CSM Campaigns

Hello Friends of New Eden! I am Widget Zombie, I have been playing EVE online for almost 4 years. I have watched various CSM campaigns happen and I confess it got me more interested in the game. My play style has revolved around the players and the communities that are built inside of EVE. Over the last few years, I have played the general role of Diplomat, starting at a corporation level leading to being the head diplomat for one of the larger alliances in the game. I have been involved with my alliance community for 2 years and my personal community for 4 years. I have met a lot of eve players in RL, including hugging many of you at EVE Vegas 2015.

As much as the game mechanics are an important aspect in the game, the people are more important. It's the people that keep the game going. It's the people that truly help make changes with how the game runs and is played. Ladies and Gentleman, I want to be the voice of change, the voice of reason. As a potential member of CSM, I will make myself publicly available to yield your comments and concerns. I will them turn them into the issues I will bring to the table.

Topics of interest:

• Structures and their use in Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec, and Wormhole Space - Over the next year or so the new structures will be coming to the game, it’s important to know about the changes and how they affect everyone in the game. Questions range from how will Citadels, or other structures, affect the High Security lifestyle to those who live in Wormholes and the building/moving/anchoring process. The interest of this topic embraces 100% of the player base. There is no getting around it.

• The future of entosis mechanics - I am not saying that they are perfect or broken, however the theory behind the entosis modules was an interesting idea. Will the proposed changes to the module affect anyone who uses them in a positive or negative light? We won’t truthfully know until that time comes.

• Team Building - I am apart of the second largest alliance in EVE at the moment. Over the past 2 years I have been apart of the building and expanding of a rather incredible alliance. I want to take my team building skills with me to the CSM to enhance the potential output for the upcoming year. In the future I would be open to assisting alliances/corporations with team building assistance.

• Capitals - Does it have a jump drive? Count me in. On a much personal level, I used to the to love sub capitals, then one day I flew a carrier. It was my world. Then as I proceeded to fill my cranium with other skill books relating to being able to jump farther, conserve jump fuel and engage faster; I realized my true calling to the game was the Capitals. Today capitals are rarely used for fleet engagements, but more often than not used for PVE. Capitals were made for multifunction use, hauling things, increased effective hit points and higher DPS; this rotation of unbalanced-ness needs diminished. I am excited about +6 types of doomsday coming soon. I am unexcited about being able to get tackled by a frigate. Let's get capitals on the same page for once and get new changes to roll out in unison with all races.

• New Player Engagement - When huge environment changes happen in any game, you tend to see huge spikes of members renewing subscriptions or people finding an interest in signing up to play the game. In recent years of recruiting I have found that several new players to the game are often lost and confused or they got recruited to a corporation that offered little to no assistance in getting them properly trained. Aura is a great tool and it walks anyone through the entirety of the game. New Player “help channels” are convenient but often now players can’t find them. Language barrier, there should be a setting to assist with translation and allow multiple language sets to play within the same corporation/alliance as they want to work towards the same goals. New players need to be set up to succeed or else they will leave the game and never come back.

Thank you for reading my post, I am very excited to be applying to CSM XI and hope to be representing you!

Do you wanna build a snowman?

You got my vote... If I can find the ballot!

What structures do you have in mind that you think should be either made or looked at or changed in some way?

What ides for new player engagement do you have?

And lastly, what do you think can be or should be done with the entosis mechanic?

More information please on your topics of interest. Just the headers in and of themselves does not help anyone to understand your position on those topics