Jita Park Speakers Corner

Just finished a tres tasty bacon butty, it made me think I should come along and bump the thread for EvE’s premier CSM8 candidate and Bacon supporter extraordinaire.

Also, it’s a slow day in the world of network administration and I'm slightly bored.

Interesting. Never tried Dijon with bacon... hmmm

Honey mustard is awesome in bacon sandwiches. I dont know if you have ever made your own, but i can recommend a recipe if not!

what's your position regarding the recent CCP "direction" nerffing resistance bonus?

i'm sorry you think that way; rof bonuses are better than any other dmg bonunses, should they be nerfed too? then what's next?

no votes from me

heh, i think this has more to to with local armor reps being s**t than with anything else; there are allot of shield ships outhere that are using ASB for example;
let me ask you something: is by your logic eagle an overpowerd ship? or sacrilege?
i'm sure all the math there look nice but noone complained about res bonus untill CCP come and say" this is overpowered"; yes ppl complained about some ships with this bonus but that is more of a problem with certain ships and nerfing 40 ships to fix 2 is a very BAD solution in my book;

my point still stands, nerfbat is bad and a benevolent CSM is bad for eve in my opinion, no votes from me,
thx for your time.

If you think you're going to get a CSM that's always going to be getting up in CCP's face and yelling at them for you when you disagree with a change (because let's be honest here, your opposition to the change is rooted in "I don't like this don't nerf my ships") then you're probably in for a long, sad year.

Agreed. Fortunately for us both, I believe that the argument has been made there. The job in front of us is to make sure that null gets "saved" in the right way, with an eye on creating a proper niche for the small independent groups as well as making sure that the average joe in the big groups can have more fun than just sitting on a titan or playing Tanks until the next ping to sit on a titan goes out.

I think the CSM:CCP:Player dynamic has evolved considerably from what you think of the "glory days" of CSM 5 & 6. All the evidence is that CCP has dramatically changed their attitude to both the CSM and the players, and that this has been reflected in a change in the way the CSM operates. The CSM and CCP have become much more aligned on the ABC issues that need working on, and the CSM now spends most of its efforts in providing input into whether CCP should do A->B->C, or whether C needs to be rebalanced before A can be worked on or else we'll ruin B as a profession, and so on. The CSM are representing players very construnctively and usefully in this way. And we can measure their success by the result: we've seen a stream of excellent updates and communication from CCP over the last year, and EVE is in the best state it has been for a very long time.

In contrast, you seem to be stuck in the table-pounding 'us-vs-them' adversarial mindset, where the CSM's worth is measured in the drama produced and the media exposure generated, where the idea of the CSM working with CCP is what you call "brown nosing", and "representation" is defined as the CSM ~fearlessly~ opposing CCP. This was absolutely true of CSM5. It will almost certainly be completely wrong for CSM8. We're not interested in table pounding. We're not interested in generating drama. We're interesting in getting the best results.

I will represent the interests of the players to CCP. Your assurance of this is that I am one of the players. I said early on that my motivation for running for election is because I want EVE to be a better game to play, so that when my year is up, I can get back into playing a game that's better than it is now.

If for some bizzarre reason CCP lose their minds and start up again with the insanity of the :18 month: era, then I'll fight them tooth and nail, and with any dirty trick and every rhetorical device that I think might be effective, and I'm pretty sure that all of the other candidates will be doing the same.

But the contingency is remote. I'm very much afraid that you're going to have to cope with another year of CCP making mostly good decisions, mostly doing things that we like and mostly changing things for the better. However, I'll do my best to make sure that you don't have to cope with another year of the CSM working hard on working with CCP, but neglecting their responsibility to communicate that process back to the community.

No I wrote it in response to a comment in another thread, then decided to remove it from the candidates I had asked.

To be honest the biggest problem CSM 7 faced was lack of communication, transparency and forgetting who they actually work for.

Hopefully we will not have the same problems with CSM 8

As to table bashing, I am not sure of your options there.

I will leave you with a quote from Hans answering a statement of mine

Apologies on the Edits, I am conflicted at this point. (And very tired)