Reddit reviews EVE: Source
We found 15 Reddit comments about EVE: Source. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews EVE: SourceWe found 15 Reddit comments about EVE: Source. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
There's some lore stuff here on the Eve website.
There's a lot more in EVE: Source
I also recommend EVE: The Empyrean Age which chronicles the events that lead to the Empyrean Wars (and Faction Warfare) and how they all linked together.
Side note, in EVE Source, there's a short story of an interview between I think it was a news reporter or something and a capsuleer that really caught my attention and my favourite part of it was this:
"What about the people under your command?" I ask him. "Do you find a need to reconcile yourself with their deaths?"
He looks down at the table and for a moment he's silent, then he says, "None of those people were unaware of what they signed up for. They know there are risks, same as with any other profession. Sure, the primary goal of my alliance is making money and expanding our influence, but that doesn't mean we don't care about the people in our employ. Our agencies send out personal letters of condolence to the families of every single person who dies on one of our ships. We provide insurance payouts to next of kin for all ship personnel."
"So essentially," I say, "you learn to not care about the people that have to die because you're furthering the aims of your corporate overlords."
"What I'm saying, Mr. Peltast," he replies, not skipping a beat, "is that these independent adventure seekers, having been informed of the risks, willing take their lives into their own hands when they sign up for crew duty. They are amply compensated, make no mistake. More importantly, they know they're playing their part in something that is bigger than they are. As am I. As are you."
Makes you think huh, those folks who signed up to be crews on my Procurer probably didn't intend to sign up for crew duty on a Battle Proc. But they had fun, right? :D
It's mostly just official chronicles and stories that are available elsewhere but I'm still partial to http://www.evereader.org/
Of the three novels, all of them are fairly old and some stuff has been retconned but The Empyrean Age was good, My copy of Templar One seems to be missing a lot of punctuation but I managed to make it through after I adjusted to it.
The Burning Life is very tonally different and I couldn't even force myself to finish it.
More recently, Eve: Source is a dedicated lore/art book released last year but I don't have it so can't comment on it's quality.
And I see someone's already linked True Stories
The Yulai Convention; the Secure Commerce Commission Outer Territories Act of YC 105; the CONCORD Exodus Act of YC 106; and the CONCORD Sovereignty Act of YC 107.
Source: EVE: Source.
If your friend doesn't have EVE : Source, it can be a nice gift.
Or an Amazon Gift card with which your friend can by PLEX (an in game item used to add 30 days time to an account, or that can be sold in game for in game currency).
There are the novels
Then the limited editions of:
And
I can see it on Amazon as still in stock. I don't know how reliable that is, as it says it's back-stocked. http://amzn.com/1616552719
Worth a shot if you do want it perhaps.
Hey man, Ashterothi from Hydrostatic, we provide good digestion of the information, but we are not a primary source material.
Here is a priority list for your study:
Lore Survival Guide by friend of the show Mark 726 - man he is amazing
Hydrostatic Know Your Lore for any topic you're interested in.
Hydrostatic Lore Panels - each is 2 hours of lore with some of the top lore experts in EVE. The first one is mostly background, and the following are processing the information as we got it.
EVE Source - an EXCELLENT Lore bible from CCP
EVE Chronicles - Over a decade of EVE narrative
Empyrean Age and Templar One - although many in the lore community have their reservations about Tony G. These are pretty fun romps through the EVE universe.
The Burning Life - Glorified fanfiction that takes a tour of EVE Online, honestly the above resources replace any value from this book.
EVE Wiki, past news items - Unfortunately time has rotted these resources (not inaccurate, but plenty of dead links and false trails)
This list is in order of how much effort vs. information you gain. Most of all I would recommend joining the Tweetfleet slack and come to the #lore channel. I literally knew nothing about the lore when the Drifters attacked. Like the rest of EVE, it isn't that hard to learn the lore as long as you put some energy into it.
CONCORD, it's all caps. They're not separate, they're comprised of the four Empires. There's a certain degree of separation, but CONCORD relies entirely on the four Empires sharing the financial burden etc. Think of it as a heavily militarized United Nations.
And yes, capsuleers directly interface with the ships through the hydrostatic capsule, but keep in mind CONCORD has control over all systems we interface with. Trade, comms (chat channels), contracts, station services etc etc etc. Hell, they even print and own all our currency. Our ISK? Entirely artificial, exists only for us and isn't part of the baseliner economy. They can wipe all our money in an instant. Why do you think we can't just bombard whatever planet we want? Why do you think some lunatic hasn't plowed his battleship armada into Dam-Torsad yet? We can't even target these things, exactly because we have these leashes. Which frankly makes perfect sense, because those invisible leashes are just about the only thing that could make these Empires go "Hmm, sure, let's have these mad gods roam our skies in multi-billion ISK warships. What can possibly go wrong?".
As for actual sources for this stuff, it's spread across a lot of places. I highly recommend going through the Fiction Portal , Backstage's Evelopedia backup (limited, as the datadump from Evelopedia lacked a bunch of stuff. It's being slowly but surely rebuilt on the Fiction Portal by volunteer ISDs.) and buying Eve Source at some point.
I'm not going to annotate shitposts on reddit with specific sources, because after over a decade of playing and roleplaying in Eve, devouring all the fiction and lore, it's just too much fuckin' work.
Yeah... :/
But still the cheapest it's been on Amazon ever.
I must have missed that. Then what about EVE source or the eve art book. Both should be available in Amazon. Also the popular eve history kickstarter.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616552719?keywords=eve%20online%20book&qid=1449271884&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161655701X?keywords=eve%20online%20book&qid=1449271884&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2
http://evehistory.com/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVE-Source-CCP-Games/dp/1616552719
http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/chronicles/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6fHwvmpC5_giY0sti0LXgQ/videos
Should be a good many many hours worth.
These Friendly Skies is a short story from EVE Source. No way to read it online, I'm afraid.
In terms of an EVE book for coffee tables, not necessarily a strategy guide though...
Maybe EVE Source ?
https://www.amazon.com/EVE-Source-CCP-Games/dp/1616552719
Other than the collector edition books, I got them on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/EVE-Source-CCP-Games/dp/1616552719/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=418Yk-SPpwL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR120%2C160_&refRID=19GH73Y2N7GDPZ63RJDT