...block voting...

Happy you like it guys, we're really excited to see what stories emerge. The fact that these can inspire books, comics, films or TV series is rather mind-blowing to a lot of us.

Happy you like it guys, we're really excited to see what stories emerge. The fact that these can inspire books, comics, films or TV series is rather mind-blowing to a lot of us.

oh joy more goodies to the goons.

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?

GoonSwarm amassed outside the [insert system] Jump Bridge. And primed for jump. Intel had suggested the [insert enemy alliance] had [a ship-by-ship break down of the blob]. But intel can be misleading.

The titans' JDs spun up as Operation Start approached. "Drive Lighning" arced across their hauls as the drives reached full charge.

The operation is go!

...have you ever been catapulted from a dead stop several light years?

The GS were known for bringing overwhelming numbers to a fight. But even this was a sight. [insert ship-by-ship break down of GS blob]. Streaked into system. Their turrets already deploying and TCs locking on.

Dyner: I didn't see anything in the rules that prevented one from giving it a creative writing gloss. The devblog specifically mentions [paraphrase] "stories of real EVE players set 20,000 years in the future" -- which to me implies there is expected to take the events and put them in the in world context versus, "so, I sat down with a Mountain Dew, logged in and...". I suppose nothing would stop you from doing that either, if you had a good spin on it.

I think they simply mean the core it is based on has to be based on an actual event ingame, meta game whatever and not just a purely speculative/invented scenario

"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.

Plot Summary - 5000 characters left

I don't see anywhere on the "Submit Story" page where you would say attach a document.

Which is kind of stupid. I mean how are you suppose to properly vote on a story when all you have are the cliff-notes.

Yeah, it is a bit short. It seems strange that they'd even be thinking of developing a property around something the length of an AAR. In fact, isn't that text limit actually shorter than just the standard comment text limits? I'm looking at the Remaining Characters count and I think it started at 6,000.

But if I decide to do it (have to figure if I have an interesting enough story to tell in an interesting enough way in a mere 5k characters. Not a lot of room for "color") -- the text box entry doesn't actually bother me. As long as the word count is known, you can write and edit for that space and cut 'n paste.

Oh my god.

An EVE-based TV series would be amazing.


Whether it deals with boardroom deals, the life of some smalltime smugglers or pirates (cough, Firefly, cough), or battles like Asakai, it would have so much potential.

Plot Summary - 5000 characters left

I don't see anywhere on the "Submit Story" page where you would say attach a document.

Which is kind of stupid. I mean how are you suppose to properly vote on a story when all you have are the cliff-notes.


PS: Chribby shouldn't be allowed to post a story...he's to love-able not to win First :P

A number of people have expressed their concern that this is way to short. We'd love to hear opinions, pro and cons for this. Are there people that like keeping it short, so that it-¦s concise, or do most of you want more space to better illustrate your stories?

Do you expect me to complress ten years (or even two years) of EVE history into 5000 characters?
The "Epic history of lie" is 15kb of bare text, and only covers about two years of EVE History.

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.

Thanks for the feedback. The 5000 character limit was put put there as an attempt to create "artistic constraints", with the goal to focus the storytelling so that it would be more of a treatment or synopsis, rather than a fully fleshed out story. That would make it easier for readers to trawl through all the stories once the voting process starts.

A number of people have expressed their concern that this is way to short. We'd love to hear opinions, pro and cons for this. Are there people that like keeping it short, so that it-¦s concise, or do most of you want more space to better illustrate your stories?

The prizes will go for the most voted (which means the ones with most friends will get the prizes, not the best) and the good stories maybe will appear in some TV show or Comic book and you will get nothing which seems pretty unfair. Selected stories for a comic or TV show deserve some kind of prize in my opinion.