CSM Campaigns

What do I stand for:

My concerns are geared for interesting and competitive game play of player interaction variety. Not just highsec but Eve itself and to such end I wish to bring a balance of those who wish to participate unintended or unwanted interaction and those that wish to do casual play. As removal of either could lead to a loss of potential enjoyment and variety the game can bring.

My goal is to a voice to help CCP on a path that helps players become immersed and experience the beauty that this game holds. As such some of my areas of focused change are:


• PVE. It has been passed up on some needed love and attention. Content within missions needs regular attention and tweaking to create a more immersive storyline.

• Corporation Management Interface. May not need a complete overhaul in how the programing for it works, but needs to have the interface portion redone.

• POS (Player owned Station). I understand that this is a known problem and not worked on because it’s a big problem for programmers but it deserves mentioning.

• Player Retention. It is my belief many people leave because they are blindsided by eve mechanics. Create a Suggestion or Mechanic definition of the day on login, or that the player becomes bored due to no direction towards player interaction.

• In game Note Pad: Removal of maximum Lines or option to remove warning.

• Faction Warfare. Mechanic that actually changes the face of what faction owns what space in highsec eve and the security status of eve highsec.

• Ninja salvaging I wish to bring back to a new player experience level and add agents that actually do send out ninjas as new player experience mission (could be simulated with npc’s in both accepted and not accepted to be there styles of mission given) (4)) https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Ninja_Salvaging.

• Combat Flagging. We need to develop a way of creating criminal flagging of something more than on or off style mechanics to more selective on who can engage who. Thus increasing the ability to engage fights that are not against the entire eve population.

• Remote Repair. Combat flagging again. Needs somewhere between fighting everyone and fighting no one.





The CSM is an advisory group to CCP and where a large amount of information passes from players to designers. I believe a person that has had as much experience in Highsec interaction as myself is needed to improve the mechanics and mechanic clarity of for player interaction, be it for profit, revenge, humanitarianism, or the messy side of morality.

Your CSM 9 Candidate
Karma Bad



Notes for terms for players that might not know


(1) Awoxer: In EVE Online, a hysterically bad short-term spy who joins your corporation. His intent is to kill your corporations PvEers, or otherwise sow as much havoc and distrust as possible before being kicked from your corporation a few days later.


(2) a MMO player who avoids PVP combat, heavily preferring cooperative or solo PVE combat, chatting, or developing trade skills/running quests. Depending on the game and the individual, this PVP avoidance can show up in several ways: by playing on strict non-PVP servers; by avoiding PVP areas or declining duels; or, by avoiding or condemning PVP players.


(3) Jump clones are special non-emergency clones available to characters with high standings and specific training. They give you the ability to have clones spread in medical facilities throughout the world of EVE and move your character to any of those clones at will, as opposed to the single medical clone that a player is allowed that is only activated upon pod death

(4) Yes agents that actually tell you to ninja salvage someone’s mission. Or at least have a mission that can take place in the same pocket of space at the same time

Hello Karma Bad,

I am one of the co-hosts of the Cap Stable Podcast.

We would like to invite you to be on the show to be part of our CSM9 coverage.

Prospective CSM candidate who are interested in setting up a 30 minute interview, please use any of the methods detailed below to contact us. Interviews will be posted unedited, save clearing up any technical difficulties and they will be granted on a first confirmed, first served basis. Each CSM candidate will be paired with one of our hosts for an one-on-one interview. We will make ourselves available as possible, but we would prefer to record evenings US time, about 2:00-5:00 EVE time most days.

Email: podcast [at] capstable.net

Please remember to provide us with a contact e-mail and your Skype ID.

We hope to hear from you soon and thank you for participating in the Council of Stellar Management elections.

Sincerely,


Lanctharus Onzo
Co-host & Writer, The Cap Stable Podcast

Hello,

Just reading your introduction and there is one part that is searing into my mind:



I'm interested in hearing more about your wormhole experience. Any thoughts about what you found while in wormholes? Any features, ideas, concerns, and/or thoughts on the wormhole mechanics/gameplay? Thanks!

I would love to see both of us make it to CSM 9 so there is a voice for highsec.

But down to the point. For the most part your either going to like monk or you wont. Where I stand out from that is the greater amount of understanding the middle ground between opposing trains of thought.

Where yes, a lot of what i know are based around highsec mechanics. That is not my only interest in eve, thus opening the door for myself as not just a highsec candidate but also a wormhole candidate and a lowsec candidate. I could even see myself making it on, albeit further down the list for null ballets due to the way the meta game is in null.

Thus creating a higher base of possible voters making myself more likely to be voted in the end.



But highsec and really all of the game needs help boosting / assisting the players as a whole. From the casual player that just likes to salvage (i know some where that is there game they want to play, only), to the dedicated call to arms. There is a location for each and every one of us in this sandbox and to assist the way the game works can help expand the options. And especially knowledge of whats out there in eve.

I don't think people intended to play the sandbox the someway every day, but rather they may not know there are choices out there to open up the possibility for them. Where my focus on trying to get knowledge out there and open the possibility sets me apart.

What im trying to say, is I would like to see c1’s and c3’s have statics similar to c2’s, the duel static structure.

• To have c1’s have statics to other c1’s more often than random wh’s would be nice to see (or statics). But then again C1’s can function without changing this (it is a wish though)

• Have c3’s open up to the rest of Wh’s like C2’s. Most of the time it just doesn’t feel like they are connected to wh space very well, especially when chaining.

• Even c4’s, c5’s feel more connected than c3’s (and I like the way they function)

• I am ok with the fact that most c3’s go into lowsec or null, as I think they should.




And for the Wh close assist Idea that I mentioned.

It could be a pos module that would cut the life of non K wormholes by half.

Another option is to have a module equipped to a ship (a non-frigate or destroyer ship). That works like a cyno for being stuck and warp to anywhere in system, has to be x far off Pos’s, and can close non K-holes in say 10 mins.
It’s an idea that I had. Not saying that the current way of doing this is horribly bad, I just want a different option on the table for possibilities.

For Stabs, I feel there should be other options outside of nanoing or stabbing in its current iteration. Even bringing back expanders to low slots would make me feel better. (Most of my dislike on this subject is how cookie cutter PI haulers are).

Yes, C4's and C5's are more connected in w-space because they have static holes that lead into other w-space systems, while the C3's have statics into K-space; that means that it is up to wandering holes or inbound connections to add a C3 to a chain.

Although I personally lived in, and enjoyed, a C2 wormhole system with dual statics before I moved into a C5, I like that the C2 and C3 wormholes provide distinctive environments/situations. By adding a secondary w-space static to C3 wormholes, you dilute that, and it is a proposition I would be against.

Also, I would like to add to the prior comments in that a "hole closing" module already exists in game - the 100mn Microwarp Drive and 100mn Afterburners. A lone pilot with a 100mn Orca can close most holes in fifteen minutes; if you have two pilots working on it, you can close a hole in five. If you do not have an Orca, you can still fit a 100mn Afterburner or Microwarp Drive to a battleship, and it only takes a little longer.

Personally, I feel that having a POS module that can point-and-zap a wormhole tilts the dynamics of the wormhole PvP dynamic too far in favor of the home defense group - and they already enjoy a nice advantage. Being invaded? Catch a fleet moving through your system? Nuke the hole from the safety of your POS and trap them there until they pay a ransom. Or until your capital fleet logs in.



I can certainly agree there; missions and complexes are interesting the first time or two through them, but by the 10th hunt for the Dread Pirate Scarlet, I find myself wondering why we didn't shut her clones off already. :)

Its official now.

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