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Greetings fellow citizens of New Eden,

For those of you who don't know me, I am Daehan Minhyok. I currently Fly with the LI3 Federation which is part of the HBC coalition in 0.0 space. I have been playing EVE since Dec 2009, days after Dominion was released. I began life in high-sec where I lived for over a year as a miner/mission runner, spent some brief time in wormholes and faction warfare, and moved to null sec first as a renter, then as a member of sov holding alliances. I have been involved in the community as the co-host of the podcast WTFWIT for a year and a half, and for the last 8-9 months as a producer on the PODSIDE podcast.

At this time I am refining my platform, but the basic principles I plan to stick to are;
Improving Customer Relations:
Improving Nullsec
Improving the New Player Experience
Saving High-sec
Integrating and supporting Dust 514
Re balancing Risk Vs. Reward

For more information about my ideas, ideals, and info about me, check out my blog (link below) .

I look forward to answering your questions and hearing/reading your critiques, and discussing topics with anyone who cares to do so.

You can find me in eve as Daehan Minhyok,
facebook as Daehan Minhyok,
twitter as @Daehan_minhyok
youtube as Minhyok1
my blog http://shadowintheblack.blogspot.com/
at http://www.crazycasters.com/#news
and at http://s8.multiplexgaming.com/ forums

You say that you're going to improve some things. That's great, but how do you intend to do it? What especially needs changing?

Edit; I see from your blog that your solution for nullsec involves making PVE compulsory to maintain sov. You've lost my vote, but perhaps you'd like to elaborate on some of the other things that you're going to improve?

Edit 2: I'd particularly like to hear about 'saving highsec' and what you're going to save it from? Perhaps you should focus on this one, because I doubt you're going to get many votes from null.

Some snippets I'd like to comment on from your blog.


PvP is not an isk sink outside of isk paid to insure ships, and that winds up a net faucet anyway, and fees paid by the person who built your ship, which are miniscule. "Sink" means "removed from the game" not "removed from your wallet." Just a minor nitpick.

As to your ideas for "fixing nullsec", their general approach mirrors what the dude in this thread proposed, and so it should not surprise you that I find them pretty dumb. I commented on my own views for accounting for player activity in the thread, but the long and the short of it is that player activity would actually have a measurable contribution to sov (but not be the only contribution, there would be passive gain up to a certain level.) You hold your space because your players actually use it, not because you jump through arbitrary combat oriented PvE hoops.

Thank you all for your comments thus far,

As to my ideas towards nullsec, they are one set of ideas based around a similar principle. I appreciate being pointed towards a similar discussion and will consider the ideas discussed there as well. However, it is still just one idea and the issue of making null sec a place for both large groups and small is a tricky one. Many suggested fixes make it far too easy to bot, and others make it too tedious for players interested in PVP. Finding a balance between requiring the mundane and requiring the presence of actual human intelligence is the key. I believe the CSM should know the pulse of the community and be able to accurately provide CCP with information on how much tedium the player base as a whole are willing to put up with.

As both a long time PVE-er, mission runner and ratter, as well as PVP pilot, I feel I can accurately represent the players' willingness to perform such tasks.

As for improvements I would like to make across the board:

In terms of customer relations, I would like to help increase transparency to the players about processes within CCP. This could include increased communication by, or about, Dev's reasoning for pursue some projects over other, at least in the case of projects already disclosed.

It is somewhat of a running gag on Podside to tease one of our other producers about his views on customer service. However, the pettition process is one that causes many players to feel slighted. The phrase, "The logs don't show anything" has come to be known, as a cop-out for lazy GMs. Sometimes the logs don't show anything, but a players experience seems to depend more on which GM responds more so than which solution is prudent.

As a member of CSM 8 I would push for transparency in the petition process in making sure that players knew When they should expect a response, and what sorts of factors/rubrics are used to determine the eligibility for the solution the player desires, be it reimbursement or a hotfix. Dev's have demonstrated the vast amount of data collected in logs of player activities, there is still some misunderstanding whether GM's don't have access to the same logs, can't read the information properly, or choose not to read them. I would do what I can to make sure that concrete rules were laid down and enforced to ensure taht GM's were properly evaluating each and every petition.

Another issue I would like to address are faction standings. I believe that there are many players who are displeased with their current standings but feel unable to do anything about it. This ranges from mission runners who can't go to trade hubs in other regions "safely", or faction warfare pilots with the same problem. Sometimes, faction warfare pilots even want to switch sides.

A quick solution would be to let pilots run the cosmos agents multiple times, as long as their faction standings were below 0, but without gaining the corporate standings also provided by the same agents.

When and if CCP addresses the issue of faction standings during the time CSM 8 would work with them, I believe I would be able to provide them feedback about how the community feels about the solutions CCP would like to implement.

I look forward to sharing my other thoughts and responses with you in the coming weeks,

Min

And highsec? What do you think of its current state? How do you intend to 'save' it?

People in nullsec actually approve of your blog post about improving nullsec?

Or you mean you know that everyone thinks it is a terrible idea and you're just ignoring that fact?

Welp, good to hear that you're discussing it. You should post here when you've written a new blog post or updated the old one with a new idea. I look forward to reading it.


In the meantime, I'd love to hear more about this!

How would you suggest that CCP balances between those pilots who don't want to be disturbed when they mine and run missions and those pilots who want to disturb people who are mining or running missions?


Surely this would just make it easier for people to leave highsec? Sure, that's a good thing, but it doesn't help highsec expand and 'thrive'.


How should CCP do this?

From what.... from it being high sec

Would the people be better off voting for someone who already knows his stuff?