Jita Park Speakers Corner

I wonder if it would be too much to ask each CSM if they could, in a very short message, tell us how they developed the bullet points they want to present. I'm not asking what the ideas or areas of the game they want to address, but rather how they came about building their list.. The main thing I'm interested in is will they be representing themselves, themselves and a few friends, Their CEO/corp/ alliance, chat from some chat rooms, a specific part of space (hi.low.null,WH... In other words, what has informed them of things which need work, their own experience or who are they represent.

No one has asked me what I think and none of them I have written to have responded. Unless it is happenstance, I don't feel represented.

My first desire is to see ALL bots out of the game and a tutorial portion which must be completed, just a few minutes, so every player will know they have ONE strike and then an appeals process held in Siberia at which they must be present with a day's notice.

Closely behind or maybe equal - make RMT a little tougher on the enforcement side and a lot more active on the detection side. Even though a goal of zero happenings may not ever be achieved is not a reason to let up on trying and improving methods.

Give a lot of thought to offering a version with CO-OP play with about 40 players, 20-30 on each side who are assigned to the side with the fewest Humans at login and really tough AI who all will be slightly better equipped and trained, on average than the opposing human team, Give each round a constellation of 5 or 6 systems using hi, lo & null and a mission. That is essentially what you do with Incursions, but make this so it is separate from the rest of New Eden to keep interlopers out and not have contested sites. Be more creative with the missions so they are not choreographed like a dance routine. Have no recruitment by agenda laden FCs, Let players seeking a round to play have a list of missions currently running and who the members of the leadership are on both sides. Players can sign up for either side and will go in as losses occur keeping the human sides even. Good leaders are always more enjoyable to follow, so instead of agenda laden FCs, deciding who can and cannot play, players will choose the FC they want to follow and FCs select their replacements. Have Shield and Armor rounds. Let the game begin when each side has a certain number of players, maybe just one on each side. First one is the FC. Have the server constantly assessing the strength of the teams and adjusting the number of NPCs with slightly better equipment and training. Let each player be individually rewarded based on participation and critical participation. Participation would be just dps and damage done, but nothing extra for the player who happens to hang back to deliver the killing blow. Logis rewarded by the amount of repairs made not counted in ships repaired, but the real repairs. Let critical participation be when a player does the most damage to a critical enemy player or the most damage done to a significantly larger ship. Perhaps critical participation is taking more chance to rescue a damsel from a more heavily fortified position, or moving ore from one place to another thus taking control of a sentry gun from the enemy. Get rid of ten minute POS bash even in current incursions. Make a big dent in the wallet or standings so corps won't roll in to sabotage one side by killing fleetmates so their corpmates on the other side can do well. Something like an auto transfer of ISK from a saboteur's wallet to cover the expense caused by friendly fire and if the saboteur's wallet is not thick enough, hit the wallets of the corpmates in that mission. Use the strength of the NPCs to even out the shiny titan, carrier and dreadnought side against the all Drake opponent side. Have every NPC death replaced by a warp-in ship and fit that moves the balance between the two fleets more toward even. Also have some space set aside for pure player VS NPC, but let the proceeds from those missions either have lower values than PvP CO-OP or make the PVE CO-OP missions hard.

This could be offered as a totally separate game with a payment structure allowing CCP to profit while being thought of as a value to players. Much of the work is already done, though the balancing, restitution, waiting lists will require a lot of new coding, but I'm guessing a well set-up PvP/ PvE CO-OP server separate from the existing New Eden assets with mutual skill advancement, maybe implants crossed over or maybe a choice to crossover some or all implants and corp membership. Names would crossover or a player may start a new toon. Perhaps a first login one time only opportunity to crossover ISK, ships,etc... but never a crossover from the CO-OP side to the NEW Eden side. Create a NPC market priced with average prices from all of New Eden. No industrial activity or salvaging in CO-OP space. Players could only sell items bought from the CO-OP market, not any crossed over.

Please, I am offering this in this forum because I have not been able to be sure any of the CSM have not just deleted my messages and this seems all new to them. Please start another forum if anyone wants to comment or discuss the idea. I don't want to or be thought of as trying to hijack this forum.

Thanks!

So we should expect the minutes to be released sometime early 2015 then?

One more request/question.

Why is that we still don't have an official CSM channel in game? I know we have forum section dedicated for communicating with CSM but a channel would seem like a perfect addition to quickly get in touch with any/all CSM members online.
It would also increase exposure to the CSM, make it easier to campaign and allow for player that don't want anything to do with the forums to casually meet and talk to the CSM members.

What do the members of CSM think about this idea? Do you think that such a channel would be too intrusive to your personal game time?

There was one, back in the day, and it was very very quiet so it withered on the vine

http://csm9.org/contact.php this page (not to mention the wensite it is part of) is a good start. Not all of us monitor all the various means of communication. Me, I try for twitter, answer most of my evemail, and patrol parts of the forums. That is why you see more of me than the others

As to representing? Whenever I am in a fleet I talk openly and ask questions. You can ask several incursion communities if they have heard from me lately. I appear on multiple eve radio casts as well as Podside and High Drag. With the NDA clutched to my breast I do my best to answer questions that come my way.

Whoever you think represents you . . . contact them.

BUT

You great idea for a ninja cap killer that can tank blappy dreads and has immunity to all e-war is nice . . . and called a Polaris. Even if we agree that it would be cool . . . some ideas we don't take right to CCP because we KNOW the answer.

Kind of the reverse of the legendary Goon philosophy. We don't want to make your game better, we want to make THE GAME better.

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The CSM9 summer minutes in advance:

'We discussed stuff which we are not at liberty to tell you.

The few bits we are at liberty to tell you, you will have already seen in the game by the time the official minutes are released.

Thank you for your time'.

I believe he was being general.

I actually do have an in game chat channel and I'm normally on daily for convos or mail.

My comment was not intended to disparage the CSM or CCP.

It is simply my description of the nature of the beast.

The very best thing about my apparently being trusted to take up Mjolnir was that I only realized three months later that James 315 spent years bragging that no member of the New Order had ever been banned.

Can't exactly brag about that any more, can he?

In other news: cry more.

You realize that it's explicitly setup that only 7 people go to the summit, right? It's not like the other 7 just couldn't attend.

Wow, that is some coincidence. I thought you misunderstood ME in this post. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding and the trouble lol.

I do mention a few crazy and insane cap killing/countering ideas but again I was simply brainstorming in public.