CSM Campaigns

Corbexx, I did the Eve Vote Match 2.1 and it listed you as my top pick at 91%! I went through your responses and saw a lot of things I like, but I did have a few questions. Now keep in mind these are neither loaded nor come with any significant experience on my part. Please answer them with the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about and am here to learn.

1.) When you say you feel that wormhole space doesn't need any ice or moon materials, is that to force players to maintain supply routes with known space in order to have big things? Or perhaps you just don't like them being entirely self-sufficient?

2.) You say you're interested in content harder than wormhole class 6. What does it even take to run class 6 sites? I haven't been above class 3. Are capital ships necessary for class 6?

3.) You say you'd like to see more wormhole effects, but not more systems? Do you feel that the wormhole population is about right or too low, and that it will stay low enough in the coming years even considering for a growing playerbase and possibly an increase in the percentage of players in wormhole space? As for effects, any ideas? (I'm curious on the specifics for wormhole effect ideas, I like playing with numbers)

4.) Do you really think it's okay to give players immediate info on market orders through API?


I was toying with an idea and want some input: what if some new wormhole systems were added which are "deeper" than regular wormhole systems in that they only connect either with each other or to other wormhole systems, but never directly to known space. These systems could boast more self-sustainability with reduced value of random sites, for those who like less traffic in their systems.

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In response to your campaign post:
I don't have any complaints, you seem to be a guy who will get things done. But since you speak of POS balance, I'm wondering if you are going to push for improvement to POS gunning? It seems like an unused part of the game.

Going to tack on one more question to my pile:

While debating ways to introduce HiSec newbros to the many other different types of space, I realized wormholes make an easy way to visit LoSec, NullSec, or W-Space without straying too far from your HiSec Homebase or moving your stuff. However, the current tutorials (unless they made changes I'm unaware of) don't cover wormholes at all. As such, I suspect many newbros see wormholes (not just W-space, but wormholes to anywhere) as dangerous, endgame things rather than useful shortcuts to interesting places.

How would you get most new players to start exploring/using wormholes within 3-4 days of starting EVE?

Not only is "ISK faucet" poorly defined in your question, but you're also working on the assumption that wormholes shouldn't be ISK faucets. Why shouldn't they pay out more than other areas of space? With more risk comes more reward.

A better question would be: Corbexx, do you feel that ISK generating activities in wormholes are too lucrative?

.... which is a question for may as well answer, Corbexx.

apologises for late reply.

In regards to should wormholes be made easier if T3's do get nerfed I don't think its needed all the sites can be done in ships other than t3, Caps and rapiers easily do c5 and c6 cap escalations marauders can handle c5 and down, a couple guards and hacs will also easily do most stuff. i dont think a new ship class would be needed at all to do sleeper sites.

I think its fine for a group of 1 month old newbros to survive and thrive in a c1 ( I moved in to a c3 1 week old with some mates). It might not be the easiest thing, Fair play if they can grow and move up to higher class wormholes should they wish.

I dont think surviving in w space should need 6 months experience in k space. What I will say is while i do like new people in w space I'm not to keen on trying to force 1 day old new people in, more for the fact that w space isnt the safest or easiest place to survive in, without a decent group to help support these players.

My alt is actually in the brave wormhole newbro corp Catastrophic overview failure, and they got a couple of really new players (2 or 3 day old) and brought them in to the wormhole, And i've been chatting to them about how they are finding it. Without the corp helping they'd really struggle.

What do you think of the idea of buffing POS gun damage while making them automatically spread fire out to different targets--giving the defensive advantage to a medium+ fleet even before logi--and allowing crewed POS guns to be focused on individual targets, allowing easy blapping of softer subcaps or significant assistance to blap even the tough ones when coordinating with a defense fleet?

My main worry is at 3 to 4 days you probably dont know enough about eve to do wh's, I'd worry people that new go in die horribly and think think wtf and quit.

Having a later set of tutorials maybe a few weeks in could be a option though.

This is something I would like to see. There are some subjects in eve that are probably best not introduced early on, but having additional career agents that are accessible after a player has been in the game for awhile would be excellent.

There is a mission in advanced combat that makes you lose your ship, but it could be improved upon. It lacks that oomph of a real death when it's at the hands of NPCs, although it was kind of interesting when I did the mission: I got my cruiser instead of using the intended ship, and tried to brute force my way through it, thinking I would beat the odds. I lost the cruiser and later decided if I could do it again, I might have been able to complete it if I had fit smartbombs.

Joined wormhole space this year as a bitter vet (10yr+) looking for something different - It worked.

In doing almost everything in eve can say Corbexx has been the only CSM representative I have actually interacted with (at a couple of his Townhalls, he even came onto TDSIN Teamspeak to get our views on some changes) and who seemed to know what he was there for and ask for opinions.

Sure we might not always agree but he has been a great representative of the WH community and CSM in general.

When I saw he was standing again my vote became a no brainer +1

Regarding some of the comments above:

Like the idea of some degradation of untended anchored mods, there is so much litter in Space. Hacking to unanchor it sounds good as requires skill and effort not just after a while bring ship to scoop stuff.

TBH we all know POS mods etc need a revamp (eg why do compression arrays work on solid minerals but not gas which should be more compressible and volumes of which get big very quickly or why do we need so many different assembly arrays)

Corbexx has been a great representative and should be again.

not a writing but the results from all my pve testing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvNEjGFjPPGEXeOqSS4O_Zm9BokSu0bz6DnhD5KDisk/edit#gid=0

This was done before the buffs to blue book drop and the sleeper salvage balance.

Shows how bad the isk income was as well as how reliant on metled nano ribbons the C1 and C2 wormholes were (they still are just not quite as much now.