Jita Park Speakers Corner

I am definitely not a troll. I've been playing Eve for 8 years and have been in the CSM twice already.

As for the goons, hard to say how I attract so much attention from them. I suspect the goons have been told to specifically troll and disrupt certain candidates.

But feel free to catch me in game or contact me directly. I am very serious about my efforts to be elected to the CSM 7 to help encourage CCP to give the miners of Eve some long overdue attention.

Issler

"Heeeey...You've got ME jammed, Hu!" (DNSBlack)...

(Sorry, I just had to)

Your "near term" issues made me leave the game out of lack of interesting gameplay. I wouldn't even be here if i hadn't been stupid enough to pay for 6 months on this alt account last november.

CCP and the CSM are throwing all their effort on stuff that completely failed to grab my interest for 3 years. So i am not going to pay for developing it, and i am not going to vote for people who applaud CCP's one-side-ness. This "sandbox" is ourrageously lacking sand in case you are a politically incorrect player with a life, limited time and no interest in griefing or being griefed.

BTW, I will vote Issler because of mining too. I felt utterly stupid when my "power of 2" alt got to earn the whopping amount of 5 filthy million per hour after investing months and above 350 million ISK on her. That was second only to the bloody 6 month subscription plan...

Yeah, that's what it is. Nothing to do with you identifying yourself as a carebear candidate and openly supporting WiS/ambulation despite the last year's game history. It's all an organized conspiracy!

Not to my knowledge, at least recently. But I do favor having a big public discussion of the pros and cons of different voting methods.

You may find this Wikipedia article that compares voting systems of interest, though it's a wee bit technical.


As I've said before, one reason I posted the original thread was to point out that it's a bad thing that you have to choose between voting for who you want, and voting for someone you think can get elected.

I face that decision all the time in US elections, and it sucks.


I have never been opposed to the idea of Incarna. I just think that given CCP's current situation, allocating more than a small fraction of their resources to Incarna is unwise.

If EVE had twice as many subscribers, then perhaps they would be able to justify investing in a long-term effort to properly implement Incarna -- with good gameplay. But even in that situation, there needs to be a compelling argument made that this will attract new subscribers that would not be interested in a purely FiS game.

Proponents of Incarna must demonstrate that it will generate a reasonable Return on Investment. "Because it'll be awesome" is not a good business argument.

Furthermore, and to put it very bluntly, there are tons of avatar-based games out there -- lots of competition. But there are no other FiS PVP games out there that significantly compete with EVE, which gives it a protected market niche. Thus a major counter-argument to Incarna is that investment in FiS to add barriers to entry to dissuade potential competitors will generate a much better ROI, because having your cash-cow eviscerated while you're building the next big thing is something you want to avoid at all costs.

When CCP's average player is 30+


months?

Sure, community outrage was a big part of why CCP changed course. But do you happen to remember who it was that started doing the crowdsourcing, and continued to do it, even last summer when many outspoken members of CSM (including the chairman) were openly mocking it as a waste of time, because "crowdsourcing is dumb".

His name has slipped my mind, perhaps you can remind me...


Someone with a consistent record of accessibility, accountability, good judgment and hard work. Someone who's clearly in it for the good of the community, not for the ego-massage. Someone you can trust.

And in response to your question about Hans, while he doesn't have a track record on CSM, he got involved in an issue last year and showed (in my opinion) the required qualities for a potentially good CSM.

Besides the fact that you absolutely don't have to do either of the first two options at all, your opposition to the third idea just makes me realize the game isn't for you. Losing all of your stuff to anyone (jobless/teenage or otherwise) is not only an option for Eve, it's an option that is outright NECESSARY for very large parts of the playerbase. Fighting against this is akin to going onto a WoW forum and saying the fantasy setting is "NOT an option".

Don't take it personally or anything - Eve is a niche game, and it well and truly isn't for everyone. However, that niche basically revolves around the fact that at ANY point in the game, docked or otherwise, your stuff is at some degree of risk. If that is unacceptable or incomprehensible for you, there's not much left to say aside from "try another MMO".

Also, a nitpick perhaps considering you basically hate the game, but Eve is probably one of the friendliest games for a 30+ crowd with jobs/lives/etc due to the combination of AFK skill progression and CCP-sanctioned isk buying. Not having to log in and grind for ANYTHING is an option few other MMO's can offer, if any.

don't let the door hit your ass on the way out

just like you didn't when you got booted out of your space lawl

proven performer: elise randolph.