Jita Park Speakers Corner

If focused on in lieu of other things. But the new development angle they're doing is going to be delivering several things per expansion for all sorts of players, so we'll see how it comes out.



What do you mean by "post-Incarna boosting" and "non boosted growth"?

I didn't say there would necessarily be any reason for them to oppose that sort of thing, did I?

So, would they implement it if it proved cost effective? You stated they wouldn't, and i think the same...

I did not state whether they would or would not implement any such thing. I commented on the risk/reward of such structures as you originally described them.

Your proposition is that there should be some kind of indestructable place in highsec where you can dock, store ships and items and refit your ships? I agree, that is something highsec needs. In fact, I'd see it expanded across lowsec and even areas of non sov null.

what was that whooshing sound i just heard over my head

What like.... Space stations?

You see those square symbols on your Overview?

I for one would like to salute you for your unceasing efforts to improve the level of discourse in Jita Park.

Hrllo Myanna,

Despite your alliance, I think you would be a good CSM. Unlike your leader, you come across as a mature adult. I would like to ask you about a few of the hot topics affecting Null-sec at the moment.

1, Tech ISK-fountains, and bottom up allance income.

2, Supercapital proliferation - (linked to Tech ISK-fountains) see above.

3, Force projection - does it need nerfing?

4, Ratting, PVE and ways CCP could make it less mindnumbingly boring.

5, How would you Myanna, as CSM. push, cajole CCP to just fecking get on with it and fix stuff.

6, Getting new blood (corps, alliances) into Null-sec.

To cut through what you're saying, the fact that I have a bloc at my back means I don't need to pander here for votes. That doesn't mean I am not actually interested letting people ask me questions or in hearing from people, quite the opposite in fact... while I have a few "good ideas" if I do say so myself, having people ask questions or pitch their own ideas leads to new, interesting areas for both sides. I'd never have thought much about this (unless or until it came up somewhere else) if someone here hadn't asked me, for example.



I'll pass over the shots at my alliance and leader for now. ;)

To your first question, I've written a few[url] [url=http://themittani.com/features/bottoms-part-two-sovereignty]words about the subject, which you can summarize as "I'm generally for it." On the topic of moon mining in particular, it generally needs to change, but it's one point I'm less certain on when it comes to "how". I've heard just as many good arguments from some sources you wouldn't expect for leaving moons as a top down resource and merely doing a better job of balancing them (which is possible) as I have nuking them and turning them into bottom up resources.

Supercap proliferation is a tricky one since we don't really have numbers anymore on it. The last time we did have numbers was from CCP Diagoras, over a year ago. They showed that in the wake of the supercarrier nerf, the rate at which they were being built dropped by nearly 80%. It feels safe to assume that titans took a similar plunge in the wake of their nerf. So, it's up in the air as to whether they're being built too fast. However, they're definitely not dying fast enough, so the way forward is to encourage people to use them in situations where loss is likely, and then probably add more ways to ensure loss, as well. Unfortunately, you can't do much about the piles of them that already exist. I mean, you can, but I doubt CCP would actually start outright deleting them from accounts...

On force projection... probably. I'm not sure the best way. There are issues with every suggestion to do it that I've seen so far, which suggests to me that there is not a simple solution.

As to boring PvE... something is always going to be boring if you do enough of it, unfortunately. What can be done is to make it more interesting and engaging, I think. Amusingly enough, the current "thing" for ratting in Guristas and Fountain space partially fits the bill - for the unaware, it involves using a Naga or Talos to run Forsaken Hubs. They're lightly tanked, but a pilot paying attention can combine the raw damage output with the ship's mobility to stay alive, you just have to be paying a bit more attention. Anyway, it's clear to me in this regard that CCP sees "unifying PvP and PvE" as an endgame of sorts for this goal, and it might be a fine solution. If you had to bring a properly fitted PvP ship to rat and every encounter was a little different because the AI kept doing different things, it'd keep things interesting. Not even the Sleeper AI is really up to that level yet, though.

Lesse, what's next... "just fecking fix everything." If only it were that easy... I think they have an interest in "fix everything", it's just not something you can do all at once. So this should be no cajoling necessary. I do fully plan to point out any issues in their fixes though. As amusing as it was, I'd rather not see another system like FW circa Inferno go live. Spending a large portion of another expansion on FW kinda sucked.

And finally, new blood. Getting new blood out, at least semi-independently, there is a combo of several factors. There needs to be space for them, which means current space holders need to hold less (see bottoms up articles I linked above) and they need to have income sources that they can leverage regardless of their size (see those same articles). CCP's implementation of DUST planetary conquest has some interesting concepts that could apply to EVE sov, but I haven't thought about it enough to put any ideas on paper yet.