Jita Park Speakers Corner

You have both of mine!

Thanks Ferro, now that's what I call an endorsement.

However, I still want more. Please keep voting. Vote till it hurts. Vote Malc!

My appetite for endorsement votes is insatiable!

Not counting the fine opinions Malcanis has produced in earlier days, the Crossing Zebras interview did it for me. Malcanis showed integrity, insight, imagination and intelligence far beyond what many of the other sockpuppets in the race are seemingly even capable of. You'll have my primary vote.

OK the whole tone of the CSM8 Election is so much more positive! I just listened to an entire podcast of four of the candidates https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=warning&l=http%3a%2f%2fvoicesfromthevoid.net&domain=voicesfromthevoid.net and ALL of them wanted to improve the game.

I think the Malcanis Manifesto effect is in full force! Endorse Malcanis today and vote for him and some of these other good candidates and let us get moving forward on making CCP respond to what the players need in High sec, low sec, null sec, and wh space. The sandbox needs to expand and continue to adapt to the needs of the players.

Power To The Players!

How would you rebalance or rework supers and titans?

Can you give a concrete example of how you would change sov mechanics? I need to ask because your problem analysis is good, the vision (farms-and-fields) is good, but the HOW is still vague. You mentioned ways to get more people to 0.0, however it is all derived from/secondary to the governing sov mechanics.

I know these are open-ended questions as there are no silver bullets, so they are rather intended to make you speak your mind a bit more than just agreeing that changes are needed.

Also a comment on your proposed changes to industry efficiency based on system sec status. I think it is short sighted, and Malcanis law applies (yes, the irony).
Most high volume items have tiny margins as it is. By implementing the changes high sec production will become infeasible. At the same time, the local markets in 0.0 and low sec are typically not nearly big enough for an industrial to be able to sell all goods there (sale volume is just as important). So what would happen is that the older, richer and JF enabled industrials would move materials to lowsec or 0.0, build the goods and jump them back to jita. A production time bonus would be good, however.

I think I can just about manage to PUSH BUTAN 2 more times.

I listened to your Xrossing Zebra's interview last night, confirmed for me that you are the best man for the job at hand.


Just a quick question (not sure if its been asked in here already, but... 33 pages) Whats your stance on local chat in null?

Do you think it should be like wormhole local, delayed, removed or left alone?

I already did. The older, richer and JF capable industrials will simply be able to avoid the increased costs in hi(er)-sec. The less fortunate will be crowding the slots in 0.5 systems much worse then they already do, and building in 0.6+ will simply be unfeasible. Basically it's adding one more handicap to newer players.

I would also say that we need pve content fixing first aswell.

Given the current abortion that is EvE pve content its going to cause problems if one is fixed before the other. With local the way it is now, coupled with the way pve is if you get neuts in system while ratting you have to dock/warp to a POS or safe simply because pve and pvp combat is drastically different. A pvp fitted boat will almost always beat a pve boat, assuming equal pilot skill/experience.

If pvp and pve were similar thus allowing ratting to be done in a pvp fitted ship then I guess that would alleviate this issue somewhat. It would also make ratting a lot more interesting, like that feeling of someone watching you get when running anoms in WH space…

Why would you build (for example) Dramiels in a 0.5? The mineral difference would be trivial compared to the value of the finished product and the costs of moving it to Jita.

Quite so, but there are also costs of transport, and the suggestion was made in the context of other changes in the sec system, increasing the risk in 0.0 systems, so there would be actuarial costs also (ie: the risk of being ganked)

The idea was to make the choice of place to build mean something more than "how close to Jita/Amarr can I get a manufacturing slot". In that context, I see your analysis that there would be an advantage to building in 0.5 sec systems as an advantage, not a problem. Indeed, you may note that for processes like T2 module building, it would conceivably be worthwhile to build in lo-sec (the right kind of lo-sec, anyway)

In short you're complaining that my proposal to change things would result in change. I agree: it will.