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Greetings to CCP and CSM,

I want to congratulate you one what seems to be a very successful gathering. You both seem to have hashed something to be relished. The new direction sounds promising and the new Custodian's of the EVE Universe seem to have a good grasp on what they want and perhaps what we want.

However in the course document I became extremely discourage. Perhaps I didn't read enough or didn't comprehend everything that was said, but from the nature of the minutes it seems that the idea of Modular POS's has been side lined if not completely scraped by the development team.

The idea's given to us several months ago were a beautiful reminder to me of the awe and potential of EVE. The honest truth is I've always wanted to have a little section of EVE that was distinctly my own. Something the current system of POS's does not provide to someone who by accountability terms for EVE would be considered a "Lurker". While I know it's possible open a Starbase in the current system. The thing purposed to the CSM's and the inadvertently the rest of the player base was exactly what I've always wanted. I've always wanted a home floating around the Planet of my choosing, so I could claim a little section of High sec for myself. I even have a little planetary Orbit I've picked out already.

Under the plans described to CSM back before the beginning of the new year I was excited and began actively playing again. Now the ball has been yanked out again, and a potentially great feature was taken away with no argument or consideration for what could become a very viable aspect of EVE if it was nurtured. Rather it was casually swept under the rug because it would be to constraining to impalement. Because it would effect to few players. Well if you had chosen to look into expanding the versatility and desire would undoubtedly increase. I know I would be making a new home in space.

The new Dev blogs even more outrageously continued to list POS's as part of the changes potential changes. While I know it was stated that it might not reflect the final list. They then cold handedly rip any continued idea of the aforementioned Modular POS's out because they don't THINK it will effect enough of us.

Well, it would have affected me if you had chosen to do it. I would have been ready to dumb hundreds of millions of ISK or probably hundreds of dollars in Real cash to make my little space home in EVE a reality.

For the futures sake CCP, and CSM's I hope you reconsider this course of action.

Thank you for listening, It's time I go back to lurking.

-Tal

Guys, if you are going to touch this code then expand the scope just a bit and change the definition of alliance:
An entity with one holding corporation and an acyclical list of member corporations and/or alliances.

This would be a simple solution for people asking for coalitions to be implemented. Right now the game is very rigid on how groups of people should organize themselves. I think they should have more freedom in this regard.

I have only had the chance to read specific sections of the minutes so far, but would like to take a moment to give thanks.

Thank you CCP. So far from what I have read there is vast evidence you do indeed play the game, take player feed back and give great consideration towards ideas we come up with. I am looking forward to 2013 playing EVE with great interest.

Thank you CSM. These minutes have a very, very nice turn around from the time of the summit to the time they are released for us players to consume. I know this in due to CCP as well, but I genuinely appreciate the timely manner. Also thank you for representing the player base instead of only focusing on personal agendas only like we have seen in the past. Granted I would not be opposed to more communication on the forum, it is evident you have been busy working.

To those member(s) of the CSM who basically contribute nothing: I will do my best to make sure your dead weight is known during the upcoming elections if you choose to run again.

Are we even reading the same thing?

Thank you CCP for at least looking into a temporary solution for Black Ops (be that its only a quick one) but can you at least look into increasing the ehp as well?

As for the POS issue although it saddens me I can't make a little kingdom for myself to park my things I do understand from a business point that focusing most of the effort on the null issue isn't viable for growth and may even hinder as we saw with Incarna WiS expansion.

Personally fixing the issue bit by bit all through the year sounds better than nothing being done at all until,say 2020....

Lets see tell you are going to do stuff, but then back peddle.

new contract system, to tough and we get the small part of it with bounties
tech fix, to tough (or goons say no)
POS to difficult.

Sure there must be others

caldari do have demoralization issues because of DEVs who ****** up situation in FW but that is not a reason why caladri is not creeping up again, reason is that there is no point to be on caldari side because rewards suck and you can do lot of more isk on gallente side. You can not really recruit players for role play reasons when other side recruits for big isk.

Caldari sure could take systems and change better income to caldari side, but why to do so when you can instantly make big isk on gallente side without any effort.

Current FW is worst version of FW ever.

Bah, I want the old CCP back. The one that wasn't afraid of anything, who not only dreamt but also boldly did.
And now it's hiding behind phrases like, POS revamp is too big or it only affects small groups.

It's sad to see that the previous CSM minutes where just ink on paper.

POS management is a disaster and corp management pure hell. Yet CCP is too afraid to fix it, even in small steps.


In short, I'm very disappointed. Maybe time to vote with my wallet after 5 years.

I thought they were talking about making POSs scalable from suiting the needs of solo players, al the way up to massive corporations.

If they did it right, it would be something that heaps of players would want. But at the moment few do, mainly because of the current system is suicide inducing.

Do high five to Fozzie ... he is doing his job ... pretty good. Lets see how public this issue will go, was recently contacted by some outside MMO media about little **** in CCP. :)