Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My name is Boson, I am the Mildir of the Dixon Cox Butte Preservation Society, the Alpha corp in TISHU.

Although I am a relatively newer player, I am uniquely qualified for this position in that I oversee the use of caps and supercap on a daily basis, in addition to using them daily myself.

As a former member of black legion leadership, and a current member of tishu leadership, I play the game at the top level, and have all but mastered many aspects of the game, especially fitting (hands down the most difficult thing to learn in hte game) as well as engagement theory for everything from solo to smallgang, twh pvp, sov warfare, and everything in between.

Unlike many of the candidate in this thread, I do not currently and have never had what anyone would consider to be an overwhelming capital force to call on when I get tackled and think it is vitally important for smaller groups to be represented by someone who uses and orders the use of caps with the knowledge that unlike PL, NC, or the CFC, they can't just turtle and wait to be saved in the event that SHTF.

I had the best seat in the house as a member of bl leadership to see the impact that phoebe had on nomadic groups, and understand the plight of the individual super pilot trying to catch up with the rest of his friends, as well as the plight of the newbro attempting to deal with an opponent that has complete capital superiority.

I currently have characters and fly with groups from over 4 major groups in eve, giving me a level of insight into the roles that caps play in a wide variety of entities, from Brave Newbies to Black Legion (rip), and everything in between.

I also have a very stable timezone flexilbe schedule which allows me to invest a lot of time in EVE.

Lastly, and most importantly, I have a wide group of friends, encompassing pretty much all types of capital gameplay from c6 wh pvp to sov null cap brawls (kvn, hurley, hed) to lowsec pos bashing, and can provide ibsight into the playstyle and issues a wide range of playerbase encounter.

Here are a couple examples of discussions I started with the intent of hearing the community experience with phoebe, as well as to bring exposure to an aspect of gameplay that I considered to have some intrinsic issues that needed to be looked at.

Phoebe 12m Retrospective (dont miss this comment)

Phoebe 6m Retrospective

Hi CCP,

I am willing to participate in this focus group.

Personally I love flying capitals and I have been doing so since '11. Having a chance to support CCP with feedback is pretty awesome, I will do my best to do so.

As an alliance diplo I can also gather feedback from our military & capital/supercapital department if need be to support feedback on this topic.

I will help if u want.
Flown all caps. Had a erebus but sold it.
Currentlly have dread, carrier triage and combat, jump frighter, super.

Yah nync is legit.

I have been flying a range of Capital ships for some years now, from extensive triage to unique fits to motherships and titans. Having worked hard on how to fly them and how to kill them, I would like to take part in the discussion.

I have included lots of capital action in a few videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whr2NRIuJvs&i

hi

i've been flying and FC'ing every kind of capital in nearly every kind of imaginable role for the past four years or so. including carriers (triage/pantheon), dreads ('dread bombs,' blap dreads), and supers/titans (with and without support). I'm the main FC for my alliance which uses caps of some form on a daily basis, as well has having flown with Pandemic Legion and FC'd for Northern Coalition. I've FC'd capitals and supers extensively before and after the Phoebe expansion, operating under the threat of the leering PL/NC super fleet, and as a part of it.

As an FC and leadership of an alliance that revolves around caps I spend a lot of my time theorycrafting caps and asking/answering all the 'what if' questions that come up whenever capital rebalances happen.

I'd like to sign up for this.

I have a lot of experience fighting and flying capitals in higher class wormhole space, from small and larger scale fights and using them for escalations. I was CEO of Triflexure, CO-CEO of No Vacancies, and current CEO of Polarized, and I enjoy managing my corporation, setting up fittings+ops, and dealing with people on a day to day basis. I myself currently fly the Naglfar, Phoenix, Archon, and Chimera.

I've always enjoyed wormhole space the most, but I do know the importance of capitals in K-space, particularly nulll. I would like to ensure that capitals are enjoyable to fly but adequately balanced, in hopes to nullify some of the current problems that capital ships have.


Slack isn't a problem for me, I currently use it with my corp, it's a handy tool!

Greetings,

Even though I'm not a member of a Player group at the moment, that shouldn't be a determent of my knowledge.

I have extensive knowledge of the Industry Capital shipline. Spending a great deal of time in Null/WH/Low/High using these ships in both PVE and PVP scenarios.

While I have limited knowledge with Super Capitals, I don't see this being a bad thing. As someone with limited knowledge in this field, I might be able to raise questions and suggestions that the Veterans might not.

Hello,

It seems like a group has already been selected, but my friendly neighborhood CSM suggested that the group might benefit from some diversity, and a voice from the smaller scale capital-using alliances.
I run a small gang PVP alliance with a long history in low-sec that made the leap to NPC null, and then sov null following the Aegis changes. Our experience with capitals typically involves fleets of 15 capitals or less, often 5 or less, supported by subcapital fleets in the 20-50 range.

My corporation’s first capital goals were to gain experience using a combination of triage and tracking dreads to fight much larger fleets than we could fight effectively with subcaps alone, and to get every one of our pilots into a “suitcase carrier” so that we could deploy to new hunting grounds regularly.

Our next goals were to field dread fleets that could hit large hardened POS towers in a single cycle, as anything more with pre-Phoebe jump ranges would have been suicidal.

Having achieved both of these goals, our next mission was to branch into Titans that we have primarily used for bridging, and occasionally used post-Phoebe for surprise Doomsday drops. I have dealt with moving various supercapitals across the map pre- and post-Phoebe, have caught and killed the occasional unsupported super, but I am not (yet) the voice of supercap fleet vs supercap fleet combat.

A group like mine has benefited tremendously from the Phoebe jumprange reductions, as we feel very confident in our ability to scout 5 LY around a target system, and make risk/reward decisions accordingly. We also made good use of the new mobile cyno inhibitors when they were released. We were certainly victims of pre-Phoebe projection on many occasions, and increased our capital usage significantly post-Phoebe.

Finally, I am the voice of a group that is not interested in mutual protection agreements with our neighbors. Aside from member alts and recruits, we do not have long-term blue standings with any other alliance, nor do we recruit aggressively in any effort to match our opponents fleet participation numbers. When we make the decision to commit capitals, we make that decision more often than not with the assumption that every other entity in range is hostile, and most of them have more pilots than we do.

Insert Application
I am one of the most active fc's in the 0.0 community.
I have fc'd more capital and super capital fleets than most likely any other player in the game.
I have owned and built every single capital and super capital in the game, using them all at one point or another in belts, sanctum, solo, small gang, bloc level fights, and wormholes when mechanics allow it.