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Amen.
It was this post, BTW, which persuaded me.

awesome news

what's your stance on making industrial structures (after buffing them ofc) :accessible: to enemy forces ? (read: thievery)

That's hard to do because democracies are typically built around race, culture, language etc.

It's very hard to erect a [sic] functioning democracy from scratch.

Also, the game is very anarchistic, and the effects of the CSM are very limited. Not to mention, the CSM doesn't actually wield any obvious political power. Normally voting blocks form around special interests.

I dislike government and politics, but I admire the guys who run for CSM (most of them) because it's not a high profile, high reward job. But for those same reasons, it's difficult for the CSM to really gain much stature, which suits my anarchist nature just fine.

That said, I wasted 3 votes on Trebor the spammer last go around, and this time, you'll get all 3 unless someone else blows me away.

Malcanis, most of the announced candidates for CSM8 (Marc, Ripard, Mike, Mangala) have already taken me up on a one-on-one interview on Crossing Zebras. I'd love to add your name to the list too. Details can be found here:

http://crossingzebras.com/post/40699271518/electioninterviews

Sure OK.

I suppose I knew that doing this would mean getting a microphone. Might as well get it over with now.

Excellent. Drop me a line on any of the contact in the post with whenever is likely to best suit yourself. As I say, I will be starting interviews on/around 9th Feb all the way through to the election itself but I can be as flexible as possible.

Easiest way to get a hold of me is probably email - xander at crossingzebras.com

First of all thanks for taking the time to reply and clarify your position.

I just want to clarify the key points of mine that you talked about.


Firstly I based my arguement on null-sec rats because that's what i'm used to. I would also like to point out pizza are certainly not the only group, even in null-sec, affected by the change. I have heard missioner ganking and flipping where also affected by the new rat AI and not just crimewatch although I certainly can't speak form them but I hope someone else here will.

As you have said it is already hard enough to get on grid with a ratter. In a perfect Scenario were I was the best tackler in the entire game with an actual bookmark of the ratters site (for fastest possible non awox tackle) and the ratter was semi-competent and not afk. I would still lose, everytime.

Before The new ai came in the old system heavily favoured ratters. Someone running a plex with no tackling rats (forsaken hubs are considered one of the better isk/hr anoms) and were actually at their keyboard could spot a neut in local with 5-15 seconds and warp out with 20-30. In other words we could only catch idiots.
Now with the New rat ai the ratters have another way to escape (apart from actaully playing eve) and that is for the rats to kill the tackle.

So to sum up ccp (by accident hopefully) took what was already a hard profession and made it almost impossible.


What I would ideally like to happen is for ccp to change the rat AI across all of eve to allow the chance of killing ratters solo. Failing that I would like you as a CSM member (you are definitely gonna get it) to get ccp to clarify once and for all if they are aware of what they have changed and if they support removing risk from null-sec (and to some extent hi-sec).


So TL;DR I would argue CCP removed a great deal of risk from PVE in null-sec

Evil pirates should be able to steal from the (buffed) industrial structures.

Not everything that's in there, but maybe a daily production out of a technetium moon, some bpc's from a laboratory, a batch of minerals from a refinery, PI stuff, reactions in process.... I you name it.

All that with mechanics in place to protect the owner, some kind of siege cycle, a Window set by the owner when stuff is actually 'available for pickup'. Maybe better protection (read: shorter processing time, smaller processing batches....), when more money is invested or when the player has set up his industrial chain better

It's not a very fleshed out idea, but it's buzzing around my head for some time now

I believe it gives risk averse "pirates" another income stream.

1. Small Gang Objectives
2. reasons to actually defend owned space from roamers

this highly depends on the scale to which this is possible and also on the income that could come from it, it's a very delicate balancing issue

but one of the things that are really missing in eve are objectives for small gangs that could actually generate fights, for the attacker because of the profits and the fact that he can damage his target economically, and for the defender because he might actually loose something when he is not actively defending his space

Still, a large industry fix has to come first to give targets for this, from highsec to nullsec, more button up alliance income, structures that are worth using, all that stuff ...