Jita Park Speakers Corner

As the CSM election approaches here are my thoughts. I feel I am not that far from the mainstream of average EVE players so maybe you agree with this, maybe you do not.

It helps when reading to understand that I started 2011 as a carebear with dreams of nullsec and ended up the year in nullsec to the expense of almost all other EVE pursuits.

1. My corpmates may disagree but I loved watching Mittens and the other nullsec alliances win the metagame (again) by overwhelmingly stuffing the ballot boxes. I mean the metagame is one reason I joined EVE in the first place.


2. I think, all in all this was a big WIN for the player base. TheMittani's megalomania knows very few bounds but he does, in fact, know the politics of working with a real software corporation and getting value in the product he is paying for.


3. I do have some reservations and no idea how to fix them such as:

As a null-sec player now, I have a hard time making ISK since I am shooting people all the time. I do not live in SOV, I live in NPC null so the prospects of running plex's, mining, trading etc are all fraught with danger as my alliance is just not big enough, yet, to make our little corner of space safe. So when I do run plex's or whatever, I normally do so at a loss. I could probably join some SOV alliance but I am old and have kids and a life so I do other things.

Null-sec alliances griefing my ISK faucet, one that barely drips ISK as it is, makes it hard for me to keep playing. First it was my high-sec ICE mining being interdicted by Goons, then it was my high-sec Incursion running being interdicted by Darius. I guess I could go back to lvl 4 missioning but jeesh, "its hard out here for a pimp"

I get why, they hate carebears and what they stand for. But as Jester/Ripard Teg writes,

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It's tempting, for instance, to rack this up as yet another veteran EVE player interdiction of new-player resources, except obviously with incursions it's nowhere near that simple since a lot of PvP vets like myself also participate in them.

I am NOT in favor of consensual only PVP, yuck, EVE needs to be dangerous. I just need a little more wiggle room.

So, do I still want CSM7 to resemble CSM6 or CSM5? I am 60/40 in favor of it staying almost just like it is now. I think we overwhelmingly got a good deal with the changes they made but I sure miss making money. (I suppose I could try any number of other scams, private courier service is starting to appeal to me as I approach jump freighter readiness. On the otherhand, jump freighters cost a bundle.)

So maybe, balance in the CSM is what I need. Keep Mittens at the helm but rein him in just a tad with a couple of more carebear politicians with humongous egos and large IQs and legal skillz. Now where do I find one of those?

I agree, there are a few. I just need to be certain that they are not always going to work on nerfing null or adding crazy ideas like consensual PVP. I like Malcanis but he doesn't want the job.

Never trust anyone who describes themselves as the 'Voice Of Reason' - its generally a sign of batshit insanity cloaked in nursery school-level populism

Do I understand you correctly that you are not doing very well in game for whatever reason. You could change your game play to counter your problems but you want to have the rules changed instead? In any competitive game the average player is not doing very well. Getting the rules changed will not help you. The best you could achieve is to get the goods your farm (ISK in your case) to drop in value because supply goes up while demand stays the same.

Yes it's hard to understand, what with all the gratitude and informed, reasoned analysis of ones actions that the CSMs receive as their reward for all that unpaid time they invest

Not to mention the careful way people distinguish between their actions as CSM and their actions as EVE players, that's a big incentive too. Oh and the meticulously ethical way in which people on these forums refrain from outright making stuff up about the CSM, I mustn't forget that.

It's called Argument from authority. Instead of providing evidence to back a claim, that you ironically demand yourself, you try to derive authority from an abstract concept. Something as the voice of reason is an abstract concept and therefore does not exists (or it would not have to be an abstract concept).

Folk that try to back their claims in such a way are better be ignored. Saves you a lot of face palming.

such vitriol. jeesh.

I just want to make ISK in high sec while shooting people in null.

I'd say that most of us in INIT. make ISK where the making is good and according to our skill and abilities. Some have market alts, some have mission alts, others do incursions, suicide ganking and there seem to be quite a few industrialists. Others make their ISK in nullsec by plexing, doing pirate missions and faction/officer rat hunting.