiki. Part of its problem may be that the organizational structure differs from the old wiki and that breaks some links. It might also just have the same problem that importing the wiki archive to other wikis had.

This was my immediate takeway. I'm not familiar with GitHub so I am unsure how to report problems that are not strictly coding errors.