Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Gidday everyone!

As announced at EVE Vegas, we're forming a Capital Focus Group. This group will help provide feedback on the future plans for capital ships (including Super-Capitals!).

• We will use this forum thread to accept applications from players who wish to participate in the focus group
• The decision on which players are invited to the focus group will be made by CCP
• This focus group will not receive any secret information, and therefore will not be required to sign any NDAs
• We plan on making the logs of the focus group chat public for everyone to view. Everyone can see what is being discussed, but only focus group members and CCP devs can actually talk
• When selecting focus group members, we will be looking for people who can demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and provide reasoned and calm feedback. We also want the members to have significant experience flying Capital Ships and have strong knowledge of EVE gameplay, fittings and balance
• The focus group will take place in a Slack team, so members will need to be able to use Slack

Focus group members will not be forced to attend any meetings or to pass any minimum activity thresholds. People in any time zone are welcome.

If you're interested in participating in this focus group, please post in this thread with an explanation of why you feel that you would make a valuable addition. We'll provide a list of members and details of how players can observe the chat logs before we start inviting people to the Slack team.

Cheers!

Second :)

I've owned multiple supers/titans and have used them on all scales of battles (B-R etc.). I think that I would be a great asset to the team because I would be the person who is able to collect a ton of the feedback and filter them as extra info for the rest of the experts and devs.

After attending both the Capital Changes panel and Q&A and the Citadels presentations, and follow up hallway discussions with Larrikin I was very impressed that in these capital updates it is being done with a focus of broadening and deepening play and not just re-balancing ship stats. I am a big fan of making game play broader and deeper and allowing for a lot more options. It looks like some of the goals of the changes are to encourage players to have less homogeneous doctrines and both need and want to deploy in a broader ways.

I fly carriers and occasionally dreadnoughts. I have lived in wormholes, low sec, and 0.0 space. I have never flown a super capital in combat and am not the foremost expert on fishing them like Rocket X. I am very interested in helping expand capital game play and to make it more interesting, varied, and fit into a combined arms type doctrine.. Honestly blobs of slowcats aren't all that much for anyone involves nor is the current dread mechanic where you're a throwaway mega-turret. Anything I can do to help broaden or give alternative ideas I'd like to. I'm not wedded to the current mechanics or systems and acknowledge as someone who also designs and develops software for a living that some things are more achievable than others and have varying level of payoff for level of effort.

Anything I can do to help I am willing to do.

-Resgo

Will the dev -> player feedback be better in this focus group? Seeing how there was next to 0 communication with the first one

I'll toss my hat into the ring. I've use capitals for years. I lived in wormholes both as a resident and as a person just looking to farm anomalies. I've also been the CEO of a mid-size alliance in lowsec utilizing capitals and supers at times. I've seen the complications of trying to use them in small groups and the different complications from using them in big groups now that I'm in PL.

I got this!

I would like to participate in the Capital Focus Group.

I started playing in Eve in 2008 and have tried a variety of play-styles. Recently, I have been focused on flying carriers and other logi ships and would have insight into how the new Force Auxiliaries would play into battles.

I have flown carriers into slowcat combat, triage, and structure rep operations many times in null sec against major null sec groups.

I have built capitals and have experience in the industrial side of capital gameplay.

Previously, I have done beta testing in other MMOs, such as Ultima Online and Everquest.

My communication skills are good. Here are examples of my writing on Eve: http://crossingzebras.com/author/dunk/

I am even-tempered and unlikely to create drama.

I know how to write bug reports in a detailed fashion with specifics and test for repeatability.

Lastly, I give good soundboard in fleet.

I would be interested and happy to contribute. As a long-term eve player, alliance leader and FC I have a keen interest in seeing capital ships fulfil a variety of roles for player groups both large and small.

I'm excited by the prospective cap changes and hope the end result delivers an outcome for use of capitals where skill and tactics are as relevant as they are in the subcap theatre.

I believe I can bring a creative contribution from the perspective of a midscale alliance.

Hi,
I would like to throw my hat into this.

I've been whelping caps since they pretty much came out so I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of all the good and bad associated with them. As a ceo of a corp that is "mildly" cap heavy I want to see these things used probably more than most.

p.s. I own a Hel......

Greetings,


I have loved Capitals and Supercapitals even before playing EVE. The Trinity trailer (forever the best in my heart, but the Dominion one runs a close second) showing the Hel and Nyx in all their magnificence got me to start playing, with the goal of getting one day my own Hel or Nyx, or both.

Since then, I have steadily worked up my way to owning and using all the Capitals and Supercapitals in the game, and even managed to get myself a Fleet Commander chair in the CFC/Imperium - which considering how aggressive I am seems like one of those weird decisions that someone will really regret one day !

I have been in B-R5RB, I have won and lost Capital fights, I have solo-hotdropped dozen of Capitals, I have (sometimes) survived counter-hotdrops, I have been in structure in my Ragnarok and lived to tell the tale, I have planned traps, I have walked intro traps... but I have never mined with these ships now that I think about it.

I love Capitals, I love Supercapitals (except the Revenant, DPS doesn't excuse its looks), and I love what I have seen so far about the changes that have been proposed. My enthusiasm is bursting through the seams of my jacket, and I would be honoured to put it to the service of the community by taking part in this Focus Group.


Sebastien Saintfrusquin
Chango Atacama
(and quite a few french cynos near you)

Edit: hi CCP Larrikin, funny how be both remember the Fountain war the same way

Edit 2: after reading some of the other applications (plenty of great names there), I think it is worth adding a few words about my real life job.
I am a University Mathematics teacher, and I believe I am a good one too. As such, grinding numbers is something I am quite used to, as well as presenting them and explaining concepts and ideas behind them.

I would like to catch White Aero's hat, so I can SM3LL his hair scent from the hat