[2020] Invasion Chapter 3 update from Team Event Horizon

All of this is inaccurate. CONCORD do not control all capsuleer cloning contracts. They don’t control all cloning facilities. They don’t even control all FTL comms infrastructure. Moreover, the implication that capsuleers require a fluid router chain between them and their cloning facility’s built in fluid router is not true. The Blackout wasn’t about clone personality transmission, it pertained to every other critical usage of the network.

They can’t. The idea CONCORD can “turn off” capsuleers is a persistent one, with some seeds in deprecated lore, but it’s simply not the canonical position. Capsuleers have had the ability to establish their own cloning infrastructure for most of EVE’s lifetime and that has been well represented in the game by various features.

Increasing the exposure and accessibility of the Game World News, Fiction Portal and so on is very much at the forefront of our minds. It’s not just on the radar, it’s being actively looked at.

We don’t intend to stop writing the deeper lore that you and many others enjoy. I understand the puzzlement and frustration but I don’t feel I can offer an explanation other than say it wasn’t possible to do everything we would have wanted to do. I’m not happy about that but we will look to close the gap you identify very soon.

Part of the active focus in the next period I mentioned above will include a return to development of the Fiction Portal, both in terms of the technology it uses, its design and it’s content. I realize these are things that have been heard before but resources are being targeted on the vital importance of lore to EVE and its community.

Now, I think the primary intent of this thread is to focus on the FAQs and other points of the Invasion Chapter 3 feature that are mostly concerning mechanics and player experience. I was happy to address these points but I think I will leave it there for the weekend.

Cheers,
DZ

CCP Delegate Zero
Narrative Designer

I’m just going to say, to be very clear, that this is not a separation I recognise or see as an element of CCP’s game development. I was attempting to suggest this thread on the Invasion Chapter 3 feature FAQ continue to be about it and what touches on it specifically, rather than a general discussion of how lore is delivered in EVE.

Thanks,
DZ