CSM Campaigns

Oh I see, so he thinks that NPC corp players will suddenly be social if they make some corps that they call "social corps", and that making it twice as hard for smaller corps to start wardecs with each other is a good idea, and somehow I'm the troll? To be honest, something from someone like you that means nothing.

I generally believe that people have enough intelligence not to vote for a self serving idiot like Tora, so hopefully he will never make it to the CSM, but if by a miracle he does, I give it 5 minutes before CCP gag him and kick his ass out.

Your opinions on :

- Being able to buy and use security tags in all stations in low-sec ?
- Being able to store x password for posses, in stead of just 1.
- Delayed local (and an upgraded D-scan/radar system to replace local period) in null unless upgrades are in place.

I actually think social-corps as a middle ground between NPC and real corps is a horrible idea, and just another carebear-proffed stealth nerf-hisec idea to make those that refuse to put mind in motion yet another mechanism to avoid wars entirely, when they are today already 100% consensual because you can just hide out in said NPC corp...

The answer to making wars meaningful isn't giving carebears both a 0% tax rate dodge AND 100% protection from wardecs with a 'social corp' abomination. (Tora, you listening?)

However, I do think overall I would still rather a Tora Bushido on the CSM who at least actually KNOWS what the f#ck he is talking about re: war mechanics, than a Mike Asariah (or null-bear) who would simply nerf the hell out of hisec war mechanics and kill the entire vibrant hisec mercenary community in the process.

Im not sure where our CSM's lost the f#cking plot on the concepts of HTFU and non-consensual conflict being CORE to what EvE is about, and in the quest for 'moar subs!' decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but I do believe Tora (and Sabriz) will at least seek TRUE balance with any proposed changes by CCP, not help CCP slit their own throats like a carebear or nullbear CSM who is CLUELESS about hisec mechanics.

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Reading some of the other CSM-X candidates posts makes me wonder if I should increase the dark side in my campaign. All I read is nerf, nerf nerf nerf. What happened to all these carebears. HTFU !

I added numbers to make my opinions more clear.

1. I wouldn't have any problem with that but I think having to travel in order to cash in your tags opens up the possibility of people getting popped with a cargo full of tags. Not that it couldn't happen, but it would happen less. With the system as it is now the tags are all being concentrated in a few systems, which makes interference easier. I don' think it would be a benefit to the game, but I don't think it would break anything either.

2. Are you talking on the ship end of things or on the POS end of things?

3. Upgrades to get local back. Hmm. That's kind of interesting. It would make being in less active systems much more dangerous, and wouldn't really change populated systems. I think the idea has merit.

That is key, NPC corp taxes s/b increased to 50%, these new bastardized 'social corps' a rate of 25%, with only full corps allowing the setting of rates by the CEO. THEN you are really incentivizing people towards real corps, and not using NPC or social's as a tax & war dodge.

Combine the above with having decs follow someone who drops from a full corp, and you are really cooking.

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Stopped reading at slot machines with ore points...
If ppl find mining boring then alt tab and watch a documentary.

30 min notification button for afks sounds like something provi ppl would come up with to avoid afk cloakers.
Maybe I like just sit and look at different locals in provi for 10-12 hours at the time.

Stop telling ppl what they cant do and start talking about what the can do.

Eve needs content buffs, not nerfs

Despicable

You seem not to realize why "social corps" and other means of wardec-nerfs are necessary.
If one is wardecced, he must watch local, mine aligned and so on.
However if he does so, he could do the same in lowsec for much higher rewards. I mean what's the point of doing an L4 watching local, when you could do L5 while watching local? So if someone is wardecced, he is better off living in lowsec.

Now you can say that "everyone should live in lowsec", but then openly demand removing of highsec! I doubt anyone would do that seriously and expect the game to survive.

The only reason people live in highsec despite wardecs is that wardec-evasion is trivial: stay in NPC corps, be in a 1-man corp and just fold corp if decced. Or hide and avoid anyone noticing you. Each of these methods demand players to not interact with other players, which is both making them quit and prevent others from having content.

You need to realize that there is no possible way to move the NPC&1-man corp people into wardeccable corps. If you change something, they'll adapt and hide more. If you remove every possible way to remain wardec immune, they just find another game. Either way, you won't have them on your killboard.

Tora sees that and offers a solution: the "social corp" would allow players to interact without being insta-decced. At worst case there would be more subscribers to support the game. At best, they form a competent group and opt for being in a "real" corp.

I prefered to have a good balanced campaign, but after reading all the other CSM posts (and damn, that took some time ), I decided my campaign needs much more darkness then I expected.

Grrr... fluffy campaigns.