Warfare & Tactics

Hans talks to you every single day. Of course you're privy to every thing he's doing, and can weigh in on it live (so to speak.)

If he has talked about the geography in September (wow, long wait since CCP first asked about it back in May/June), then he didn't make that public. But then, the lack of transparency with this CSM has been unsurprising.

http://soundcloud.com/poetic-stanziel/hans-visits-fweddit

42:03 (I placed a comment at the location, so that folks can start listening at that point.)

Not so dishonest. You state when CCP first approached you about the issue. And that you decided not to make it a topic of public discussion, because you, more or less, didn't feel it very important, compared to you own personal hot-button issues like "visual notification of plexing" and "rewind timers on plexes."

I'm paraphrasing that last part, but those are two issues you pushed hard with CCP as required fixes for this upcoming expansion. Apparently, you'll get at least one of them. Being Minmatar, the warzone geography has never been an issue for you, thus it fell down the list of importance.

Like I said elsewhere. Your job is not to time manage for CCP. Your job is simply to present every problem/issue to CCP, preferably in a reasonable timeframe after they first ask you about it, and it's their job to decide what they can and cannot get accomplished given the resources they want to toss at faction warfare.

I see the puffins are coming out of the woodwork.

That's taken out of context. Granted, I could have wrote what I did more clearly.

I was referring to issues that CCP specifically ask Hans about. I assume when CCP asked Hans about the warzone geography, they were expecting him to dialogue with the community in June ... not wait until late September. (And as it turns out, Pinky took the bull by the horns himself, sending his information directly to CCP Fozzie, rather than using Hans as the preferred intermediary.)

Obviously sending every player complaint/issue/problem to CCP would be a bad idea. But when CCP specifically asks you about something they feel might be an issue ... seems to me, you'd want to jump on that. It's not often CCP seeks out player input on a problem at the beginning of the iterative process. Usually CCP waits until they've decided on the fix and then devblogged about it, they let players have their say at the end of the iterative process.

I listened to him during his visit to Fweddit. I read his post.

You and I disagree on what Hans did with regards the problem of geography. It's cool that you're defending him and all. I understand that.

But ...

He did ignore warzone geography. From the time CCP asked him about it in May/June, until September when Pinky brought it up with him. (Hans did not broach the subject with Pinky. Let's be clear about that.) Pinky sent his documents straight to Fozzie, not through Hans. (For obvious reasons.)

Then I am confused what you think that internal CCP forums post Hans linked (non-NDA breaking) dated to April is. I am also curious how you think the geography is the be-all end-all topic of FW's success when we have had so many problems with Inferno which are being rectified with Fast Forward and Retribution.

Are you blind, deaf or dumb? All three? Are you the Pinball Wizard?

Certainly not deaf.

http://soundcloud.com/poetic-stanziel/hans-visits-fweddit

42:03 (I placed a comment at the location, so that folks can start listening at that point.)

I'm sure there's a crapload of posts he made when he first took office in April. The point is that he never followed up on geography, as he tells it during the Soundcloud with Fweddit above.

Because she's a woman, she gets more vitriol than any man would get. The rampant sexism that exists in most online communities is pretty obvious to most reasonable people, but you're not reasonable.

Actually... the reason people are "up in arms" over you (in general) is because you are incredibly and annoyingly shrill over small "details" and/or perceived slights.

If you want to catch less flak and be taken more seriously then bring your tone down a few notches. Spamming the forums with threads about details you don't seem to double check and/or complaining about how things are not being done to your liking doesn't endear you to many people... and often makes them deaf to the important things you are saying (when they actually are).

So the fact that the Shakorites from the outset have some 50% more systems and that all those "extra" systems are effectively inaccessible due to distance, maze like space lanes and multiple chokes while all of the Amarr native systems are laid out in a pretty as can be double donut with multiple intersections .. is what you consider OK?

Would have been perfectly acceptable if CCP hadn't implemented passive rewards based on system count but now that they have chosen that heinous path ... look at the militia interface/map if you please;
Amarr are almost back at 'start', have upgraded most systems, albeit not all the way .. and linger low in tier 2 (22.9%).
Minmatar have a smidgen more systems than 'start', have upgraded nothing .. and almost have tier 4 (59.8%).

CCP messed up when they made FW in first place by not allowing for future iterations. They did however create an entire region for the purpose (Black Rise) so that the Gallente/Caldari could have a sandbox that did not heavily favour one side .. if they hadn't then Caldari's starting point would have been <5 systems if I recall.

In short: Simply Yes!

Since you just joined (by your own admission) that assessment is fairly accurate, but guess what: We have been doing FW for years (4+) and the complaints started pretty much from week one .. as soon as the discrepancies revealed themselves.

But I'll take the time to correct you:
- Plexing was never about eWar .. that was just CCP exhibiting their usual laziness .. you see a similar issue for Gallente .. it is the NPC weapon systems (missiles vs. guns). Short: eWar removal benefited all sides without actually addressing the problems.
- Farming is not FW specific. Humans will go for the easy ISK whenever possible, since Shakorites had way more earning potential with practically zero risk (see above) is it any wonder that happened?
- Map complaint is as old as FW. If you knew the insane logistical nightmare we had to go through a few years ago after the Caldari standing trick/exploit showcase in Aset area that prompted us to try to defend said area. Compare to taking/defending any system in the double donut for the Shakor cultists ... sure we can do it, but it will involve using more alts than mains just to get materials in and that just reeks of underlying issues in mechanics/gameplay.

Bottom line: The war would be a lot more fun for all involved if both sides had equal opportunities to **** the other one up (ref: any and all combat/contest centric game in history).

Still fw occupancy is not a pvp mechanic.(after all the talk about it from our csm rep) But minmatar will permanently get a direct 2xs the pay for every plex so you should be happy.