Jita Park Speakers Corner

What does the CSM think of the POS setup up in hisec under the current rules ?

Do the current standings and sovereignty restrictions still matter now that CCP is opening up hisec to more capsuleer influence.

With alot of lo/hisec dwellers (minimum 70% alts/mains) vs null sec (10~20% of alts/mains) vs wh scary ppl (5~10% of alts/mains),
is it fair to exclude so much space to so many players?

Getting up to a max of 10.0% faction standing takes a lot of player time (believe me I know, got into the whole Ambulation thing CCP promised and how npc's would respond to you in stations with high faction standings, nut I'm not mad heh right).

So imho 0.8 and 0.9 systems should open up to POS towers (should require 8.00+ faction standing or 9.00+ standing to the faction that owns the system)

What is your opinion ?

a Freelancer

PS: I don't have any personal benefit of this since I nor my alts to this date have ever set up a pos, due to the headache it involves I heard of some WH dwellers

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/POS_Setup

I personally do fear CCP will nerf hisec income with another ~15% in 2014/2015 (soon™) compared to 2012/2013 income.

You have to ask the CSM8 for the numbers, if not NDA-ed during the winter summit meeting.

(look at incursions and meta 0 loot drop and drone alloy rebalance that also affected hisec income in 2010/2011, yes yes this was just a side effect that just happen to effect all of hisec)

This will force current hisec subscription alts/mains into other regions of eve, and with it a style of gameplay, they might not want to.

With new space multiplayer games on the scene for 2014/2015, like Limit Theory, Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen / SQ42 and WoD all looking for strong releases this might be a bad thing.

CCP might mitigate this bleeding of subs by iterating further on Ambulation, to perhaps attract more female gamers, so long as they don't do a **** poor job again, or make interacting on that level almost useless, like 2 people in a small room instead of ~256 in an establishment.

Or making Super Gates building a community effort with less risc to build them (recheck wardeccing plz) but more risc to use them and getting "stranded" in third space to bring in possible rewards.

Or making new incursion / lvl5 mission style gameplay for hisec (0.1-1.0) with a new faction, the Mordu's Legion no doubt, to incentify group gameplay again (with possible roleplaying elements).

We will see, but then again CCP might do right with Dust514 (coz 80m consoles) and Eve: Valkyrie and the new player influx could be awesome, fresh new corpses for the grabs

I hope the eve costumers will continue to vote with their wallet / foot to support their gameplay view, and with the single transferable voting I hope CSM influence / opinion will be diverse enough to not allow all the power in one sector of eve.

PS: Looking forward to an industry expansion like Bloodlines or Revelations I which where a major success back in the day.