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I can answer this based on what I have seen hans actually do - which is probably more important than what any politician claims they will do. If someone disagrees with him and has alternate ideas he first listens to what they are saying and tries to make sure he understands what they are saying. I have seen this time and again.

Once he understands what they are saying then his reaction will be dependant on what is said. Its not like he has the same reaction to every idea that is different than his own. Some ideas are good some are bad.

Edit: I would recommend you go read some forum posts of all the candidates. Do they even post about substantive issues in eve? Do they just troll everyone who disagrees with them? This is going to be a better indicator of how they will act than what they claim they will do.

Hans, I appreciate the time you took to produce your platform document. As I'm sure you understand, it has created some controversy in some circles, and I wish to seek some clarification for my own (which I am certain will have some wider attention). In particular, we are speaking of high sec war decs, your opinion of them, and how you would see them handled.

For your own interest and attention - and that of any other interested parties - this is being discussed in fuller measure on the EvE Blog Mad Haberdashers. You are most welcome to view debate there, and join if and as desired. To the questions ...

We are uncertain of the specificity of your position on high sec wardecs and the corps that engage in them. To wit, you have classed many of them as "nuisance," defining this only as one corp taking advantage of another that "cannot fight back." This is an awfully broad and sweeping statement, and would seem to be at least somewhat oblivious of much of the motivation behind many high sec wardecs. How might you - even, would you - better differentiate parties and actions in such instances?

Equally unclear is exactly what your proposal is in regards to the high sec wardec. Presumably, having taken the time to castigate this branch of wardec titled as "nuisance," the idea would be find ways to be rid of it altogether. And yet, your position would seem to be that such wardecs should not only not be eliminated; instead, a possible reading is that you would see restored a wider easier ability to create high sec wardec, but simply that means be created to limit the prolongation of them. Is this a correct reading, or not?

I welcome your answers and clarification upon these topics, and the opportunity to further respond.

Go blitz'em, Hans!

Even though you are a former/future sl...err, employee of the Amarr Empire:P

Thanks for your reply Hans.

The problem i have is that your statement about Piracy doesn't really match with some of your statements in your PDF platform. I suspect it may be due in part to differing definitions of piracy. It's my opinion that the outlaw players in Lowsec while no doubt great combat pilots and fierce PvPers are generally not Pirates. Most of the real Pirates of EVE are found in High Sec, some of the better known examples being the Privateers, Suddenly Ninjas/TEARS, Skunkworks among many others.

Here's what you said:


What do you think Piracy is? Pirates historically, currently, and fictionally do not generally go looking for the toughest opponent to prove themselves, gain imagined honor, and glory. They look for the vulnerable and lucrative targets. This is Piracy, this is PvP for profit, and this is predatory PvP. Just like any real predator they look for prey, the challenge is in the hunt and if successful the end result is an easy kill not a battle. Pirates / predators do not seek to fight armed and dangerous opponents and only do so when such a conflict can't be avoided or the possible gains greatly outweigh the risks.

You also went on to list possible means for Corps to avoid Wardecs:


All this is very troubling Hans, unless it's matched by moving all valuable PvE content out of High Sec where Wardecs and suicide ganks are not required.

One last point. You also praise Incursions:


"Engame PvE content" Since when has a Sandbox MMO had endgame PvE content? If you're serious about supporting EVE as a Sandbox PvP MMORPG then you would wish to either radically change High Sec Incursions or remove it from the game altogether.

To the extent this post is at all coherent, it is untrue.

Up until this thread Hans seemed a pretty positive candidate: enthusiastic, active, and able to form complete, properly punctuated sentences. His fixation in the OP on being a 'anything but nullsec' candidate and Evil Goon Shenanigans undermines this somewhat, it would have been better to focus on his own positive features rather than get sidetracked into echoing the rather silly CSM6 hysteria we've seen on these forums in recent months.

I hope he focuses on why he makes a good candidate, rather than trying to ride a wave of 'anti-nullsec' which has been made up largely of the badposts and empty rhetoric of a few bitter babies with too much time on their hands to recycle forum alts.

Checked out the thread. Textural mapping or spin rate variation to distinguish between asteroids that are named the same on overview, but contain varying amounts of ore is brilliant. It is perhaps the most beautiful solution to the problem I've seen so far. And developmentally, this makes a lot of sense. We've just overhauled planets, nebulas, warp tunnels, and now the ships themselves.....leaving asteroid belts as sadly one of the most graphically outdated features in the game. It makes absolute sense to me to build a "captcha" into the markings of the asteroids, their shape, or their motion, and solve the botting issue without even having to do much more work than they should be doing anyways to keep up with their artwork schedule. DEATH TO ALL BOTS.

I favor solutions that elevate mining as a profession. I also believe in addressing problems at their root. Currently mining is not a well-respected profession, despite it being such a critical part of the EvE economy. One of the root causes of this is that the game mechanics are so simplistic that artificial intelligence can substitute for human intuition. This is not the fault of the players. The resulting arguments over who is botting and who isn't absolute tear the EvE community to shreds year after year. It fuels griefing, it causes massive distrust amongst all sorts of player entities, even reaching the CSM itself. This is in no way the kind of "good conflict" that drives game activity and keeps things fun. It's quite the opposite. If we can convince CCP there's an accessible solution to the bot problem, that they can even sell well as part of an expansion (customers love new shineys!) I think its a win-win-win for the entire EvE community. Consider this a solution I can push to the developers if elected, until someone shows me something better.




This is a tougher one for me, only because in Faction Warfare we have a lot of experience doing PvP on a budget, and I think generally get more out of the commonly overlooked ships than elsewhere in the game. In null, fleet doctrine mandates ship and fitting selection a lot of the time, whereas in highsec, the more PvE-based activity favors the ship with the most tanking ability, which would indeed lead to the idea that the tier 1 and 2 ships are "obsolete".

So I'd argue that while I don't believe the lower tiers are useless, they certainly could use a balancing pass, and I'm excited that I've heard rumor that CCP has that in the works. The tier 3 BC's are nice in that they fit a more niche role, I can see them giving the tier 1 BC's more specialization as well. I don't know whether or not we need to remove the naming system or not, that matters far less to me than making sure the ships all have their uses, like you said.

Confirming goonswarm members don't like the candidate. This guy is now officially worth voting for. Hell, I'll start campaigning for you now.

" if the faction warfare iterations are a success, I think its only natural that they follow the original design intent and expand to include pirate factions as well"

"It's also a shame that most pirate mission content that does exist in the game resides in 0.0, whereas most players that culturally consider themselves pirates (and often honor ransom's, etc) primarily reside in low sec. "


You just got a +1.

This would be a more accurate way of describing the balance that I believe needs to be protected in high security space.