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Monk has my Vote for CSM.

This is the first CSM member I can actually say I fully support.

On a side note... Monk don't advocate the grouping up of people that it will force me to have more members. I do enjoy my solitude.

Well, there's still at least one way in which they can render assistance and not be legally shootable, which is broken as hell.

They are occasionally fun-killers in the context of solo or very small gangs, but as this game isn't balanced around solo and very small gangs, so that's no more unbalanced than Falcon. (/me shakes fist at Falcon) What would be better for me and my lifestyle isn't necessarily for the benefit of the entire game, and I think this is one of those times. As much as that sucks for me and mine.

A nerf to rep amount or possibly rep distance might have interesting consequences for the meta and is worth following logically along, but really only as a thought experiment at this point. If such a nerf were to happen I don't feel it would be in order to address any kind of need but rather just to shake up the game a bit.

Good point but easily remedied by not allowing a corp to dissolve for (say) seven days after a wardec is issued (or maybe not at all), or up the cost of starting a corp to say 50mil.

A vote for Psychotic Monk is a vote for emergent gameplay.

Sure, but then, on the sixth day I just have to declare with a new corp. Or even if they make it non-overlapping, I can redec almost immediatly after the dec fell off anyone wanting to leave would have to race me to the login screen in order to get out. For people who need to sleep and have jobs, that's just not feasible.

I support Psychotic Monk, because as a newer player, my industrial alliance was wardecced by them, and we were brought somewhat forcefully into the world of PvP. I can't really describe what happened, but the atmosphere they created for us has now lead me to choose a more exciting life, and I thank him for it.

You have my vote Mr. Monk.

Do you like the war-dec system as it currently stands? What changes would you make to it, if any, if you had the power to do so? In particular, what did you think of the discussion in the CSM Summit Minutes about how in a typical war-dec, often neither side gets anything out of it because:
* the aggressor doesn't get any fights because the aggressed never undocks; and,
* the aggressed don't feel they can win because they are wildly outmatched in terms of ships, skill, and experience?

What do you think of James 315's proposals with regard to high-sec (found here). Do you support them in part or in full? If only in part, which ones?

Which member of CSM7 do you feel is doing the best job? If your answer is "Alek", who is doing the second best?

In your view, what is the most expensive hull a single player with a single account should be able to suicide gank? What ship should be needed to gank that target?

Ripard:

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I feel wars are less broken now then that had been for the six monthes previous to Retribution, but that's not saying a great deal. All that means is that they are somewhat workable now, as opposed to absolutly worthless as they were in the era of dec scraping. The biggest problem I see right now is people dropping from wars or dissolving a corp to avoid a wardec.

If I had a magic wand, wars would follow players even if they dropped corp. If that wasn't possible I would refund for dropped targets, as CCP has explicitly stated that we pay per target.

Those are just bandaids, though. There are two more important factors that figure into drops: Firstly, if your goal in highsec is to make as much money through grinding as possible, the correct and safest choice is to be in an NPC corp or one-man alt corp, which is something I feel needs to change. If you read a little further back in the thread you'll see a couple ideas for that. Secondly, I feel that people drop because the meta of t1 ships being awesome has not filtered down to them. They expect to lose and they expect those losses to cost them a ton of money. The cruiser rebalance (especially the t1 logi) gives them a way to leverage their numbers to kick the **** out of the usually numerically inferior agressors and only risk a very small amount of isk to do so. I think they just havn't gotten the memo yet.

2)

In regards to James' proposals, I don't feel that on the whole highsec PvE needs a nerf. It might benifit from a bit of a nerf around level 4s and incursions, but not by much. In fact, I feel that the lowest level PvE needs a payout buff. Level 1 and Level 2 missions don't give newbs the money to go do something stupid and lose some frigs or dessies. They really are scraping together almost non-existent amounts of money and if they lose a boat in their first weeks it can be game-crushingly devestating for their wallets.

I *do* want to see the situational awareness required to be safe somewhat increased. I want those that have learned the mechanics of their chosen part of space to be rewarded over those that choose ignorance. That means that nerfs to interactive gameplay put in place because people brought their life-in-a-bubble mindset with them from other games needs to stop. Player skill in this game needs to be rewarded, not punished for fear that someone might lose something due to ignorance or narrow view.

3)

I feel Two Step did super well in this CSM term. We were given every impression that a POS revamp would happen. When CCP pulled it away at the last moment Two Step, whose constituents are the ones most effected by POSs made a big ******* scene about it, which is exactly what he should have done. He made sure he was speaking for the people that elected him and he wasn't just meekly rolling over to every bit of information handed to him.

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I don't feel that's quite the correct question. You're likely trying to indirectly ask if I feel that an exhumer should be gankable by a solo catalyst. I think that any ship sitting still with absolutely no tank and no situational awareness should be fairly easy to gank. So, a completely naked exhumer should be killable by a max skill cata pilot, yes. And so should a completely naked eagle or a completely naked muninn.

Safety is something you should get yourself, rather than having it handed to you. If a player is foolish enough to fit nothing on their boat and sit in a 0.5, far from their keyboard, I feel that suicide ganking should be a threat to them in anything smaller than a battleship, and not just by one of the very few most talented suicide gankers in the game.

If a player fits a tank or operates in such a way that they're likely to avoid suicide gank, then I think think their level of safety should be fairly high.

<3 your blog jester apart from you didn't put my naked chimera kill as kill of the week :(

Greetings, Mr Monk!

What are your feelings about the hi sec manifesto I wrote? Are there any themes or assumptions that you'd take issue with?