Post your story so I can vote for it then, or are you just here to complain about people who have already done that?

Just as predicted, it is exactly as I suspected. Mitanni at the top spot with a pretty bland and generic take on the famous BOB disbandment. He probably just copy and pasted it from anther source and instructed all his goons to up vote it.

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes.

They have a point though. The votes obviously just got block swarmed. It doesn't reflect actually interesting stories, just nul sec events.

Sure, but there are also non-block members of the CSM. If OP isn't willing to even try then they have no room to complain.

I discovered the "story" site a few weeks ago and started reading and rating the "stories".

To be honest, I did not find one true story in there, unless CCP redefined the meaning of "story". Everything I found read like a copy from the forums, with no attempt to even tell a plot.

Did CCP tell the authors that under all circumstances they should avoid using traditional story elements, and that they should tell everything in forum speech instead?

Was this site meant to be distinctly different from the EVE Stories site from the start?

I like how whenever something doesnt go the way someone wants its always a debacle or a conspiracy.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun

I don't have a dog in this race, but it's pretty obvious how this has worked for years. The majority of votes are typically going to go to those individuals that belong to the largest alliances, regardless of quality or content. Of course not always, but the lions share. Nothing really wrong with that, but to deny it is dishonest. It is what it is.

I like how whenever something doesnt go the way someone wants its always a debacle or a conspiracy.

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes. I thought to myself no matter how good a story I may write, it will never get enough votes as likely all of the votes will come from the alliance blocks as per usual in these situation.

Just as predicted, it is exactly as I suspected. Mitanni at the top spot with a pretty bland and generic take on the famous BOB disbandment. He probably just copy and pasted it from anther source and instructed all his goons to up vote it. The other stories were also pretty boring and generic, with the second place prize going to a story with literally zero literary talent displayed, more akin to a check list of events which occurred.

A wasted opportunity indeed CCP. Did you really not forsee this happening?

There were some really interesting small gang stories that got completely ignored in favor of those written by famous players with alliance voting power. The OP had a point, though calling it a debacle is a bit overly dramatic.

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes.

There were some pretty good stories out there that more than deserved the prize

Hey guys, if Earnest Hemingway wrote a story about a lowsec roam this one time, no one would care. This competition was about Big People who do Big Things


and highsec, lowsec, any sec that aint null still cant organize for ****

So you're telling me 0.0 alliances are uncreative and uninteresting?

hmmm

Grrrr, Goons!

Just write a story about Mintchip and her experiences in EVE, make sure it's compressed into a twitter format.

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes. I thought to myself no matter how good a story I may write, it will never get enough votes as likely all of the votes will come from the alliance blocks as per usual in these situation.

Just as predicted, it is exactly as I suspected. Mitanni at the top spot with a pretty bland and generic take on the famous BOB disbandment. He probably just copy and pasted it from anther source and instructed all his goons to up vote it. The other stories were also pretty boring and generic, with the second place prize going to a story with literally zero literary talent displayed, more akin to a check list of events which occurred.

A wasted opportunity indeed CCP. Did you really not forsee this happening?

True Stories? ...... Yawn

I ignored that site completely because the writing (excuse the pun) was on the wall from the get go. Mittani stroking his e-peen and his mind swiped followers chomping at the bit to vote was always a forgone conclusion, imho.

When I first read about true stories I was intrigued. A really interesting idea I thought, and I felt encouraged to begin penning a story of my own. That is until I read about how they were going to judge the winner, namely, based upon player votes. I thought to myself no matter how good a story I may write, it will never get enough votes as likely all of the votes will come from the alliance blocks as per usual in these situation.

Just as predicted, it is exactly as I suspected. Mitanni at the top spot with a pretty bland and generic take on the famous BOB disbandment. He probably just copy and pasted it from anther source and instructed all his goons to up vote it. The other stories were also pretty boring and generic, with the second place prize going to a story with literally zero literary talent displayed, more akin to a check list of events which occurred.

A wasted opportunity indeed CCP. Did you really not forsee this happening?

No! I'll be reading these Tropes for like a week now! Damn you!

GIGO, you ask who can get more votes for a creamy fart and you get a top voted creamy fart*.

This True Story issue strikes me as the exact opposite of the "design a starship" initial disaster.

The first round of "design a starship" had too few EVE and too much outside talent(?).

The True Story contest has had way too much EVE and null outside talent(?).

I wish good luck to the Black Horse guys trying to make a comic out of BoB's demise and then earn any money with it.


*not commenting on the quality of the winner work.

write up that story where after months of barbie freaking cyber flirting this dude got a carrier cus his avatar was hawt

write up that story where after months of barbie freaking cyber flirting this dude got a carrier cus his avatar was hawt

so likes-circle jerking is more acceptible than bloc voting, lol 40,000 "earned"

Hey guys, if Earnest Hemingway wrote a story about a lowsec roam this one time, no one would care. This competition was about Big People who do Big Things


and highsec, lowsec, any sec that aint null still cant organize for ****