CSM Campaigns

Good day fellow capsuleers.

So, breaking this down into a couple sections, an about me, about my eve time, my goals, and my plan. Here we go.

1) About me:
30 year old IT guy, young family man, dedicated gamer, eve guy, all that usual stuff that doesn't set me any different from most other eve players. I have a strong background in advocacy and been involved with local/provincial/federal politics before, so I'm well aware of the "joys" of campaigning, advocacy and generally getting myself well out there.

I have been involved in enough red tape and beaurocracy to crush most people, and I want to do my best to cut through that, provide great feedback, listen to the community, and plan for the next year of eve.

2) My eve time:
For a large majority of my eve time, I have been an apostle of Bob. I have lived in many small/medium sized WH groups, with varying reputations, from unknown, to laughed at, to respected, to simply just around. I have been a director or better for the better part of my last 5 years in eve. I have dealt with the struggles of things such as POS mechanics, wormhole living, and everything else one has to do to survive in j-space, and this is where my expertise comes from, and where I think I can make a big difference to the future of eve.

3) My goals:
My primary focus on eve will be player interaction with the CSM/devs and PVP. These things are what I want to bring my best efforts to in the game. I want to improve small/mid gang PVP experience, as well as bring forward those ideas that get lost in the shuffle of all the voices in eve.

4) My plan:
Regarding CSM communications:
I plan to have 6 bi-monthly open house discussions regarding various aspects of eve (specically, HS, LS, Null, WH, PVE, and industry) which will have round table discussions open to all participants that we can record, and then deliver to the dev team to help them improve the game for all of us.

On top of this, I will have an in game channel available for anyone to join, which all members of the CSM will be moderators for, which will allow for direct communications with the CSM. After all, we are the representatives of the players of eve, so we should be listening to everyone who has a good opinion.

On top of each of those round table discussions, each will have a 10-15 minute segment for the "little things" quick suggestions that will make eve infinitely better, that could be as simple as just adjusting a colour.

Regarding Wormhole living:
Myself, and several other CEOs/directors of some fairly large and well established WH entities are in the process of creating a day 1 help channel for the Wormhole experience. Where we can answer questions, provide feedback, teach, and improve people's ability to play in WH space. This, in combination with developing a single source wiki by wormholers for wormholers to take away a bit of the mystery and provide knowledge to players who may not have been blessed with knowing a large wormhole entity.

Direct Game Improvements:
I have many concrete things I want to push for wormhole space to help improve the game for everyone involved.

a) Give c6s a 2nd static. The other even class WHs all currently have 2 statics, which i think should be implemented to make them a tastier place to live in. I think EVERY c6 should recieve a null sec static, with the ability to have capital class ships (not supers or titans), and upto a 5 bil total mass limit on them.

b) I want to change how cyno inhibitors work. I want them to be much cheaper than they are. They are currently on the market for 60 million isk a pop. They take 2 minutes to anchor and have a 1 hour long lifespan. I propose, that they get a reduction to a 20s activation timer, and a lifespan reduction of 15 minutes, on top of that, they should be manufacturable with perfect skills for approximately 4.5 million isk, which should make their market price in the 5-6 million isk range. This will encourage groups (not just wormholers, but other null sec groups fighting as well) to drop them, and help make straight cynoing in a bit less effective in the long run.

c) I want to implement Fleet bookmarks. What I would suggest is 50 bookmark slots to be created when a fleet is created, and the moment the fleet despawns, so do all the bookmarks, this allows for fleets of people who aren't necessarily in the same corp to be able to work together off bookmarks and assests as needed, without having the fuss of providing warp ins and/or creating/contracting bookmarks around.

d) I want to bring API checking into the game. It is such an essential part of how the game works already we should be able to verify APIs in game without having to leave the immersion of the game to do director level duties.


Well, that's my starting talking points, to any of the EVE press groups who would be interested in interviewing me, please contact me, and we'll arrange something. Also for those people who know me in WH space, I am doing this because I legitimately believe that we need more CSM representation for wormhole space. Noobman has in my mind been the best CSM representative in recent memory, and I think i would be able to work with him, and as hard as him in order to best bring about changes to the game, not just for WH space, but for everyone.

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i think this is a good idea

would you care to elaborate? The great thing about this process is that it's a vote, so if you don't want to see me there, please don't vote for me, i'm not holding you at naglfar point or anything.

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I noticed today your campaign item about cyno inhibitors.
As you may have seen, I push a different idea, but we may be sharing some common observations regarding the power of cynos.

A player has posted an OP on cynos on the forum here.

I bleieve you have not seen it yet, as I am sure that as a CSM candidate with an item on the subject of cynos, you would have already jumped in the discussion.
I would certainly be glad to read about your positions in that area over there.

I was wondering if you could answer a few questions.

1. I read on the forums that you believe Force Auxiliaries are too powerful. Do you believe this is the case only in wormholes, or in k-space as well? What changes would you propose to fix the ship class?

2. Usually when players talk about adding a new type of bookmark, they refer to alliance bookmarks. You mentioned adding fleet bookmarks instead. Why do you believe that adding fleet bookmarks is more important than adding alliance bookmarks?

3. The vast majority of your forum posts, at least over the past 2-3 months, concern trying to recruit members to your corporation. Do you think CCP offers enough tools for corp recruiters? If no, what changes would you like CCP to make to make recruiters lives easier?

4. You indicated you have been a director or better in wormhole groups for the last 5 years. What types of tasks did you perform or were responsible for as a director?

5. You have a lot of ideas for holding events to get feedback from players. One of CSM’s problems is publicizing what they do. How would you improve the visibility of the CSM so players know about the events you wish to hold?

Thank you

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that people actually like what I'm saying, I really want to be a voice for not just the wormhole community, but the entire EVE community at large. I have a lot of interesting and thought provoking ideas I'd love to put forward and even if they don't get implemented, I just want to foster discussion on things.

As I tell my corpmates though... I won't leave wormhole space... when eve shuts down... and the hardware is sold off, I'll contact CCP, buy a node that was used for running j-space, and keep it in my man cave until I die. Wormholer for life.

I should be posting a detailed paper, and updating my intro post in the next day or two regarding my ideas, and thought experiments to push forward.