Jita Park Speakers Corner

Reading the bios of the candidates, I find myself annoyed. This might sound crazy, but I do not want a noob friendly game. I don't want EVE to be watered down what-so-ever. While I don't want it to be unnecessarily complex, I want there to definitely be intimidating complexity. That frustration, the learning process, the slow building of character skills and wallets, the total lack of guarantees. EVE is a game about being challenged tactically, about dividing those who can preserver, learn, and be creative from those who can't. If I wanted to play a game where I could just chat with people while taking part in grinding exp, I'd go play WoW.

I see a lot of candidates basing their campaign on new-player friendliness, and I hate that. For all his entertainment, I think it's stupid of Chance Ravinne and other relatively new player CSM candidates to go against what made EVE enticing in the first place, what made them stick to it. It's a unique experience because it doesn't try to caudal its player base. It's more like NetHack and Dwarf Fortress in that it just doesn't give a ****. It's an indifferent, hard to master sandbox, and that's the way it should stay.

Of course, the game is not perfect, but I feel like it should fairly reward time commitment, risk, and efficiency without compromising the opportunities to be creative. It should be built with intentions, but still be messy enough to leave room for variance in technique. Ships should have intended roles, but should not be penalized for being fit weirdly if it's effective, for instance, as long as it remains within reason.

The AWOX toggling is ridiculous, no one is going to toggle that off.

I am not familiar with the fact-checking methodology of CCP, but I feel that if they are not currently, they should do extensive testing on pervasive complaints. Just because many people don't know the answer to the problem doesn't mean it isn't solvable. That's what makes it a good problem. Unless, of course, the solution is definitely vastly more costly to solve than to create. That is an asymmetry. It's important to look at things this way, though, because EVE is an ecosystem, with predators and prey.

I like things which add depth and mystery to the universe of EVE Online, like the Sleepers, and the storyline missions. I wish there was a tool like ISIS which gave people a better perspective on what happened where and when with significant moments in EVE. As we see in Dwarf Fortress with its self-writing story, I want to see something which puts EVE's player-made story into a better, more accessible perspective.

Which race you choose shouldn't limit your options or change your stats, but I think it should do something.

Anyway, does anyone have my vote, then?

I see your point, and I see I didn't read into our candidates' messages enough.

But, I still see a warning. Nietzsche acknowledged that his writing was not always very comprehensible, but to him it was necessary the way it was to preserve its essence. Maybe EVE needs that incomprehensibility and unwieldiness to be what it is. I suppose we'll see.

..at least eloquence.

"As forgettable as a dental appointment." I like that.

No platform is very trustworthy. Though, I'd like to see if anyone has noted patterns between winning candidates and their statements.

Yes you do have a point, eve is cuttthroat, dark , challenging and with a insanly caring community. But eve is alos 10 years old, the average player is 32 years, which is like wtf in gaming land and alot of players are 10 years into eve.

We need growth amd eve has a notorious large drop out in the early stages of a new player. One can say we drop all the players who didnt like eve anyway and goign to drop anyway, but thats not a ezcuse to not try and make them make the disccision deeper in the game.

I started twice and vry thankfull i accidently bumped into a few nice guys who took me under their wing, else i wouldnt be in eve, have 11.000 kills, own a titan, 3 accounts and visiting iceland for fanfest in a few weeks, and be a proud csm 9 member

I dont think most csm want to turn eve into kindergarten online, atleast i wont, the core shoudl reflect what we love and why tou and i dont quit and leave eve, but lets open up to more players and let them develop their eve addiciton.

Make sure u vote mate, if not for me, then someone else, but cast your vote and matter

making low-SP ships effective and useful isn't "dumbing EVE down". Quite the reverse in fact - it's adding complexity to gameplay rather than enforcing a simple more expensive = better = win ideology as most simplistic MMOs do.

Sorry, Eve is already noob friendly. At least I found it noob friendly. I am mining in - 0.1 space and have hardly any problems.

It's almost as if people don't care that Eve online is getting new subscribers! You better get right on that, cuz the next thing you know, women might start playing the game and ruin all of the sweaty neckbeard mouthbreather fun!