Jita Park Speakers Corner

the voting should start in around Febuary next year with the Candidate application process.

The white paper however telling us how these elections will be held is due out in December.

A jack of all trades tends to have a better understanding of the bigger picture than someone who's focusing on one single aspect of whatever, and if he's active in more than just one area of the game then he has an even bigger chance of being a better asset to "the CSM" than if he were someone who did nothing but make spreadsheets about his BPOs, setup vast production spreadsheets detailing input material requirements, cost, profitability, maintain multiple alts in multiple trading hubs, and min/max that as much as possible.

In EVE, while someone might be called "an industrialist", and as such would love nothing better than if CCP were to buff all the things he uses, be that BPO copying, invention, manufacturing, hauling, etc, to make his part of the game better, that really doesn't mean he should be elected to be "the industrialist representative". Why? Because people who call themselves industrialists are most commonly hisec only. As such, I would expect a lot of them to have a penchant for bringing up minute UI details which could make their day to day living easier, while being blindingly oblivious to a much larger sucking chest wound which is the fact that nullsec industry is more or less limited to 2 things. 1) Import everything from hisec, 2) build supercaps. The rest is easier, cheaper, quicker and by far the least effort to do in hisec (and lowsec for normal caps), and means that nullsec is depopulated most of the time outside of actual fleet fights. This, in turn, means that roaming gangs have a very, very hard time actually catching someone, because they'll be less than 5 pr system (iirc most of the systems I've flown through lately outside of fleet ops have had 1-2 in them, total).

The same goes for things such as L4s, which set the reward bar so high that a lot of people don't find the effort of receiving the rewards which nullsec anoms can yield worth it, and as such also help depopulate nullsec even further. I don't expect anyone representing "mission runners" to do anything other than choke on his coffee if anyone even contemplates uttering the words "nerf" and "L4" in the same sentence (except if it's prefixed with "don't"), even though it very well could've been a benefit for the game as a whole.


You keep harping on and on about "representational balance", and thus I ask you this: what's broken in hisec which needs fixing, apart from wardecs/crimewatch? What's broken in lowsec which needs fixing, apart from FW farmville? What's broken in nullsec which needs fixing, apart from the SOV system? What's broken wrt missions which require fixing? What's broken wrt industry which needs fixing?

How much representation does the things which are broken in these areas of the game actually need? How much are they getting today? How much time should CCP dedicate to each of these broken things, and in what order?

That's what issler dainze tried to do, did it fizzle out?

@Op.

What is it about representing this or that sector of Space that has you worried ? Do you fly only in Highsec or do you mix it all up with the different regions df space in Eve ? Those stats you have as a signature are quite meaningless and out of context.

I have no fixed "home" in any single type of space. I fly Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec, WH's. I cannot believe that I am the only player that does this. I go where the fun and action is, not by the security level or earning potential is for any given sector of space.
Again, I cannot be the only pilot who has this style.

I voted in the latest CSM and am happy to say I voted for Hans. You do not have to be a resident of any particular place in space to determine for yourself, who can do the best for the entire space of Eve.

I would however go as far to say that the residents of Nullsec have far more interest in the game than purely highsec players. The voting, or lack thereof, is proof by purely highsec dwellers.

Eve is huge, go explore. Why make any specific area a fixed place for yourself ?

Next time, cast a CSM vote. Join a decent Corporation that is not focused on Highsec only, or Nullsec only. Do the latter and you end-up throwing stones. That's something that people in glass houses should not do.

o7

Oh, you mean like how all my friends tell me that not voting means my voice isn't heard, meanwhile the only possible outcome is between two virtually identical parties/candidates? What's that like? ;)

What a load of old cobblers.

This just in: nullsec players aren't allowed to have individual opinions.

No. Those of us who live on the outer edges of the galaxy hear Sansha Kuvakei in our sleep. He tells us who to vote for in the CSM elections.

The CSM is represented by the majority opinion. That is a fact. If the majority opinion was "carebear oriented" the majority of the CSM would be "carebear" represented.

The simple truth is that the majority of Eve players want to fly around in space ships and blow each other up.

Eh, no. Because we have a good amount of people involved, we obviously have very effective campaigns in place to involve players who want to be involved. Pointing to the rest as some kind of failure to engage is plain dishonest.

Then maybe you should stop employing them…

No, the statistical theory that shows that as small a sample as 1‰ can correctly reflect the thoughts and opinions of the population at large.

The problem is that your ideas for “better” all seem to fall into the category of things that people filter out automatically these days, whereas what they've been doing has so far produced almost unparalleled engagement.

One fact we have is that PvP is the most liked activity in EVE, enjoyed by the vast majority of players, which seems to correspond rather well with the representation on the CSM…