Jita Park Speakers Corner

I fully endorse this candidate


FW and low sec need some love...

Thank you for the kind words, Jade! I consider them a high compliment, given your experience on the council.

Microtransactions were one of many issues that for the sake of brevity (if such a word is even appropriate for my campaign primer) I was unable to include in the document but am happy to discuss as they are brought up.

Personally, I loathe the layering of microtransactions onto games which are already subscription-supported . Even when used to deliver content players ask for, it still feels tacky, commercial, and disruptive to me. And especially within a game like EvE where the entire item economy should be player-driven, microtransactions are a particularly dangerous payment model to flirt with.

One of my frustrations with the NeX store rollout was that CCP just sold the items straight to players for cash - there were no materials necessary nor any manufacturing process used, and the items themselves were unpopular enough that there isn’t even a vibrant after-market for them. Players buy items directly for their avatar, but rarely use the EvE market system, which for me just breaks all immersion and highlights them for the cash-grab that they are.

As for ship skins, I would absolutely urge CCP to abandon the microtransaction model, and make them obtainable through in-game means, rather than by asking customers to pay more on top of their existing subscriptions. LP is by far the most sensible solution, since skins will likely be tied to one flavor of NPC faction or another, and therefore could require that faction’s LP to obtain.

The only possible scenario under which I would tolerate the idea of paying cash for ship skins is if CCP offered players a forced, gunpoint choice – you will either pay cash for these, or we won’t bother making them. If given that choice and the majority of players still wanted ship skins enough to pay cash for them, that’s their choice, I would have a hard time saying no at that point.

But as for corporate and alliance logos ?? They BETTER come free, and in unlimited quantities. They should be a built-in option to apply to ships without having to pay one isk, one aurum, or one LP to generate. The whole fun of ship logos is the sense of visual unity they create amongst the mixed ships in a fleet, which would be immediately ruined if CCP required any monetary threshold to have them in the first place.

Thats good enough for me.

I'll be endorsing your candidature and sending my votes your way.

This time around I am convinced we need far better grass roots representation of the player base and much less monotone nullsec influence on the council.

Good luck Hans. Hope you win!

And my axe!

Vote Hans for Free Hans Jobs. (They are really good, I promise.)

Good luck

And it all starts officialy tommorow.

As a faction warfare veteran, I'm more than happy to support a candidate who'll keep the interest of low-sec dwellers at heart. +1 vote for Hans.

I kind of doubt the idea that we have wildly conflicting ideas, I mostly stay out of FW issues. You're not running a campaign against me, even though you might think you are as a political neophyte. Our constituencies don't intersect.

You're running primarily against Meissa and his lowsec voter pool, as well as Trebor, T'Amber, Issler and Kelduum for hisec nonaligneds.

Protip is to mostly ignore this forum as it's a sideshow and focus on organizing your base; people vote based on identification, and if you're going to be the 'FW Guy' you need to ensure every FW player knows about your run via ingame means. Making long posts in Jita Park or trying to be 'more than the FW Guy' will just result in Trebor, Meissa, et al turning their guns on you, but if you stick to gotv on your base you'll sail to a seat (probably an alt one, but maybe not)

7th seat right now is likely to be either a wormholer or you as FW, unless Riverini somehow convinces enough people to vote for him via EN24.

Anyway, feel free to hit me up on Skype or ingame if you'd like to touch base on campaign strategy.

Wouldn't it be a rather silly idea to launch such custom jobs as 'standard' (ie. no costs at all)? Should be an in-game cost for sure, preferably ISK but could be marketable materials found in specific sites as well .. but some kind of bar has to be in place or everyone and their mother will be brandishing them thus watering the whole idea down like a pint of lager at a nightclub.

As for supporting Hans .. not sure it is kosher to support an insurgent slave, Minnies are not exactly pillars of the community after all!

Hahahahaha.

PS: You have my vote as well as those whose arms I can twist and whose ears I can whisper into between now and then.

Except for your repeated discussion of using Faction Warfare as a test bed for null sec sovereignty mechanics, of course.

Again, while I appreciate you encouraging me to "shoot for the middle", I have no intention of doing so. I will not be running merely as the "FW Guy", and have no problem seeking votes from players residing in both high sec and low sec space, since both regions are important to me as they have been my joint home for the entirety of my EvE career.

Issler, T'Amber, and Kelduum will all have to strongly consider whether or not they hold the voting core needed to rival mine if their goal is to achieve one of the top 7 seats. If not, I hope they will consider supporting my own campaign instead. They might also be fine with aiming for a lower seat, and may continue to campaign regardless, that is their decision of course.

As for Meissa, the bottom line is that I have lived in lowsec since I began playing the game, and have many influential friends in the various pirate corporations, because there is a huge crossover between lowsec pirate circles and the former Faction Warfare crowd. Both groups have a huge interest at stake this Spring, with much of the future health of low sec space hinging upon whether or not Faction Warfare will be forced to more closely resemble null sec, or whether it will maintain its core appeal as a haven for small gang PvP. I urge all low sec pilots to read over my platform, and to consider supporting me with a vote, regardless of the existence of an already popular incumbent.

I am quite comfortable putting myself forward as an empire candidate this Spring election, regardless of the challenge I face running against the incumbents, and I wouldn't come out saying as much if I didn't already know that I have the head start needed to realistically achieve one of the top council seats. I invite all eve players to consider supporting me with their votes, regardless of whatever label or category or label you'd like to place me in.

As for being a political neophyte, that's a pretty fair assessment. However, I think voters are smart enough to understand that sometimes, a fresh perspective is needed for the health of the CSM, and that my lack of political experience is in no way a statement upon my ability to represent their interest on the council.

Just as in real life, CSM7 needs strong leadership, not just a winning group of skilled politicans.

I would say with out a doubt this is the candidate for folks that are focused on Faction Warfare. I still think we need a mining candidate and I will remain focused on getting one with a mining focus in the CSM 7 as well.

Good luck Hans! You will do well in the CSM 7. Hope you'll be working along side someone from my party as well!

Issler