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The last year on the CSM has been an experience. After an admittedly shaky start due to problems in my real life, I returned to EVE with the goal of fulfilling my promises. Considering the magnitude of my success, and fulfilling the majority of my CSM6 campaign, I have decided to run again so I can continue my mission of repairing EVE


WHAT I DID DURING THE CSM6 TERM
Getting right to it, much of my CSM6 proposal was resolved and is now in Crucibles release. I acted as a guiding hand, ensuring that proposed changes were not things that could be twisted and exploited to means deemed unacceptable.

I fought for, and succeeded in changes with the Gallente hybrid turret system. Reload time, weapon fitting, weapon tracking, & ammo volume were all things that I reasoned and argued for.

To counter the heavy drawbacks of armor rigging; I fought for, and succeeded in changes to brawling ship speed & agility. Allowing close range vessels to actually catch and maintain tackle on prey that was once deemed too difficult to engage.

I assisted heavily in the development, testing, and revitalizing of a fairly uncommon ship class. For the Assault frigates, I publicly proposed well thought out and researched changes that had been refined (and well received) since 2007. Despite some initial resistance, AFs have become viable ships to fly and are now balanced to our new Destroyers, & threats to larger ships outside of empire space.

I helped protect our best interests by fighting flawed ideas like CCPs attempted drug changes that were being tested on Sisi, as well as things that can’t be disclosed.

And finally, I routinely help out new players and enemies. People often seek my advice, and unless heavily occupied, I’m always willing to have a conversation for an hour... or two. During my term, I went so far as giving a lengthy lesson on PvP to EVE University, answering all questions and solving issues any players had.

Although my candid nature may come across the forums as cold, all I ask is that you simply get to know me. Send me a message and let’s talk about whatever!


WHAT I HOPE TO ACHIEVE FOR CSM7
I am not a candidate who primarily focuses on a particular niche location like W-Space, LowSec, or Null-Sec. I am looking to improve what affects everyone; spaceships and spaceship related mechanics. If re-elected, my primary goals will be to continue my crusade of fixing & revitalizing the neglected aspects of EVE mechanics and ship balance.

A few classes are woefully imbalanced, and in some cases only have one good* ship per race. I’ve got the momentum, influence & know-how to push CCP into devising changes to low-tier T1 Frigates & Cruisers, Electronic Attack Ships, and Command Ships; All of which are in need invigoration.

On the gameplay side, there are longstanding tactics and modules that have grown to be exceedingly popular due to the ease of their exploitation:

Mechanics such as ECM need a significant level of change, and on the other side of the coin, as do Dampening items.

With the advent of Tech3 Cruisers we’ve seen links grow in popularity and exploitability, and as a result Warfare linked ships may be in need of some mechanical change to make them more combat oriented.

Perhaps the most important aspect that needs work is risk vs. reward. As the number of subscribers increases, and the rich players get richer, the barrier of entry is gets larger & larger. It’s extremely difficult for small time players to have a worthwhile amount of success when they can’t afford to compete with the increasing populations, thus making it harder to keep new players in the game. Alongside CCP, I’d like to come up with a solution that makes the little people a bit scarier to the big folks. Perhaps something along the lines of increasing the production costs of T2 weaponry, & boosting the abilities of T1 items. This could assist more impoverished & lower skilled players in making a profit during their endeavors.


THE BENEFITS
I’d like to see EVE become a more tactically dense game. With more players subscribing every day, this means the task will grow to be increasingly difficult. However, this doesn’t make the task less relevant. At the very core, I don’t want EVE to become a game where you can just mass anything & be successful.

I am hoping that I can continue to build off of the success of the CSM & Crucible expansion. I’ve got the momentum from CSM6 behind me, & I’d very much love to continue working for the community in hopes of a better EVE. Lately CCP has been paying attention to the CSM and its subscribers, so I think now is the prime time for familiar faces with good ideas.

I don't care who you play with or what you do, we all use spaceships;
A vote for Prometheus Exenthal is a vote for a better EVE.


ABOUT MYSELF
My name is Adrian Mugnieco from Ontario, Canada. I’m 24; I’ve been through college twice for computer graphics and programming, so I’m quite familiar with development requirements & pipelines. Outside of EVE I’m all over the place; I enjoy 3d modeling, snowboarding, and am very much into motorsport (or anything fast for that matter).

As for EVE, many of you may already know of me. The character is Prometheus Exenthal of Genos Occidere, and through him I’ve produced 15* popular pvp videos including the FRIGANK series. My skill set started in 2006 largely for piloting frigates of all races, but grew into what it is now, with the ability to fly nearly everything sub-capital. I try not to discriminate in what I fly since each race has different advantages.

For more info about myself & thoughts on low sec, feel free to check these out:
marcs survey, & my website

Damn It!!!

f****** careerist! (vote, gl).

honourable anti-ecm pvp.

Supporting, of course. Let's keep balance in Eve at the forefront of CCP's attention.

Which ship do you think would make the best snowboard? Talos or upside down drake? Plz dont say drake since it is already overpowered enough.

While I agree on this point, I disagree on this one:



Honestly, T1 vs T2 module balance is, at present, a game of how much money you want to spend on faction devices versus how much time you want to spend training for things you should train for anyway. I understand that may sound cold or harsh to a new player, but this newfound habit people have of joining EVE and running off to join a 0.0 alliance first thing, before they know autocannons from assault missiles, really isn't healthy in my opinion. What's more, Meta-4 weapons have the same base stats (and easier fitting) compared to T2, the difference is only T2 ammo and the bonus from specialization skills. What you're suggesting would mean making Meta-4 better than T2...?

I'm not sure where you're headed with this one. Care to elaborate?

Sure, and let me start by stating that this is merely a possible solution and shouldn't be interpreted as gospel.
Let me also clarify that this would be T2 weapons (turrets/launchers), and not the whole range of modules like tackle, tanking, and propulsion.

The primary purpose would be to lower the skillpoint & wallet requirements for players to have success in combat.
Statistically speaking, yes, I'd like to see t1 named weapons perform better, possibly with best-named being *better* than their T2 counterparts.

To put a number on it, I'd like to see T2 weapons begin to share similar costs to that of best-named T1 weapons (if not a little bit less). Loot tables can be adjusted to make the T1 goodies a bit more common, where the intention is to give T1 items some relevance while reducing required ship costs.

Currently there is absolutely no need to fit named weapons on a pvp ship.
If you're in a turret ship and you can't fit a full rack of X turrets, you simply plug in the right implants, mix and match sizes, or adjust your fit to accommodate. Nobody fits a T1 turret on anything, unless they are completely out of options.
Heck, navy & faction weapons are absolutely atrocious on everything, with Officer modules being the only beacon of light.
The reason being is that T2 weapons still have a significant edge as they gain T2 ammo. That may not seem like a big deal, but think of how many people would enjoy flying Amarr without Scorch, or Minmatar without Barrage.

The T1 tradeoff should be something that while they are easier to fit & afford, they are harder to use, but not as risky on the wallet. The T2 advantage is the flexibility you gain from that T2 ammo, and the extra bit of damage from the spec skills. Heck, perhaps changing T1 weapons to have slightly worse heat management would help balance out the stats.

In the end, I hope it would work out that good pilots could actually make some profit *farming* the richer players without breaking the bank in the process.

At any rate, it's merely an idea. My point is that Risk vs. Reward is an aspect of EVE that has very little merit nowadays, and I want to fix that. You shouldn't need to kill & loot 10 Cruisers with T2 fits (with perfect drops) in order to pay for your one rigged ship.

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Yes, been waiting for this thread to appear

Definitely the spaceship candidate.

Thanks for your work and good luck, will vote!

Great CSM member with a great outlook on Eve. I hope to see more of what you can do.