Jita Park Speakers Corner

I am glad to see a FW candidate, and VERY glad to see someone say this.

When I first started in Eve, I ran missions, like most newbies. My first experiences with PVP were when Suddenly Ninjas came to town and started wrecking the place up. I don't recall ever losing a ship to them, but I was in awe at the ease in which they tore apart "experienced" missioners in expensive (to me) ships. It was this experience that led me to the PVP dark-side, and it's really sad that I don't see similar things happening anymore.

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Your story is one of many that I've heard where, by being exposed to the darker side of EVE Online, a player learns the joys of PVP and all that that entails. The curtailing of the ability for players to be exposed to that side of the game is tragic and something that no one is really addressing in a satisfactory manner, which is something I plan on changing (with the usual caveat of 'if elected' of course).

1 - This would have to depend entirely on your definition of large scale fights. However, facwar has had some very impressive battles in hotly contested systems. As an entry point into PVP in general, both solo and small to mid sized gang varieties, I think faction warfare is doing an admirable job of things. As for it being the 'correct platform...for hi-sec players', I'm not sure if that statement makes much sense. Those fights obviously occur in lowsec among lowsec based entities (the militias). If the thrust of the question is whether it is the correct way to get players from high sec into lowsec, then my answer would be yes - it is a good avenue.

2 - That could be one way to accomplish giving faction warfare some impact on the map as a whole, however I would have to see specifics of such a proposal to see if it actually amounts to changing anything. The goal of providing faction warfare (and lowsec as a whole) a way to make an impact on the game isn't just about changing a system's ownership tag - its about making an impact on the players of the game as well.

As for ways to make this happen, holding a system for XX amount of days would be a simple way to make sovereignty change to the holding faction.

2.5 - The addition of a unique selling point to lowsec should only be done while preserving the existing playstyle of its residents. Outlaws have called lowsec home since its inception, with groups like the Guristas Associates, Tuskers, Blood Money Cartel, Bastards and countless others personifying the sov-less, semi-nomadic, pirating lifestyle. If elected and informed that CCP was changing things in such a way as to kill off that playstyle, there would be no end to the fight I would put up against such a change. I think there are ways to ensure that this doesn't happen, however.

3 - There would probably be some impact, as I'm sure there are at least a few nullsec residents that run L5s or other ISK-generating things in lowsec. However, the impact would in all likelihood be slight - and if a change to the way nullsec income is generated on an individual level is paired with a net boost to the ISK generating potential of lowsec, I'd be happy to make that trade.

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.

Ah my first troll. I was beginning to worry when one of you didn't show up. For someone so well versed in reading killboards and corp history, you should also be able to determine that I wasn't terribly active in null (half my kills were blue kills, RIP Vile Rat) and that of my 1000+ kills, nearly all of them have taken place in lowsec. But let's not let facts get in the way of things, right?

Friendly bump and endorsement.

So many good CSM candidates this year.

I hope all ends up well for you and yours, sir.