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Where is the story Why there is no story in this game? - #10 by Ian_Zhang
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We all want our cookies Mike. We were told weâd be getting oatmeal chocolate chip but all we got instead was a few dried raisins.
So much squandered potentialâŚ
Will give a few weeks for freelancers to see if modified or patched.
There was an old advertisement about writing your own story in EVE.
The current war is writing stories from some players.
Skol
Maybe this one:
Disband the CSM*
Well I do plan on running again. So can you hold that thought for a year or two?
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Normally I try to avoid the forums like the plague. Here is my story Mike. As you know BRUCE is still trying very hard to assist new miners with ships. Most of the people I know in game, has been gifted a PvP ship by you. You are passing out some nice vessels. My group is starting small and we have gifted several ships but it is difficult to give away your stuff in this game. I never ran into a harder brick wall in any other game.
I just returned from 2 week vacation to no game mail requests for BRUCE newcomer ships. Upon my return, I called one of the members and they told me the issue is scammers giving us a black-eye before we can benefit those in need. Trust is the issue, it appears this new Freelance mission system proves what we are saying. Contracts are full of cons and scams, Hypernet again a system without merit, and now this Freelance missions that has no checks or balance. I was thinking about offering the ships through the Freelance program, but I see only micro-transactions of ISK are allowed.
For the readers who are not corporate CEOâs, here is the system outline.
Contribution
All of these reflect nothing new and donât allow thinking outside the box. At first glance it looks exactly like the same choice list from dailies. Here in this manner, there is no Exploration, I canât say, visit my station in the Tsuguwa system and pick up a free ship. I canât even ask you to mine 1,000 of a particular ore and gift you a free ship. This drop down list is far too restrictive to the person paying the Freelancer.
Visibility and Access
Another obstacle my office is in the Tsuguwa system, so this means the only people seeing this are already here? Weird. Unlike the market, I donât see a broadcast range. Capsuleer age and limit is fine. I can set it to 30 days or less on age and 1 time only.
Description
Title and 1000 characters or less info box. Followed by a classification, yet look at the list above, not one of those says explore system.
Payment
Units of ISK ( given to the Freelancer )
I get charged a broadcast fee. duration fee, and the rewards ( payments to the freelancers ). This apparently rewards the content creator nothing in return. As Mike says, âGo make me some cookies and we will pay you ISK.â But in return, we donât get cookies, you get nada, zilch, zero.
So is it really any wonder this system is being used and abused as a lure for naive players? I try very hard to avoid saying bad things about games I enjoy playing. This is one on those moments.
Stay alert and mine safe 
Hello Mike, thanks for posting another edition of Eve NewsâŚ
Usually I like and agree with most of your viewpoints, however I think you totally misrepresented the context of the Forum thread - âWhy there is no story in this game?â
The topic of that thread gave me the impression it was directed towards PvE due to what the OP posted:
Where are campaigns? Intresting characters? Story? Voiceacting? Custscenes? Why this game feels like its some kind of early 2000s web-site game? Space game can have story tooâŚ
While most everybody else was talking about PvP in that thread, my reply actually provided PvE answers to the OPâs questions:
Contrary to whatâs been posted in this thread, Eve Online has various multiple âNPC Storyâ plots happening all the timeâŚ
You want campaigns, run Epic ArcsâŚ
You want interesting characters, run Cosmos AgentsâŚ
You want story, run Career, Circle and Data Center AgentsâŚAlso all in-game Events that have been happening are actually campaigns⌠Even regular missions have interesting characters with a storyâŚ
As for Voiceacting and Cutscenes, thereâs plenty of other games available with that stuff⌠This game is already a huge time sink and adding those aspects will just make everything take even longer to completeâŚ
And lastly, yes this game was created in the early 2000âs⌠However the Devâs have done a pretty good job of keeping the graphics and game performance up to dateâŚ
Anyway, thanks again for postingâŚ
DMC
Lucy,
We have to give CCPNomad some time to expand the listing, hopefully. 
I did not think of the adding free ship to the listing.
I like the concept of a sprinkling of random cutscene. Somewhere I made a post about completing a mission and getting a 'You saved the world" cutscene.
I have always wanted since day one⌠agents that talk to you. Rude little pr*#ks that they are. 
I always thought that if we actually HEARD them being rude there would be a lot more âconcord incidentsâ as we starting trying to blow up agents.
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Worse than being DCâd is the game just wonking out instead and youâre not sure if youâre just failing to activate modules.
