CSM Campaigns

Your running for reelection is excellent news, you can count on my vote.

Only one?

I’d work some aspects Aura’s tutorials into the first mission of each agent line with the ability to see if they have already done it with another agent. That way they could learn to use stargates, activate acceleration gates, and open containers while diving into game activities. It would also take away the current process of undocking in a pod and going to get their ship. People get confused here and lost. I think that is bad and it doesn’t make any sense to teach new players to randomly find ships in space. Start them in their ship be it in space or in station. The pod step is needless and they get shot and warp off in a pod anyway in the combat missions.

Some of the CSM have been keeping track, internally, of a lot of common questions that we are hearing. I think these are very low hanging fruit. Questions that we see half a dozen times an hour can be included or explained.

But, we need to restructure the entire thing. We need to use adult learning principles to create something more engaging. Something that leads people into the understanding of our open world where the player, not the game, makes choices. Discovering what you want to do in Eve is very hard. Bringing information to the surface will let people make their decision as they dive deeper into the game.

Yes, I was the advocate for bringing low level exploration to low sec when the static DED complexes were removed in December of 2012.

I don’t teach safety I teach awareness. Awareness gives you the ability to react and make choices that will hopefully keep you alive. And that making all the right choices can still not end well due to the unpredictable nature of low sec. I teach it by flying with them, sharing my game day with them, and showing them what I do and why I do it.

Hi Sugar!

You are one of the three CSM9 members I've heard the most about. At this point I'm quite happy you're running for re-election. This will be the first CSM where I have been able to vote. (Yes, new player. :) ).

I'd like to ask you some questions I'm asking the candidates I'm seriously considering, if I could.

Space has become littered with abandoned POS structures. What is your position on getting rid of them? I'd like to see, perhaps, a orbital degrading mechanic once the fuel is gone. This, then would open up the moons for pilots that will actually use them. The current mechanic, of course, involves Wardec-ing a possibly abandoned Corp and then sitting there for an extended period of time blapping the structures. I think something better is quite possible.

EVE seems to be popularly seen as more than a game, perhaps moving into the hobby realm. I'm aware that some discussions have been held with regard to finding a way to bring a more casual player or a more casual play-style option into EVE. Would you advocate this? If so, how might this be done without fundamentally changing the nature of the game? Would it?

It seems a given that CSM X and CCP will look at dealing with the SovNull question this term. Beyond that, from a gameplay perspective, what would you advocate as the next priority?

EVE players seem to be quite passionate about the game, yet it is said that the voting rate for CSM elections is lower than that of even the United States midterms. Does this diminish the validity of the CSM? What would you like to do to combat the voter apathy that we see and effectively educate the voters on the reality of what the CSM can effectively do?

Finally, and most importantly, do you like cats? :-)

Thanks so much!

Hi Alan



Ahh derelict POS towers! I participated in a crowd sourced idea thread at the start of the year. There is a link to my blog post in the topic as well as some comments. I would like to steal peoples abandoned towers. Hacking, decreased shields, decay mechanics. I don’t believe you should be able to just have abandoned expensive structures hanging around in space with twenty four hour warnings for you to online them.



Giving people tools to play their game instead of trying to build the exact game play that you want them to have will allow each person to create their version of casual, medium, or heavy gameplay. I cannot tell you what is casual. You may consider my casual gameplay to not be casual. Then we are off telling each other how to play Eve and there is no need for that. An example would be if missions became more dynamic where if a player were offered better missions if they headed across space but kept the same rewards if they were content doing the work they were currently doing. Instead of forcing them to travel across the game which may eat into the hour they have set aside for a game play session they can now make the choice of what to do with their free time that best suites their personal game.



Fortunately, CCP does several things at once. While Sov will be the major topic for CSMX we also have corps and alliances and POS that are happening at the same time. They are just as large. These things are all intertwined. Plus we will have complex topics inside of Sov such as structures and how they work in the game. Many of these structures such as POCO and POS are shared outside of null sec and changes to their usage have to be looked at globally.



Voter apathy is hard to combat. It is hard to combat in Eve and it is hard to combat IRL. I do not think that it diminishes the CSM. I think that it gives more responsibility to the CSM to make sure that they are looking outside of the CSM active player base to see how changes will affect those who do not tune into the metagame. I am not a marketing person and I do not have a marketing strategy to give you. We can only put the information and ourselves out there in as many formats as possible and try to raise awareness by doing.



I do like cats. Qwinn is currently sleeping on the heated pet bed I purchased because he turns fourteen this winter and getting arthritic. He also greets me at the door and sleeps by my pillow at night. My husband brought Sabrina and Sebastian to our marriage. They are siblings and turning fifteen. That is why we have more than one heated pet bed.

+1

Sugar has been nothing short of incredible on CSM9 and I'm looking forward to her getting a spot on CSMX.

Sugar, you'll get my votes again this year.

I'm not a lowsec player, but the community that Sugar has fostered as part of her CSM9 tenure has made a huge impact on my day-to-day enjoyment of EVE. The number of CSM9 members on this thread saying how much work she does for you should send a clear message.

Make her your #1 vote. Not #2. Not #5. Put her at the top of your list.

Sugar has my vote.

You have my vote again! Thanks for all the work you did this past year, and hopefully you get a chance to get back at it in 2015!.

As a player who started EVE around the same time as Sugar, I have found no other players voice that stands closer to my own on so many different areas and aspects of the game. The impact Sugar has had on EVE, not only since becoming a member of the CSM, has easily earned her my vote again.

Keep up the great work Sugar :)