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Title: Dear CCP
Post by: Aria Jenneth on 17 Feb 2015, 12:06

Just for the record:

It would be nice if either (1) you could keep the "secret" knowledge under your hats or (2) you could let our characters in on the joke sooner rather than later.

Tony G. revealed the "Other" years ago, and we're still having to pretend we don't know about it.

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Louella Dougans on 17 Feb 2015, 12:32

wat ?

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Aria Jenneth on 17 Feb 2015, 13:06

??

Am I missing something, Louella?

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Louella Dougans on 17 Feb 2015, 13:08

i don't see how the Other is relevant to current events ?

or did you mean in general ?

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Aria Jenneth on 17 Feb 2015, 13:13

Theorycrafting thread. (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=404435&find=unread)

Yeah, it's related.

Bluntly, having the OOC theorycrafting out so far in front of the IC theorycrafting is a problem. It means that keeping up with the story means acquiring a headful of OOC metaknowledge a good roleplayer will be expected to keep quarantined.

It's one of the reasons I haven't bothered to go looking, and yet I STILL KNOW IT.

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Halcyon on 17 Feb 2015, 13:24

Just be randomly forgetful, like me

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Lyn Farel on 17 Feb 2015, 14:06

Plot getting too convoluted makes me unconsciously forgetful anyway. >.>

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Kyoko Sakoda on 17 Feb 2015, 17:45

Ignoring the novels ever existed is a pretty good way of going about it.

In fact, I dropped the first one half-way through because it was too agonizing to read.

The Burning Life by Hjalti was half-decent, though.

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Aria Jenneth on 17 Feb 2015, 18:01

I haven't read any of them, but I still end up hearing about it.

Title: Re: Dear CCP
Post by: Louella Dougans on 18 Feb 2015, 00:18

it's worse when CCP expects you to use external resources to find out things about the 'story'.

E.g. wormholes, you were supposed to use Google, to find out that the J1234 number things related to one of the International Astronomy Unions database of quasars, and thus 'discover' that the wormholes were spread across immense distances over the entire known universe.

Or more recently, when CCP actors use solarsystemID numbers in a message, which can only be accessed by looking up the EVE database static data export. E.g. Thera has solarsystem ID 30000005 or something, that number was mentioned in a message by an event actor, but the only way to find that number, is to download CCPs mySQL database export, and pore through it looking for the solarsystemID table.


It turns finding the "answers" from being a thing that could be done in-character, to something that can only be done out-of-character.