CSM Campaigns

R1FTA got mentioned \o/

Nice interview and addition to what Sugar already posted here.

BTW, I have never used any booster pill. I thought about it few times and then I realized how much things I forget to do when engagement starts or during a fight and popping a pill would mean that one more thing I have to remember about and I went "meh" and kept going without them.

Maybe if pills would show on my HUD as additional button to press I would be more willing to use them simply because I would have that little visible thingy reminding me about it but right now you either take it before roaming or you have to remember to go to your cargo and pop it from there. I'm not saying remembering about doing correct things shouldn't be my problem to take care of, what I'm saying UI could be improved a little in that aspect.

And yes, I have my cargo opened at all times when in space and it is just a click away to take a pill but cargo is not exactly a most important window on my screen when I am about to get shot at or shoot at something while HUD is in top 3 of such windows :)

Low Sec is a semi-lawless zone in Eve where PvP means one will sooner or later lose the ability to play with polite society (high sec). It isn’t “high sec heavy” or “null sec light.” The empires hold enough grasp to keep electricity and plumbing going in low sec, but the streets are run by gangs while the military is occupied fighting a war against other empires.




Fiercely independent people live in low sec. There is something about the type of space that draws individuals who are willing to live in a rougher state of the game. Constant threat, regular loss, these are things that draw the residents in.

And what do they get? They get fights. Many, many, many of the people who live in low sec would prefer to fight before anything else in the game.

In this thread there is a very loud question. “What can get more fights?” The residents want conflict. This makes conflict the starting point to defining low sec. Whatever we ask to be given to low sec needs to not be so desirable that it, and not conflict, becomes the reason to be there.

I didn't vote last time out due to the poor selection of candidates.

You had my vote at small gang and low sec. Much needed representation.

Sugar had another interview this time with angry gamers inc.

http://www.twitch.tv/angrygamersinc/b/504794614

Supporting Sugar Kyle For CSM9

Yes. You should be able to make money in low sec. Unlike Faction Warfare where it is a warzone with PvP as it’s (should be) primary focus, low sec is another ‘regular’ area of the game. There is no reason why a player who is willing to accept the risks of low sec should not be able to live there and make their ISK. Currently, most of my ISK making actions occur in low sec and are not directly PvP. They are focused around my market and my industry.

When I want to fly in space I go do exploration. I like playing the video game aspect of Eve and I cannot see a reason to exclude low sec from that. My corporations have always incorporated PvE as part of their playtime. It is exhilarating to be hunted and to hunt. If we kill or chase someone out of a DED site or an expedition, we complete it. Never leave ISK on the table.

I commented earlier in this thread to Niden that players are very wasteful in PvP. We leave fields unlooted, wrecks unsalvaged, and drones on the gates to name a few.

The addition of income sources to low sec would be nice. I think that they need to enhance the area not just be another same thing to do. I always advocate more exploration sites. I’d love random ore belts to show up again. I’m in love with bringing the pirate NPCs to null in some form of shady, back alley way. The pirate epic arcs are lovely content that many could do and few ever see, for instance, that seem perfectly themed material for low sec.

The defining feature of low sec is the risk of low sec. The hunt or be hunted and kill or be killed. If one does not wish to kill then situational awareness is a necessity that makes the experience in low sec exciting. I love the vigilance. If you undock you are there to pay attention to your ship because a lapse of concentration may be the moment someone needs to separate you from it. That is what drew me to low sec, even when it was harder to make ISK and more dangerous to fly around and do things. I learned caution and found myself in situations that were exciting simply due to the environment.




The cultures of low sec are the players inside of it. I will describe some of them as I know them

I’ve always found it very interesting that many people who label themselves as soloists, pirates, or PvPers of some nature, go into low sec to get fights. The actual fight itself is the focus. It is not about the ISK or territory or enemies. It is a good brawl where people are pushing themselves and their ships for the sheer enjoyment of the game. They range from groups who theorycraft tight doctrines to the inclusive groups that fly in frigates for the simple joy of being in space having spaceship combat.

I love the explorers who slip in and out of sites. They put themselves out there and sometimes they don’t avoid the hunters.

Where I live we have people who are aligned with Dust and they put assets on the field. They are evolving from groups of randoms adventuring into low sec into organized groups. What they will become on their Eve side is still in the future.

There are the large gangs that play with capital assets on a small to medium scale in a land where third and fourth parties may always appear.

There are those that play in faction warfare space. They have selected an ongoing war to throw themselves into. They said, “I will take these restrictions to take these possibilities as well.” Funky Bacon was listing the systems with the most ship kills and the Faction Warfare systems were at the top. That is player made destruction by players who dedicate their game play to it.

It is everyone who lives here, visits here, and produces here. Often people say, “lol sec” or “low sec is dead and no one is there” and such things. Some say that low sec is irrelevant because nothing that we do matters. I believe that it does matter. The people that live here and play here enjoy this environment. Many are in low sec because they want to be in low sec. I am in low sec because I want to be in low sec. That is why I say that they are its culture. It does not need any actual definition.

You may want to add Dual Timers (one for each faction) to your FW items list (as an alternative to Timer Rollbacks)

Do you support making FW Missions for the various faction equal in difficulty? (needing a similar kind of ship, where as now Gal Mil has to use Tier3s/Stratios/HACs where other factions use stealth bombers).

Are you for removing FW Missions?

Do you see problems with power projection as it currently stands and would you like to see it reduced? If so what is the idea that most interests you as it is currently defined or do you believe all the ideas out there are bad and a new one needs to be devised?

Are you interested in making it so .4 systems aren't full up baby lowsec (moon mining, POS reactions, etc.)?

Do you have any thoughts on how FW Lowsec corps should make isk on a corporate level since there is no mechanic to tax LP, or do you think a mechanic should be created?

How do you think you stack up against Gorski and FunkyBacon as far as a candidate for CSM?

Awesome. You already had my vote.

As I dabble in lowsec, I love the variety, from the active FW entry gatecamps to the quiet backwaters.
Please don't let CCP homogenise it.

Related. I miss the broken known Serpentis Druglab DED1s - didn't actually need the key for the 2nd gate. Led to predators leaving drops for the prey (Crimewatch 1.0 rules). Wonder if we could have borderzone Higsec T1 frig plexes that have very little impact and cause little to no standing loss and don't need joining the militia. Just a taster.