Ninth place went to Hardin of CVA fame in a not very interesting history of Amarr roleplayers doing stuff in Providence , lacked IAC mentions tbh - https://truestories.eveonline.com/ideas/830

Fourth place (12 plex) was a battlereport by Lord Maldoror , did not deserve to place this high, but gz on your voting and downvoting campaign RnK - https://truestories.eveonline.com/ideas/899

Your downvoting campaign from the 17th May.

;)

And that folks is why I did not vote or post any stories.

When you have power blocks able to vote en masse for one person any competition that involves players to vote is really worthless.

Congrats on GS guys for winning all those juicy plexes and prizes by flexing their voting muscle.

And that folks is why I did not vote or post any stories.

When you have power blocks able to vote en masse for one person any competition that involves players to vote is really worthless.

Congrats on GS guys for winning all those juicy plexes and prizes by flexing their (and friends) voting muscle.

Every newbie should learn about the hilarious disbanding of BoB.

And now we can just link them to it. Very convenient since a lot of newbies are coming in.

Your downvoting campaign from the 17th May. (I note the name Tyrrax heads the list of many pages of downvotes votes placed in a matter of minutes, for example, on a story previously having virtually no negative vote).

Not empty quoting.

Whats the rush with calling results? Hope CCP do some proper results; no` votin' every 10 hours, deleting char and voting again...

First I would like to thank everyone who voted for my story.

That said, why didn't you bother to do a write up on IAC's eventful history? Could have been epic!

As for my story being interesting or not - well I admit it was written in a rush and is replete with typos - however Provi is one of the unique regions in 0.0 so I felt a story about why it has developed that way would be of interest to at least a few people (which clearly it was). I think the fact that Providence was the most 'tagged' region in the True Stories competition (by a long way) demonstrates the uniqueness of the region and its ability to create interesting content for both old and new players...

We make upless than 1% of the population.

While The Mittani did indeed get the most upvotes and it did affect Eve in a big, big way, the story itself is pretty bad. "Log in, click disband alliance button, win."

We make upless than 1% of the population.

And as a bonus thanks to all, too, for making Player Owned Surrpise the most read story <3

Seventh place was about how Centra Spike stole an Erebus from Bluemelon (who funnily enough recently joined us here in Pandemic Legion, funny how a little thing like a stolen titan isn't that big a deal in EVE) - https://truestories.eveonline.com/ideas/820

it's actually not true, goonswarm federation has 10k members, then add the rest of CFC and it's close to 10% of all EVE accounts.

Interestingly Hardin's story has traded places with Lord Maldoror's 3rd story - I guess CCP is deleting some votes ! :O

That is true...

But considering that very few people actively participate in anything EVE other their little world that 1% added by friends makes a massive difference.

Well maby the 99% should take more action

Perhaps pitching tents and waving placards with bad slogans on them in front of CCP HQ.

win win win

And that folks is why I did not vote or post any stories.

When you have power blocks able to vote en masse for one person any competition that involves players to vote is really worthless.

Congrats on GS guys for winning all those juicy plexes and prizes by flexing their (and friends) voting muscle.

Yup exactly the reason why nearly ALL the top 'winning' stories are about null sec players. Screw the Mittani, and GS hardly interesting but yeah even in polls you guys just zerg everyone out. It would have been so much better if CCP had an independent panel of writers to judge the stories rather than 'omg bees, vote this **** so I can goes to Iceland for free and 20000 bajiliion plexes'

But whatever.

Yup exactly the reason why nearly ALL the top 'winning' stories are about null sec players. Screw the Mittani, and GS hardly interesting but yeah even in polls you guys just zerg everyone out. It would have been so much better if CCP had an independent panel of writers to judge the stories rather than 'omg bees, vote this **** so I can goes to Iceland for free and 20000 bajiliion plexes'

But whatever.

Not empty quoting.

Null makes all the stories because bears in highsec never do anything interesting.

They might not do anything interesting (not true, I have many stories of megalomaniac carebear CEOs doing some crazy **** and abusing members), but people tend to do interesting things to them.

I also suffered from the down voting campaign. Had been averaging 1 down vote for every 10 upvotes right until then last couple of days and then got hit by 70 out of the blue. C'est la vie...

This competition was fair by EVE standards IMO. Stop whining.

Some of the better stories of late come from w-space.

How can a competition be fair if alliance politics come into it. Not all alliances are made equal.

So if you mean that EVE is not fair then you're right.

But in a competition you should judge the merit of the work, not who that work belongs to.

While The Mittani did indeed get the most upvotes and it did affect Eve in a big, big way, the story itself is pretty bad. "Log in, click disband alliance button, win."

Both well written submissions about events that had a considerable impact on the greatest war to take place in EVE so far, involving at one point or another pretty much every significant 0.0 alliance in the game (and many many not so significant heh)

To the people complaining how the voting system doesnt work due to alliance/coalition bias:

What kind of realistic alternative do you suggest?

Are you going to forbid people from the same alliance to vote for members? That is retarted, dont be retarted.

EVE is a great game, i started in the year 2007 and made history ever since

There should have been a panel to do the voting. [...] If i hear it right, this is suppose to become a book of the best stories. If i buy a book, i exspect a good read

I was pulling/voting for the GH-SC story. Reading about it is what prompted me check out EvE. I now sub 3 accounts. Great story, Great PR work.

That said the BoB take down was #2 on my list.

Oh, and I completely agree with Kane.

When you have power blocks able to vote en masse for one person any competition that involves players to vote is really worthless.

story lacked Buffy pictures

Not empty quoting.

Exactly.

The suspense - the tension - the intrigue - the drama! - of pushing a button to activate a terrible game mechanic! I pity the writer that has to turn that into something readable.

As for picking the winners, I'm totally cool with a popularity contest for the prizes. That's fine. I just don't want a crappy end product. I hope that CCP exerts some executive control and tosses out the crappy stories in favor of the interesting ones for the printed stuff.

i have a story.

one time i trialed this game called eve. i liked it so i subbed. the end.

good story, no?

what do i win?

I don't know why they even bothered to write a story.

"Once upon a time, Goonswarm block voted and won 240 PLEX. The end."

To the people complaining how the voting system doesnt work due to alliance/coalition bias:

What kind of realistic alternative do you suggest?

Are you going to forbid people from the same alliance to vote for members? That is retarted, dont be retarted.