Jita Park Speakers Corner

Trebor, I like your answer in #305. It clarified a lot of your positions and gives us an anchor to hold you to when you partake in devils advocacy. Mind you I still disagree with most of it, but I feel we made some progress there.



Ah the classic, "they knew what they were in for, so it's ok." I'm curious how you restrict this to low and null. Surely, there is no rampant ignorance about high sec game mechanics that prevents a similar extension of this line of "they knew what they were in for" to high sec residents who get war decced.



That analogy fails because people who eat steak don't do so at the expense of those who eat the salad, while in EVE, the issue is a lot more contentious because one player's buff is often another player's nerf. If my restaurant continues to serve the steak I like, they can do whatever they want with their salad menu as far as I am concerned. But if the salad menu suddenly replaces my steak or diminishes its quality, then we have problems.

Let me pose a hypothetical to you Trebor, would you support in game ads to drive revenue for CCP to possibly hire more devs to fix other parts of the game? Would you support "gold ammo," ie, superior caliber equipment bought with real money, to help drive revenues with the same aim? If not, what is the "limiting principle"?

I feel the CSM should be more concerned about players interests, than about CCP's revenues. In my opinion the CSMs should represent the players to CCP, and not act as mediators for both parties. Of course, each candidate is free to craft their own opinion about the fundamental nature of the CSMs job of how they will utilize their trip to Iceland, and let the player base democratically decide what they want their CSM to do.

I think Trebor definitly belives in cautious expansion, I just dont think he appreciates how much some of the questions he's asking invoke the goal of replacing steaks with vegan alternatives rather than adding a side salad to the menu.

no one must know of my research skills!

Good point, if only CCP were trying to sell Steak or vegetables to the public in return for lots of money.

Sadly they seem to want to sell icelandic food to the public, which includes a pretty much horror cuisine. Sounds pretty much like a long game.

Hopefully CCP just learns to put ketchup and salt on everything, and watch the money roll in.

I suppose its good you keep the ganks fair, otherwise your corp would just be forcing CCP to buff hi sec again, and the trolling would never end.

Its not Trebor making hi sec safer, its his corp doing it.

I do try to sail my ship the captain way, but the sea gods see it and hate it.

Couldn't agree more. Game design is all about Trebor's vision and not what all the players want.

You will have my vote, clearly you are one of the few candidates that

a) Have the experience in game design
b) Have provided a continued and stable voice in the CSM for a number of years now.

Now I'm actually curious about your opinion - what about cosmetic microtransaction type of stuff? Buy ship skins/decals/etc with aurum (which could then be sold for isk on the markets as well). Essentially the same thing as the clothes already in the NEx store, but for your ships.

I have no problems with "non-game affecting" stuff like this in general (and these things have been thrashed out in CSM summits several times).

Where it gets a bit iffy is if CCP started cannibalizing regular developer resources into producing "fancy hat" items -- and that is a very fuzzy judgment call.

Putting on my fancy businessman's hat, what I would hope CCP would do is some cautious and cheap experiments to determine if there's sufficient demand to warrant investing resources in the project, and if so, expand the relevant departments (or outsource) so they can meet the demand without impairing their ability to improve the game.

Or in other words, the people who want to pimp their rides shouldn't subsidize the people who are happy with the factory paint job.

For some reason, they didn't appreciate our suggestion to put a big-ass hinge on the damn thing so it would fold up.