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CCP Guard
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:23:00 -
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CCP Abraxas and friends have been very busy making sure you have good access to all the official EVE Fiction in one place. Read all about it in this brand new blog, and leave your feedback right here.
CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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Y'sanne Isard
Ghost Mountain Boys
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:31:00 -
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first! |
Grukni
Shimai of New Eden
N E X O
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:37:00 -
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second! |
Xercodo
Xovoni Directorate
Not Usually Killing Everyone.
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:38:00 -
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\o/
The Drake is a Lie |
Esan Vartesa
Samarkand Financial
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:43:00 -
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Very nice! |
Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
Limitless Inc.
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Posted - 2011.12.21 16:45:00 -
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You're right, that was a longass blog. I've read it tho, and it's nice to see some blogs with content and less trying-to-be-funny-to-cover-from-content. This one had some effort put in.
this is a signature |
Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:00:00 -
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This is great and I like many of the improvements made to evelopedia in general when it finally got out of the beta stage. This has made going through the fiction much more structured and a better experience in general.
That said the biggest problem with EVE fiction is that often it doesn't exist in the game in any other form than flavor text. Simple things like what is the serpentis organisation or what is a sansha exactly are only hinted at and not even that if you haven't played the special content that contains the flavor text. I've killed thousands of them, but without reading out of game sources I would have no idea what they were like or about. Their thinking, appearance, culture or goals in most cases don't come across at all in the actual game. That's why they have little character and are often reduced in the players mind to just red crosses with different loot drops and damage/tank profiles.
I know it's not an easy job, since EVE only offers spaceship content, but you've got to do something to improve the situation or the fiction will never really exist for most players and they can't get immersed in it. Sansha incursions are actually a good improvement on that issue, since it gave them some character, that separated them from the rest of the grey mass. I'd like to see you give similar treatment to other factions as time goes on. I don't mean give them incursions in the same sense as sansha have, but rather look in to having the factions actively doing something visible in space, that reflects their nature, culture and furthers their goals. Anything to give them a little character and makes them something besides the generic NPCs that they now are. |
Squizz Caphinator
Woopatang
Happy Endings
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:13:00 -
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my nipples were stimulated, good job!
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boeboe joe
Solisk Exploration Company
The Silent One's
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:15:00 -
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Quote:Don't ask about the pig. We don't talk about the pig
So what's with the pig?
Nice blog, can't wait to see more juicy reading material. |
Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:31:00 -
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First image looks like shopped |
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:42:00 -
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A wall of text introducing over 9000 walls of text! *
Cool stuff and a lot of work I'm sure. I read the whole blog, though the entire wikipedia may take a while... :)
Oh, and I look forward to the upcoming Guristas expansion! **
* some exaggeration may occur during shipping
** Yeah I know
This is my signature.-á There are many others like it, but this one is mine. |
Ugleb
Sarz'na Khumatari
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:48:00 -
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How exactly do we report errors for fixing on locked pages. However its done, it's not obvious.
And yeah, sorry, I found a little mistake already. 
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Taawuz
League of Non-Aligned Worlds
Nulli Tertius
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:57:00 -
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My trust was violated, I'm never googling goatse again or anything you say CCP Abraxas.
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Kyoko Sakoda
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2011.12.21 17:59:00 -
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Good job! Raven/Scorpion thing still not fixed, though. :3 |
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CCP Abraxas
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.21 18:03:00 -
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Ugleb wrote:How exactly do we report errors for fixing on locked pages. However its done, it's not obvious. And yeah, sorry, I found a little mistake already.
Two ways. The one I'd really prefer people use is to click the Discussion tab on the respective article, and enter it there. I have an automated watch on all those pages.
(Except, ahaha, most of you can't do that at the moment because the logon for the wiki just broke and keeps tossing up an SSL error. We'll fix that.)
The other way is to post about it on the Fiction forum over here. I check them from time to time. |
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darkdooku
Malicious Mission Murderers
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Posted - 2011.12.21 18:05:00 -
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I think this is a great step towards bridging the gap between the Eve Fiction/Lore and actual in-game content. The new interface and design flow will allow for easy browsing around the Fiction Portal.
In my opinion, effectively connecting your in-game content to the backstory and lore that drives it requires three different factors:
- In-game 'stuff' that peaks the players interest in the backstory.
- The means by which the player can easily access the related backstory
- A source database of information that will further enthrall and captivate the player in the EVE Universe
I think that the changes here definitely will aid in the final point, making it easier for players to find relevant backstory/Fiction/Lore and then being able to 'get lost', in a good sense, in all the great information/stories there are to be found.
I agree with Destination SkillQueue that Incursions definitely helped bring the Sansha out of the grey mass and get pilots to find out more about them, I'm curious to see if there will be similar efforts to make more 'stuff' to peak players interests.
I'm also eager to see the means by which you connect in-game content to the Fiction Portal because I feel that is the biggest gap at the moment. It definitely kills immersion now to try to investigate the Lore behind ingame NPC corps/characters/factions, and I think changes to the way the two connect will be the key to truly getting players hooked on EVE's Lore. All in all good stuff with changes here, thanks for all the hard-work put into this and looking forward to even more. |
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2011.12.21 18:29:00 -
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+1
Only problem is the Evelopedia is butt ugly tbh. Was way easier to read before the switch...
/c
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Darth Skorpius
Legion of Darkwind
Order of the Void
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Posted - 2011.12.21 19:09:00 -
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very nice, im loving the new look, although the text on pages is a little small, though its not a huge problem, im just not used to it is guess.
now hurry up and approve my app for mercury so i can get in on the awesomeness
Follow my Adventures in New Eden! http://www.skorpiuschronicles.com/
Baa Means Baa! |
Akrasjel Lanate
Naquatech Conglomerate
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Posted - 2011.12.21 20:13:00 -
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Nice work...
There will be a lot of reading... 
Chribba wrote:+1
Only problem is the Evelopedia is butt ugly tbh. Was way easier to read before the switch...
/c
You will get used to it... |
J Kunjeh
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Posted - 2011.12.21 20:23:00 -
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Wow, awesome present! I've been wondering how this project was coming along. So much work has been done by the Dev's and volunteer's involved and for that I thank you! I could spend days on end in this portal and I'm very much looking forward to see how it progresses. I'll provide some feedback where necessary once I've spent more time with it. Kudos!
"The world as we know it came about through an anomaly (anomou)"
(The Gospel of Philip, 1-5)-á |
Rixiu
North Star Networks
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2011.12.21 20:28:00 -
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This is fairly nice. Earlier today I started reading about the history of Ni-Kunni and damn, I forgot how much potential eve lore. I read the first book some time ago and I loved it and this is awesome. Defiantly going to poke around there some more. Very nice.
Just one thing, that design makes me want to take a knife and rip my eyes out. The eye-strain is something I've never seen before, it's like you've (probably not you, rather the web-team) tried to make something that hurt the eyes as much as possible. Might be fixable with some stylish scripts but it takes a lot out of it :( |
Derboff
Flying Fox Industries
Motivated and Determined
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Posted - 2011.12.21 20:54:00 -
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Thank you.... nothing more needs to be said |
Eeio
The 0rigin
The Paganism Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.21 22:08:00 -
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But will it always be this slow? My god I already want the old pages back. I was able to load 4 oldstyle pages in the time it takes this new design to open just one  |
Renan Ruivo
Hipernova
Vera Cruz Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.21 22:21:00 -
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I'm excited! Got my tablet charged up for an entire night of eve wiki browsing.
But now that this is out there.. when can we expect moar chronicles? I know you just released a quick sucession of chronicles, but the "final" one ended on a cliffhanger and i sure hope we don't have to wait until the summer exp to find out more.. only to end in another cliffhanger.
Rated ARG for Pirates. **** you. |
Florestan Bronstein
United Highsec Front
The 99 Percent
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Posted - 2011.12.21 22:51:00 -
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This is really nice!
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Alain Colcer
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.12.21 22:53:00 -
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Good job CCP, really good job. Congrats to the Mercury team also.
I'm a happy RPer today 
Please please please, fill in the religion for gallente if you can, add more description as to how the Intaki and Mannar (and once upon a time caldari) were integrated in the Federation... and most importanyl how does the districts and democracy behave in modern federation.
This is by far the most content-rich feature you guys have in the EvE IP.
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Katrina Bekers
Rim Collection RC
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2011.12.21 22:55:00 -
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Finally the Immersion Project is seeing the light. I've been waiting for this announce.
All you content writers: thank you.
<< THE RABBLE BRIGADE >> |
Louis deGuerre
The Dark Tribe
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2011.12.21 23:07:00 -
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Immersion is vital for EVE. Otherwise it is just a glorified X-wing with worse controls.
I F_ING LOVE CHRONICLES AND IMMERSION !
Now if you can just get the thing to work again, little details like being able to log in and so on  Bigger Font PLEASE
FIRE FRIENDSHIP TORPEDOES ! |
ShadowFire15
BOAE INC
GIANTSBANE.
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Posted - 2011.12.21 23:28:00 -
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Squizz Caphinator wrote:my nipples were stimulated, good job!
i guess i wasnt alone in noticing the nipple stimulation lol
Stan Smith
had a snow storm over weekend guy was shoveling snow outside, so i shot him and mined the snow myself. concord never showed up. on an unrelated note, i have a court date next tuesday |
Kyra Felann
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.21 23:43:00 -
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This sounds really cool, and from what I'm seeing, it looks cool. It has always been a pain to just browse this stuff. Sometimes I like to make a snack and then just sit down and read setting info and lore in a game (such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, the Elder Scrolls series), but this has never really been practical in EVE. 
I've been thinking for a while now that there should be in a kind of "immersion" portal where you can go and then click around and read info without leaving that in-universe or in-character world. I want to be able to look up something in-game and find in-world info about it and then click links and more links and not see anything indicating that I'm playing a game, just like if my character was accessing the GalNet and looking up info.
In other words, if I go to the in-world info portal and look at, say, the new tier 3 battlecruisers, I should see see info about them and their development history, but not that they were added in the Crucible expansion in 2011. That info should be available somewhere, but not from within the "immersion" portal. I'd also like in-world news articles and all sorts of things, but not "extended downtime" or whatever mixed in. Basically, any link I click from inside the "immersion" portal should only ever take me to another "immersion-safe" page. Also, any stories there should be info that a regular person with GalNet access should be able to find out, not things that only two people in the (EVE) universe know about.
What I'd really love is to see info on virtually everything--every settled planet, every system, every region, all sorts of technology, corporation history, etc. Mass Effect is a great example, where the in-game codex combined with the info for each and every planet provide a huge amount of info/lore. I realize that EVE is much bigger and providing a similar level of detail would be a massive undertaking, but I think it's an ideal to strive for, even if it's never actually reached. |
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