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- Please don't implement some kind of color coded system to get information across in PVP. There are a non-trivial number of color blind people playing Eve that would suddenly be at a MASSIVE disadvantage in PVP.
- It sounds like the intention is to make Low Sec == FW. If you do this, please don't forget pirates. We were here first. If nothing else, bring pirate factions into the FW with missions like "Get 20 kills in region X".
- I am very glad to hear that you're hesitant to overboost AFs by giving them an extra slot. I am equally glad to know that the second mid is mandatory.
- Please don't mess up WH space. Its one of the few bastions of actual small gang warfare and WH stabilizers would really mess with that.
- Please fix POS living, and allow Rorqual clone bays to work in WH space. PLEASE.

Hmm, that's probably a good start. :)

-Liang

Ed: Oh, I'm super stoked to hear plans of buffing T1 frigs/cruisers and command ships. While you're at it please look at all ships that have the reputation for being total rubbish or being impossible to properly fit.

Also the Drake nerf is probably not necessary but I won't fight against it too much.

@concerns for master accounts. A few pointers:

- There is no design yet, but if/when it will happen, our security specialists will be heavily involved.
- Right now if one of your accounts gets compromised, usually the others get compromised as well; this is without master accounts.
- It is highly likely that all accounts will still have their own passwords and that can only be reset through your email; thus as long as your email is safe and you do not reuse passwords it should be fine. (If your email is compromised you have bigger issues as that is the single most important identifier for almost all online services).

The minutes were very nice reading.

I've been very impressed wih the CSM this year and am regaining faith steadily in CCP.

The proposed changes and fixes may actually get me back out to 0.0 again...we'll see. What is certain is that i'm comfortable enough subbing 4 accounts for another 2 years and have done so off the back of this renewed faith.

My biggest concern for master accounts is the ease with which corps/alliances would be able to require API of EVERY character owned by a player, thus making certain play styles more difficult (such as spying), or simply making players choose one play style, as a null corp/alliance may have a problem with a player doing FW on the side, or moonlighting for a merc group with a different character, or variations on those themes.

It is already unpleasant enough that alliances are able to require access to your finances, market orders, and email to access other organizations' comms. It would be far worse if all the characters were lumped together.

I was just wondering if you had any plans for it yet :)

Long long read. In lieu of my impressions, both good (there really is a lot of good) and bad (most of the bad is merely irritating rather than game breaking), of the summit notes, let's jump straight to the one, and only one, issue that really matters.

The TL;DR of it is, EVE will soon be the most polished piece of dead end software around.

CSM is apparently winning the war against, well, everyone. Not only will nullbears never have their empires truly challenged, they will be able to park their nice safe empire winners in nice safe stations, meaning holding their nice safe empires will no longer require parking alts for their supers.

CCP: consider the conflict of interest... nullbears want "conflict drivers" i.e. targets, but don't want to be targets. So "throw a bunch of useless cattle in our edge systems that we are vampiring the hell out of, let them eat dirt, and let us eat them." A game that requires supers to win, in which supers are available ONLY to groups that have already "won" is a f*cked up game. Period.

Now more than ever am I convinced that EVE is a game that is not meant to be played. It is meant to be RMT'd.

I am looking forward to the cloaking system turning into more of a Submarine Approach

Cloakers now using Certain types of Planets or Spacial Anomolies to hind better from the Searching boats

Special Modules that emitte a short range ping that may alear the cloak ship is close and will be easier to find with the hunting ship.

Counter Measures and Counter Counter Measures

Launching Depth Probs that explode in Deep space to attempt to disable cloack ships or get a solid pin off of...

Will make the Game of Finding the cloakers a lot more fun than just feeling Frustrated Not being able to do anything.

Considering that the majority of new players spend their trial period in high sec, doing high sec things, I'm surprised to see that the CSM and CCP spent virtually no time discussing long-standing issues such as high sec mining, mission running, complexes, and high sec PVP - all of which are badly in need of major improvements/enhancements.

If you really want to improve the NPE, then high sec issues need to be addressed, as well.

For example, PVP should not be about getting to low or null sec as fast as possible. There should be viable PVP in high sec, preferably focusing on T1 ships and T1 modules. Personally, I'm very tired of hearing people telling new players that they have to spend months training up for T2 guns, in order to really do PVP. And, I'm similarly tired of watching new players flying for the first time in their barely affordable T1 ships only to get popped over and over again by more experienced players in T2 ships. This is not fun and only encourages new players to quit.

Despite some minor drawbacks, I see RvB as being a good model for high sec PVP for new players - can this sort of thing be expanded and better supported by high sec game mechanics?

Complexes and missions in high sec should not be semi-AFK activities for experienced players to run over and over again for ISK generation. The static DED complexes, in particular, are no fun for new players, when an experienced player in a T2 ship can repeatedly blitz the complex and scoop up the shiny prize. Limiting high sec complexes and missions to T1 ships won't prevent such abuse completely, but it will help to reduce it. Alternatively, there could be a skill point limit applied to classes of complexes and missions, restricting them to new players and forcing higher SP players to look elsewhere for ISK farming activities.

Mining. I don't think mining has seen any signficant changes or improvements in all the years I've been playing the game (well, except for artwork). Given the large number of players who do nothing but mining, you'd think that this aspect would see some changes to gameplay to make it more interactive and fun - and perhaps a bit more random, as well, to help deal with the macro bot fleets. The T1 mining barges need some balancing work and the Covetor needs a long overdue reduction in skill reqs. Frigate and cruiser mining shps warrant another look by CCP devs, to make them more worthwhile for the new player, rather than just something unproductive to sit in while training for a mining barge.

The overall approach and direction seems much improved from 2010. Skill re-spec is a no no though.

I think lost assets should be exactly that, a small drop 20% in freight containers and the rest destroyed.

I you are logged off in a station that is destroyed. You are podded and get log into your medical clone.