CSM Campaigns

This sort of displays a lack of understanding of the organic nature of the sandbox, which is surprising considering some of your other statements. There's plenty of ways the AT effects New Eden...

A)Fits and comps used in the tournament can trickle into usage.

B)The market surely is at least somewhat impacted by so many teams scrambling to pay the entry fee.

C)AT ships weave their lossmails into the rich, storied canvas of New Eden.

D)Alliance structures may shift in response to be qualified, which in turn may result in meeting and interacting with people you wouldn't have normally, which obviously can have a big impact on the way you play the game.

E)Teams that do well generally have much more street cred than teams that run away like scared children, which impacts all sorts of things; is this fit good, is this a gang I should run away from? Again, I would at least think twice about engaging a Camel Empire pilot, but a CODE. pilot?

The butterfly effect does not just stop because you want to partition the AT from New Eden.

Um. Ugh okay, while it's nice to see CODE actually taking something that isn't ganking seriously for once, this sort of offends me.

So firsties, I've taken to importing minerals to Deklein, because someone's gotta do it. I have zero issues getting huge quantities of compressed mexallon bearing ores, and my largest buyers are our supercap producers. The ones that supply themselves also have no trouble. Just an anecdote.

Second, some hard data?

http://i.imgur.com/ReUZfak.jpg

Plagioclase & Pyroxeres are the main mexallon bearing ores in highsec. The volume of Plagioclase mined in those top nine or ten regions would yield about 442 billion units of mex minimum (if all refined in nullsec), and the Pyroxeres is good for another 240 billion units minimum.

By comparison, a supercarrier uses about 93 million units (tops, that's no research on the hull BPO or component BPOs). A Titan uses ~330m units, same caveat. So, 7350 supercarriers, or a little over two thousand titans worth.

Of course, plenty of other stuff gets built too and supercap construction in EVE only uses, believe it or not, about ten percent of the mineral supply at most.

Y'know? I think that whatever you no longer can kill due to awoxing is a drop in the bucket, and that most of them you'll probably just gank conventionally anyway. So, I think we'll be okay.

Meh, I used the word trickle intentionally, no need to jump on it. Yes, you do actually see some rather heroic marauders on tranquility from time to time, as well as interesting solo-logi fits or other gimmicks, you just need to know where and when to look. Obviously tranquility and the AT are very distinct environments from each other.

You have the support of all my accounts. Highsec needs a voice from someone who will not dumb it down.

Marmite calm down.

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As always CODE. is not in the slightest way coherent.
So if you did not take the AT seriously, why should one believe you mean this really serious? Because you said so? Codies said they'd take AT serious. Was that a lie? That where some other codies?

More than one time codies hide behind the lie "roleplay". More than any other of of postings writen by codie-"diplomats", your posting here are really officical comments from a code-member. Thank you for for confirming some of my posts. The whole discussion about why code ganks falls back in place.

As Lucas already pointed out, your position is solely based on code-wishes ignoring and rejecting the vaild wishes of other paying EvE players. There are miners and pve'lers, the reason why, doesn't need to bother you as a player or a codie. Worse, as a CSM candiate, i expect you to consider and RESPECT them to. The concept of respect is something codies have a problem with respect, reading forum- and blogposts. (want respect but vastly disrespect others, that does not work)

Another thing is, that you like many others, overestimate the influence CSM can take. CCP will listen to advise thy get from players, but in the end, CCP will decide what is going to happen. As Lucas stated, the CSM should not be biased to one type of playstyle, but to all possible playstyles. The whole point of CSM is NOT to make EvE a "better place", the point is to make EvE interesting for a great variety of playstiles. Therefore constructive thoughts for all playstyles are required. You are not elected to be president or governer that makes decissions. You will be less than a lobbyist, cause you lack incentives.



this is not about code matters, it is about CSM stuff. If Sabriz really gets the job, you won't be there. Its even assumed, that she will handle that on her account.

To get my vote she would need to think out of the code-box. As i worked through this thread, she appears not willing to do so.

As per "post-bumping":
Sabriz if you think those "bumps" of Lucas did you do any good without good answers, you are mistaken. We will see if codies have enough alts to boost you. And even if you get the job, you might be surprised how powerless and without influence you are.

I love hearing this from the inveterate carebear.

Hypocrisy tastes good in the morning. The likes of you, who have been trying to smother PvP playstyles in this game for literally years, do not get to lecture anyone about self interest.

I don't think that CODE. really made a conscious decision to troll the AT. A few of our people were interested in the tournament and put our names into the hat, but most of us had no interest in it at all. Hence we were not able to put a serious team together. Nothing was "ruined", and the response was disproportionate to the offense. Many teams have failed to turn up for the AT in the past and it was never a big deal.

Nevertheless, nothing of value was lost. The AT is not "a big part of EVE", it is a sideshow - an event of interest only to a minority of EVE players. My personal opinion is that the AT is exactly the sort of instanced, consensual, consequence-free PvP that has no place in EVE Online. Frankly it is the sort of thing that the New Order is supposed to be opposing on principle.

A true alliance tournament, on the real spirit of this game, would be held in a neutral system somewhere - perhaps Thera, for example, so that we all could observe or interfere, or gank the teams en-route to the tournament. Now that would be an AT worthy of this game.

Quoted for truth & quality.

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Updated the third post with a recommended voting order. This is subject to change if other exceptional candidates are brought to my attention; or, for that matter, if other fair or good candidates want to make a cross-endorsement deal.