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Discovery Scanner - the way it used to work was that you needed to have probes out and hit the scan button every once in a while in order to notice any new signatures in system, in short - you needed to actively search for new signatures.
With the introduction of the DS it became automated, and thanks to the Scan Overlay new signatures appear instantly on your screen. I would like to see a change that would either put a short delay between a new signature spawn and a player being notified of it or bring back the need of player action in order to show new signatures (pressing the scan button). The purpose, of course, would be to reduce the amount of free Intel you get from the system as it is right now. Other solutions might be viable as well, but I haven't head of any yet that wouldn't break the system entirely.

The alliance system - it was something briefly mentioned during the Wormhole Town hall. CCP Fozie stated that when the code enabling alliances to form was created, in order to meet increasing demand from the community, it was put in place very fast and without future changes in mind. Alliances themselves I wouldn't change - I think they work as intended (apart from the lack of roles), however the code is preventing things like alliance bookmarks from being implemented, at least from what I understand from the conversation with Fozie. It should get looked at not only because as stated above it would help with the development of new features and changes that would affect players on an alliance level, but also it ties into the Corp Role Management problem.
Which is why I think it should be somewhat prioritized by the devs.

Alliance Bookmarks - I have mixed feelings towards them. I understand the appeal, especially for wormhole alliances that occupy the same system, because it would fix the the issue of having to copy bookmarks over into a jetcan to be able to transfer them from corporation to corporation in the same alliance, basically what corp bookmarks did for corporations themselves. I endorsed the idea of corp bookmarks and tried to help with feedback on them back when they were in development. However Alliance level bookmarks, if they were to be implemented the same way the current system works, in my opinion would create a lot of issues. Wormhole space isn't the only area that would take advantage of this system, and we need to remember that. The main issue here are roles and their current state that doesn't allow alliance-level roles what so ever, which would mean that implementing alliance bookmarks right now would create a clusterfuk in the ability of large alliances to control who creates, who deletes and moves the bookmarks, which is a huge issue if you think about it. If anyone can fiddle with them in a 20,000 people alliance, then anyone is free to grief a large entity, rendering the system unusable.
A similar issue goes for w-space, where as I assume all the transit bookmarks would quickly become alliance level BMs, and with the limited role management one would only have to have a single spy in a single corporation in order to disrupt the operations of an entire alliance (an invasion scenario comes to mind). And while it is not unheard of for one player to take down whole alliances, I'm not entirely sure that it's a good thing when it comes to a small gang environment like W-Space.

I am not against alliance bookmarks at all, I simply want to see them done right and I think more discussion is needed in order to iron out all the pros and cons, because it will have a huge impact on gameplay for everyone. It needs to be done along side Role Management revamp. Without it, it would be simply a broken product.

I'm confused by this. You mention some issues that would certainly need to be resolved for alliance bookmarks to be usable, but assuming they were resolved, would you then be in favor of them?

Also, isn't EVE a game about risk? If people choose to expose themselves to the risk of someone messing with/deleting their bookmarks, is that really a reason to oppose the creation of the feature? How is the issue any different to the risks one takes with POS hangars or with corp offices?

Thank you very much! \o

CSM9 Candidate Interview: Asayanami Dei
http://www.capstable.net/2014/03/28/csm9asayanamidei

I will be doing an interview and Q&A session on the EVE University mumble next week.
more info here: http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=79067

Do you agrree or disagree that Strategic Cruisers have to be nerfed and why?

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I don't see why not.

I heartily approve. Asay has my vote.

I am happy to endorse Asay for election to the 9th Council of Stellar Management! Good luck at the polls!