10 months ago - CCP_Convict - Direct link

Hello spacefriends,

With the arrival of corporation and alliance emblems on ships with the Uprising expansion last November, CCP decided that we should apply a more critical eye when it came to considering alliance logo submissions. Since alliance logos would be turning up in more and more places as our ambitions for Heraldry continued to expand, we felt it was important to establish a standard for alliance logos that helped make sure our players were putting their best foot forward.

Recently there has been some discussion within the community about our new approach. After listening to your feedback and holding some internal discussions we have decided we should relax the content requirements for alliance logos closer to what they were before Uprising and allow player groups to express themselves more freely. This means that an alliance logo submission will no longer be rejected outright on the grounds of being too light-hearted, comical, cute or “cartoony”.

However we will continue to insist that supplied artwork is created to a professional standard. In short, although we will be less critical about the content of the logos, we will continue to have high expectations for the quality of the logo. Going forward, throwing something together in MS Paint, or an amateur Photoshop effort, or a copypaste from Midjourney may not be enough.

Nor does this mean we’re going to be putting aside our established alliance logo policy - please read and fully consider those guidelines before you begin developing your alliance logo idea to maximise your chances of a successful submission.

Going forward we will also endeavor to better explain the reasons why your submission was turned down and offer feedback to help you get your artwork to a place we can all be happy with.

If you need assistance creating a high quality alliance logo check out the EVE Creatives Discord server in the #i-am-requesting-art-and-have-isk channel or a site like Fiverr or Freelancer where you can find graphic design professionals you can hire for small gigs like this.

It was never our intention to stifle your ability to express your group identity in New Eden and hopefully we will now land in a place where both players and CCP are happy with the content and quality of your alliance logos. If you have had your alliance logo submission rejected in the last six months on the grounds that it was too cute, cartoony or humorous then we invite you resubmit your logos for fresh consideration.

10 months ago - CCP_Convict - Direct link

We won’t retroactively apply the quality standard to “legacy” logos by forcing people to update but if anyone with a not-so-great alliance logo wants to submit a new one they’re welcome to.

Edited OP slightly to make that clearer.

10 months ago - Brisc_Rubal - Direct link

Glad to see this change, and glad that CCP is willing to provide more detail to those who have dealt with rejected logos.

10 months ago - CCP_Convict - Direct link

That’s still against the alliance logo guidelines which has always been the case. If you spot a logo you that you think breaks that rule but has snuck through the review process please file a ticket and we’ll check it out.

10 months ago - CCP_Convict - Direct link

If you’re not already in there you might consider joining the EVE Creatives Discord I linked in OP too!