Jita Park Speakers Corner

(reserved for frequently asked questions or important updates)

If you have questions for the CSM that you would like aired but cannot attend the Town Hall yourself, please feel free to send them to me and I will ask them in your name ("I received an advance question from XXX, who asks...").

Cant wait for these meetings :)

As always I will be there, after the town hall a podcast format version will be made available to download, I will post links in here once it is up :)

If you missed the townhall you can download it here http://www.eve-radio.com/downloads/viewcategory/1-csm-townhall-downloads

Question: there are still a lot of positions open @ CCPGames http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs

Will vacancies on these job slots be delaying further development of our Eve. ?

for example who can fill Jon Lander's shoes Executive Producer, personally I'm thinking someone like Scott Hartsman

I really like the new anomalies, I would like to see them used to implement more diversity for pve (thread links in my signature), do you think that would be somewhere eve could move towards?

I hate the Meta Click fest game. Please KILL IT!!! Don't even get me started on the whole can imploding thing. Totally annoying. As far as implementation, there is sooo much you could have done with this. I think the nerfing of the scanning was a idea that should have been fully flushed out before it was implemented. The addition of modules gives me mixed feelings , I love new modules, but I don't think these were implemented very well. They seem half finished, For people with really high skills they are almost useless. By the time you get your skills up to the point of using the T2 modules, you have the ability to do well with out the modules. You have totally nerfed exploration. You have totally ruined what was once a challenging and rewarding part of the game for those of use who specialized in it.

New data and relic sites with ultra annoying click fest game: 1 out of 10

New scanning stuff: 5 out of 10

I do like the discovery scanner I think the implementation on that was done well.

Discovery Scanner: 9 out of 10

The Ice anomalies are better than I thought they would be, I totally disagree with how they are implemented. But I think they should exist. Ice and ore should be in large continuous belts that don't regenerate. Ring mining is also a way that makes sense for implementing Ice anomalies. And I think they should exist in every system to varying degree's with the highest security status having the least due to extended mining of those systems. I think you could add a new scan category on scan probes that allows you to scan down specific types of ore or ice. Think ort clouds and asteroid belts like you would see in actual space. The whole 4 hour regen time is a totally retard3d idea. The change from sigs to anomalies for finding hidden belts is equally retard3d, Who ever came up with those two ideas should be walked off the end of the pier outside CCP's head quarters.

Ice belts: 3 out of 10

Moons have no effect on me. Graphics improvements are good. I am annoyed with some of the ship re-balancing, but I agree it needed done.

I think over all I give the expansion a 6 out of 10.

1) It's still too much money.

2) Just from playing my main toon, and training him, I can tell it takes more than just a couple of months to train up a toon to full proficiency. I've read some player's stories, and seen youtube videos that some skills took them a couple of years to master.

3)This IS a question for CSM8, because they TALK to CCP about players concerns. Don't be CCP's pawn and try to brush my suggestion aside. Their having this Town Hall meet, because they're gonna meet with CCP to talk about what players are thinking. What are you, a CCP shareholder?

Here are roles that don't take very much training at all:

1. POS manager (i.e.: anchor/unanchor, online/offline keep it fuelled)
2. Research alt (a few science skills + research project management)
3. AFK cloaky alt
4. Hauler alt for mining operation
5. Market checking/trade alt

Heck, I've trained up an exploration alt by stopping training on my main character. Once you have the skills, it used to take time to master the activity for sure: but more SP doesn't really help once you have all-fives in the appropriate fields.

So at the end of the day, you are not the person CCP is targeting with this change. It's obvious from your number 2 point that you are looking for a second main not a basic alt. In your case it is worth it for you to have 2 accounts.

The idea (from what I can gather) behind the plex to train is to get low sp alts trained without the need for a second account. Some of things that can be trained include PI, hauling, exploration, cov-ops frigate and a RvB alt. These are things that you don't necessarily need massive amounts of SP for (read as: don't have extra long training times), and don't need to be logged in at the same time as your main.

Yes at the end of the day, 2 accounts might be better, but you're not paying for an extra account, you're paying for the flexibility to train another character on your main account. And in all honesty, it's not that hard to pay for your one account (~$15), then pay for the plex to train your alt with isk.

Eve = 1 plex = 30 days of training.
Now you have the ability to train 2 characters up on one account, with the same cost of 1 plex for 30 days training per character, why wouldnt players be happy with this new option?

I honestly fail to see what your problem actually is, its really quite simple, you pay for skill time.

Also, bump for more diverse pve \o/