CSM Campaigns

My Ideas and suggestions - Well, when i say mine, i mean the ideas of the people whom i play eve with as much as my own.

I appreciate its not new players that will be voting in the CSM elections.. but Starting areas, Starting quests, and a return to the race, Bloodline and ancestry based bonuses i feel could be looked at.

Currently you start as a new player and are thrust into this astronomically complicated world as i mentioned above. Elite Dangerous has a lovely set of offline tutorials which would be so beneficial to new players in eve it cannot be ignored. You would get the game and spend the first 2 weeks or so playing through these tutorials, online of course, racking up skill points for rewards, learning the crafts and piloting skills and forming a solid basis in eve. the idea being that when you leave, you would be a freshly trained and knowlegable pilot with a little bit of isk, enough skills to be a viable character starting out wherever you may choose and enough knowledge of the game to be able to make reasonably informed decisions about where to go and what to do.

The skillpoints would not be allocatable until the completion of the tutorial (say a total of 5million or so if you played through the whole lot) and a set of cheaper implants. A small token of appreciation would be a ship of your choice (up to say, a T1 cruiser) with fittings of your choice to float you out into the universe.

Also, and in addition to that, a lot of pilots, including myself, trained some skills with no particular vision or direction and are, for the most part, completely useless (how many of you have a small tangent of trading skills or mining skills on your PVP pilot etc) We get a yearly reset of attributes. Why not a yearly reset of one or two skills to relinquish the skill points from said skills to be reallocated elsewhere as we see fit. - certain skills would be exempt from this, for example Combat ship skills,

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Station dockable supers - now dont get me wrong the station is a finite resource. But the ultimate end game in Eve is a supercarrier and titan for a lot of pilots. As soon as you get into one, that is effectively it for that pilot. you are locked in, Now, most are kept with holding toons, and/or on a specific "super" toon and require huge efforts on an alliance and sometimes individual scale to build, and then fly. They are the reserve of the rediculously rich, and/or the well catered for alliances.

Why not change the station mechanics slightly to allow a limited number of supers to dock on the outside of the station and become a feature of that station itself - Imagine a marina with 5 or 6 huge yachts docked up along side and then replace that image with a station with 5 or 6 supers It serves a number of purposes. the first, it allows people to utilise super toons outside of actually flying the super, and second it would serve to spread a corp or alliances supers out around sovereignty within eve.


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Interceptors and frigates vs battleships? A lot of my corp, alliance and people chat to generally feel this needs a bit of a rebalance. Lets put this into perspective, I LOVE flying my interceptor, and frigates around, but if i, and a group of friends were running around as soldiers in real life, and came upon a tank (i.e. battleship) and pull out their pistols it isn't even going to scratch the armour let alone blow the thing up.


There is no reason an interceptor, frigate or otherwise shouldn't be able to pin that battleship down.. none at all that i can see, even start to eat away at the shields but considering the battleships would have shield generators the size of half the fleet it should be near impossible for something that small to explode it. That's what cruisers and destroyers and battle-cruisers are for.

Now, the simplest approach we came up with was having a damage modifier on weapon size vs sig radius. Ie, if you are shooting a battleship with a frigate size weapon it will reduce the damage accordingly

Can you explain how these two ideas are remotely in agreement with each other?

I'll go so far to agree with you that interceptors online do not make for fun gameplay, especially that particularly nasty bout of nothing-but-crows-running-away-from-more-crows meta the game had going on a year ago, but the solution isn't to penalize all frigates. #notallfrigates etc

I respectfully disagree with pretty much everything else you said. In fact, I'll flip it right back around - if you're annoyed that your battleship gets ripped apart by frigates, maybe you should get a caracal to sit with you instead of wishing your ship were immune to frigates. Having support and involving more people in gameplay is a good thing, rather than making it impossible for people to interact unless they are This Tall.

Also, have you tried including battlecruisers in a roam comp lately? I have. It's ugly.

fcon's rent is past due. please forward this to your leadership.

My first post : here details who i am and what i do, as well as an introduction to a few things to stand for.

this post is more in depth, comprehensive list of just a handful of the issues i feel worth campaigning for to make the game better


So... my manifesto list of stuff that needs to be fixed (or that people think needs to be fixed).. After attending #Eve_NT (SPECTACULAR event btw, if you are in the UK and Nashh Kadavr (see his blog here) is doing an event PLEASE come along it was great (stay tuned for his next one)). i had a chance to speak with some real life people (they do exist outside of eve) and with that in mind chat about some CSMy type stuff.. so i now have a better, more comprehensive list of stuff to campaign for.

this is in no particular order (except the new player thing thats TOP TOP TOP of my list of things that needs to be sorted)

Offgrid boosting for combat boosts reduction and or sorting (ie no off grid boosting.. the command ship should be in the battle or at least give reduced off grid boosts if it is done with impunity)- we have all been there.. small gang rocks through, the first scout, then a cloaky nullified, stabbed loki with full halo set and oversized AB or MWD... making it unscannable and/or uncatchable if you do manage to scan it down.. and giving that group of interceptors 50-100% boosts depending on how its set up.. I think this has been on the Developement timetable for some time as Fozzie and some others hate the idea of offgrid boosting (why have immunity for your boosts???)


Ishtar rebalance this is a difficult one, as mentioned above, but it does need to be looked at seriously as aside from machariel and or some other extremely expensive ship the only really effective counter for ishtars is more ishtars,

The biggest problem facing eve - starting out the learning "cliff" as some described it as is is one of the biggest threats to the playerbase that eve has.. people sign up, play for a week, cant really figure out how or what to do and never convert from trial to full game.. As CCP guard said at the weekend, the eve playerbase is THE best marketing tool, the highest figures have been seen for trials after battles like that in asakai, and BR5. but the conversions from trial to account remains low. This is my top most priority as this will keep the game alive for the next 10 years potentially further[/]

Dockable supers talked about in my first post, a limited number of expensive slots for supercarriers to be able to dock at station. (5 per station total and only able to utilise if you have an office in that station)

Refundable skills Similar to an attribute remap, once a year (two extra for new accounts as a "bonus") the ability to refund the skillpoints from a particular skill or two PROVIDED that it isnt a required skill to another skill. and limited to certian skills only (ie no ship skill refunds for combat ships such as gallente battleship)

a modification to the training queue For anyone who has played dust, regardless of whether you have a skill in training or not your skill points accumilate into a pool (similar to the unallocated skill points that we all got back when learning tree was removed from the game). This would be good for eveonline. so if you finished a skill you could allocate the excess at a standard rate.

Obviously picking a skill and placing it in the training queue would gain the attribute bonus to training time so the incentive is still to fill up your queue, but this would allow a little more flexibility in terms of training specific skills where a required skill falls outside of your normal play time (say 2am etc)

Removal of jita... No just kidding, but the introduction of a system that tracks and deals with some of the "isk doubling service" type spambots - you all know the ones - that populate most of hte high-sec tradehubs would be nice. (i am NOT saying that the practice and art of scamming should be made illegal under the games TOU, but you would have to physically have to be at the system playing the game to do it so no more AFK making millions).

The introduction of a player submitted content system Not game mods like in say, Skyrim or UI/game improvements as in wow addons etc, but if there is a really solid, really well thought out and careful lore based storyline or event that it is feasible to introduce into game but would need CCP help, then a formal way to get this to the CCP devteam so that they can discuss this further and possibly impliment the storyline/event/thing in game.

Homeworld style colouring of ships For those of you old enough to remember homeworld, and additionally, those of you who have played Pirates of the burning sea, you will remember you had a large element of control over how the ships colours were represented in game. If we take the Vexor for example, it has grey panels, Blueish panels and some logos around the ship. Homeworld 1 and 2, and PoTBS both allowed you to select a colour for each of these parts of the ship from an RGB based colour list. IF for example i wanted to have a black hull with yellow details and bright pink decals i could have. and i could do this for every one of my ships individually.

With the changes to the way ships are skinned in game i think this would be a spectacular opportunity to be able to fly in "line colours" with your alliance or corporation in a doctrine ship.

[b] Higher res, better corp logos Additionally, in addition to being able to change colours of panels/sections of ship skins, have the ability to apply your corp and/or alliance logo to your ships.

this list isnt exhaustive, but contains a top list of some of the things i would love to see in eve.

Battleships are underpowered but nerfing frigates is not the solution. The real problem is that HACs and T3s outperform battleships in nearly every way.

How comfortable are you with math? Because it seems that the problem is that there is a pivot point beyond which sig radius becomes especially punitive, and battleships are on the wrong side of that pivot point coming and going: their vast footprints make them easy targets for bombs and all weapon types south of doomsdays, and their weapons can't hit anything with a small sig radius. Battlecruisers are in a similar place, except that they use the same weapon systems that cruisers do except that they die to everything; so there's not really any reason to prefer them to cruisers. Then you bring HACs and T3s and attack battlecruisers into the discussion, and the discussion is over.

Would you feel comfortable contributing to a discussion involving what amounts to a complex geometry problem? Or would you prefer to state a preferred outcome and leave the math to others?

I had a bashers at this and the idea is definitely workable. Although I would need to learn the more complex relationship between sit and damage as I know it's not a nice linear relationship.

More to follow when I get the workings out for the suggestion finalised and a few answers that I feel I need to refine it to a point that it becomes workable.