Jita Park Speakers Corner

You don't agree with James, thanks for bringing that to our attention.

That's not what I asked though. Let's try this again. Since you are presenting yourself as a high sec candidate, what are the major issues facing high sec and how do you plan on fixing them.



That's a valid opinion, but I disagree with it. High sec is over populated because there is too much reward for too little risk. The game is in imbalance.



I am James 315's alt, like everyone else in New Order Logistics and all the shareholders and gankers.

I do not see as hisec needing any huge fix, not to the extent that the other parts of Eve do. Tweeks, here and there, balance issues, yes, but I disagree with your assertion that hisec is broken. Please, enlighten me as to where you see it being bad for the game overall? Does voilence upon ships happen in hisec? Yes, look at a map and check pods or ships destroyed in the past 24 hours. Do wars happen in hisec? Yes. griefing and scams and trade and mining and all the rest of it? Yes

Is it safe? No.

Should it be? No.

If your goal is to get people to go to other parts of New Eden and away from hisec then give them a reason to do so by improving the content elsewhere. Making the most popular part of the game uninhabitable could kill the game, not push us to create content elsewhere. THAT I am against.





I am sorry you found it required to answer sarcastically. I was asking a serious question. YOU have the main James 315 campaign thread running. I seem to have missed where he posted that he is running, here in Jita Park. Now if you would kindly point me to the thread where HE has announced his candidacy and platform, here in Jita Park, I would appreciate it.

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Much like how many of the wormhole and NRDS candidates want to make sure the areas they represent don't get crushed when changes are made to serve other constituencies. Seems reasonable to me.



It's a good example of how James doesn't fit in and would be fairly useless on the CSM. Heir to Darius 3, I would say. He could have announced here and the Miner Bumping site as well, but no, can't do it in a way that cooperates with any one else. Does not bode well for his effectiveness if he be elected.

I'll be putting Mike high on my ballots. Got to know him last year during the CSM 7 campaign, follow his blog and listen to him on podside. Good guy with a sharp mind and a perspective that needs representing.

Go get 'em, Mike.

Oh I've read more than I care to recall of James's opus posts. And don't really disagree about the dead subforums and over categorization. But this is the one forum were CSM candidates should be posting on EVE-O. His own forums is fine as well, but it speaks volumes the way he is conducting his campaign. Not getting any of my votes.

I am not knocking him for his lack of forum posting. I knock him for his ability to cooperate with others (outside of his own circle).

Anyway, glad we agree on Mike as a good candidate.

It is going to be interesting this time around with STV. Can put together a ballot for a good balanced CSM that represents the many different aspects of the game.

In the interests of disclosure, I support Mike for CSM, So I'm not going to throw him easy questions... I tend to agree with him that Hi-sec is OK as is, if you feel it's 'too safe' for everyone involved, I'd agree... and as soon as you set this game up so that if you are involved in a suicide gank you lose your pod I'll endorse making ganking 'easier'.

You like to talk about 'risk vs reward' and I'd say that with ganking, it's skewed in favor of the ganker... yeah, most exhumers and mining barges got a buff, they've needed it, but they are still destroyable, yet a fast-warping dessy in a high-sec, high-traffic system (Like Sivala) is VERY hard to catch and kill, even if you have kill-rights... so gankers are safe in over 90% of their time with the use of alts... how is this different than the situation you complain about with miners?

As for the reduction in ganks, I think you can thank goonswarm for that (shudders) as they pretty much burned out the novelty of it with their 'bounty for exhumers' policy.... lot less fun doing it when every man and his dog is doing it.

That, right there, is one of the best proofs that ganking can be a social, rather than antisocial activity.




Unless, of course, the gankers are subsidized to the tune of more than 4 billion. Then the financial does not enter into it. Well, not in that way. If I knew the system that the Order was going to hit then I would have bought a large amount of the appropriate ice ahead of time, then the price shift due to the pressure of the Order would become a financial boon. Well worth sponsoring the dessies till the end of days



Darwinism in action

I HAVE said that I am in favor of tweeks to the balance of ganker and target. I have NEVER said hisec needs to be made totally safe nor did Jerod (above).

The absolute criminal maybe should be more fearful, even in a pod, in hisec. The higher he goes the better the chance he will be vulnerable right off the bat. Pod or no.

BUT

I also am in favor of a corrupt system where bribery will smooth over the waters, Tags for Sec status.

So it is a carrot and stick. Carrot - buy your way clear of your dark past
Stick - We'll shoot you in High hisec if you don't

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?? Kay?

Who are you talking about? Never heard Mike endorse a 'theme park' eve, but I've heard lots of people accuse people like me of 'not playing eve right' when we (Gasp) cooperate in large-scale industrial projects, WITHOUT the use of bots, to produce everything from a fleet of frigates, to Dreadnaughts and Titans.

The Death Race is emergent gameplay, 'Bring Me the head of Kirith Kodachi' is emergent gameplay... Mike has been involved in BOTH of these events.

Ganking someone because you think you can make a profit may be a form of emergent gameplay, but simply because those of us who have been targeted at some time in the past (Never lost a mining ship due to ganking yet that I can recall, lost a hulk to a stealth bomber when I was in null, and a retriever when I fell asleep at the keyboard while mining in a belt) lack the ability to fight back in any meaningful way when we are targeted, and attempt to either find ways to strike back, or argue against the 'let us kill the high-sec miner, he's tasty' crows when they claim we're all bots, DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE SAND BOX!

I have a copy of X3: Albion Prelude when I don't want to deal with real people, and an active Star Wars: The Old Republic account for when I feel like the theme park ride, I enjoy eve as it is, and I enjoy the social aspect when my stupid Time Zone actually lines up with like-minded people, I would oppose anyone who tried to make it either a PvP free-for-all everywhere you went, or a hand-holding themepark ride.

I support mike because at the end of the day, I believe he will bring the high-sec/low-sec/null-sec casual player perspective to the CSM, and that is something that I think is lacking at this time, I may have time for a few hours of eve at a time... but I can't do alarm-clock ops, and I sometimes won't log in for days if my timetable does not permit it. The reason I'm not in a null-sec corp or alliance isn't that I'm risk averse, it's that I simply can't make the required commitments.

Now, can we actually have discussion and questions in here instead of cries of 'carebear' and 'theme-park advocate'?

yay more targets

Aleks makes some good points. NOT everything in the changes to game are about rule changes or buffs and nerfs.

You want to see changes to the game then change the tools you give us. Make more things possible and more things will come of it.

Yes there will be exploitation and bending of the rules, that is what players do in Eve. Yes, there will be unexpected consequences. Again, this is Eve, dammit.

But better tools, more things to manipulate/modify/apply. From camera tools to better corp management, a more streamlined method for sharing bookmarks, these are the real little things that will help Eve grow and change for a better game.

In the end that is why I am running. I like this game and I want it to be even better, tomorrow. I am willing to help, if I can, make that happen.

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I've listened to him on Podside as well as the Crossing Zebras interview. After reading this post I have further affirmed he dose not have a clue. His answers are always well thought out non committal jabber. He uses a formula taken from RL political and I had hoped he would have had the fortitude to make a stand on something more substantial than just " I'm a good communicator". Even if you don't agree with James 315 views he at least has a firm platform and so you know what your electing with a vote for said candidate. The only reason I could see to vote for Azariah is to perhaps hear a Podside broadcast from Iceland one day. sorry Mike I'm gonna have to pass and perhaps spend some voting power on other guys running come election day. If by chance you do get elected I hope you show all of us wrong and do good work.