CSM Campaigns

Thanks for the question Apex. I'm open to any and all, and do enjoy putting my thoughts into writing, no matter how hypothetical a scenario is required for those thoughts to become realised.

I've been getting a few private mails asking about how I thought the small battlecruiser rebalance went, so I decided to answer in a slightly different format, and published an article on the what I felt a battlecruisers role was within eve, and how these changes affected them.

I'll probably write out answers to a few more questions in this long form if there are ones that I can really go deep on in terms of analysing them.

So, you think you should be on the CSM because you are "used to attending meetings, and utilizing critical thinking within them to help stop one viewpoint from being drowned out"

Optimism. I like that. Buzzwords and synergy speak... not so much.

The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analysing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Buzzwords.

Now that I've got that off my chest. I have read your stuff in this thread, and have to say that a vote for you would not be a wasted vote.

Hah, just logged in to make sure, and Caldari Offensive Systems V popped up as completed, so I won't have to mention just how I lost a Tengu and had to retrain that skill.

Right now I'm chugging through the slog that is Fleet Command V, and have been on a Will/Cha remap for related skills for some time. I don't specifically need to have Leadership skills, as most of the time I tend not to use Command Ships in a fleet situation for fear of both getting headshot, and also due to my much higher SP alliance mates being able to lend their own perfectly skilled alts/mains to the job.

I started training these skills again during one of the patches that delegating boosts actually worked reliably, as giving fleet warps and being able to use the regroup function are very useful tools available to an FC. However, right now they seem to be rather random as to whether they work, sit and cycle in the 'Changing position' limbo for eternity, or just flat out fail to function. It's probably one of the 'little things' I'd more selfishly try to bring to the attentions of the devs, though I'd want to wait until after seeing the implementation off the Anti-Off Grid booster changes which have been years in the coming, just to see if the issue would even be relevant.

From an FC's perspective I look forwards to said changes, as they will provide a little bit more strategic depth to combat, as I will have to choose between killing their boosting ship to reduce their whole fleet's effectiveness by a significant margin, or taking out more traditional early targets such as Recons or Logistics. This becomes especially interesting when it comes to talking about fleet comps with certain weaknesses exaggerated by certain links, such as long range battleship fleets which tend to require skirmish boosts to their recons to extend their web ranges into the medium ranges, where sig tanking fleets might be able to operate. Alternatively, compositions with (relative) low DPS being able to kill their opponent's siege or armor links early would help give them staying power during an attrition fight where ship for ship trades are occurring.

Anyway, to get back on track, about 30 days deep into training Fleet Command 5 because I feel it may be necessary in the future for something I very much enjoy doing in the game, FCing.

So, I asked Jin'taan to answer a few questions, and the results are here LINKY

This is the man who made me want to fly a Nightmare and showed me what theorycrafting was capable of...+1

My guest appearance on The Learning Cliff just went up! It was a fun little jaunt, even if we ended it up getting killed by blues!

I also updated my OP to include my appearance on the Jeffraider show was some great discussion there and I'd implore people to give it a listen.

You have my votes!
Best luck!

I did a lot of research on many of the candidates and Jin'taan def has my full support.
You have a second place on my ballot. Good luck!

I don't have any specific UI improvements as regards to large fleets, but I think the best change with regards to fleet fights that could be done is adding Logistics to killmails. Some people might like being the quiet assistants of the fleet, but many more want to wear their KB stats with pride.



Take away either 2, or all 3 rig slots from them. For the Svipul in particular, I'd buff small arty fitting and nerf the Svipuls powergrid. I think it's a way to nerf them that fits with their original intent.



That's a hard question, and I'd want to discuss with a hisec representative as well, but I think the best thing that could be done would be to provide group PvE that is consistent to nullsec. Group work should always be worth more than solo work, as it encourages the social dynamic that is the best part of EvE. I feel like hisec incursions are a little out of whack, but they only need a little bit of shaving to be brought in line.



I really, really think it will be numbers dependant. I hope they provide something for the attacker to do whilst they are in their invulnerable mode, and don't leave it open to abuse. I like the idea of it providing a cyno as well, but disabling locking on all invulnerable ships, to incentive having tackle and a standing fleet to give the attackers a fight.



You bet, we couldn't stop them if we tried.

Thanks, have a good day and thanks for the questions.

I have been able to drop a super exactly once in my career (thanks Arche). I am in the process of training up a super alt, just because it's something that I'll look to do in the future, but no I have no experience flying supercarriers or titans.