Jita Park Speakers Corner

I'll lob a softball into the arena....

Why do you suppose that certain malcontents who hate the idea of the CSM and constantly berate CCP gravitate to all the forum threads about the CSM and CCP? Do you have any theories about this seemingly masochistic behavior?

Petty, negative people hate nothing more than being confronted with the fact that not everyone fails to be constructive and passionate.

On the CSM, maybe it is because the CSM is meant to be the voice of the players. They act however as the voice of CCP. They will generally send out a note condemning CCPs action and then start white knighting. This has occurred in CSM7 and CSM8. Look at the Somer thread, offer a survey that will take 6 months to get feed back on and then when it gets harder to defend CCP they disappear.

Why do people want to vote for a CCP PR arm?

As to CCP well EvE can be so much more and having them **** in the sandbox and favor one player/alliance or business over another just destroys what this game was built on. Also CCP seem to forget about EvE all the time throwing so many resources at other side projects. Yes it is their money but yes they need to know when the playerbase thinks that the next 'expansion' they are releasing looks more like a patch.

CCP have cost them selves a fortune over the years trying to go for the quick buck, the hope is that they will listen before it is too late.

I'll throw this in for the Town Hall; a little background first:

With the launch of Odyssey, a new animation sequence was introduced for the jump transition between systems. While many enjoy this effect, some find it annoying, and others are experiencing physical pain and discomfort resulting from it (reports of dizziness, nausea, vertigo, headaches, etc.). Players asked for the ability to disable this effect, similar to the existing ability to turn off several other graphical effects, but were told by a CCP representative that doing so would be a "cop out". CCP did acknowledge that the adverse physical reactions were a problem, and indicated that it would take time, but they promised to improve the effect to reduce these reactions. Feedback and details of our experiences were requested, and much information was provided in good faith that it would be put to use.

However, the last communication we had from CCP on this issue was June 26th. At the time, it gave every indication that they were still working on this. Since then, there has been no response to repeated requests for updates, and personal communication with the CCP devs involved has either been met with silence, snark, or flat out rudeness and derision (some players literally being told by CCP representatives to "HTFU", a common mantra in game, but a rather careless response with regard to a real world physical problem).

We have suffered with these problems for more than five months, and a thread currently more than 80 pages long continues in hopes that CCP might remember their promise and provide the improvements they said were coming, or better yet, swallow their pride and give us the desired off switch.

So the question is this: What can or will the CSM do to persuade or pressure CCP into addressing the situation and respecting the affected players with a proper response? I know this issue does not affect everyone, but it is important to those of us who do have a problem with it. Lately it seems that CCP is all too willing to make promises and then ignore them, pretending they never happened. I find this behavior both disturbing and disgusting, and I would ask the CSM as our representatives, whether you agree with this issue or not, to use your influence to at least get CCP to follow up on this forgotten promise.

I eagerly await you response in the Town Hall.

There are many ways to compete...

Yet you're wrong in one account: I'm not trying to convince everyone. That surpasses my skills.

What i am doing, is seeding ideas so someone with the appropiate skills likes them and undertakes the effort to convince others.

So, I only need to convince one person. Some people have visions, others pick and implement the visions. To each his role.

So far i've come up with four grand schemes for EVE (three of them sensibly viable) and yet haven't convinced anyone. But i'll keep trying as long as I care about my investment/involvement in this game.

"No" is assured. I'm still working on that elusive "Yes".

Would CSM prefer CCP's events to have a null AND high sector section to it, both delivering an end to the event.

I'd like to thank everybody for their questions, we had a good session with the townhall and hit a lot of questions from here.

Thank you all

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Oh, nice post! It saves me to listen to the recorded thing.

Thanks Wiggles! My post is updated with info and more answers now :) No, I did not transcribe the ones we answered on-air; it's a very focused 45m and you can hear 'em yourself.

As to the CSMs public activity around Somer Blink.

Maybe you could link the relevant posts about their RMT activity or show us where the CSM posted in the tread that had most of it in it?
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=285492&find=unread