Wormholes

This. While I agree with him on some things (the importance of a POS revamp for example), I've become farily convinced that Two Step is the most dangerous thing to happen to WH space possibly since Apocrypha. At least before we had a WH candidate like him, CCP just flat out ignored wormholes and kept things at they were out of sheer laziness/disinterest. None of Two Steps ideas on lower class wh space make sense to anybody that actually lives in those holes, and it's very clear he's only interested in furthering his own corps agenda. Two Step pretty much wants wormhole stabilizers in all but name (he's scared of Null Sec alliances curb stomping his corp, but has no qualms with anyone in sub C5 wh's being curb stomped by him)

I could keep repeating the same point, but I think it's already been said countless times across countless threads, so I'll just stop here.

Yeah I was pretty angry with two step about the whole make it easier to evict people thing but I think this was something CCP brought up first.

However, when the community got wind oh this people took to the forums in protes and I think we made it pretty clear that this proposal was unacceptable.

I don't expect our W-space candidate to be perfect but I do expect them to be hard working on our behalf and passionate about w-space, which I think two step is.

Uh oh I probably didn't explain myself. I mean that nobody living in lower classes is going to support a change (nerfing caps) pushed by C5/C6 corps just because they (C5/C6) are bored, while the power of those same caps is the only thing protecting the small corps from being evicted out of their lowclass systems. Probably by those same C5/C6 guys that are asking for cap nerf, for added irony.

No relation between bashing and end of boredom intended.

Can my Procurer save me from being killed if somebody actually wants to kill me? Probably not, but (in oposition to me being in a Retriever) it deters random SB's from blasting me into a new clone.

Edit: I know, eviting is boring and people won't randomly do it without enough force... The presence of caps may increase the threashold of power necessary, making it too much of a boredom by their sheer presence.

A viable tactic but a well defended POS does not stop a group from setting up their own tower in your system... but we digress.

BRAVO!

You hot the nail on the head here with most of EVE. One group in particular is the NullBears whining about more ISK and how everything is boring. Not wanting to take any responsibility for how they have set things up and their own actions (inactions) leading to "boredom." If it does not involve a blog POS bashing... they are lost. No creativity.

CCP Gave us a sandbox, and most here want CCP to build them sand castles as well.

Jack really has the right idea here.


The fact that every CSM post i see has a large laundry list of horrible ideas about how WH space should change and the list of posts afterwards along the lines of "totally voting for this guy" explains clearly that most people dont have a clue how CSM works. I dont care who you are your not going to walk into a summit with your grand ideas and have CCP make you lead designer on the next expansion.

The role of a CSM specifically in regards to a WH candidate is to remind CCP that WHs exist. Our candidate is there to protect our interests and make sure that when changes are made the ramifications for WH space are taken into consideration. The other approach is to try to win small victories with a "hey while your over here fixing this.. take a look at X". Two Step did this on occasion and got us some things here and there.

If a CSM candidate promises that he is going to change wormholes in some drastic way, he is lying. He may have all the intentions of doing everything he says but it just isnt going to happen. Moreover I assure you that you really dont want CCP crawling all over WH space changing things. If you think I'm wrong just take a good look at the Hurricane. Every time CCP even looks at that ship the take a dump on it.

The best thing Two Step (maybe) did was push the POS revamp up on the timeline. Victory for wormholers right? Yes. However the lesson here was that Two Step made it a broad issue and demonstrated how they effect every aspect of eve. Highsec , lowsec. null , and WH space was represented in his thread.

TLDR; Vote for the CSM that will protect our interests not the one with big ideas that will never see the light of day

Edit: posting a quote

The answer is in Fleet comps, not mechanic changes. WH'ers (myself amongst them) have gotten so lazy that no one with the skills, experience and expertise of the nullsec playerbase has bothered looking at existing mechanics that can be used to CHANGE the fleet meta, or dismantle the existing, dominant fleet meta.

Adapt or die, only none of us are adapting and instead relying on how many guardian, oneiros, proteus, loki we can field. This is blob warfare at its worst and why some (myself included) are feeling the :meh: factor of another fight, against another armor T3 fleet. Even when its only 15 pilots, its still just blob.

We need people thinking and experimenting and finding new ways, tactics and fleet comps to fight with. There are plenty around, nullsec alliances adapt and adjust all the time. In the time we (wh'ers) have perfected our armor t3 fleets, they've gone through 4-5 FOTM fleet comps, with various adjustments, refinements and changes to adapt. We.... haven't. That isn't CCP's fault, it isn't something that CCP need to fix, its something WE need to fix.

Be part of the solution, start thinking, be creative. Yes, you'll wipe fleets a lot while testing and trying, but eventually you may just come up with the fleet comp that replaces armor t3 as the defacto standard. Until someone else comes up with the comp that beats yours.

Advocate and campaign on "keeping CCP focused on iteration", and you'll probably win a lot of votes, as by and large, the WH community is made up of a majority of almost-but-not-quite bitter vets.