Jita Park Speakers Corner

Not sure if you will get too many people posting, specially old 0.0 vets and CSM. Anything you may write about improving 0.0 is not very welcome, much less suggesting to make nullsec a harder place to be in...

Thought it was going to be about the removal of gates to promote easier access to PvP areas and hence more targets for PvP players. Turns out it's just some minor tweaks to 0.0, when it needs a complete overhaul.

Lets be honest, the only person Eve needs for CSM8 is James 315

Well written, thoughtful and without keyboard rage pounding caps useage. I agree with almost all points.

I think author of the letter correctly identified the problem but I think solution is more complex then simply removing titan bridge.

First problem is removing titan bridge will do nothing against capital and supercapital blob. Big alliances will simply start using fleet composed of hundreds of slowcat carriers and blaping dreadnoughts. With their Tech they can afford it.

I would deal with the problem by combination of multiple changes:

1) make titans bridges and jump bridges usable only by industrial ships, blockade runners, freighters and jump freighters. This way they are only logistic asset without use in tactical movement of combat fleets. (Bonus is we will likely see titan bridged fleets of battle badgers, good for many laughs.)

2) give mass limit on how much mass single cyno can transfer. I would say about 3.5 Mt is optimal. Then single cyno would be able to transfer a single titan or 2 carriers. Also make it that on same grid there can be simultaneously only one cyno active. This will make capital blobbing more expensive (need to plex more cyno alts) and more logistically and organisationally difficult (FC must disperse cyno alts in proper fashion, organise reassembly of dispersed forces in system full of opponents with bubbles and tackling interceptors and so on.) I think it would create interesting tactical situation and reward best organises and most disciplined pilots while making capital blobing a lot more harder and risky.

3) To make blobs of inexperienced and undisciplined pilots more infective I would remove many of the fleet tools like fleet warps, fleet broadcasts and so on. This way blob's ability to focus fire would be drastically reduced and made it largely dependant on discipline and competence of pilots that now hove to manually select targets themselves in accordance to verbal instructions from FC. Similarly forcing logi to relay only on watch-list instead of broadcast would drastically reduce their effectiveness in large blobs because they would have to track health or more ships, but in small gangs, where there is only few ships on watch list, they would remain just as effective.

DNS Black writes a massive open letter to CSM on how Titan bridging is bad, while his alliance with himself in charge of it,used to be one of the foremost Black Ops Hot Drop operatives in EvE. DNS Black's Modus Operandi is to sit on a gate in his Arazu waiting for someone to agress so he can tackle and light a cyno. I don't see him complaining about Black Ops, granted that mode of transportation is limited to a very few ship classes, however it seems that he is just bitter he cannot upscale his own hot drops operations.

The other issue here is that of Time Dilation, if a sizable fight is happening in a system then the belligerents do not even need a Titan Bridge to stream reinforcements from all over EvE into the conflict zone. To be honest DNS Black did not provide any groundbreaking insights in his dull open letter, CCP has already acknowledged that Moon Goo needs a change and that they are moving towards it. As far as Titan Bridging is concerned, there are plenty of small gang pvp entities out there that are far more successful than Dirt Nap Squad, who go out and have fun in the current environment. Who get to have fun scouting, communicating and baiting others into fights and who don't spend a "week of pvp" sitting on a the black ops "pig" waiting for DNS Black to start raging over comms.

That's the beauty of it. When someone asks for something they use a lot to be nerfed because it is bad for the game you know they are thinking about the broader game and not about personal gain.


Great letter, really enjoyed it, made me think about EVE in a new way. I love the idea of working towards making EVE more about fleet tactics. Maybe some kind of hot gates ship mod where you can shut down one direction of travel through a gate if you sit on it?

+1 for CSM along with James 315 and theMittani.


And of course NIcky yo ;)

How the hell is the jump bridge a problem? Would you like me to link some very fresh killmails sitting 300 off a jump bridge pos laughing as unsuspecting players warped right into my sabre bubble? Learn to not suck.

Alright, so if he really means that isk pooling is a lot of money getting into the hands of a few people, then why isn't he out to nerf somer blinks wallet?

Nerf rich people (isk poolers) is his goal?

Why would i judge teh quality of some writing based on where it is posted?

Probably because evenews24 generally posts low quality article/blogs. Quite often being riddled with bias.

we need a smaller Eve universe. Too many empty systems, which are not worth anything.

Force projection would not solve any of the problems, he wants to solve with it. It would just make the game worse for everybody, because everybody, no matter whether he wants to do PVP or PVE would need longer time to go to his destination system.

If force projection is only restricted on capitals - it would be the same. It is just a bad idea like it was, when we could not warp to 0km to a gate.