CSM Campaigns

Hi friends, my name is Xeno Szenn and I’m running for CSMXI. A brief history of my time in game: I joined Eve Uni back in 2013 After a while of having low skill points I bought my current main from the character bazaar. From Eve Uni I joined Waffles and had a blast flying through low sec and null sec. After graduating from Waffles I am currently flying with Pandemic Legion as well as Waffles. My Eve experience has given me insight into both low sec and null sec play styles as well as a deep appreciation for how differently security status space operates.

The most important thing in Eve Online is player interaction. We as players interact with each other on multiple levels in game. From the most basic chat channel to the wonderful alliance and corporations inhabiting New Eden. Player interactions have created what we love about the game, not only for PVP but also the incursion communities as well. There is even a role playing community within Eve that has made great and interesting contributions to the community. It is my belief that the community is the most important reason for Eve to exist. Player interaction is what drives conflict and generates content. Some people love to mission and do other PVE activities but very few people enjoy playing alone. The community is involved in player meets like Fanfest and Eve Vegas and has been for a while. I would like to see a way for more Eve players and especially new players to get involved in the community as a whole and form groups or join organizations where they enjoy playing the game and learning from the start.
1. More advertisements for player meet ups.
2. Streamlined corp management and creation tools.
3. New player organizations and NPSI groups given permission to be in the new player channel under guidelines.

Content creation. I play Eve Online first for the community I fly with and second for the content. I think that given the right tools and reason Eve players themselves will provide their own content. An example is the Cloud Ring aka Content Ring situation right up to the war that killed it off but even that provided content. Individuals stepped up and made that happen. I would like to see additional forms of conflict drivers to create an atmosphere where content is more prevalent and accessible to people. I do believe content should require work to get but any boost in helping content happen would be of major benefit. Here are a few areas that I think small adjustments could highly encourage more conflict drivers.
1. Faction warfare farmers - give them a reason to fight over farm.
2. There should be a way to hunt people cloaked in space. I do not think it should be easy to find them but I believe that there should be a way to hunt them. This could provide some interesting game play options. I do not believe it should be easy to hunt them but I do believe it should be possible to.
3. War decs. There has to be a reason to fight rather than disband or dock up as well as a way to fight against the deccer.
4. Give people a reason to want to own Sov space. Any Sov space can provide good income - Pandemic Horde showed that to me but right now there is no reason to own sov space when you can make better income in high sec or with a faction warfare alt with tier 3 or 4. There should be a reason everyone wants to own sov from the empire builders to the pvpers.
5. Citadels in my opinion are going to be a massive step in the right direction for this. Destroying one provides a loss in both isk and infrastructure. The larger they are the more isk and loss they create.

To have meaningful content there has to be a balance in ship design and fleet warfare. That being said you must take into account all aspects of Eve gameplay before you nerf or buff anything. Every PVP ship can also have a PVE use. Every ship in solo PVP can also be used for Fleet PVP. All of this must be taken into account when looking to make changes and create balance in the game. Balance is not just on ship hulls though isk to risk ratios also need to be brought into account. This is a delicate issue but at the core of content creation, and retaining new players once they’re in the community beginner levels of income need a slight buff while higher levels of income need a slight nerf. The career missions should provide more isk as they can only be done once for each group or a total of 12 times if you do all of them. This is not a direct attack on the income players are currently making, rather a way for newer players to make a starter income to afford to explore the game from the start of their Eve experience.

1. I fully believe that links or boosters should have to be on grid and be committed to a fight to provide boost.
2. Bombers are incredibly overpowered. This has been something that I have personally used to great effect. A small bomber wing can completely devastate a superior force. This is something that they should retain but a small nerf to their movement would be incredibly helpful in reducing their overall impact on null sec. Right now shield battleship fleets and battleship fleets in general are very vulnerable to bombers so don’t see much use in null.
3. There needs to be a reason for people to risk ships. Right now incursions are very lucrative without much risk as opposed to low sec, null sec or worm holes. I do not believe the answer is to make incursion less profitable but rather increase their risk or make other streams of income more profitable. The drifter incursions are a great start in this direction. This is also something that is hard to do because players min/max Eve to get the most rewards with the least risk.

xeno is a good guy, a good FC and devoted to the game.

+1

YAY.... Vote Xeno :)

+1 for Xeno. I couldn't imagine a better CSM candidate.

Xeno is a good person who is both passionate about the game and very calm and level headed.

See, this one I really, really disagree with. I want to agree with it, as cloaky camping its terrible game play, but there's literally no way to actually harass people in null sec without cloaky camping them. Nullsec is absurdly safe thanks to local, intel channels, derivative tools that use local and intel channels, distance, fewer wormholes to null, territory far away from were antagonists can resupply or escalate, and the ability for the defender to escalate infinitely. Until there is a way to add some risk back to it, cloaky camping is really the only way to effectively antagonize sov residents; ESS was a nice concept, but it has largely failed because people either do not use them or have rats to defend them, and the best thing to do when a neutral is either in your system, or a few jumps out is still simply to dock - avoidance. Almost every ratting ship out there is capable of leaving a site and getting safe well before being at risk; 99% of the time it is not the hunter being good that gets someone caught in null, its the ratter being careless. Game play where one side disproportionately holds every advantage possible is quite boring, i.e. there is still no good way for a roaming gang to cause trouble to the point where defending sov space actually matters.

Basically deep null could be so effectively locked down to the point where there is no risk at all, and that is a terrible thing. I would be fine with this if local had a delay, or there was some other way to actually get to ratters...but there isn't really.