Blog Banter 46: The Main Event

Welcome to the 46th EVE Blog Banter, the community tradition that shares a single discussion topic across the blogosphere and beyond. For further information, check out the Blog Banter section above. For this edition's topic, read on...

The Main Event

"EVE Online is a unique piece of science fiction that is ‘participatory’." - CCP Seagull, December 2012

EVE Online is heading into its Second Decade with renewed vigour and a new development strategy. At the CSM Summit in December, Executive Producer CCP Unifex and Development Director CCP Seagull explained how future development and expansions will be broader in scope than recent "collections of features" stating that CCP "want to create something more inspirational, that players aspire to play." 

With the return of Live Events such as the Battle for Caldari Prime, clearly the prime fiction of EVE is back in favour as part of this new thematic approach to expansions. However, EVE's story is very much a tale of two playstyles, with an entirely player-driven narrative unfolding daily in parallel to the reinvigorated backstory. Often, they do not mix well. How can these two disparate elements be united or at least comfortably co-exist in a single sandbox universe?

Banter On.

Thoughts From the Bantersphere:

• The Main Event by Eve Scientist @ A Scientist's Life in EVE
• Making NPCs Matter by Grimmash @ Warp to Zero
• Time to Open a New Playbook by Orakkus @ 2nd Anomaly From the Left
• Interview with the Live Event Team
• CSM/CCP on Live Events - Very Discussed, Very Wrong
• Evanescence by Helena Khan @ Aggressive Logistics
• Two Types of Eve Playstyle? by Drackarn @ Sand, Cider and Spaceships
• The New Frontier... by TurAmarth ElRandir @ A Carbon Based Life
• Easy Transition by Kirith Kodachi @ Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
• Player Driven Story by Stabs @ Stabbed Up
• MY GOD WHAT IS THAT THING!!??! by Rixx Javix @ EVEOGANDA
• Eve's many choices by Sered Woollahra @ Sered's Lives
• Making a meaningful impact by Samwise Potato @ And Other Bright Ideas
• The four stories by Mike Azariah @ A Missioneer in Eve
• CSM - Live Events
• CCP is King and We are Its Warrior Subjects by Mabrick @ Mabrick's Mumblings
• Consequence by Rhavas @ Interstellar Privateer
• The Immortal Politician (Part I) by ChiralityEVE @ States of Entanglement
• The Rule of Law (Part II)
• Actions Have Consequences by Anshu Zephyran @ Structure Damage
• A Midsummer's Eve by Firstly @ Flying Silent
• No Dichotomy by Ripard Teg @ Jester's Trek
• The Ties That Bind by Sugar Kyle @ Low Sec Lifestyle