Jita Park Speakers Corner

Hi! I'm Requiescat, and I'd like to be a CSM representative, and my platform can be boiled down to one very simple concept: pilots in New Eden are too safe.

Before I get too in-depth about my platform, I want to be honest with you, the prospective constituent reading this humble post. I am a bad person. I am mean, I am spiteful, and I am difficult to get along with--at least, that is the general impression among many people who have unfortunately met my "business end." I am a career PVPer and I have been at it for going on six years. I don't have the best PVP record but I also don't have the worst. I now live in lowsec fulltime, though I do roam in NPC 0.0 occasionally. I own a capital ship and I have thought about supercap ownership, however I mostly fly cruisers and battlecruisers.

...now, more about making people less safe in eve!


Incursion runners seem to have dulled the edge of high sec, it used to be that nowhere in eve was truly safe but incursion bears have bent the rules to their will enough that it is more or less 100% safe to run incursions in high sec space; no agro mechanics, wardec tricks, or any of that crap to come between them and their isk faucet. Now, don't be mistaken, I have an incursion alt that I profit greatly from, but at the same time I am acutely aware that the risk/reward ratio is more than a little bit borked here. I support a shift in rewards to make vanguards less profitable, even when blitzed, and force the bears to run the higher-end sites to make money. Also, I support a heavier penalty on running sites in high-sec versus brosec, which is where more people need to be, which segues neatly into my next point


Lowsec sucks. It needs more people to be fun again, but there's really no reason for anyone to ever go to lowsec unless they are flying around in a pirate battleship in a full slave set they don't want to lose. Obviously more high end moons in lowsec is not a good idea as that will just invite PL to come snag them and woe betide anyone who disagrees, mostly what I had in mind were better incursion rewards, more level 5 agents, better belt ratting and ores, and more conflict drivers for FW as opposed to FW being Tama and the 3-jump lowsec area around Tama, and LP farming in stealth bombers


Wars are problematic. First and foremost, dec shields never should have been a thing and will absolutely not be a thing if I get a say. Evading wars in such an obvious and obnoxious way is an exploit, Ashley Snow died for our sins you guys. Also, there need to be more things preventing people from just shedding their corp when they get dec'd and immediately re-forming. It should be more expensive to form a corp than to declare war on one, or at least as expensive. I wholeheartedly think that "corp hopping" as a means to achieve kills in highsec wars should never have to be a thing, but it is because wardec mechanics are fundamentally flawed, the entire system needs to be overhauled.


I think large numbers of supercaps are probably about as broken as a thing can get, but they got that way by design. Titans were supposed to be an unimaginably expensive ship that could only ever be owned on an alliance scale, but ccp failed to account for power creep, and now we have the game that we have, and it must be adapted to. However, I think that small numbers of supercaps probably could use some iteration. You shouldn't be able to drop 2-3 supers or a titan in lowsec with impunity, there should be more options when it comes to tackling them, especially in lowsec but in 0.0 as well #death2allsupers


I think most ewar is in a good place right now, except for ECM, and ewar drones in general. ECM drones are too powerful as things stand, powerful enough that everyone uses them and completely ignores every other kind of ECM drone, and so powerful in fact that shipborne ECM has taken a backseat. A solution I've come up with is that ECM should suffer stacking penalty, like the other forms of ewar do. The strongest ECM mod will apply at full strength, and each subsequent jammer will be penalized until about the 11th, which will have nearly no effect. I think the other ewar drones could stand a buff, for instance, where are my small and medium webber drones? Also, neut drones really aren't useful for anything, probably because they are just not very powerful. The same is true of damper drones. Painter drones I see used primarily in pve, which is primarily where painters are useful, so I'm ok with that


i am a pro-pony candidate. rainbow dash best dash.


edit: I'd like to see an effort made for better support of Arabic script in the in-game font. Currently it is oriented left-right, while Arabic is written right-left, which makes it... confusing.

أني صديق للناس العرب، و أدعم طقما الحروف جديدا الذي يعرض الحروف العربية صحيحا


Let me earn your vote! If you are unsure about any of my positions and want me to clarify, or you want me to illuminate you on my stance on any other issue, feel free to ask! I am not an elitist, monacle-wearing incumbent. I have not grown plump on the fat of the ice-land. I'm right here, and I'm your best friend♥

SORRY BOSS ILL GET RIGHT ON THAT

Does the 27 letter alphabet constitute a blob or not a blob? Thanks.

Yeah that and they are also known for not honoring solo vowel duels, they alway fly in their tildi o logistics ship in the middle of a fight.

Are you aware of the issues facing participants in large fights in high security space, such as two alliances at war, stemming from the changes to aggression inheritance?

Do you have a solution to this issue I outlined regarding the stacking of ECM modules?

Do you have any ideas, or have you thought about any ideas, for solving the excessive rate of supercapital proliferation?

I honestly think you are maybe theorycrafting a little harder than people will ever play in that post. Why gimp your falcon by fitting ECM modules that are any weaker than what you could potentially fit? Additionally, I don't think realistically that people with ECM drones are going to put them on friendlies, seeing as you'll probably jam more friendlies than you'll protect with that technique. You say that people aren't going to get jammed too often by those drones because their strength will be diminished, but realistically, light drones already have a strength of one; the chance will be reduced but it's still random at the end of the day. I think ECM is a neat tradition in EVE, a ridiculous hair-pulling completely random mechanic that makes things a little more chaotic, or a lot more chaotic, all depending on some random numbers. I don't see getting rid of it as the right solution, but ECM is definitely a prime candidate for iteration

As for solving supercap proliferation, I support making them easier to tackle and kill while at the same time changing drone regions to a tradtional money-and-loot model versus the current rats-drop-minerals (read: the why-I-will-never-ever-live-in-drone-regions model) to slow down new supers entering the system. I also believe sovereignty is maybe a little more difficult to overcome, in terms of attack versus defense, than it should be. I like the current SBU/TCU system versus the old POS-spamming system, but I think less timers would make offensives less "grindy" while at the same time encouraging maximum supercap attendance to the now-fewer fights that count more, and subsequently encouraging more supercap wrecks #death2allsupers

I also support destructible player outposts #death2allassetsingeneral

On the topic of high-sec fights, from the dev blogs I've read the aggression system is based on a very old system, and I don't think iteration is the right answer here. I think a complete overhaul of the war and aggression systems would be the best answer, I'd honestly like to see kill rights applied to neutral third-parties in high sec fights, and an aggression timer for people using remote assistance modules similar to the one applied to people who use guns

I agree.

I disagree, week old newbies locking down someone's ~elite pvp~ tengu or their logis (which gives them heart attacks) is definitely a plus.

Death to all supercaps! First the titan then the supercarrier.

What specifically are your ideas for Factional Warfare? I know that you're not the FW candidate - that's Hans - but this



really isn't a stance

Why would you 'gimp' your falcon by fitting weaker ECM modules? Because it's not a gimp, it would actually work BETTER that way. It would actually be the BEST way to do it. Never underestimate the EVE player's ability to min/max, buddy.

I'm still open to different math that would make ECM stack effectively (such as creating the formulas to calculate the chances so that it works the same whichever order you activate them in), but simply stacking the effects the same way that you stack other modules does not work prettily due to the inherent properties of chance-based jams.



The issue with aggression systems and large fights in high-sec is not as you said. We had a large fight with Abaddons and Guardians against Drakes and their POS in hisec, and whenever we aggressed a new target, the energy transfers and remote reps of the Guardians turned off. Every single time, even though the Guardians were not aggressed to anything new. It was far, far worse than the ECM drones, causing something like half the logistics to be completely capped out at any given time.

The way that remote reps deactivate when someone gains an aggression timer might protect Incursion runners from scams and ganks, but the last time I checked it renders large-scale usage of Guardians and Basilisks completely impractical in hisec, ruining completely legitimate engagements.