Jita Park Speakers Corner

James 315 posting again!

i missed his caod threads, he made the old bob guard rage and cry

Mine howls when cellphone starts ringing and im too far away to pick it right up.

Its actually quite fun, because it scares the **** out of those people who never seen it before. So when i have some guests at the house who never seen my mal before, i stage this to see the reaction on their faces


Question to mittens: do you think CCP will be able to keep up the tempo, and continue with the rate of improvements and fixes as we see them now for winter expansion? Because the amount they managed to do in a few month is impressibe. But im afraid after current crisis passes, they might change their focus to some other crap, as it was with WiS and WoT. Do you, as CSM, have some plan to keep their attention to the important things?

Drinking game:

Start at the beginning of the thread and take a drink every time MY CEO says "sucking chest wounds." Be sure to have emergency services on speed dial.

(We kid because we love.)

Yah fine, but I hope you'll at least give me credit for being open-minded and wanting to learn from people who know more than me.

Thank you (to you and the others who commented on my original post) for pointing out the risk of losing stuff in sov null stations / poses when they get conquered / destroyed.

Seems to me that's a different kind of risk though; the risk of making long-term investments, and the risk of being long term resident in what is fundamentally "insecure" space; I agree it's a kind of risk not faced (to the same extent) by lowsec / hisec residents (w-space being somewhat similar though).

Surely it makes sense though for those "longer term" risks to be rewarded in a a separate way (whether tangibly through isk or intangibly in some other way).

What I was originally trying to ask about (apparently not very clearly) was the comparative riskiness of doing similar activities in different parts of space. So, where is the most dangerous place to do mining? Probably w-space. So mining should get most reward in w-space. Where is the riskiest place to do PI? Post-Crucible, probably lowsec. So lowsec PI should have the best resource availability in game.

Now maybe the "long-term investment risk" in sov nullsec can be rewarded by boosting those day-to-day activities (system resources get better the longer you hold the system), but you haven't said anything to change my view that, for day-to-day activities, sov null is actually pretty safe.

TL;DR: balance risk / reward for individual activities based on where those activities themselves are most risky; but find a separate mechanism for rewarding the distinct longer term risks faced by null sov-holders.

Did CCP run booster changes via the CSM?

What are your thoughts about boosters?

Hi The Mittani

I know you are in favour of a WoW style customizable UI in EvE but I'd be interested in hearing your views on how it would affect the balance of power between the haves and have nots. A well organised group like GoonSwarm would have the resources and skills to create a UI that potentially gives them a huge advantage. Not to mention the risk of ending up with "Must Have" UI mods which provide so much of an advantage you're completely unable to compete without them (stuff like gladius and decursive).

Turns out you answered these in your most recent TTH column: http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/spymaster/70

Well, let’s rip the sucking chest wound toughly wide open, so we can continue drinking!











(Just kidding of course)

Lag, Supercap Imbalance, lol hybrids, lack of Iterative Ship Balance, POS Misery, Risk/Reward, Dominion sov are the major sucking chest wounds. The good news is that Crucible has addressed a number of these. Obviously, I think this class of issue are the highest priority to fix, because they cause stagnation and subscription decline; CCP seems to agree, judging by Crucible.

Several of your questions are nitty-gritty and don't work through a NDA. "how soon, how quickly, how long, are they ready" etc.

We have to see about the solutions in Crucible, but they're directly aimed at Supercaps, POS Misery (fuel blocks, timers, corp bookmarks, bridge standings), Hybrids, some Risk/Reward unfucking (anom un-nerf, POCOs). That's a lot of triage work on CCP's part. The work was done by the entire remaining staff of the company, who are running around with their hair on fire trying to recover from the hubris overdose that nearly drove the company off a cliff, so thank 'those who remain' basically.

My next focus will be on Dominion Sov and Risk/Reward balance. We'll see how ~persuasive~ I can be, come the next release. A sov system fix will require a ton of work as it's awful.

Destructible Outposts as part of a major sov revamp, plus 'farms and fields' and general risk/reward balancing. Some might shovel risk/reward and 'sov revamp' together, as they are very much linked.

After that, which will hopefully restore some proper war to null, I'd like to see modular POS/dead horse proposal implemented.