CSM Campaigns

Hello.

I am Gorski Car. I have been playing eve since 2003 on multiple characters. I have spent most of my time in eve solo pvping and small gang pvping in lowsec and 0.0. I have spent loads of time in faction warfare mostly fighting solo. I think I am the perfect choice for CSM because the current lack of solo pvpers on the council. I have participated in two alliance tournaments, new eden open and multiple SCLs. I also run a live stream at http://www.twitch.tv/hkarn where I stream solo and small gang pvp with no delay. I try to keep the stuff I fly to cheap t1 frigs and cruisers so that everyone who watches can learn something without having a 2b ship barrier of entrance. I am very active in the channel "Bringing solo back" created by CCP Rise where I help newer players fit out their ships and give them general pvp advice.

I'm currently in Elitist Ops in Pandemic Legion but don't let that fool you thinking that I am some dirty blobber. I mostly fly with members from Hydra Reloaded, Turn Left, Verge of Collapse and Team liquid when I do small gang pvp and I have over 7k confirmed kills, trained in gorilla warfare.

My areas of focus will include solo pvp, small gang pvp, Faction Warfare, game ballance and lowsec income.

I believe that the security status system needs to be revamped as it is locking newer people in lowsec who wants to pvp out of highsec. A player starting to pvp in lowsec will never have the assets and characters to be able to support playing without highsec. The system is currently punishing people who go out and pvp in lowsec that is in my opinion supposed to be the starting place for learning how to pvp.

Faction warfare plexes: I would like to see people entering plexes to go suspect for as long as they are inside the plex. I think this will promote pvp and help people in faction warfare fight neutral pirates without losing sec status. I do not support the proposals of adding a warp jamming effect inside them as this would promote bad practices such as not fitting a point. It would also never stop stabbed/cloaked farmers as you can not force a player to pvp and you shouldn't be able to. Making stabs not work in a faction warfare plex would not make them suddenly fight you.

Off grid boosting alts (OGBs):
Here is my opinion on links and off grid boosting
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4308634#post4308634

tl;dr: Needs more risk in using them, needs drastic changes if ongrid. Don't rush this change as it will be a pretty major change.

A common argument against links is that they do not follow risk/reward and I do think that activating a warfare link would give you aggression. I do not think it is ok to link risk free in a Command ship on a station. Basically if you want something you have to risk something.

Game balance: I think CCP needs to push for less dramatic changes and just change things a bit slower. Eve ship and module balance is a really complex ecosystem and you don't want too many drastic changes at once.

I believe unbonused ewar might be a bit too strong as tracking disruptors have become a really strong module after the multiple unneeded missile nerfs. One of the problems eve currently have is that there are no real good force multipliers that come with any risk at all. sitting 100km away from the battle in a 10mn keres damping stuff isn't very dangerous. Same with having a link damnation on station. Huge force multipliers with no risk at all.

Low sec income: I think it would be good if low sec missions had fewer things to kill and were doable in smaller ships. Faction warfare missions and the pirate epic arcs are perfect examples of good mission design that would work really good in lowsec due to the dangers there.

I also think that all lowsec missions should be doable in pvp fits so you don't instantly get screwed when a guy with a pvp fitted ship warps in. In fact I want every mission in the game to be doable in a pvp fitted ship. I know that a pvp tengu and machariel can do sites such as 6/10s at the moment but I think that cheaper ships should also have a chance to do them effectively.

FW Changes: I think that faction warfare needs dual timers for the plexes to help combat stabbed people.

I understand the need for bigger plexes and a system like this would probably be better then what we have now. I guess there are some people that will argue that restricting shipsizes is restricting the sandbox but I don't really agree. I think that the fw plexes has done way more good for this game and the state of lowsec fw pvp.

Beginner plex: t1 frigs 10k lp
Small plex: t2 frigs, t2 destroyers. 15k lp
Medium plex: t1 cruisers. 20k lp
Large plex: t2 cruisers, battlecruisers. 25k lp
Huge plex: All sub caps 30k lp
Ungated plexes. 30k lp

And make the rat hard inside them.

Contact info:

You can mail me anytime on Gorski Car ingame. I also chill on the PL IRC if you happen to have access to that.
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/hkarn
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Adjedd

Death to all link alts.

Sadly, this was already slated to happen, but CCP took it away before the release of the latest link rebalance because pro-solo babbies were afraid someone would jerk their link alt tit out of their mouth, and Fozzie got cold feet.

Good to see multiple Low sec and solo/small gang people running this year.

Do you not think that its a problem when in faction warfare areas the most effective way of grinding is to use cloak/stabbed frigs? The incentive isn't there to compete for resources at the moment. These farmers are damaging the income of both faction warfare fighters and mission running in general. Why do you think it would be a bad to see them removed or forced to adapt? (Which hitting them in the wallet may do). You mentioned the rated plex's later, if you've done many you'll be aware that nice fights can stem from competition for them, when people's income is at risk they become a lot more willing to grab some guns, instead of this current system where players just wait while being hassled or pop next door because its more efficient.

Personally I'd be concerned about making those rated plex's easier too, because that suggests they will be completed faster and conflict has less opportunity to occur, which is bad.

Comletley agree with giving link chars flags to prevent station/gate games. They're ridiculous in their current design. How people can think it's balanced to have such a big force multiplier, that can be invisible to the opponent until violence commences at no risk is beyond me. I'd like it taken one step further actually too, 0m/s while links are active (on tech3's), this would prevent afk orbiting a pos just outside the shields, making them slighty more vulnerable and prevent aligned links being decloaked for combat and insta warped off if anything lands on grid. There ought to be risk attached to using anything in combat.

I'm also curious how you feel about piracy? A low-sec candidate must have an opinion on this? Happy with the current state/not happy? Things you'd like to see regarding it etc?

Thanks for the response Gorski,

Regarding the stabbed/farmer issue, it is frustrating but that isn't my main concern with it, its the fact its not more benificial to fight than to passively wait for somebody to leave or system hop where they can easily find another source of income. I don't agree that you're hurting new players by removing use of stabs and cloaks, the novice complex's are very new player friendly already for example. I don't like to see players rewarded for blueballing which the current system promotes. I agree you can't make people fight, and am not suggesting trying, I'm suggesting they no longer be able to farm as easily or passively, which is to the benefit of everybody else collecting LP who actually earn it.

Sorry I should have been clearer I wasn't specifically meaning FW missions in my previous post. The normal loyalty stores have similar rewards. If more people are collecting LP and cashing out in either FW or normal LP stores, the additional supply will lower the value of the products. Hence my reasoning behind LP farmers damaging other peoples income. So they not only affect FW dudes, but also highsec mission runners, L5 runners etc. (which take more effort and investment to aquire the lp for)

Regarding piracy. I absolutely agree with you about it being solo account runner and new player unfriendly, I think its where most people consider trying out pvp the first time so seems pretty stupid to punish them for it, maybe it would be nice removing sec loss in low-sec non pod kills or something or outside of empire ganks you can only damage your sec status enough that you can only be kos in 1.0's and 0.9's.

But I digress, what I was actually meaning when I asked was I'm curious how you feel about things like gatecamps, CCP seems to have implemented a strategy whereby its really easy to cyno past or use pretty much immune from being caught ships to avoid camps in anything worth killing, these camps are more prone than ever to getting curbstomped by the proliferation of hotdropping, these 2 factors seem to have greatly reduced the number of pirate outfits about and those that remain have very difficult to engage set-ups ie linked with falcon/logi support. This in turn has reduced content to small gang pvpers who enjoy breaking up camps for example, as its hard enough to find a camp let alone an engagable one these days. I personally think it's a shame that content is being nerfed out of the game and I was wondering how you feel about it?

First of all I really think that the LP reward for pvp is way to low (grr goons). Actually fighting should reward more then plexing at least.

Regarding the devaluation of LP from other factions. I don't think that highsec and FW lp stores share that much and it shouldn't be a problem since the best isk/lp items in highsec will not be able to be available in Faction warfare. Also faction warfare LP is generated in waves when a faction manages to push t4/t5 and that's where the isk/LP prices for implants and other things in the FW LP store will hit their lowest. Compare this to level 5 missions that do not have the tier system where income increases and decreases. They are able to constantly farm their missions at a good isk/hour ratio instead of having to wait for factions to get their **** together or farm standings for other militias.

On gate camping

I think it's sad that gatecamps in lowsec have become concentrated to the entry system and run by very risk averse gangs that are not attack able solo. These camps are kinda similar to running missions but instead of isk they get killmails. I do not really support the mindless farm of new players with insta lock and insta kill gatecamps.

I do however really love when you come across a small camp in lowsec that is not the usual unmanageable Loki, vindi 4 logis and I think it is sad that this is not more common. A problem with gatecamping is that it's not very fun. You sit for long times doing nothing on a gate waiting for something to actually happen. I think that getting hotdropped is something you will have to expect and compensate for if you plan on being so predictable to just do the same thing over and over. Titan bridging is kind of a meh mechanic as well and all supers/titans need some serious balancing imo but that is not my focus points since I have little experience with capitals (My leviathan died in a small pos for example)

bonus a stream highlight of me attacking a small gatecamp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZT3OpUOUY

Gorski has my vote. Can't think of a better pilot to represent the solo/small gang community.

Correct me if I am wrong since highsec missions isn't exactly my specialty in Eve. But you if you want to maximize profits you want to pick as high of a isk/lp value as possible. I understand and I know that FW LP stores will devalue everything that the two LP stores share but as long as there is stuff the stores doesn't share you can always convert those at a higher isk/LP then the stuff faction warfare stores contains.

There will of course always be people running missions for Caldari navy or something and never converting their LP/using their LP to buy raven navy issues that faction warfare can get cheaper. But I think that you should at least be rewarded some for doing some research into LP conversions.

gorski is a smart dude who really knows how lowsec (or at least nenemaila) works and i feel he'd be a good voice on the csm for small gang entities and people who just want to take a few friends and go wandering in lowsec. Good luck gorski, you're definitely going to get a few votes from me

ps please remove falcons from the game

Remove OGB from the game.
Make FW plex reset if you warp out/cloak.
Only one ASB per ship.
Fix drones AI and UI.
Rebalance pirate ships, buff underpowered hulls and nerf overpowered ship bonus (serpentis).
Rebalance T3 so they are no longer better than T2 in their specialized roles, follow the "Jack of all trades, master of none" logic.
Rebalance modules power (meta0-faction).
Buff lowsec income (missions/mining/manufecturing/PI/exploration).