CSM Campaigns

Unfortunately, as I'm fairly new to twitch, I didn't know I had to actually select to have them archive videos.... so it's gone. You'd have to ask one of the folks that got to watch live. Basically though, aside from an overall buff in tank to make it so a frigate with 60 dps can't kill the single cruiser spawn in a medium, the npc situation is actually fine.

If I get another stream up, it'll be recorded this time. I've now checked the box. :)

We run a lot of open fleets. You'll probably want to come in a FW alt though, sometimes there can be fighting near gate guns, the perma war helps with that.

I'm looking forward for you to represent us FW people in CSM....and deliver some of the promised but withheld changes like visible timers and timer rollback. +1

On #1, it's not JUST the module, but the relative weakness of the tanks the NPCs have. As I said, it takes maybe 50 DPS to break the cruiser tank in a medium complex, and that's kinda pathetic. My solution is 2 fold, firstly a look at the benefits/penalties of WCS. They may not need to be nerfed so much as their fitting requirements tweaks to make it extremely difficult for a frigate to equip what it needs for combat with 3 or 4 stabs sitting in it's low slots. If CPU requirements are raised significantly on WCS for example, that would put a serious crimp on giving a ship meant to avoid fights, much capability at putting out damage.

The second part of that solution is beefing up the NPC tanks a hair (not the damage). 50 DPS should be required to kill a novice rat, maybe 100 for a small, and I'd like to see a cruiser be able to tank at least 150, and maybe 200 DPS. Let's remember that these NPC tanks were supposedly beefed up to make them hard(er) for plex farmers to kill. I don't think they went far enough. At 200 DPS tank, a t1 fit destroyer could still easily dispatch a plex cruiser, but they also don't have the lowslots to go bonkers with WCS.

Between a CPU increase for WCS and a tank increase on plex NPCs, I think that will solve a lot of the issue with untrained alts running plexes in t1 frigs stabbed to the gills.

I like your idea for #2. I'm not the biggest fan of the LP donation system in FW. I doubt many plex farmers contribute to it, and are mostly just reaping the benefits. If the system of donating LP stays the way it is, I think your suggestion would go a long way towards helping sides keep tiers without a relative few people having to dump large amounts of hard earned LP in the toilet. Of course, I would also like to see the bonuses for dropping 500 million in LP into a system not absolutely suck as well.

I see where you're coming from, and this is Eve. Whatever counter we can come up with, there will be a way to still farm. Someone needing to have their main roll through a system to clear the plexes sounds like an opportunity to kill someone flying a combat ship. Mobile depots in plexes sounds not very isk efficient to me as well if the pilot in question is forced to abandon them as soon as someone warps in.

My primary concern at this point is that farmers are not really required to play the game. You can warp into a plex, do minimal DPS, kill the rat, then have the client running minimized for 10 or 20 minutes while you watch some questionable videos or read the latest issue of your favorite comic book. If the buzzer that you're being attacked goes off, you still have time to maximize the window and warp away. That's not playing eve... or any game for that matter.

Anything that we can do to encourage people to at least be paying attention to their surroundings, and limit the activities of those that don't is a good thing.

Keep in mind that if elected to the CSM, that doesn't make me a game designer able to directly change the game. I'll be able to bring some things to CCP's attention, and give feedback that they will hopefully take into account especially where it affects us in lowsec, but they're still running the show. If you have some solutions in mind and we can get our people behind them, I'll be more than happy to push that agenda as best I can.

I have been a long proponent that gang links should be on grid with the rest of their fleet, not safed up somewhere, skirting a pos shield, or sitting on a station docking ring. CCP have continually pushed back against this, not because they don't want to, but for reasons embedded in the game's code, which can be dicey at the best of times. There is support for this both among the player base and at CCP, but it is being held up due to developer time/resources to the best of my knowledge. You can expect that I will continue to support this push at any opportunity.

You have my support mate.

+1

o7 hotpocket, been a while since we've seen you in Black Rise! How's things in the other zone?

I would like to see a few more large size plexes spawned, especially in hotly contested systems, rather than randomly and more often than not in the ass end of nowhere, but aside from that, no, I'd rather not see any new plexes added to the system. The 3 (and once in a while 4) plex system we have right now seems fairly balanced, and in the more heavily fought for systems where I've been involved in the fleets, they've been working extremely well.

As to t2 cruisers being allowed in mediums, I've always found it funny that t2 frigs are not allowed in smalls, but t2 cruisers are allowed in mediums, but then I don't really see that many t2 cruisers in mediums at all. Most FW groups don't seem willing to fly HAC plexing fleets. In a system capture effort, a HAC fleet is of limited value anyway, since for every medium captured, that leaves a small and novice to your enemy.

then im sorry you are not the candidate for us.

But he lost every single vote from my corp and 2 other Caldari groups on that statement alone.

Funky would need to drop any 'links on grid' agenda for us to support him for CSM9.

However:
If he pushed for 100% removal of links from the game with full SP/isk reimbursement for effected ships/modules and 100% removal of implants like snakes, slaves and crystals etc then I can support this idea.
(Otherwise it makes eve more 'pay to win' than people claim links make it as only very rich players will have the ability to compete by affording expensive implant sets)

It is a slippery slope that will just move onto the next item people think is 'unfair' after links.

Links are a valid game mechanic available to all players just like all other options in eve.
Someone choice not to use them is their own problem/barrier just like ECM or Damps etc etc.