Jita Park Speakers Corner

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I began playing EvE back in early 2011. Immediately in EvE I gravitated towards exploration. It opened up the avenues I needed to understand the fundementals about EvE. PVP, Ratting, Ore and Gas harvesting, Salvaging, Analyzing, Code cracking, and the potential they all had for profit and what I felt was right for me to find my way in EvE. Wormholes, and raiding them, became the trade that I gravitated towards and stuck with for nearly 7 months. A combination of PvP, Ratting, and salvaging gave me enough time and profit, to decide where I wanted to go. I had multiple accounts and I learned quick how to earn fast, fat, Isk. I transitioned from Wormholes to marketing, establishing a thick market in Shenda, an island high sec stationed on the ourskirts of low sec, I honed and mastered mining, manuefacturing, and processing. Picking up Orca, barges, covert transport, and using wormholes to move what I earned, it provided me with ample experience to learn that the real profit was in mining, at least with multiple accounts. I moved to high sec, deciding on taking everything I had learned and turning it to the benefit of others. I settled in Nakugard and decided to open a public, community fleet, that catared to everyone, new and veteran. It became a success with people coming and going, we gathered hundreds of people who wanted to benefit from boosts while learning everything, that myself and other fleet commanders, we accumulated, knew and had learned. I discovered, beside mining, helping others was what made EvE enjoyable for me.

I was encouraged to run for CSM by the overwhelming support i've been shown while trying to help and encourage others to develop their skills and take new avenues in EvE online. They've shown me that one person can make a great deal of difference if they extend their hand and give other players a leg up. I truely enjoy helping other players and I believe that I have learned more then enough about EvE to make valuable contributions and suggestions that will be an asset to CCP's game development strategies.

I believe I would be a powerful voice for the players of EvE because of my consistent daily gameplay, open mindedness, and willingness to rationalize and consider other players ideas and what they would like to see improved, while maintaining a balanced and decent approach. The fleet that myself, and other commanders have created in Nakugard has proven a hundred times over that we care for community and that we will always do our best to help them resolve an issue, no matter what it may be.

I am a miner by trade so I have seen the spectacular work that has been done in high sec with the recent innovations in industry, but I do believe it is time to change direction and begin to strengthen other areas of game play such as exploration, wormhole oppertunies and expansion, as well as making nullsec profitable and fun to venture into once more.
People are what makes EvE filled with life and vibrant prosperity or torn asunder with war and set aflame with strife. The people are the real power behind EvE. Its dynamic, inventive, and diverse nature is owed to any and every player that piloted a ship, blew one up, or manuefactured the ships to do either. It's about you, each one of you, that helped to contribute, or to destroy, and keep the wheel in motion. The servers, and all they are, would not exist without its players.

I believe improving gameplay is important and more specifically giving incentives to those who choose to make their livings, be it in high sec, low, or null. By offering optional, purchasable, mining rights in high sec players would be allowed faster CONCORD response. Sec status would serve duel functions in both limiting where criminals can travel and insentives for players to even have decent sec status beside a break in refining. However lowsec should provide unique mining and industrial material gains that will not be found in high sec, some of which would require more advance exploration skills. Nullsec pilots would benefit in having a unique enviroment that provides more potent money gains that would otherwise be void in high sec. I believe nullsec is broken and needs desperate attention to return players to null and give them a reason as such. Salvaging could use a new fitting arrangement, skill set, and drones capable of tractor beaming cargo cans. I wish to focus on improving the overwhelming majority of game play and not just specific areas. Expanding wormhole variety and oppertunity would be a priority to include the possibility for space stations, markets, buildable stargates to link WH space, and more versatility for players living in the wormholes to establish more firm power bases from which to operate, giving way to possible wormhole conquest and mapping systems that would allow explorers to navigate vast stretches of space and know where they intend to go.

Nice wall of text.

Edit: I see you want to remove ganking from highsec. Get out. Go ruin some other game.

Are we playing the same EVE? Random wardecs are allowed...high sec is distinguishable from null sec, despite their being allowed.

Also, consider formatting your post into clear paragraphs.

I find it unimpressive that you have communicated so little on these forums.

How are we to know who you are without that? Also how do we know this lack of communication will not just continue if you are elected?

"How are we to know who you are without that? Also how do we know this lack of communication will not just continue if you are elected?"

I express my views in game and take a direct approach to helping and changing the game in Tranquility. While I have read the forums and heard what others had to say and their opinions, I did not find it neccessary to express mine. However, I do not believe someones vote should be based on the candidates amount of posts in a forum alone, but rather their performance in game, as that shows what their true colors are.

Not everyone is going to know who I am, or who the other candidates are for that matter, I am not running based on my popularity or how well others know my name, but rather my intentions to be a competent and attentive CSM.

Also, you would not know if I would become a deliquint CSM. You woulden't know that about any candidate until they were elected.

What is your stance on AFK skill training?

Also, to clarify on ideas concerning WH space and to explain what I would propose.

1.) Expansion would include players being capable of mapping wormhole space, to make it easier for explorers to use wormholes to travel all over new eden, this would require a new type of WH program for EvE.

2.) Players would be able to establish space stations without sovreighty. And also be able to construct stargates that could link with other WH systems. The process and time it would take would be extensive, most likely requiring weeks and a great deal of player effort to make it possible, the gates would be destroyable.

3.) Markets would be able to be constructed, and Ice/fuel would be able to be exchange and refined and used in WH space, and transfered through stargates. The idea of adding a new type of, very limited, ice that is able to be discovered through exploration would also be an interesting idea, but would only provide so much.

4.) The WH themselves, and the entrance into them from foreigners change yes, but the idea I wanted to propose would make it possible (through weeks of building a stargate in open space) it would be possible for alliances to link WH space together.
Example: 2 C4, 6 C5, and 3 C6 and they can connect their own WHs with gates to be mobile within their own space, and if they connect another WH with static high, they can get fuel whenever they need, everytime.

If you have any additional questions on any of the ideas i've put fourth, please just ask and I would be more then willing to explain them in great detail.

James 315 Interview: http://audio.crossingzebras.com/Files/CSM8%20Election%20Interviews_%20James%20315.mp3

Where the concept of person to person wardecs is mentioned explicitely.

and you may want to check the candidacy board, and how you speak to players, before you call me disconnected. You apparently are ignorant of the contents of your own board and would do well to check it again.

However, I am unconcerned with what you believe if that is the only opinion you are capable of expressing on everything I have presented. So let me clarify one more thing, if you don't have anything constructive to say, then you should be quiet. If there are any other questions about my concepts, please present them in a mature way, instead of slander. It is, after all, very unbecoming, not to mention immature, of a CSM member to act in an unproffesional manner.

"At present the risk differential between player and NPC corps is so great, that at present for the sake of a few percentage points in tax NPC corp members enjoy total immunity to virtually all risk in highsec. That is, no wardecs and no awoxing, ganking doesn't count as everyone runs that risk regardless of the type of corp they are in. How would you suggest addressing this imbalance?"


Implying it is an imbalance, implying I would view it as an imbalance, which I do not.

However, the solution I came up with was very similar in nature to Anya Klibor's. Put term limits on the NPC corperations. NPC Corperations provide a viable alternative for players who do not, and will not, tolerate unwanted, unwarrented, harassment through unjustified war declarations, which is what caused the current supposed 'crisis' with NPC corps to occur in the first place.

Awoxing doesen't count anymore then ganking. And is not a valid reason to force players into corperations.

The fact of the matter is, one side (an individual corp) allows war decs, the other (NPC corps) provide players with an enviroment free of war decs, at the cost of taxation (11.0%) which is not marginal for certain players who make large somes of money. being 110mil isk out of every 1bil.

I would not change it or make it any different then it already is, especially for an infinitely small sub-group that would benefit from it by causing chaos on players who can no longer use the game without being wardecced constantly for fun. If anything, I would change how many times one corp can war dec another, and if it were possible, make you explain the reason why you declared war, so you aren't just deccing someone because you don't like them making more money then you, as is the case with alot of these random war decs.

I also do not support, forcing others to play the game the way others think they should play it, no one has anymore right then the next person to decide what is fun and how the game should be played, EvE is different for all of us, try to remember that.

What is percieved as fun is different for all of us.

Your ideas for wormholes disgust me and nearly the entirety of the veteran wormhole community.

they are counter to what wormholes should be and are, they only serve to make it closert o null is now, something no region of eve should try and do.