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I'm not asking him if his corp has an anti-bot program to sniff out members that bot. I have read that his rules for his corp are that if you report another member for botting, regardless of wether they are guilty or not, you get kicked. This seems to be in contradiction to his earlier statement in this thread where he encoraged players "if you see a bot, click report a bot".

I want clarification on this contradictory position.

Have I quoted him out of context? If so I would be happy for him to tell me that. Of course that would mean that he is infact telling the playerbase "if you see a bot, DON'T click report a bot" which is not exactly a politically sound position to take is it?

Still waiting for the Mittani's clarification on this issue

Well that's not what I read. In the (leaked) article I saw he clearly stated that any goon who reported a fellow goon to CCP for botting would be kicked.

Still awaiting clarification, and loving all the goon tears

like i said, you're a stupid pubbie

shoo, back to your asteroids and ice belts

Cool, cool. It's kind of water under the bridge who came up with it, right? Cat's out of the bag now.

I think the more important question is, what sort of mechanics do you have in mind that would work well for both Faction Warfare and null sec sovereignty?

If you've got some good ideas, I can be convinced to get my people on board. We should definitely be talking specifics here though, I don't want my supporters getting all riled up about "null sec mechanics in FW" if there really isn't anything to get all doomsday about.

If you can explain to the Faction Warfare community what options you endorse that might be tested, maybe we can deflate the whole argument before it gets too out of control.

It might be a cat out of a bag for your people, but my people are happier with CCP not implementing ~grand ideas~ on null without testing them elsewhere first. One man's scandal is another's good sense.

However, I don't have any specific ideas about capture mechanics, nor did CCP bring up any at the summit, so the entire discussion is moot save for riling up your base (which is fine, do what you gotta do). It's actually kind of funny how little nullsec CSMs want to discuss sov mechanic changes, unless you've lived through the swap from Pos War to Dominion mechanics. (it was bad) We're more interested in working on risk/reward balance, force projection issues, tech rebalancing, etc.

There's a widespread skepticism of CCP having 'good' capture mechanic ideas across the nullsec CSM reps, given the record of Dominion; most of null is worried that there'd be some kind of a sweeping revamp of the sov system that somehow makes things even worse. I think we'd prefer CCP beta-test ideas on a smaller population and see if they work out on a smaller scale, first. If CCP can fix FW somehow, great - but if they botch it, a la Dominion, then the damage is limited in scope. It sucks being a guinea pig, but FW has been neglected for so long that any attention at all is good attention.

The sov issue/capture mechanic issue is different from stuff like Dead Horse (modular POS revamp). Everyone wants Dead Horse, it's just a matter of getting it done. There's no debate about it, no question about it being cool. By contrast, no one has a silver bullet idea for a workable capture mechanic; it's been discussed to death for years across null and CCP and no consensus has emerged other than 'all of this sucks balls and pos war, while ******, was better'.

Conveniently, the post-Incarna CCP seems to be more interested in small iterative tweaks than grand revamps. We haven't seen any plans for sov revamps, and Stoffer mentioned in ~drinks with bolton~ a possible focus on pos stuff/dead horse after the upcoming expansion, which would imply that a major sov rework of any kind is at least 2+ expansions out.

FW hasn't come up much besides dumping your suggestions in their lap and saying 'this guy knows what's up, do what he says'. (You're welcome, by the by) Amusingly for your run, I suspect by the time the elections are over most of the design work on a FW revamp will be done, since CCP began work on the post-Crucible stuff shortly after the Dec summit.

Really? You are happy that anyone reading this thread will know that you appear to be a two faced liar? That publicly you support CCP’s efforts to suppress botting and RMT in EVE, including use of the “Report a bot” feature, but in private you tell your alliance that if they report a fellow goon for botting they will be kicked.

If you want us to take you as seriously as you obviously take yourself I suggest you start behaving like the big time space politician you obviously think you are and front up to this issue.

Either you support CCP on this or you don’t – you can’t have it both ways.

Faction Warfare, The Official Guinea Pigs of New Eden.

As long as it makes my winter coat lustrous and shiny.

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR HAS-ALWAYS-BEEN-HERE RMT OVERLORD.