Jita Park Speakers Corner

Ok, first off this was never true. And it has only become less true over time as you guys have lost significance. Your annual kills per user are laughably small. I won't deny that for the contracts you get you do a decent job at them, but your contracts are as irrelevant as you are in the wider world of eve.

And I'm not just pointing this out to be a ****, even if that's part of it. The issue is that you are an anachronism, and so is your platform. You say that war dec mechanics and high sec PVP desperately need attention and deserve a significant allocation of resources. If I was someone who desperately needed high sec pvp to come back to reinvigorate my relevance I too would support this platform.

But as someone who does not have a myopic view of the game I can appreciate that high sec war-dec mechanics, while broken, do not really represent a serious goal that will have a significant effect on the larger eve game playing field, especially when considered alongside the desperate need for re balancing that exists in low-sec, the tremendous opportunities for revitalization of sovereignty mechanics, and the wide ranging and potentially devastating results that a null-sec "farms and fields" re balance could bring.

Your focus on high sec, particularly the most self-serving side of high sec, war dec mechanics, only goes to show your inability to understand the comprehensive picture of EvE as it stands, which makes me very concerned about any influence you may even have on the CSM. Beyond a handful of low-hanging fruit (which, by the way would fix the vast majority of the problems), there is no real need to devote significant mechanics to High Sec Wardecs, beyond your own need to redefine your withered relevance.

Although I do agree with your statements on NPC null sec.

::Insert pony-based haters gonna hate .gif:: For being such irrelevant mercs, PL sure goes out of their way to be mad at us.

Regardless of what I or Hellkyte or anyone else thinks about whether war decs DESERVE dev resources, these resources are already allocated. A change to wardecs and EVE's aggression code (plus FW fixes) are the centerpieces of the upcoming Summer expansion (Inferno). All I'm saying is that the player base should get the best, balanced, accessible, and fun war dec system those dev resources can get us.

Once that's in the books, I look forward to making sure small sov holding alliances, NPC 0.0 residents, and 0.0 roamers have their interests represented during the sov revamp. I agree with the farms and fields model you support Hell, and have said so at every occasion. I just want to make sure those farms and fields aren't just plantations of the large power blocs, but also work for people trying to break in at a smaller level or just cause some trouble for everyone else.

On top of all that, I hope to lay the groundwork for CCP to take a similar revamp approach to lowsec, giving it a distinct gameplay experience that both addresses the needs of current residents and expands the population for those residents to interact with. The buffs to FW coming in Inferno are extremely important, but I don't think they are the silver bullet to improve lowsec.

Even though I'm running against him I still like this guy!

If 'spoding stuff in in the 'verse is your idea of fun this is your candidate!!

Issler Dainze
Hoping to be in the CSM 7 with a good guy like Alek!!

Alek,

Best of luck! I really hope you made it to the CSM 7!

CCP needs to hear from someone with you experiences and views to finally sort of some of the mess with war, aggression mechanics and other key elements of combat in Eve that you understand so well!

Issler

Yeah, I've got my fingers crossed for you, too, man. Good luck.

Well done

Great to see the support for Alek. :)

And I enjoy the podcasts Pixxie. Cracked me up when you started talking about SWTOR and families/kids.

Gratz Mr.Karrde!