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All these questions are very relevant IMHO. Did I miss the reply?

Trust me, there was much facepalming after the fact. I took those lessons to heart for the Interview with tyrant scorn and came off somewhat better in that one when it releases. The phrasing of the reply on cap stable was extremely awkward in the "it sounded good in my head" kind of way, where the pressures of having to do the interview live botched the execution.

If that offer to chat for an hour on TS is genuine i'll gladly take you up on it.

Not a bad interview, certainly better! It helped you had a sympathetic host who helped feed you. I liked how it was conversational and I think you showed your personailty abit more. You need more practise as you know :P You still talk to much for what you actually say if that makes sense? I remember being told "be witty if you can't be concise and if you can't be witty be concise"

It might help alot if you/me/someone(?) could draft a list of general questions about the csm, why your standing, what your platform is. Who do you see as your core voters, how do you see the direction of the game. Then write down your answers, not as a scripted speech, but as bullet/talking points. Then get as many people as you can to interview you over teamspeak or whatever, record it then listen back to yrself. Your in one of the most sophisticated alliances in Eve I'm sure they have media trained people who would be willing to help you, but if not give me a shout I'll be happy to help out as best I can. Sorry can't be more constructive at this point its been a rough week(end) at work and I'm shattered. I'll try to make time at some point to re listen to both interviews with a pen and paper to hand if you want?

Anyhow Gluck and fly safe.

Angry Mustache's should never listen to people complain about problems they don't care about. Angry Mustache's ain't got time for that. +1 vote from me, and I have no idea what you stand for hah

When you take that comparison one step further, Nullsec outposts can be taken and deadzoned by enemies, while all storage in NPC stations is 100% safe and always accessible. In fact, Pandemic Legion has most of their assets in lowsec/NPC null because stuff kept there is safe forever, and only bring the minimum to Outposts. Every "single player, low risk" part you said about outposts, applies infinitely more to NPC stations.

So what am I saying? Players will always want their assets to be safe, and will put them in the safest place possible that is accessible at the time. If an NPC station is accessible, they will put it there. Failing that, they put it in an outpost. Failing that, they put it in a POS or a bookmarked GSC in a safe. You will never be able to change that aspect of player behavior.

This is one of the arguments against "destructible outposts", in that while it is "cool" to burn down everything someone else owns (The moment destructible outposts happen, provi is being burned into the ground), all that does is force less use of outposts in favor of indestructible NPC stations. Players will put even less assets in POS's or Outposts, and more in NPC stations, becoming even less interactive than even outpost mechanics.

Now if NPC's charged for access to their hanger space, say, a set amount of isk for use of item/ship hanger space in their stations, upgradable in tiers (oh, you want to put a carrier in our station? pay 10mil/month or find your own place to park it, want to part 2? that's 20mil), then increase the storage capacity of POS/Outposts so that it becomes cheaper and more accessible, then people might think about putting their assets in risky locations because there is reward.

I'm by no means proposing this as a "fix" for the problem you mentioned, but rather a demonstration of principles that "nerfing" one activity to promote another is extremely ineffective when there is a third option that is better than both of the aforementioned. In this case, nerfing outpost storage to increase use of tower storage doesn't work because NPC stations provide much better long-term storage anyways. If you really want people to start putting stuff in space, look at NPC storage first, then work from there. Other things include nerfing local to "increase" the probability of ratters being caught, when FW and incursions are already vastly more profitable and safe. Ratter's won't stay and get slaughtered en-masse to provide content for gankers, they'll leave for places with better risk/reward ratios and make their money there instead (I've already started, FW is so much better money than ratting and so much less investment, it's great).

I just wanted to drop in and formally endorse Angry Mustache for the CSM. If you're like me you like good journalism, mustaches and someone who takes the time to get the facts straight before making a judgement call. Angry Mustache is that person. You have a quality writer with the integrity to get the story right the first time. That means you have someone with integrity and sound judgement helping to shape your game play. That's something we can all get behind.

Hello.

Currently the Serpentis are the only pirate faction in the game that don't have a rated 6/10 and 9/10 DED complex available to be run. These sites have been on the "coming soon" list for quite a few years, but no further news or information has been released. Would you be willing to request that CCP introduce these sites to the game so that areas like syndicate that rely on running sites as the main form of income can continue to grow and prosper?

I heard that your mustache is the source of your power, care to comment?

While we enjoy our banter on the TMC Jabber, I was curious how you feel activities like ratting/mining can be adjusted to provide a lesser incentive to "afk"

Given that GoonSwarm have fits specifically designed towards AFK ratting (AFKtars and I believe the VNIs I laugh at you for losing routinely) how do you see the subject as it is currently and how what direction it should go in? The same applies for AFK cloaking (no, that's not a reference to SA jokes I make).