Jita Park Speakers Corner

HI, I'm Seleene, former CCP Game Designer and current Chairman of CSM 7.

As stated in the title, I may have ~things~ to say if you ask some questions. Twitter: @Seleene_EVE

So, an intro for those that don't know, or think they know, me.

I've been playing EVE since May of 2003, long before there were things like capital ships, supercarriers, tech moons and a half-ass good tutorial. I started out mining Omber for weeks in a Punisher to earn the ISK for my first BPO (a Blackbird) and flew my ship uphill, in the snow, etc... We didn't have fancy things like 'alliances' or Tech 2 ships. Kestrels made great haulers until you managed to find someone building Bestowers and good luck finding one on the open market!

In April of 2004 I started a mercenary corporation, Body Count Inc. (BDCI), with an uninsured Scorpion battleship, a Crow interceptor and 30 million ISK to my name. There was no mechanic for mercs so we just made it up as we went along, eventually gathering up a few other like-minded folks and formed what became known as the Mercenary Coalition. I was the leader / executor / accountant / glue / whatever of the alliance and aged about a year for every month I did it. After about 3-4 years of rampaging around I closed the doors on MC.

From November 2006 - February 2010 I was a Game Designer at CCP. My dev name was CCP Abathur. Over the course of three years I touched on nearly every aspect of EVE game play in some form. My time at CCP is more detailed here. While I was at CCP, I watched the birth of the CSM experiment and worked with the elected players. As a player, I continued to believe in the potential of the CSM so I ran myself, getting elected to both CSM 6 and CSM 7, where I now serve as the Chairman.

Since my return to EVE I've taken the duties of CEO of my corp back over, my mercenary leanings eventually landing us in Pandemic Legion. So, contrary to popular belief, I've done a few other things than just be in the Legion for the past year and that is likely why the rest of the CSM voted me into the Chairman position.

I've started this thread because I prefer a more interactive approach than just straight blogging. Now that the CSM Summit Minutes are out, after doing a couple of 'Town Hall' meetings on EVE Radio, and with CCP getting ready to enter release planning for the Winter expansion, it's more important than ever to keep the Q & A going.

I will do my best to answer questions as they happen but may be AFK from time to time. If I don't know or can't talk about something and say that, please just let it be. Otherwise, ask away! :)

Thank you for using this forum even if your intro text was just a copy and paste.

So I suppose question 1 is: will the CSM actually be starting to use EvE forums more often rather than people having to hunt through third party sites to find out what you are saying?

Any more iterations on:

Unified Inventory - Window states still don't save. They also don't save different states between station/space.

Tooltips - Icon should be removed, smaller, should have more details.

FW - many threads about possible changes to make FW better, is it even on their radar?

Why bother re-typing an entirely new intro to say the exact same information? v0v



A couple things here:

Yes, I intend to. That's part of what this thread is. As to other CSM members, we shall see. Bear in mind that it's often much easier to some to update a blog or conduct an interview on a podcast. Most of the more vocal CSMs are all on Twitter as well and in between cat pics and such, there's a lot of random info floating about there as well.

The main 'problem' thus far has been the lack of a centralized update that everyone knows to look at in order to find info about where to go and what to read / listen to. That's something we are working on right now, both with CCP and internally.

Yep. The UI is under constant revision.



This is also being iterated on.



FW is pretty much a gigantic blob on the radar.

Explain what? That we are not even halfway through the term and that for most of June and July CCP was (and pretty much always has been) a tomb? Things just kicked back off a couple weeks ago and the ball is rolling. We just can't talk about stuff yet. v0v



Heh. You can bait all you wish with comments about 'pull', but Mittens was hardly alone in his desire or push for a supercap nerf. I'd also like to say, with just a bit of irony, that your argument is backwards. When you talk about 'text editing development', that actually would apply to the supercap nerf (things like gun tracking) and not to changing grav sites or of the other industry-related things that many people want to see happen.

As for being all "BFF", aside from the idiocy surrounding the Unified Inventory release (which the CSM gave the people responsible for no small amount of ****), we've seen little reason to rage at CCP over things that are not yet set in stone one way or the other. There are lots of things being tossed about with regard to what will or won't make it in for winter and that is still very much in the works.

Noone is expecting anything to be done today, however the minutes have no mention of many issues you personally endorsed as needing change.

I'm wondering as to why ?

Is it so big a stretch that people who are elected to CSM should be asked why they haven't followed through on issues they personally endorsed ?

I also agree with Groll, it's good that the Winter expansion hasn't been set in stone - thus my need to bring these issues up - as they don't seem to have made it to the CSM meetings. I also have people I won't be helping re-elect next term, and no Seleene I am not saying you are one of them.

It would be good to just hear "We'll get right on that." or "We forgot, sorry, we'll get right on that." or any variation thereof.

Do consider next election period and the examples you set now can be brought up later as either a boon or a curse.

Thanks for putting this thread in to allow us to express any concerns.

Probably because the minutes only cover what happened during the actual meetings. The (ultra)detailed three days of official meetings are in no way reflective of days and months and weeks of communication with CCP.



Not at all. However, it might be a stretch to ask those questions before the term is even half done, before the first whole expansion on our watch is out.



Just one thing here - any effort I put into the CSM has nothing at all to do with getting re-elected to the next one. I put the effort in because I can't seem to get away from this game and I want it to be better! If I tell you that I want to see something happen in the game or that I think something is stupid, rest assured that at some point during a year long CSM term that it comes up... a lot. Hats, bigger rocks, BPO 'books', whatever. I never shut up about this stuff.

Totally disagree, I find the inventory problem a **** up sure. However, I equally find the mining profession as a whole having zero change to it for 10 years an equal **** up. The context of the game mechanics might be different, but the level of **** up is the same.

So back to the actual issues I was talking about - Spodumain, 75% refinery.

Can we expect to see this in minutes or some documented proposed changes to CCP before the winter expansion ?

I really find these 2 issues to be tiny changes that could have far reaching impact on the profession. Living out of a POS is far more likely for a miner who doesn't NEED capital ships, and a plethora of PVP ships at his reach. However, the 25% off the top makes it non-viable. The spodumain is just a ridiculous problem that you pay for with ihub upgrades or wait a million years in low-sec to find and then be disappointed by.

I cannot for the love of Bob (thanks Frying) understand how they are not a "no brainer" for CSM/CCP.

And yes I've considered a no tax refinery at a POS might be an issue with many, some interim solution should be worked out as I would assume they could rebuild the refinery altogether the following year for the POS rework.

Perhaps just give it a corporate ore hold and allow the corp to tax the miners that way in the interim - just a suggestion.

Yeah I think batch install is just as important to allow scalability.