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pls make sec status boughtable with ISK and able to gain by hunt .

Altaen, Kwark is the CSM of our heart.

RANT ABOUT LOWSECS

Lowsec space is great in my opinion. It has easy access to highsec, the risk is somewhat lower due to limitations on bubbles and the like and there's no sovereignty, you can go anywhere and dock anywhere and so forth. But unfortunately actually spending time in lowsec causes you to lose sec status, even if you're just hoping to be a carebear you're often forced to fire first as the inty mwds at you in a site. I like lowsec a lot, I like the increased risk, I like the potential for sudden PvP, I like hunting people and I quite like being hunted. It's good, it's solid game design, but again, poor implementation. The game goes "oh, so you want to take advantage of all this amazing content in lowsec, that's fine, you can have that, hope you don't mind if I take away all the highsec content from you unless you jump through an incredibly pointless and arbitrary set of hoops". Well actually game, I do mind losing access to all highsec content just because I want to spend time in lowsec and I don't think the system used for sec status gain is in any way good.

Next comes the colossal imbalance in reward between comparable activities. Now, I'm not a space communist, I understand that different activities have different complexities, player skills required and so forth. I understand that knowing which are the high value activities and which are not often involves spreadsheeting and it's perfectly reasonable that ignorance results in a lower income. That's not what this is about. What this is about is that comparable activities which are comparable in game skills needed, risk, market awareness and all the rest of it are essentially a lottery in terms of the result because there is no consistency in the reward given when CCP introduced stuff to the game. I think part of this comes down to CCP not really playing their own game (as evidenced by Inferno and the fw problems) but it is an issue. A working knowledge of opportunity cost leads players to the conclusion that if they're in lowsec doing PvE that isn't fw missions, even if it's regular missions in the same space, then they're actually paying for the privilege of not indulging in the broken mechanic. What I would like to see is the reward for comparable activities scaled, rather than just being the result of an arbitrarily assigned number some years ago. Tiericide and t1 ship revamps are slowly dealing with the power creep that made some hulls obsolete but the exact same process of new content making old content obsolete has happened to entire parts of the game and that also needs to be addressed.

There are more examples which I'm sure other people have experienced, I raise these ones only because they're the ones nearest to my heart but what matters is the underlying principle. There is a problem of arbitrary and partial implementation of good game design in eve that creates a barrier to entry and actively disincentivises engaging in a lot of the content in the game. Entire parts of the game have become figurative pre-patch stabber with any value they ever had stripped away by new content. What I would like to see is for CCP to take a step back from pushing shiny new expansions and instead look at what they've done over the last few years and try and impose some kind of system on it to make content accessible and rational. I'm very happy to say that CCP seem to be of the same opinion with their new ship changes trying to redress the problems expansions have created over the years but the problems go beyond that.


TLDR: Give living in lowsec some love by making the stuff in the game make sense and not punish people for choosing to lowsec. I'm an angry angry man.

It would seem so.

nth REVEALED POLACY
Courtesy of Def
Sensor strength is reactive rather than static. Upon each successful jam, the defender's sensor strength is temporarily raised. It is reset to default after a time if no successful jams were achieved. Falcon can still falcon you out of tackle and high base sensor strength is still very valuable but permajammed forever while you slowly die won't be a thing.

I disagree with bubbles in low for the same reason that I disagree with doomsdays and other sov upgrades. In fact, I'd see titan bridging in low added to the list of banned things. Lowsec is meant to be a smaller pond than the one you nullsec guys swim in, devoid of the superweapons and advanced logistical things. While nullsec certainly has its advantages and is a very important and entertaining part of the eve experience there's already quite a lot of it. I don't see any reason to pave over lowsec, which has its own diverse culture, with more nullsec.

Sorry Powers.

n+1th REVEALED POLACY
The case for removing the clone system, or at least the clone costs, was made recently to tm.com. I'd like to offer some thoughts on that. Basically everyone everywhere has their clone set to a medical station to avoid the risk of skillpoint loss. This means that it is simply a question of isk and routine to keep a clone up to date (although it'll be funtimes when people get the dessy/bc bonus and then immediately lose them because +6m SP). So, let's look at the way clones work in terms of gameplay. If you don't immediately do the same four mouseclicks every time you get podded then the game punishes you by taking away your skillpoints which are, confusingly enough, the thing that lets you play the game. Then you have to get them back by not logging in and letting things train to get back to where you were. This is not good game design, people who get distracted easily or are bad at adhering to that kind of routine should not be sent into a naughty corner and told that they can't use whatever it was they wanted the most until they say they're really super sorry. That could be fixed by automating clone updating and simply debiting the wallet because everyone would tick that option given the choice but then, when you consider that, it's nothing more than a PvP tax which hits veterans harder. It doesn't make any sense. I'm not sure what it's for, maybe CCP initially wanted there to be some kind of risk to skill points for roleplay value but it is not a meaningful choice or a deterrent because nobody chooses to fly in an unupgraded clone to save the isk, it just goes "Hah! You didn't jump through this particular hoop, now you can't play the game you paid for and contribute to in your favourite ship for the next few weeks, bet you regret not being more careful now!". The game is an *******.

I'm sure it sounded great in theory on the drawing board at CCP HQ. But if you actually play the game then the best case scenario is that you always remember to make those four clicks and essentially automate the hoop jumping, this is not good game design.

The best choice! KwarK FOR CSM!!!

Probably the only reasonable low sec CSM.

I, King in the EAST, raise my banners for this!