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Best Idea ever...


And after Null is completely deserted we can bulldoze the place and make a huge shopping mall.

Any ideas for the name, New Eden Mart? Captains quarters, bath and beyond?

well it certainly woulnd't b a target

Oh look, "Proposal #43016 for CCP to force 0.0 players to stop playing the way I think they shouldn't."

For those interested in actually being part of the conversation and not just failing at trolling, I would enjoy hearing you opinions both on my ideas, as well as your ideas.

Min

Among others, I imagine that you're referring to my 'eh' comment.

That was not a troll, and you do me a disservice by suggesting that it was. As a member of the CSM, you are going to need to be able to communicate your ideas and opinions effectively to both CCP and the playerbase. What I responded to was not effective communication; it made no sense at all. I was asking for clarification, and I think you should provide it.

Sure, this is a good point. I will go into as much detail on these points as I can. While I have come up with these ideas, and/or agree with the ideas of others and list them here, I would stress that as a CSM representative I would foster discussion about them among the community before approaching CCP with them. Since sharing my ideas with others in my corp/alliance/coalition I have received both positive and negative feedback about them and certainly taken them into consideration. For example, my idea in my "Fixing Null-Sec" post on my blog were well received by my friends who enjoy ratting and enjoy 0.0 , indeed others have liked them as well. But there are many who dislike the idea. Therefore, while its an attempt at a solution I do notfeel it would ever be a good enough solution to suggest to CCP as a CSM at a future summit, or even casually. Fortunately, it is not teh duty of the CSM to present CCP with ideas in the fashion that many players believe. A CSM member is tasked with vetting CCP ideas, when they are shared, and sharing what they believe will be the reaction of the player-base. In cases where a CSM member does not feel they already know how the player-base will react, it would be wise of them to find a way to check without breaching any NDA that cover the material in question.

As for specific actions I would like to take, or areas I would work to show progress in, as a CSM I would:
Improve customer relations by: Continuing to communicate with the player-base through my podcast, the PODSIDE podcast, other podcasts that invite me, and my blog, as well as other means such as forums and twitter. In addition, I would like to pursue outlining the hierarchy of the petition process and doing what I can to help take the sting out of the phrase, "The logs don't show anything".

Improving Null-sec:
I would like to enlist the help of the community to find solutions to several of the issues that exist in 0.0. This includes current sov mechanics, force projection, top-down vs. bottom-up alliance income, and territory control.

New Player Experience:
The current text based tutorial system needs a major update. Also, the tutorial skip over several important topics such as ganking, placing bounties, podding, and several others.

Saving High-Sec:
Many players who don't live in high-sec look down on it. In general it is believed by many to be disjointed gatherings of new player or in-experienced players, or a whole collection of other derogatory ideas. This is not true, however, High-sec is an important part of the eve "ecosystem". It is my desire to make sure that any plans for other parts of the game do not negatively effect high-sec. In addition, several issue specific to high-sec, such as war-decs, ganking, and missioning require TLC.

Dust 514:
Dust 514 is a new addition to the New Eden Universe. Like it or not, it will be fully integrated with eve one day. I will work to make sure that the players desires' are effectively communicated to CCP when linking dust 514 and Eve. This would include making sure that if/when Dust514 effects 0.0 Sov, that the sovereign owner of the system has the opportunity in Eve to defend their space, not just in Dust514,

Risk vs Reward:
This topic spans all parts of space, including high/low/null-sec and wormholes. As it stands, the rewards in null-sec are disproportionate to the risk of living there, as compared to high-sec as a base. Likewise, low-sec is much more dangerous, for both pirates and industry. Wormholes are considered to be balanced, however, personal and corporate asset security is inbalanced in a way that hampers corp growth.

I hope that this answers your questions, and look forward to further discussions

Min

Get yourself interviewed:

http://crossingzebras.com/post/40699271518/electioninterviews

I interviewed Min as part of the Crossing Zebras CSM8 Election Interviews. You can check it out here:

http://c-z.me/csm8daehanminhyok

Modular Pos’s
The idea between modular pos’s in an interesting one. The idea that one you deploy a pos you can get modules for it similar to houses in skyrim would make things more simple. For example, in skyrim you buy a dining room set, and when you next go in your house there are tables set with plates and foods and cutleries and the things one would expect to find in a dining area. As well in Pos’s it would be nice to have modular research packages, or manufacturing packages. As for development time, I think it would be worth it, if it’s done properly, I think CCP needs to continue to interact with the CSM and the general community to get input on ideas for what to include in the modules, and how many modules can be attached to a tower.
I don’t think we need an interim fix that will take six months to a year to develop and only last for six months to a year.

Cloaking
AFK cloaking is considered a legitimate tactic and choosing to remain docked or logged out while an afk cloaker is present. I have long believed that sovereignty holders should be able to deploy a Pos based module that allows them to de-cloak all ships in system. Unfortunately an easy bot could b created to immediately re-cloak the ship or log off the character. For these reasons a solid set of rules which may or may not include limits to how long a player can remain cloaked, or a timer to re-cloak. I believe it would be acceptable and fair for a mechanic that would prevent indefinite afk cloaking.
In regards to streaming of stations undock ramps and/or local, I don’t see any reasonable mechanic that CCCP could implement to prevent this. A mechanic to allow cloakers to be caught could, however, curtail the ability to relay intel in this way.

Moon Mining
Moon Mining is closely tied into the Pos debate. The idea of ring mining could potentially break the bottle-neck of Tec. CCP is currently mid-way through the process of fixing these problems. The addition of alchemy reactions produce other moon materials is one part of this. I feel that I would be able to facilitate the discussion between CCP and players on how best to remove bottle-necks and the ability to form cartel’s to control prices.

Local
The idea that local in null or delay it is ridiculous. The defense for retaining the current system is that players who take sov, pay concord to control the gates and keep the system, this pays for local. Pilots who don’t want local may move to wormholes if they like, and those that want local can stay out of wormholes.

Incursions
It is possible in an average or good fleet to earn just as much isk running incursions as it is running sites in null. This provides the options of nerfing incursions, boosting null, or pretending it’s not a problem. That argument aside, I would like to see incursions from other types of pirates.

Logi
Logi need some love. I would like to see logi represented on kill-mails generated from fights that occurred in which the logi repped combatants, without needing a small gun or drones.
As for mechanic support for logistics, a good mechanic to allow logi to better perform their role is beneficial. Insuring that logistics support provide reps appropriately is up to the pilots providing reps. Currently I’m unaware of any problems with the watch list. In theory, as I understand it, a member will flash when they are receiving agro, and damage shows up on meters for shield, armor, and hull. If the system works this way, I see no need for changes, logistics is a reactionary event, giving the logistics pilots to much knowledge about who is about to attacked would ruin the balance. Other issues in regards to broadcasting is upon the players and dev time would be better spent on other topics.

After posting about my positions on logi, I can certainly see where improvements can be made. I took the opportunity to fly in several fleets based around objectives that needed remote repping.

As for afk training.

If an account is being paid for, I see no reason not to allow training to continue at a regular pace. If a player decides not to login during that is up to them. I appreciate that when an account expires skill training continues for some time. I hope that players don't abuse this privilege.