Jita Park Speakers Corner

I don't know why people get hung up on this concept. I represent both of them in the fact that my platform is about their voice being heard. Let me give you an example of how being narrow minded to my opinion doesn't benefit players.

A guy enjoys ganking freighters and here are his reasons why it's good: A, B, C. I think ganking freighters is bad so am already prejudiced against his opinions and will probably not bring it up at the CSM table because it doesn't fit in with what I think is important in Eve.

Essentially by doing this I am saying my opinion on our game is more important than yours. On the most fundamental level that is so wrong.

So, here's how I would represent both, and more.

A guy enjoys ganking freighters and here are his reasons why it's good: A, B, C. He's expressed his opinion with supporting thoughts and ideas in an intelligent way. I may have even corresponded with him directly as a CSM member to further explore his ideas.

Another guy doesn't enjoy losing his loaded freighters and his reasons of A, B, C are equally good and well thought out and presented.

I'm at the CSM table. The conversation of freighters comes up. Some CSM members are for. Some are against. In the ensuing conversation I now have the ability to talk to both sides of this particular argument thanks to the insights provided by the players who inevitably will always know more about a given topic than any single man can know about them all.

This allows for discussions to happen that might not otherwise have occurred. By making sure every player opinion is heard on a given topic it allows for deeper insights to be gained and allows the CSM to make better and more well-informed decisions.

That's why it's not about my opinion. As a CSM member I should serve the players.

Much appreciated, pilot.

Thanks for the opportunity, Xander. Was a brutal, to the point, straighforward interrogation. I enjoyed it immensely.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated. As for getting onto the CSM, all I can ask is that you spread the word to others you know. That's the only way.

Your support is much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to post.

Hello there!

I would like to name several situations that I feel are detrimental to the game. Give a solution and ask you for your stance on both. I do need answers to all the situations for my vote(s)

POS those three letters bring nightmares to just about anyone having the misfortune of having to operate one. The solution in the long term is obviously modular POS. Yet CCP seems to be backpedaling on implementing this despite the MANY benefits. What is your stance on the possibility of a near term bandage of a form of player POS that is only designed to be the equilivant of a Secure Container for ships until modular POS is ready?

Overpowered passive cloaking. It is now to the point where people are now beyond AFK cloaking but running Twitch.tv streams of enemy stations and systems! Would you support balancing cloaking to punish those who go AFK (Eventually able to be scanned down for decloak) while maintaining the benefits to people actively cloaking (Remaining at their keyboard)

Lack of Ring Mining. Again with the CCP backpedaling despite the many benefits for nullsec and other areas for the game. What is your stand on the crap that is moon mining?

The silly push by some in the community to end or delay "Local" or any effective means for those in a nullsec system to determine if a hostile or unknown is in system in them. This obviously needs no solution but I want your thoughts.

The horrible state of missions in hisec. The solution in my opinion is a complete rewrite to allow for a more incursion like approach that rewards those who want to train up logistic frigs and cruisers or be a specific role in a fleet. Also providing a way for newer players to experience group play in EVE.

Incursion suckage. With the nerfs to Incursions fleets have slowed to a trickle and it was sad to see CCP willing to spend more development time nerfing entire expansions instead of doing what was right being making other aspects of EVE better. Modular POS and Ring mining need dev time sooner so I will admit this ought to be looked at later however I wanted to get your views on them and have this to be some context to the next aspect of Logi.

Logi suckage. Logis do not have the tools to do their job. They need to be able to tell who is locked and taking damage and in large fleets the watchlist can't handle that leading to dependence on broadcasts that most of EVE seems to not know or refuse to use right. Look at any average HQ incursion fleet where people don't broadcast right stressing out logi or in fleet fights where following FCs orders makes it harder to broadcast properly. A solution is a logi only screen that is completely configurable to show who is taking the most DPS and who has the most locks in fleet.

Logi Suckage #2 Reps don't get you on mails? Wut? Solution obviously is to have repping those in fleet land you on killmails generated from fleet.

Thanks for not just asking me my opinion but for offering yours. I appreciate your views and will share my views with you:

POS - There is always the dance of managing development cycles against player outcry/demand. It may very well be possible that CCP simply doesn't have the resources/cycles to do POSes up right at this time, though as has been demonstrated many times in the past, they will cave to public outcry, which I personally disagree with. "Bandaid" solutions rarely work and can often result in aggravating a situation instead of alleviating it. I am sure the current CSM has some interesting ideas on this subject as it has been around a long while and I would look forward to exploring those ideas as well as hearing more ideas from other players such as yourself.

Should they be glorified containers? No, of course not.

AFK Cloaking - I completely disagree with any mechanic that gives AFK players an advantage over playing characters. I also know the vast majority of players I talk to about these type of issues are in agreement with this sentiment. I am 100% in favour of balancing this game system, as well as others; not as a punishment to AFKers, as it really isn't, but to level the playing field once again.

Moon Mining - I'll be honest here, never done it, never had access to it. Read about it. Talked with Corp/Alliance Directors about it. Sensitive issue. Those that have it don't want to let it go. Those that don't have it, want it and cry foul. I've not come to an informed enough opinion on it yet. What's yours?

Local - I did speak hypothetically on local in this thread already as an example of how it's important to me not to make my opinions known but rather to stand on a platform of making sure player opinions are heard. To me that is far more important that my own singular ideas. I think there is a way local can be removed in certain situations that makes sense, but that is my singular opinion and should their be better ideas out there that make more sense, I would stand behind those. Not necessarily the majority idea ... the better idea.

Incursions - Yeah, I enjoyed them originally. They were shiny. I also agree that systems shouldn't be nerfed instead of other systems being improved.

Logi - I'm hoping that your ideas, and many others I have heard like it, are implemented during ship balancing.

Killmails - On the one hand, I personally could care less about killmails. To me, it's ePeen. On the other hand, it exists as a game mechanic and should therefore function correctly.

I think it's important to understand something about my campaign, as many of your questions are asking for direct stances on issues, most of them being game development related.

CCP are aware of the issues you've presented. They are not ignorant of us. If these items aren't on their agenda, the CSM needs to decide how much of its efforts to use to get any/all of them on the agenda. Even then, there is no guaranteed success.

I will not promise you that I will fix a single damn thing as that is beyond my, and the CSM's, control. I do promise to make your opinion heard at the CSM table.

Thanks again for taking the time to post.

My candidacy is official. Now I need to secure a minimum of 200 endorsements.

Please, take a moment and ENDORSE ME.

Much appreciated, pilot.

Come on guys.. Vote for THE ROC !!!!

Roc will be on my recommended ballot. As I said there, he'll either be a good CSM, or we'll make him RP a good CSM.