Jita Park Speakers Corner

Just use the link button they have, even enables a nice cover for your link. But that is broken as well, dont erase the http they give you in it. They do seem over burden by security.

Also what is this wardec revamp people are talking about?

I thought if dec shields were taken out, without a balance for it, more people would vote for kelduum.

For small gang/solo pvp the sabre is the only good dictor, and with the buffs to AF's, blasters, and destroyers, dictors in general have received ninja-nerf after ninja-nerf. While I doubt it is a high priority, would you support a buff to dictors, particularly for the "other races," so that we wouldn't have to fly almost exclusively the sabre, and if so, what would you change?

It took them quite a lot of effort to render and introduce the new nebulae in normal space, and while I don't object to the idea of tweaking the skyboxes in w-space, it's not really a sucking chest wound or priority issue. I'd rather the Art guys focus on the spaceships, not merely v3ing the minmatar/amarr, but re-doing some of the awful models - rookie ships (in progress) and the Bellicose hull (holy crap, the Rapier/Huginn look stupid, ugh) just off the top of my head.

You seem to have missed the 'have been chair of the CSM for the last year' bit.

First off, let me say that it seems you've overall had a positive influence on the game during your time as chair of CSM6, and that I think your positions of most issues seem to make sense to me. So good job on that.

Now on to my question. Keep in mine I have basically no experience with null-sec except for what I've read on the forums or heard from random people, some of which may not be reliable information.

My question is about the dependence of null-sec alliances on Jita for equipment and whatnot. Is the disparity in cost really so high that you are literally dependent on Jita? Earlier in the thread someone talked about a large imbalance between cost/effort and profit to be made from manufacturing in null. What causes this large imbalance? Is there a scarcity of resources in null-sec or is there some other large obstacle that's in the way? Is this only an issue for people looking to make money in null-sec or is it also an issue for alliances that want to be self-sufficient?

I was chatting with a friend about this issue and he brought up the point that it makes sense that hi-sec space has more efficient production seeing as it is an established and safe. However it seems to me that as you've said, it would be nice for large powerblocs to be able to build their own empires of sorts and become self-sufficient and independent, at least to a degree. Is this currently impossible or what? I'm just curious about the details of the matter.

tl;dr: Why are null-sec alliances dependent on Jita and hi-sec?

If anybody is interested in taking the time to educate this capsuleer, it would be much appreciated.

I guess that's where the idea of "super-veldspar" comes in? What other potential solutions, if any, have been proposed? I've already heard of the idea of removing drone alloy drops, but that wouldn't solve the manufacturing slot issue.

Also, if you get rid of "gun-mining", do you think it would cause issues in high-end mineral supply seeing as gun-mining is apparently more efficient than actual mining? If so, is there a way to combat this or are you of the opinion that it would be healthier for the game to cut down on the supply of high-end minerals?

Although Incursions have helped improve the PvE experience, they don't really seem like entry-level content and many new players (at least those who stay in hi-sec) still more or less rely on missioning or mining to make their first small fortune, and I think most of us can agree that those are pretty soul-crushingly boring tasks (at least alone it is. Mining in gangs, especially in low-sec, seems like it's much more tolerable; possibly even enjoyable!). While this might not be a massive problem per se, I think that making these tasks more involved/interesting/enjoyable would affect a fairly large population of the EVE playerbase.

How much of a priority do you consider this issue? How much of a priority does CCP consider it? Any news of ideas for possible fixes? I would ask about future plans but I suspect that any existing plans are covered by the NDA.

Have you tried using an alternate method, rather than the Mac Client? CCP gave up on the Linux client because running the Windows client through Wine worked better than the Linux client. Wine apparently works on Macs according to its description and also that OSX is based on Unix. Give that a shot before throwing a fit and breaking your toys.

http://www.winehq.org/

Mac client uses crossover, which is a commercial branch of the wine dev tree.

In other words, the mac client is just the windows client running through a pre-packaged wine distro.

edit: Its Cider? I coulda sworn it was crossover.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=70962&find=unread - what you think?