EVE General Discussion

Grrrr, Goons!

Don't give away truckloads of PLEX if you don't want it to get "blocswarmed". But I assume, if they didn't do that, nobody would care, this isn't about "good stories". It's bullshit either way. Blame :ccp:

I heard mittens was going to write a good story about fan-fest, but he was so drunk he couldn't remember what the story was.

Something about him wearing a pointy hat?

grr goons.

Because it is impossible to out vote a block that makes up less than 1% of the population.

So sorry that there wasn't a plethora of stories circa 2004 of pirates that made you sing for your existence, circa Space Invaders and the like. Oh so many fond memories that are only available on vents and the like.

Those were the good old days, you never knew if you could survive.

Still looking for any Space Invader story, takes time I know.


And what about the original Ponzi, you know the guy that continually justified himself on the forums. hmmm have to to some research .

While the point does have some legitimacy to it, there is the fact that the large powerblocs also contain by their very nature the largest pools of members and, therefore, the largest group of potentially interesting stories to tell.

OP complains about literary quality, but this contest was never about something that will be copy-pasted verbatim; they're going to be used by CCP as inspiration for a graphic novel and TV series (go watch some Fanfest).

Complain if you must about "omg it's all nullsec blocs," but unless you have some interesting highsec stories to tell - of which there are plenty, of course - try and be a little more open minded. Let's not forget that some of the most interesting highsec stories are actually staged by nullsec blocs.

.... One simply needs look at the lack of response from CCP, and the responses from the forum lords. To think that this competition was in any way fair is absurd. Look at who won ALL the prizes. CCP knows they screwed up. Things like this don't help to generate a larger player base. Nobody likes a situation where the rich get richer, and nobody else has a chance. As the goon post says, this competition is worth 120 billion isk, which would go to alliance coffers.. If Chewbacca Is a wookie, and wookie's are from kashyyyk, then why is Chewbacca on endor??? It doesn't make sense... +1 to the goonion for winning

Houm, I do know a story about someone who earned 40,000 likes in a forum thread and got a carrier paid for by his thread buddies...

As i've said elsewhere, the fact that Mittens could had won with absolutely anyhting (even : "X pressed disband button. BoB was disbanded") points a serious fault in the contest mechanics. Further, CCP will run another contest later this year and are taking suggestions on how to improve it... doesn't sounds like they're too fond on the turnout of this one, does it?

I wrote a semi-detailed post on improvements at the appropiate thread. Summarized as:

- Be sure on why they run a contest and what the result should be
- Use a jury to achieve the goal defined above
- Proofread on plot drafts, then ask to elaborate the more promising drafts for the actual contest
- Absolutely NO voting
- Absolutely NO judging by "who" wrote it but by "what" was written.

I myself will wait to have a chance if they ever make a fiction contest...

I don't know why mittens even wrote anything.

Should have just said

"Once upon a time, goons won 120 bil in prizes. The end."

Did I say anything about one being more acceptible than the other?

Also, learn the difference between a gift to a friend and a compeition.