Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello everyone! With the CSM Summer(ish) summit fast approaching we wanted to post a thread to set the stage for some of our nullsec discussions, since we expect that 0.0 space will feature prominently in this summit’s CCP-CSM discussions.

Why should I care about the CSM and the Summit?
The feedback provided by the CSM is a key part of our development process for EVE. We involve them at many stages of the design and development pipeline, and thanks to their NDA we rely heavily on them to provide us player feedback for concepts that are not ready to present to the wider community yet.
Nullsec and sovereignty design has been an area that the institution of the CSM has been heavily engaged with for years, and they have provided very valuable feedback in the past.

I believe that the Winter 2012 CSM summit is an instructive example for looking at how CSM discussion has helped us focus our nullsec changes over time. This particular summit is one that sticks in my mind as the first one that I was able to participate in as a relatively new CCP game designer (after years of closely following the CSM process from the player perspective). The minutes for this summit can be found here and the nullsec section of the minutes is split into two meetings.

I’ll be the first to admit that we didn't come into that meeting with as much preparation as we should have. The fact that Soundwave, Greyscale, Unifex, Ytterbium and myself entered that meeting without a clear and focused agenda definitely contributed to some of the frustration from CSM members about the scattered nature of the first meeting that clearly comes across in the minutes. This is a mistake that we have been endeavoring to avoid since, and is part of the reason that we are putting so much preparation into the upcoming summit discussions.

That being said, the meeting did eventually generate some very valuable discussion and after that first meeting we decided that the CSM and nullsec deserved a second meeting, on the final day. These two meetings were extremely valuable in setting the agenda for how we approached nullsec design in the two years since. The biggest takeaway from the meetings was that we needed to prioritize the economic side of nullsec gameplay, which at the time represented a lot of the most serious problems with the feature.

Over the next few years we were able to make some great strides in improving resource collection, income sources and industrial activity in nullsec, through the changes made in Odyssey, Rubicon and Crius. Thanks to the agenda set in that Winter summit, nullsec mining and ratting are more popular than they have ever been, alliance income relies more heavily on players being in space, and local industry has begun its renaissance. Obviously there are still many improvements to nullsec economics to be made in the future, but we are standing on a stronger foundation than ever before and we have been turning our main focus to other aspects of gameplay in this space.

What is CCP working on?
Those of you who watched the Fanfest presentations or the recent Alliance Tournament will remember that we have formed a targeted “Nullsec Working Group” back in April of this year to lead the way towards our next major round of changes to zero security space. This group consists of CCP Bettik, CCP Delegate Zero, CCP Greyscale, CCP Masterplan, CCP Rise, CCP Scarpia, CCP Ytterbium and myself.
We have been working on re-evaluating the high level goals for nullsec and sovereignty, surveying and learning from the EVE community’s extensive discussions on the issues, and designing and prototyping potential changes to improve nullsec gameplay.

The working group recently held an extended offsite design and discussion session on September 5th, in which we discussed many of the player-written proposals about Nullsec, clarified our collective position on several issues and made a lot of progress in preparation for the CSM Summit.

For this upcoming CSM summit we are planning to discuss in detail a set of significant, specific and targeted changes that we hope to release in late 2014, as well as the concepts and prototypes that we are developing for more far-reaching changes in 2015. The CSM has already proven an invaluable resource for bringing us feedback and analysis on the current state of nullsec as well as the community’s desires for the future. We are confident that the multiple nullsec sessions that we have scheduled for this summit will be extremely valuable.

Our current plan is to bring the late 2014 designs to the wider community for feedback very soon after the summit, independently of the minutes.

How can I get my feedback to CCP?
The short answer is: keep talking and we’ll keep listening. We are continuing to read everything we can of the community nullsec discussions, whether it takes the form of forum posts in this section, blogs, or ideas passed through the CSM. We highly recommend all players that care about nullsec talk to the CSM representatives (any and all of them) and help them provide the best possible feedback to us. We have asked the CSM to pass along player blogs, posts and other content to us to help ensure that we don’t miss them.

When we're ready to move beyond the CSM-exclusive feedback stage on designs, rest assured that we will communicate them widely and loudly to the community, since we will be looking for all the constructive feedback we can get.

Thanks for reading, and a special thanks to everyone who has voted and contributed to the CSM process. We are in full preparation mode for the CSM summit here in Reykjavik and we are confident that this will be one of the most productive summits yet.

Sov rebalance 2020

In b4 "GRR GOONS".

It's time for a Mike Azariah story post.

Several months ago, I help organize a logi pilot community discussion.

The results were posted publicly and circulated to the CSM. I hope you get a chance to discuss some the ideas briefly.

You can view the presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/cruftbox/eve-online-logi-love-ideas-survey

Or if you prefer, download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfscut4a33wcpcx/Logi_Love_Presentation%20-%20v.3.pptx

Thanks for listening.

I believe in u guyz

Fix POS. Fix Null sec sov system. Fix the corporate management stuff.

This is beyond my scope and control, I just want eve to be stable. But consider firing more management that made bad investments that nearly made CCP go bankrupt.

I mean, imagine if you had like 10 more developers working on fixing the POS problem. You know, like 1/10th the teams that you fired.

Should also add: In b4 CCP Masterplan heads over to Riot games too

those terms are acceptable

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