Jita Park Speakers Corner

What's up with CSM candidates with numbers in their names always being trolls? First D3, now J315. Note to myself, never take anyone with number in their name seriously.

On to the mater. J315 argued his point so badly I'm sure he was deliberately bad. He must have been trolling given how self conflicting and absurd was nonsense that came out of his mouth.

Where to start?

1. he argues h.s. mining is as or more profitable then similar 0.0 alternatives. This is simply factually incorrect, solo mack miner in h.s. will be turning some 10-15m /h, solo ratter doing anoms in 0.0 in similarly priced ship will be turning some 50-60 m/h, miner mining in 0.0 that selects proper ore types can do abut double what h.s miner can do

2. J315 claims h.s. activities need rebalancing to reflect profit to risk of those activities but when it comes to examples he suggesters:

- nerfing h.s. activities that are least profitable and least safe (belt mining that brings about 10-15m /h and comes with constant exposure of ship in belt )

- he mostly ignores mission runners that generate mediocre profits with mediocre safety (about 30m /h in a pocket that has to be probed out first by gankers)

- and absurdly he actually endorses most profitable and least dangerous activity in all of EVE, hub market trading. People that need never to undock and easily tun billions a day.

If he was serious about risk to reward he would go against h.s. market traders, demanding imposition of some sort of high frequency trade tax or some such ****, he certainly would not be wasting his time sperging nonsense about evil miners.

3. J315 claims 0.0 is locked in napfest because of h.s. miners, which must be the troll of a year, and all troll lovers should vote for him for CSM just for that claim. He will be wordy replacement for D3.

4. J315 states that not only are moon goo incomes reasonable but in fact hey are not enough and 0.0 needs to be made even more profitable despite it being vastly more profitable then either h.s. or lowsec

5. He talks about miner safety but has nothing to say about 0.0 entities abusing NPC corps to avoid wardecks. If there is a problem with safety in h.s. it is in NPC corps and not in h.s. as a whole. Any h.s. PC miner corp can be wardecked for a modest fee usually below price of single gank fit tornado. If he was serous about it he would demand either forcing players with above of say 3m SP out of NPC corps, or imposition of market, contract and station trade tax on people in NPC corps. But he does not do that. Why? Because he is a troll.

P.S. Good work Xander, looking forwart to your nexst interwievs.

Nope. My subjective opinion is irrelevant. This guy gets it bang on. I took the perspective of the average guy in Eve, most of which did not think positively about James 315 before that interview. When doing these interviews, it is imperative to ask the questions I feel the player base would want ask. 'Are you a troll candidate?' was at the top of every list from certain CSM members to the average grunt who emailed me before the interview.

The seventeenth interview is now live and this time we have Sort Dragon

http://c-z.me/csm8sortdragon

Well Xander, anytime you stick your neck out, someone is always willing to chop it off. I think all the interviews were great work (as I've already told you many times) You shouldered a job that no one in the podcasting community was willing to tackle. For that, great job, mate!

For your critics, you can always invite them to arrange, research and interview the candidates themselves on their own respective blogs or podcasts. I look forward to hearing/reading the non-biased ganker to High sec miner candidate interviews or the fascinating hard core pvp'er to Missioner candidate interviews.

Keep up the good work, man. You are raising the bar that we operate with.

Just a heads up - these interviews are currently on hiatus until I get back on dry land from this trip on an oil rig. I should be back in the next two weeks. If you are standing for CSM8 and I haven't yet booked a CZ interview with me, I highly recommend you do so. Details are here:

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

And the list of people both standing and who I have interviewed up to now is here:

http://crossingzebras.com/CSM8

Just a heads up - I am due back from this oil rig on 18th March. Anyone who is standing for election in CSM8 and hasn't yet booked an interview with me, drop me a Eve Mail and we'll get it organised. The full list of candidates can be found here crossing zebras.com/CSM8. The following people all have interviews scheduled with me when I get back:

Mangala Solaris
Malcanis
Scooter McCabe
Sala Cameron
Psychotic Monk
Crowned-Clown
ProGodLegend

The twentieth Crossing Zebras CSM8 Election Interview is up and this time we have Malcanis

http://c-z.me/csm8malcanis

And the twenty-second person to step up to the plate is my own alliance CEO, Kesper North

http://c-z.me/csm8kespernorth

And twenty-fourth on the list is TEST's official CSM8 candidate, Banlish

http://c-z.me/csm8banlish

Tomorrow evening (27th March) I am interviewing the following candidates:

Fon Revedhort
Travis Musgrat
Mangala Solaris
Riverini

And then on Thursday evening (28th March):

Corebloodbrothers
Sala Cameron
Artctura

The twenty-sixth person to jump into an interview with me is none other than NC. candidate Travis Musgrat

http://c-z.me/csm8travismusgrat