Jita Park Speakers Corner

There are a lot changes coming for eve. While I live in w-space, one of the most interesting for me personally will be to see how nullsec will change / evolve. For exemple, there's ideas that sov should be based on activity and not based on who owns certain structures. Another is beeing able to build/shape a system, placing your mark on it for everyone to see when they jump into the system. I can see some mechanics like that working in wspace to.

I would like to know your views on this. Both from a nullsec persepective and from a wspace persepective, and do you think this increase interaction between nullsec/wspace systems or not. If so, would you consider it good or bad.

I'll post the same question in a couple of other csm-topics to.

Hello there!

I would like to name several situations that I feel are detrimental to the game. Give a solution and ask you for your stance on both. I do need answers to all the situations for my vote(s)

POS those three letters bring nightmares to just about anyone having the misfortune of having to operate one. The solution in the long term is obviously modular POS. Yet CCP seems to be backpedaling on implementing this despite the MANY benefits. What is your stance on the possibility of a near term bandage of a form of player POS that is only designed to be the equilivant of a Secure Container for ships until modular POS is ready?

Overpowered passive cloaking. It is now to the point where people are now beyond AFK cloaking but running Twitch.tv streams of enemy stations and systems! Would you support balancing cloaking to punish those who go AFK (Eventually able to be scanned down for decloak) while maintaining the benefits to people actively cloaking (Remaining at their keyboard)

Lack of Ring Mining. Again with the CCP backpedaling despite the many benefits for nullsec and other areas for the game. What is your stand on the crap that is moon mining?

The silly push by some in the community to end or delay "Local" or any effective means for those in a nullsec system to determine if a hostile or unknown is in system in them. This obviously needs no solution but I want your thoughts.

The horrible state of missions in hisec. The solution in my opinion is a complete rewrite to allow for a more incursion like approach that rewards those who want to train up logistic frigs and cruisers or be a specific role in a fleet. Also providing a way for newer players to experience group play in EVE.

Incursion suckage. With the nerfs to Incursions fleets have slowed to a trickle and it was sad to see CCP willing to spend more development time nerfing entire expansions instead of doing what was right being making other aspects of EVE better. Modular POS and Ring mining need dev time sooner so I will admit this ought to be looked at later however I wanted to get your views on them and have this to be some context to the next aspect of Logi.

Logi suckage. Logis do not have the tools to do their job. They need to be able to tell who is locked and taking damage and in large fleets the watchlist can't handle that leading to dependence on broadcasts that most of EVE seems to not know or refuse to use right. Look at any average HQ incursion fleet where people don't broadcast right stressing out logi or in fleet fights where following FCs orders makes it harder to broadcast properly. A solution is a logi only screen that is completely configurable to show who is taking the most DPS and who has the most locks in fleet.

Logi Suckage #2 Reps don't get you on mails? Wut? Solution obviously is to have repping those in fleet land you on killmails generated from fleet.

Interaction between null-sec and wh-space is good, if it continues in the current trend--that is, wormhole space using null sec for a playground. I'd like to see null-seccers more active in wh-space as well, without feeling the need for a "wormhole stabilizer" to get in the army most feel is necessary for engagements. The reasons we're going to null sec lately is because wh-space can be pretty quiet.

WH-space already has ways to "claim" a system--owned POCOs and sovereignty units located next to POS guns. These are easily seen on both the D-Scan and the overview. What sort of additional "marks" were you thinking of?


I notice from your responses in the other CSM candidacy threads you've posted in that you are looking for candidates to feed you back very specific responses. Out of curiosity, do you represent a group of like-minded players, or are you posting as an individual voter?

Because I'm not sure that anyone shares your opinion on the vitality of these issues. For example, AFK cloaking is actually a vital mechanic in wormhole space, where we'll spend hours watching enemy POS's, waiting for the first slip-up that nets us a kill. Once we've made a kill and our targets know we're in their home, we'll safe and cloak up for the rest of the day, just to play with their heads. They won't even know if we're in system (no local), but the fact that we're simply online in a cloaked ship can be enough to completely flummox their operations. The results are priceless.

I'm not the candidate to feed you the answers you desire. Best of luck with your continued search.

I have no issue with your questions. I have issue with the manner in which you ask them.

Good day to you, sir.

Eve.Stratics.com recently conducted a text interview with me (along with several other well-known CSM candidates).

Go here to read the full article!

Best way to campaign in a game that people play would be directly inside the game itself. Not everyone checks the forums; as you said yourself, you were not even aware I was running until then.

Thanks for the tip about my in-game bio though. That's a good idea. Fly safe!

Confirming I am "cheeky."

Are you saying that one should only be able to train skills while sitting at his keyboard?

Having flown under your alliance banner, I can say that you are both an effective communicator and tolerant of diversity. I for one always found your communications short and to the point: I refute the claims from the reddit crowd that you need to produce page upon page of content. Too much text becomes just so much noise and forumporn.

I think that some of your detractors aren't cognizant of just how different w-space is from k-space. Freed from the constraints of contiguous space and the sov mechanics needed to maintain it, wormhole dwellers have a degree of freedom unknown to most nulsec bittervets. To keep any sort of w-space alliance together must be a balancing act equalling any high-wire act. I for one do not know how you do it.

That being said, IDK if I'm going to vote for you or not...w-space does need representation, but I'm pretty happy with the crew we've got on the CSM right now. I'm going to visit some of the places you've linked to so I can make an informed decision.