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Hello capsuleers of New Eden!

I am Djavin Novienta, member of EVE University, and I would like to announce my candidacy for CSM XII.

Myself

I first began my career as a capsuleer in 2011 and quickly found a home in a small highsec corporation. EVE was my first foray into online gaming, and it has always occupied a special place in my heart. After piloting for about two years, I took a long break from my piloting career.

I came back to EVE September 2016 and immediately joined EVE University. The game had changed a lot in the time I’d been gone, and I felt a little lost and in need of some help. I’ve since gotten back on track and now spend the majority of my time helping other unistas begin successful careers in New Eden.

If you look up my character info in-game, you’ll see that I carry the vanity title of “Cariest of Bears”. I received this title at my own request and it is one that I wear with pride. I’m not a competitive person and I don’t particularly enjoy PvP. When I’m in space you can find me either mining, missioning, running Incursions, or exploring. However, most of my time is spent on various support roles within EVE University: teacher, Reimbursement Officer, Orientation Officer, and Wiki Curator. I have taken on these many administrative tasks for two reasons: first, to contribute the community in a way that does not involve combat, and second, because I honestly love it! I’ve found that in EVE, administration is my gameplay, and I truly enjoy teaching classes, editing the UniWiki, and helping manage our ship replacement program.

My Goals

Continued expansion and refinement of the New Player Experience and other tutorial content

With the release of Ascension, it has become even more important to ensure that EVE is accessible to new players. As an Orientation Officer at EVE University, I’ve seen firsthand the positive impact that the Inception NPE has had on new players, but I think there is a significant amount of room to improve even further.

A few things things that can be done:

Establish a list of essential knowledge for new players. This list should answer the question: “What should all players in EVE know, or know how to do, and where can they go with it?” Any future tutorial content should be centered around imparting knowledge from this list.

Make more information readily available in-game. With the removal of the in-game browser, most information about EVE is no longer accessible in-game, and requires opening a separate browser window. Additionally, now that player-run sites (such as the UniWiki or the Fuzzwork suite of tools) have become the primary source of information about the game, there is greater cause for concern that information found on such sites may not be accurate or up-to-date. For example, I can say from experience that the Wiki Curators are still scrambling to scrub all mentions of warfare links and off-grid boosting from the UniWiki even three months post-Ascension. There is very little means of verifying information on external sites other than going into the game and verifying it for yourself. Some ideas/options that can be implemented:

- Additional/expanded tooltips

- “Active help” popups, perhaps similar to those utilized by games such as Final Fantasy XIV. These could appear upon first exposure to different game mechanics such as agents, low- or nullsec, Incursions, etc.

- Distinction between base ship & module stats and bonuses or effects from skills

A renewed focus on PvE content, both reworking existing content and adding new content.

NPC mining operations were a welcome addition to the vast array of PvE content that EVE has to offer. Unfortunately, the majority of the PvE content in-game has existed in its current state since its original implementation. There are many ways that this area of EVE’s available activities can be improved, but here are a few specific ideas:

- Implement opportunities for solo player participation in Incursions. Options include reducing the strength of Incursion rats to make them challenging but soloable with proper preparation (perhaps weakest in scout systems, strongest in headquarters), and implementing solo combat sites as cosmic anomalies and/or signatures.

- Increase the drop rate of faction tags and make Data Center missions repeatable, and/or allow players to turn in tags to any corporation for a standing increase (particularly useful for trader characters with plenty of ISK but few combat skills).

- Rework COSMOS missions and increase the stats of Storyline modules to match the difficulty and cost of producing them.

- Add Security missions with diverse win conditions. Currently, Security missions are based entirely around combat, and the only thing needed to complete them is a sufficient tank and passable dps. Different win conditions, such as providing reps for a besieged freighter, or tackling a battleship so NPC allies can destroy it, could encourage mission runners to maintain a number of different ships and reward them for training a diverse skillset.

I recently had a wonderful interview with Matterall of Talking in Stations. Please do check it out here!

Thank you so much for the support!

It has always disappointed me that EVE has such amazing, well-written, deep lore, but almost none of if makes it into the actual game. I've devoured the Chronicles and short stories, and the live events that do happen are incredible.

As you say, immersion plays a big role in making EVE, and really any other game, memorable and enjoyable. Part of what makes me love this game so much is those moments when the immersion just clicks and you really feel that sense of awe at something that you could never see in everyday life.

That is definitely an option that has crossed my mind. Corporations can choose to be unable to declare or receive wardecs.

That would take a lot of balancing, though. At the very least, I think it would need to be an unchangeable property of the corporation selected as part of the corporation creation process, and corporations could only form alliances with other corporations with the same opt-in status.

edit because of fail

The wardec system definitely needs some changes, but nuking it completely is a bad idea, and making war decs opt-in basically turns it into faction warfare.

Still, the issues you stand for are some that have been here since the earliest days of the game. PVE combat and missions need to be changed at the fundamental level if they're going to stay a main source of content, especially with all that's going on in null nowadays. A full wiki on the game with a similar style to the Uni-Wiki would be extremely useful to new players and those looking advance their knowledge. Eve is one of the most complex MMOs ever made in terms of both mechanics and possibilities, and information on those need to be available. And finally, as a person who played both WoW and Runescape for the lore aspects when I was younger, I can't welcome a lore edition to the game enough!

For these reasons, you're definitely on the shortlist for my final vote :D

Hello, will explo data sites get a buff or rework?

What for?

The whole point of incursions is that they're a form of group PVE (even if many public fleets have people multiboxing or downright semi-afk). If a player wants to solo PVE, there are lots of anomalies, signatures and missions he can do. What would adding he same content with a vague Sansha flavor add to the game? Roleplaying?



Supply and demand.

Increasing supply doesn't automatically make people richer. See how CCP "buffed" exploration and killed w-space explo sites as a result. Right now, people are farming tags. If you add more tags to the market, you'll just hit the income of those who are bringing in the existing tags. Any reason why the game would be better off, besides the fact that you want to buff a gameplay you know and hit one you don't?



BTW, kudos for the work on helping to maintain the E-Uni wiki, that job probably benefits the community more than the entire CSM.

I think it depends on who the defender is, really. I would say that in almost all cases the defender doesn't have fun when they are being killed and forced to use neutral haulers and whatnot when traveling through a pipe or going to a hub.


Why would any corporation want to opt-in for wars, other than mercenary groups and whatnot? You will have literally almost all of highsec immune to wardecs, and that's not good.


That wouldn't change much to be honest. This would just push groups to have multiple alliances and maintain different wars on each. Fill each alliance with multiple corps for you to hop between, and you can have all the fun you want and not worry about being limited by the number of wars any single alliance can have.

I'm interested in finding out exactly what the entire community considers, "acceptable". Lots of really bad ideas and uninformed opinions here and on Reddit.