Wormholes

Only if you put a non-WH candidate before a WH candidate. The STV system attempts to elect your top choices first, and removes candidates only one at-a-time.

Also, there is the fact that you will likely HAVE to pick 14 candidates.

Sounds like a bonus to me.

Actually, I've been in contact with the current CSM and have double-checked that their regular meeting times are during my awake hours. So I'm good there.

You will have my vote.

And the pre-election voting is live!

Click here to endorse me as your CSM 8 candidate!

Although I personally would love to see reasons again for alliance like my own to start invading others (we stopped doing this months ago because it simply wasn't worth it), I mentioned in the article that a CSM candidate should look at both sides of the issue. If you hand one side a better weapon (or a reason to use it), then you'd better give the other side something to compensate. I am strongly against nerfing ECM on POS's, as deterrent is the best defense against invasion in C1-C4s. Same with limiting POS sizes; complete no-go for me. In fact, I'd like to see code written that speeds up the process of placing defensive batteries on new POS's, to help fledgling corps through one of the most annoying parts of claiming their new homes. An "auto-place" option, and ways to get in more defenses more quickly, instead of 4-6 batteries a trip.

I also wouldn't mind seeing the ECM bonus on the Caldari Tower changed from a time cycle bonus to a lowered CPU/PG need specifically for ECM batteries. There is really no good way to fit a Caldari tower for anything useful in WH space...either it's all ECM and no guts, or all industry and no defense.

I hope this helps address your questions. Please reply if you have any more!

Do you think that even the off-racial jamming strength is satisfactory/acceptable? In other words, is the ability for a Grav ECM battery to easily jam an Amarr ship is the way things should work and should not be modified?


Different tools have different purposes. A Caldari tower has high CPU for the CPU-heavy industry. The current ECM bonus makes up for this as you're more likely to be jammed due to the faster cycle time. You also don't need to run three polymer chains just because you can :)

My point was that even off-racial jammers are strong enough that unless you're not worried about guns or defenders, you bring far more Guardians than the number of Radar jammers, up to and even surpassing the total number of ECM mods regardless of race. They're that effective. Naturally, few or no guns mean you can roll with drone boats, etc, but let's assume some sort of competence in POS setup.

I was just asking whether you thought the off-racial strength was too strong, and it sounds like you do not thank so :)


If a corp does not have the manpower to defend their POS against a fleet large enough to counter a dickstar, a few more ECM mods won't help. If they do, the extra ECM would make them near-inpenetrable. Simply throwing more ECM isn't a good idea, because while it can benefit the smaller corps, the benefit scales much higher for larger corps and alliances, especially considering the strength of off-racial jams.

Stront-checking a small or medium that looks juicy and has far too few defenses is one thing and takes no time at all, but few people want to slog through even a lightly-defended large Caldari in C1-C4 just because of the sheer boredom and the increased danger of waving your exposed butts in space for such a long period of time. More ECM makes it less enjoyable, but there isn't much enjoyment in it already. Do it for fun or to stront-check, no. Do it for a reason, yes.

It does sound like, though, that the POS mods on Caldari towers need to have the potential to cycle targets faster to keep up with the ECM bonus. That sounds like a small change worth supporting on the way to incrementally improving the situation, rather than throwing one bonus away for something new. Caldari towers need to keep the risk: you're getting improved industry capacity, but you can't fit the defenses that you could in a Minmatar tower.

I am responsible for a (large) Caldari tower, and I'd love to run three+ polymer chains and research and manufacturing together with a full suite of defenses, but I know that's not balanced. So I make trade-offs to achieve some sort of acceptable equilibrium.

Update on the pre-elections and the "Wormhole 5."

tl;dr: It's a good time to be a wormholer.

CCP Fozzie's just published a very exciting devblog about POS improvements in the upcoming Odyssey expansion, all of which have their eye on the wormhole dweller!

Click here to read my initial reactions!

My personal recommendations for the CSM 8 ballot have been published.


Also, I've received a few more recommendations from the following blogs:

Mangala at RvBganked

Unforgiven Storm at thelazypilot