Jita Park Speakers Corner

My apologies, looks like I didn't quote the right part. I'm more concerned with how industry players don't matter to them.

You're on my slate, though lower than you would have been had it not been for the major null-sec voting plan.

Unforgiven Storm, it's time to stand up and drop the looser seat. Goons had a lot of good idea about how to fix null inldy. You stand up now or loose. And none love looser. Drop the tie, ur a goon!!

]Unforgiven Storm, it's time to stand up and drop the looser seat. Goons had a lot of good idea about how to fix null inldy. You stand up now or loose. And none love loosers. Drop the tie, ur a goon!

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You got my vote.
Good luck!

On The Campaign Trail

These 4 last days have been busy. Most of my time I spend campaigning one-o-one with other players by eve-mail or chat. Looking to my excel file I sent out more than 5000 eve mails for a total cost of 16M in CSPA changes.

Most of the feedback was good, I got more or less 200 replies, but I also got the usual hate mail against goons; the casual insult or the smart ass that thinks it can scam some money from me by selling his votes; I also got two emails in my gmail account with death threats, what is a first and I was a little socked, I wasn’t expecting them at all, some people just take this game too serious. One was pissed about a lost industrial ship 3 years ago to a goon gank, the other payed some security deposit and didn’t pass the “GSF Newbie Security Background Check” recently and “lost” it. /facepalm

I could try to spend some time explaining the difference between meta gaming and the CSM and how nothing has to do with it each other, but I would be loosing my time…

I also spend some considerable time on several forums, reading, not only my threads but also keeping track of some other candidates threads. There are funny stuff out there.

On Saturday I spend 2 hours recording a Lost in Eve Podcast with Mike, Kaleb and Nathan but unfortunately Jade Skype crashed in the end and we lost it. NSA is now the only entity that has a copy and this was one of the best debates ever! Kaleb gave out juicy secrets of GSF diplomatic team and the secret pact with PL to conquer EVE. Nathan show us compromising evidence that puts his direct adversaries in a middle of sexual wormhole scandal and Mike confessed that he is James 315! The best podcast ever and we lost it… /sigh

I also got new endorsements to join Jesper, Trebor and Ali Aras ones, from Alekseyev_Karrde, Rhavas, Issler Dainze and Malcanis. The STV actively encourages inter-candidate recommendations and that is always good. A Special Thank You for recognizing me, my ideas and the platform I defend has one of the 14th that should be in the CSM 8.

Suicide freighter ganking is part of the background atmosphere of risk and sudden violence which makes EVE the enthralling game it is.

In the arms race between the ganker and those who are ganked, the large gunned short range battlecruiser currently has the upper hand over the T1 freighter. Yet a T2 freighter with tens of billions in cargo can simply skip past any hisec camped as if it didn't exist. That balance is regularly upset by CCP game mechanics tweaks, some well thought out, others with unintended results.

I look forward to providing my own input both as an industrialist and with a detailed understanding of the mechanics used in organized freighter blockades during the next change to this increasingly important battlefield between the alliances of EVE.

Wrapping Up...

Monday, when I returned to my mailbox I had dozens of emails pending with questions and people pledging support. My blog during the weekend also hit a new record of page visits and most of the traffic originated from the CSM 8 candidate page.

I later found out the reason behind it, CCP Dolan send out an EVE mail to all active accounts with information about CSM 8.

To close this up, I want to write a small Q&A to address some of the major issues raised in the emails I received this weekend.

Q: What is your position about scamming?

EVE is a sandbox, CCP doesn't interfere unless you do something really really bad like threaten someone real life, post some nasty porno pics in local or say something really racist, for example.

Everything else is OK, players have the will to do whatever they want, for bad or good, its up to each one. Remember that if a person scam, you can go and gank him, kill him, hire mercenaries to go kill them, if you are a pacifist you can create a Google excel file with their names and blacklist them so other people don't fall for the scam, you can do everything you want. This is what makes EVE different from all other MMOs. The day CCP interferes this game will die, it will not be EVE anymore, its going to be a theme park WOW game and what is the fun of that?

Remember also that everything you own on this game is not yours, belongs to CCP, the isk, the ships, everything, so legally if someone takes it, is not taking it from you, they still belong to CCP, so no real world crime happened. I know its difficult to separate ourselves from real life ethics, I have that problem up to a point, but in the end this is why we play EVE, because its different, its dangerous, we have that rush when we pvp a player and risk losing that 200 M ship, we get a rush when we rob a POS or we giggle like a kid when someone accepted your 1 unit of carbon thinking it was a Charon and payed you 1,5 B.

That is what makes this game different and cool to play. Its hardcore, yes, but you are here and we are few, most of the people are afraid to play this game, run from it and here we are, you and me, we are special, we are better, we play the coolest bad ass game around and we survive and thrive and most people don't.

Q: You are the null sec, low sec industrialist by excellence but for high sec what do you propose?

Industry is not a specific area of space discipline. Most of the things I want apply to high sec, like a new industry UI window and tabs for invention, PI and manufacturing (dead to spreadsheets windows); I want a queue system similar to the skill queue for invention, research and manufacturing; the Industry POS improvements I want, apply to poses in high sec; I want less clicking; I want drag and drop in industry windows; I want job profiles and options saved so we can redo jobs with minimal clicks; I want multiple selection and bulk job creation in the industry windows; etc...

I want many things and most of them apply to everybody that does industry in high sec.

Q: What is your stance on missions?

Missions is not directly related with industry, unless we are only looking at the salvage part of it. For that I want to revamp salvage T2; I want T2 salvage dropping from other sources other than only T2 ships; I want to review T2 rigs inventions to easy the process; I want to have capital rigs; I want exploration sites to drop more datacores and invention related stuff everywhere, including in high sec, so they become useful for invention at reasonable prices;...

I could be here all day.

Q: What do you propose to improve mining?

Kill it! Mining cannot be improved!

I want a total revamp of the mining system, a new concept, something people like to to play and have fun, not something you press a button and became a human bot.

I want to launch a global discussion about the need to revamp mining from scratch. Should we do it? Everybody agrees? How can we make something else that is fun to play around mining?

I have some ideas to revamp it but I need to present them first to CCP for development validity before I present them to the players so we don't get the hopes up and then later get the ideas killed because its technically impossible to implement them.