CSM Campaigns

Steve, apologies if this was answered already, I had a scan and couldn't find it.

When you talk about your mining concept, prospecting & claiming belts, I have a few questions about your concept design.

How long should a player spend prospecting before expecting to find a reasonable site, and what kind of game play do you envisage this being.
How long should a 'reasonable site' take a single miner to complete
What kind of isk/hr assuming the current market do you see them making, once you take the prospecting time into account.

And with regards to the claiming mechanic, what kind of idea do you have in your head to stop a ganker corp from claiming all the prospects first then not mining them and just lying in wait till someone goes suspect, since trial account alts will be able to keep watch easily enough for targets making a large area very easy to cover.

Just to get an idea of how your design process works when suggesting concept designs to CCP for future development.

besides some potential changes to pos's, jump bridge removal and ofc your stance on 3rd party programs these 3 aspects have got my attention however......

the proposed mining changes that you'd like to possibly bring into the game with claiming roid's opens up miners to another form of harassment and also sub contracting ore to npc mining corporations where they'd take a cut, what would you propose to be the point of sub contracting to them especially with the mining refinery changes incoming, would it be for something like standings or possibly for contracting them so much ore that you get a blueprint of a custom mining laser / upgrade?

with regards to the rest of the industry side, are there other aspects you'd also like to look at changing or updating to make things different or more interesting than they are today?

in addition, if ccp planed to introduce a change or update to the game that would be a complete waste of their time where they could be putting that effort in other places which are more needed and desired, would you step forward and tell them?

Steve, you've got my vote.

I'm going to send a nice mail to my corp minions explaining the process and you're one of the candidates that I believe closest fits our corp profile.

Keep up the excellent work and I hope to see you get over the final hurdle this year.

Cheers,

Saint Mick

The lone guy sitting cloaked up isn't really a problem, whether they're afk or not. The DPS of a single ship, capable of covert cloaking isn't really that significant. And non-covert cloaks mean you can see them coming. (

The 'problem' with an AFK cloaker is power projection. That lone person can very quickly become a lot of people, right on top of you. Being able to, eventually, track that person down would mitigate the risk a bit. Right now, there's no way to mitigate it other than staying docked up or in POS. I'll update the wording in my op about it.

I read the unbreaking local article a while ago, and I quite liked it. Perfect "who's there" information, without any effort, seems a bit off. It should be possible, with destroyable infrastructure, to be able to get that perfect information. Which means there are more targets for small gangs to go after, which you have an incentive to defend. Are they just trying to annoy you, or are they the first wave of an invasion?

As for 'fixing' cloaking (this has been revised since I first formulated an option, as I had issues with it explained to me):

The fix is /relatively/ simple.
Cloaks no longer remove you from D-Scan and combat probes. They make it hard to localise you, and impossible to identify. 'Cloaked Ship' would be what appears. If you use combat probes to locate a cloaked ship, you don't land on top of them, instead landing somewhere within 30km (ish) of them.

D-Scan could give you a vector towards them (if you're good with it), but no distance. So working with multiple ships, you can find a stationary target, or one travelling in a predictable fashion.

The engine shutdown option is one I still like, but now, without a cloak, I'd say it should just reduce your signature, making it harder to find you, but not impossible. Cloaked and shutdown, and you're a hole in space.

I'm not hugely tied to the ideas stated here. I just don't like afk gameplay which affects other people.

I was thinking about that yea, then I also thought about the idea of only allowing mining ships to have rights to claim certain droids, however that alone would allow them to cut around the corner that way since it doesn't really take much skill to jump into a venture.

industry UI system in general I don't really have a problem with even the multiple clicks when doing invention with decryptors, however I can understand the issue with that when people want to do it fast so they can get back to doing other things. I was thinking more of things like when build jobs are in progress having a screen pop up with a monitor view showing someone building the ship and based on the time frame. say roughly 2hrs 40mins for building 1 ship and the current time left on the ship build when you check progress is at 40mins remaining and that window opens you see 75% of the ship already built. I was hoping for something similar in the past when they first setup for walking on stations and how you could possibly walk along the gantry to the building area to watch them build the ship.


will you be pursuing ccp to do something else with R&D agents so that the research points gained could be used for other things too, since almost every tom **** and harry pretty much has a few datacore agents collecting to either sell or collect to cut invention costs?

do you have any thoughts on improving the pve content too?

Heh. This is why the CSM needs a well rounded group. So when ideas are being kicked around, they can have the holes pointed out, and appropriately filled. The dscan range issue is one that I'd not thought of, wrt just seeing if they're nearby, rather than when actively hunting them. The goal is a counter, rather than to break cloaks completely.

Fixing power projection is a goal as well. But fixing power projection doesn't mean 'eliminate hotdrops'

dynamic is only part of it in my eyes, lvl 3 and 4 missions should be more difficult, since lvl 3's can easily be blitzed in 5mins or less depending on mission and there are a couple of lvl 4's that can be done in the same time frame. In general I am disappointed with the mission system due to two points, firstly the wave system they introduced when they changed the missions a while ago, this alone made doing lvl 4's so much easier upto the point where you really didn't need to pay much attention no more and in fact they should of been made more difficult. The other issue I had with missions was the lack of immersion when doing the storylines, which I found to be a shame especially with the repetition on the those missions too like the requirements of filling a 10k omber request.

thanks for responding to my posts steve, so far you and one other person have my attention above the rest with regards to certain aspects of game play, once he responds to my posts too i'll make my decision with regards to who i'll be voting for. :)


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when the voting goes up you have my vote :)

A suggested voting list, in no particular order, other than me at the top

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/2014/04/07/csm-9-voting-list/

You topped my CSM votematch at 82%! You have my vote for better industry interface and better API support. Also for recognizing that industry has been neglected for years now and hasn't received any substantial update in forever.

Hi Steve, GL with the election.
As a 3rd party developer, would you be interested in bringing this suggestion to the attention of CCP?