CSM Campaigns

My name is Asayanami Dei, but most people call me Asay. I have been playing EVE for over 5 years, the majority of which has been spent living in Wormhole Space. You may know me from my silly tweets. Or from my time in the EVE University where I occasionally run an event or teach a class. More prominently as a video content producer on youtube where, with the help of Adhocracy Incorporated, I'm trying to reach out to players about Wormholes and showcase daily life with the U-Boat series.

I am here to announce my candidacy for CSM 9, where I want to offer my support to two minorities, namely Community Content Creators (and everyone who enjoys their work) and Wormhole Space Residents.

When it comes to W-Space, I have my fair share of experience and knowledge which enables me to make educated decisions about any changes and tweaks to game mechanics involved, and I can and will offer feedback or input regarding balancing, adding or removing content in wormholes in any future iterations. Whatever I do not know, I'm not hesitant to ask about.

I would like Wormhole space to stay unique to other regions of New Eden, maintaining its core principles and mechanics, while evolving to broader changes that are impacting New Eden. It is a harsh place to live in, with amazing lore and excellent content, however little has changed since Apocrypha. Apart from minor tweaks it has remained relatively stagnant while the rest of the universe evolved and changed over the years, which leaves W-space denizens hungry for something new on the proverbial platter.

As it has been mentioned over and over again, Black Hole effect could use a bit of refreshing, simple things like the W-Space nebulae haven't changed even though the rest of EVE got a face-lift, C4 space drives people away rather then draw them in, and some quality of life fixes (POS system) would mean a world to people living here. With the help of the community a number of issues have been indentified and previous Councils have been working with CCP, ironing them out one by one. I would like to continue that effort. I love wormhole space as much as The Mittani loves the meta games, and I can't imagine my EVE without it. And if you still have doubts, google "bob the wormhole god" and look at the images section.

Second thing I would like to focus my efforts on is expanding and improving the community related side of EVE.

What do I mean by that? Well, let me explain.

In the past any community created content, be it blogs, websites, music, podcasts, fan art, short stories, videos, player driven events or gatherings, have had a hard time getting through to a wider audience that is the Eve Online player base. People used the Eve Online official forums, namely the 'My Eve' section, 3rd party forums such as FailHeap Challenge, and corporation forums such as the EVE University's forums - to reach out to people, let them know and draw some attention to their, often, under appreciated work.

With the rise of various social media platforms, social news, and entertainment websites. With the advent of twitter, facebook, youtube and reddit, it has become easier for the creators to get their content broadcast. Same thing goes for finding the content you want to watch, read, or listen to. These social media assets are the definitive sources where people go to find content they enjoy and appreciate, share their findings with others, or even start creating something of their own to share with people with the same interests. Bloggers have taken refuge on twitter (#tweetfleet) while video makers often use reddit to spread the word about their newest films. Podcast producers most often use official forums and their own websites. There have been numerous player projects promoting content such as the 'Our EVE' Series by JonnyPew, articles on news sites such as the themittani.com, and websites such as podborn.com.

There is demand and then there is supply.

Not everyone in EVE is interested in the same things, because even though we all play EVE, we don't always play the same game. There are people madly involved in nullsec and politics, for which there are writers and video makers, blogs going in depth about espionage and infiltration. There are people who love PvP for which there are blogs about piracy, small gangs and soloists, video makers commentating on the insane, mechanically excellent engagements. There are others like myself who are passionate about the depths of wormhole space and love to read and watch videos about it. Industrialists, market tycoons, incursion and mission runners, people who are still learning about the game, spending hours upon hours educating themselves about the game, looking for concise guides and tutorials about various aspects of the vast universe we live in. On top of that there are the streamers and roleplayers.

Asay is educated, dedicated and motivated!

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Really thrilled to see you running Asay. I was getting worried :P

Not wanting to be argumentative but you have facts and numbers on this. just from what i have seen (and some mates who live in a c4 c4) c4 space seems alot more populated now than ever.

Two things that I am basing my opinion on:
We used to live in a C4 for a while before we moved into a C5, so I have some idea about what it has to offer vs. the disadvantages in comparison to lower and higher class systems, and they can be improved, making them more vivid "transition" class system.
Second is killboard crawling. I know PVP is not the deciding factor when it comes to judging activity however it indicates that not much have changed over the years in Class 4 space.

I'm not saying that's bad. Personally I love Class 4 space, and I think people are sometimes overlooking it. Perhaps my original statement is a bit misleading.

Same i asked chista he got the info apparently but had to check with ccp on if it was nda, he hasnt got back to me so guess it was.

Alot of people say "I think this" but we dont seem to see much facts.

On to serious questions for asay

Whats your thoughts on dread blapping and on t3 rebalnce.

ooh and should station outposts be destroyable

Great post, community.eveonline could definitely do with the upgrade, I really like your suggestions there.

Asayanami is a good man. Best of luck with your campaign man!

no because i don't want you to stop making videos

Great to have a good W-space candidate running!